How well is the Harper government really doing?
Many political writers have concluded that there is growing support for the Harper government. However, there have only been three polls released in January, one of which from Ipsos reported…
2015
#BellLetsTalk about mental health in politics
Connecting back to my last post, today is a big day for online, hashtag activism: #BellLetsTalk day. For every tweet tagged with the hashtag, Bell will donate 5 cents towards…
#BellLetsTalk about mental health in politics
Connecting back to my last post, today is a big day for online, hashtag activism: #BellLetsTalk day. For every tweet tagged with the hashtag, Bell will donate 5 cents towards…
#BellLetsTalk about mental health in politics
Connecting back to my last post, today is a big day for online, hashtag activism: #BellLetsTalk day. For every tweet tagged with the hashtag, Bell will donate 5 cents towards…
CSEC Back In The News
Here’s an interesting bit of the process the NSA and partners are going about tracking your online activities so they can link everything you do that isn’t encrypted and disassociated…
#BellLetsTalk about mental health in politics
Connecting back to my last post, today is a big day for online, hashtag activism: #BellLetsTalk day. For every tweet tagged with the hashtag, Bell will donate 5 cents towards…
Families earning 30K-$60K to see least benefit from Tory income splitting plan
Well now I’m just shocked. The Globe has an item about some finance department documents Canadian Press unearthed via an Access to Information Act request Families earning $30K-$60K to benefit…
CPC Bounce Begone
Grenier notes that Nanos’ latest has some actual voting intention numbers rather than their typical index thing: Nanos’s weekly index report has voting intentions numbers in it: 35% LPC, 31%…
Adam Vaughan, Scott Simms visit #Brant; charity walk response
Last week, Liberal MP’s were out and about in Southern Ontario prior to the re-opening of the last session of Parliament before the next election, and in Brantford-Brant, 2 MP’s…
Contentious Rouge Park Bill Passes Third Reading
Despite united opposition against the proposed National Urban Park, Conservative Bill C-40 passed third reading Monday. The legislation is now on its way to the Tory-dominated Senate for further review.…
Use of rejected alibi to show guilt
R v Avalak, 2015 NUCJ 04: The Crown asks that I go further and find that the accused fabricated an alibi and that such a fabrication should be taken as…
On blissful ignorance
Shorter Lawrence Herman: Just because Newfoundland and Labrador learned the hard way that Stephen Harper can’t be trusted doesn’t mean it has any right to warn anybody else that Stephen…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Your news links for today: Canada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads – The Intercept CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents – CBC News Canada’s electronic spy…
Oh sure, let’s blame Question Period.
The Prime Minister must be smiling. You can tell because his make-up is a bit askew. Someone told him that his favourite newspaper wants to get rid of Question Period…
Upcoming Queensland Election
Queensland, the North-East state of Australia, is holding it’s state-level election. The two main parties are the Labor party, and the Liberal National Party, a coalition of the two parties…
Update on Warman and the Cools post
The wheels of justice, as the saying goes, grind slowly. Long time readers will remember that I spent a good deal of time in 2008 investigating the allegation that Human…
When They Cower In Abject Fear
http://www.mirror.co.uk/ Tomorrow, we’re told, the Harper government will introduce its new anti-terror legislation. Recent events have proved to be the undoing of the Harperian economy. So a diversion is in…
Stephen Harper’s Disastrous Return to Parliament
As I'm sure you know, Stephen Harper has been under a lot of stress recently. The economy is tanking, he blew the surplus before he had one, only the dumb…