There are good reasons why I frequently use a pic of large ‘hogs at the trough’ when I post stories about the Canadian Senate … (just sayin’).“Six months after he…
The Saskatchewan Party lost the 2003 provincial election when their leader, Elwin Hermanson said to a reporter, “why wouldn’t we look at selling crown corporations?” That one sentence resonated negatively…
Those who did not live during the era of failed American President Richard Nixon, may not be aware of the similarities between him and Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The…
(Please forgive and endure the brief commercial prior to QP …) Watch Harper’s body language and especially watch Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s reaction to the grilling of the Prime Minister…
“We have 24 senators from Quebec and there are just six from Alberta and British Columbia. It’s to our advantage. To want to abolish it is demagoguery … We’ll have…
Issues management for the Harper Conservatives just keeps moving from ‘bad’ to ‘worse’: Arthur Porter, a man accused of being at the heart of a scandal involving the $1.3 billion…
I had a good belly laugh at the headline on today’s Hill Times article: “PM’s Conservative caucus ‘horrifically depressed’ about Senate expenses scandal, brand takes big hit, say Tories” “The…
On this site, I give credit where credit is due. “I think it is time to abolish the Senate. I think it is reflective of what Canadians are saying,” “I…
“That, in light of $3.1 billion of missing funds outlined in Chapter Eight of the 2013 Spring Report of the Auditor General of Canada, an order of the House do…
(Click on image to enlarge … )Saskatchewan is the home of publicly funded healthcare in Canada. Unfortunately, under the stewardship of Premier Brad Wall and his right leaning Saskatchewan Party…
In the dying days of the corrupt Conservative administration of Brian Mulroney, David Tkachuk was named as a senator from the province of Saskatchewan. His patronage reward of appointment to…
(Canada’s newest mob show is dominating the entertainment ratings) (Click on images above to enlarge …) No one is producing better graphic representations of the Harper/Conservative/Senate Scandal than Simon from…
Stephen Harper’s speech to his Caucus isn’t going to work out very well for the Conservatives in the long run.Here’s how the emergency Conservative Caucus meeting went this morning:1) Harper…
When Stephen Harper decided to add Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy to Canada’s unelected, undemocratic Senate, he started in motion a series of events that has ultimately become an ugly,…
-Stephen Harper is never going to be honest with Canadians about the sleaze that is oozing out of his political administration. -There isn’t even any point in the RCMP investigating…
The following email was sent by Senator Pam Wallin to Postmedia News on April 15, 2011: I am in Saskatchewan supporting our MP’s who are seeking re-election. The NDP opposes…
The Conservative Senate Crisis continues unabated …. “The Senate’s internal economy committee sanitized the original audit of Sen. Mike Duffy’s expenses to remove damning findings, documents obtained by CTV News…
“You know people at the CRTC, This is an important decision on Sun Media. They (CRTC) have to play with the team and support Sun Media’s request.”CTV .Sen. Mike Duffy…
Buckdog Politics is going to share a great post with you today. (When the time comes for the 2013 Canadian Blog Awards .. I’m voting for this one!) So, let’s…
After reading the following article .. much of what’s happening with Senator Duffy suddenly became very clear. 1) Some of the claimed ‘Senate business’ expense claims filed by Mr. Duffy…
