Senate expenses scandal: Good summary by Josh Wingrove of Globe&Mail
Josh Wingrove Kudos to Josh Wingrove for succinctly summarizing the issues and course of events as shown in the RCMP document. And here is the passage – my underlining of…
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Senate expenses scandal: Snippets from the Mounties
They’re are the march … to protect our democracy A bombshell burst in Ottawa today when the Mounties filed a request for a search warrant dealing with the Duffy expenses…
Senate expenses scandal: The Unravelling
Hey, Senator! Corporal Greg Horton of the Mounties has filed a document with the court setting out his beliefs about possible crimes committed by Senator Duffy and Nigel Wright. This…
Robocalls: Who is blocking Elections Canada?
Our new flag? If thisis true, then we live in a banana republic: Elections Canada has heard complaints of dirty tricks in the 2011 election from over 200 ridings. Many…
Robocall scandal: Who is the Second Person?
Robocalls: Mounties on the trail From today’s press report in The National Post about Michael Sona and statements by others in his Tory office: Dockstaeder also said Sona told her…
My Quotes Cupboard: Teddy Roosevelt’s Big Stick
He never tires of reminding people that his famous aphorism “Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick” proceeds according to civilized priorities. Persuasion comes before force. In any case it…
The Senate Scandal: How to hold the Prime Minister to account in Question Period
Thomas Mulcair in Question Period The leader of the NDP has done Canadians, and Canadian democracy, a service through his dogged, skillful, meticulous and highly professional questions posed to the…
From My Quotes Cupboard: “I have to have a murder!”
The needs of a newspaper editor: … the body of a Paris magistrate involved in the shady business of keeping Stavisky out of jail was later found mangled on the…
The Duffy Saga: The Mounties Close In
Mounties closing in Amazing how some politicians fail to understand one simple fact of a modern democracy such as Canada: The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly…
2015: The ballot question in Canada’s next election?
Methinks John Ivison has hit the nail right on its head with this: If the Auditor-General’s report does suggest a systemic problem of corruption and abuse, who would bet against…
Senategate: Senator Duffy’s “written guarantees”
Interesting reading, the transcript of Senator Duffy’s speech in the Senate in which he revealed that he had received a cheque for some legal expenses. Even more interesting is what…
LIBOR Scandal: UK banker: “We’re clean, but we’re dirty-clean, rather than clean-clean.”
The banking system is reeling from admissions by senior bankers that they acted in concert with other bankers to fix the setting of the interbank interest rate (LIBOR), so as…
3D Printing: The End of China’s Manufacturing Edge?
Mars probe component made by 3D printing That grim phalanx of leaders of the Chinese Communist Party must be poring over research papers prepared for them, wondering how soon 3D…
US Debt Ceiling: Issues Punted to early next year
The Cat goes to the Senate Twenty-four hours of so before the US government ran out of money to pay its debts, Republican senators nudged aside the Tea Party senators…
Obama’s Powers and the Debt Ceiling Increase: What if the Tea Party is right?
Senator Collins The debate is getting testy down south. The Republicans seem to believe that they have now become paragons of reasonableness, while the Democrats are risking armageddon: Sen. Bob…
My new thriller: Terrorists, kidnappings & assorted mayhem
… with an epilogue showing a small terrorist-hunting Dane placing five red roses on a grave while he says: “We got them, Marc. All of them.” This is what Cupid’s…
Iran & Syria: Obama Talks Softly but carries a Big Stick
Teddy Roosevelt’s Big Stick Policy President Obama has confounded his domestic and international critics by adopting the negotiation posture first espoused by President Teddy Roosevelt: The widespread use of ‘speak…
Management of Economy is Achilles Heel of Liberals and Dippers
Three stewards a-waiting … The latest IPSOS-Reid poll shows that the Harper new Tories maintain their lead amongst voters when it comes to the critical issue of who is the…
From My Quotes Cupboard: European foreign policy
What then does a European foreign and security policy look like? For beginners, it’s so utterly different from anything that came before it in human history that it requires a…
From My Quotes Cupboard: The American Dream versus the European Dream
he European Dream is the mirror opposite of the American Dream. The American and European dreams are, at their core, about two diametrically opposed ideas of freedom and security. Americans…