Neil Young Snubs Donald Trump,
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2015
A New Poll Suggests the Cons Are In Third Place
It's never easy for me to leave Scotland, the idyllic little country where a progressive government has driven the Cons to extinction.And it wasn't easy for me to blog as…
Harper Lied In The House
Check out @LeslieCBC’s Tweet: What the PM said then, and how it stacks up against evidence submitted in court: @pnpcbc #Duffy fact check #cdnpoli http://t.co/okoZsW4OBB — Leslie Stojsic (@LeslieCBC) August…
I Don’t Think Harper Can Survive This. He’s Done.
The rapidly worsening Duffy scandal is Shifty Harper’s cup of hemlock. Duffy’s lawyer, Don Bayne, may be going to town on the Crown’s key witnesses, beginning with Nigel Wright, but…
Whereby Justin Pulls Old King Steve’s Beard
Ya gotta admit he’s got a point. We all remember Shifty Harper’s feigned indignation when he supposedly found out about the Wright/Duffy affair hatched in his very own Prime Minister’s…
The Duffy Senate trial: The Missing Prime Minister “Shut Down” Email
Barrister Bayne, Duffy and Nigel Wright chronicleherald Yesterday Donald Bayne, the bulldog barrister acting for senator Duffy in Duffy’s criminal trial, focused on an email that Nigel Wright, the prime…
Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Ontario versus Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada
Full disclosure. This is crazy talk. A reader, Robert, raised the issue of whether Duffy should be allowed to retain his ill-gotten gain, the housing allowances, made good by Nigel…
The Pain Campaign: Election 2015, week 2
Thomas Mulcair had a bad start to the week when a high-profile Toronto NDP candidate said one of those things that actually makes some sense, but in an election campaign…
On veto points
I’ll follow up on this post by once again discussing another area where individuals’ past comments are being treated as a basis for general exclusion. And the subject is particularly…
August 15: I’m glad I read section A….
Otherwise, I would never know that there’s a man accused of drug smuggling who doesn’t have a lawyer. And I would never experience the warm symbolism of the colour photo…
Elizabeth May’s Call for an ‘Energy Efficiency Army’ Makes All the Sense for a Stagnating Alberta
“Frankly, we need an army of carpenters, electricians and contractors going out to plug leaky buildings,” federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May said during the August 6 leaders debate. “Thirty…
Elizabeth May’s Call for an ‘Energy Efficiency Army’ Makes All the Sense for a Stagnating Alberta
“Frankly, we need an army of carpenters, electricians and contractors going out to plug leaky buildings,” federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May said during the August 6 leaders debate. “Thirty…
Monkey on Stephen Harper’s shoulders
It looks Harper will have hard time distancing himself from Mike Duffy.
On opinion evidence
There’s plenty of reason for concern about some of the views put forward by the Cons’ latest Supreme Court appointment. But keeping those concerns in mind, I’ll argue that we…
Leger Poll Puts Tories in 3rd
The NDP has 33 percent of the vote, up one point since last month, while the Conservatives are polling at 27 percent, down five points, the Leger research group said.The…
The Duffy Senate Scandal: Nigel Wright tells the truth and sinks Harper
Things have veered sharply off course for the most controlling politician Canada has had for many decades. What was to be a tightly controlled and swiftly administered exercise in damage…
Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper – election October 2015
Stephen Harper is putting down Justin Trudeau through T.V. ads.If you have watched Harper’s T.V. ads against Trudeau than you will understand what I mean.
"Needy" Mike Duffy.
I was just looking at a synopsis of the Nigel Wright emails in the Duffy trial. If nothing else, this trial is an interesting look at the minds of those…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Stephen Marche discusses the Cons’ ongoing efforts to make Canada a more closed and ignorant country: Mr. Harper’s campaign for re-election has so…