Party Subsidies
Stephen Harper is once again attacking his opponents' wallets instead of their policies. Mr. Harper thinks that the twenty-seven million dollars of taxpayers' money that is given annually to the…
Brian G. Rice
Personal Privacy (Assange, Fox News and the PM’s marriage)
Privacy has been on my mind a lot lately. I think this is the natural side effect of the Wikileaks story. But the more I have been thinking about privacy,…
Mrs. Harper
Who gives a fuck whether Mr. Harper is still with Mrs. Harper, anyway? Except maybe as a demonstration of the man's penchant for deception - something that has been well…
Technology and Privacy
A response to a blog entry by @OwenGreaves found at http://blog.owengreaves.com/thoughts-from-owen. I have begun to believe that in a world of free information flow created by the internet and other…
Following Opposing Voices
A couple of weeks ago, @causticchick tweeted "I was followed by @VisionVancouver today, which is weird because I'm STAUNCHLY AGAINST Vision Vancouver. Gregor can kiss my ass. #VanPoli" after Vision…
Voting Age
I must admit that when the BC Liberal Leadership Race started, I didn't think it would lead to a discussion of the voting age. Nor did I expect to find…
Wisdom from Robertson Davies…
Bruce Hutchison, whose love-affair with the Canadian nation takes many a strange turn, writes this of Sir John A. MacDonald who gave us, he says, "our first portrait of a…
Jane Taber’s Most Recent Idiocy
Jane Taber has truly abandoned any semblance of balanced and fair reporting in the article she wrote on Thursday entitled "Why must Ignatieff cajole by-election volunteers?". In the article, she…
Stephen Harper Introduces an Inconsistency to the Conservative Message
August 3rd, 2010: Despite Stats Can data showing that crime is on the decrease in Canada, Treasury Board President Stockwell Day announces that the Conservative Government of Canada will go…
Fighter Jets
A few years ago the company I worked for decided to explore extending one of its brands into the healthy snack market. We got together with a couple of partners,…
An NDP tactic that I have been noticing…
I saw this tweet come across the #lpc channel in Twitter the other day: Salhousser -- 55$ for breakfast with Iggy at the Stampede. Yeah. Way to connect with the…
On the Train
I'm sitting on the West Coast Express, on my way into the LPCBC offices, enjoying a coffee I bought on the train, typing my blog entry on my laptop (which…
Mark Holland asks Vic Toews some tough questions about the G20
http://www.liberal.ca/en/newsroom/media-releases/18441_letter-to-the-hon-vic-toews-minister-of-public-safety. I'm sure Mr. Toews will be prompt with his answers... A Side Note: Today is Tuesday, less than 48 hours since the summit ended in Toronto. ...
I’ll second that: Anonymous
The World Famous Dan Shields calls Bullshit on Anonymous comments: http://thewfds.blogspot.com/2010/06/2554what-is-up-with-anonymous.html. I allow anonymous comments on my blog, because there are rare times when someone has a legitimate reason for…
Stephen Harper is to blame for the G20 problems
This story isn't about black clad idiots who get off on creating havoc and mayhem. It isn't about police who view their fellow citizens as terrorists and threats instead of…
Pardons
Apparently, there is great fear among politicians that Karla Homolka is going to be pardoned (http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/824284--mps-look-for-ways-to-derail-homolka-pardon-bid). I'm not an expert on pardons, but I didn't think they were...
Mergers, Coalitions and Fear
There has been a lot of talk in the past week or so about the possibility of some kind of political alliance between the LPC and the NDP. Mr. Ignatieff…
Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, Thursday May 6th, 2010
I have been a little quiet here lately for a number of reasons. I won't go into the reasons for that right now, but I wanted to take a few…