The Rot Starts At The Top
Regular readers of this space will know that I am no fan of Prime Minister Harper. Yesterday’s revelation that a “boot camp” for new Conservative Senators explicitly told the new…
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The Legitimacy Of Harper’s Senate Appointees
With the latest set of revelations in the ongoing Senate Scandal, we find out that Senator Wallin spends the majority of her time living in Toronto. Frankly, I don’t much…
Distort Things Much?
Over at his blog (where he has conveniently turned off comments), we find Walt Heyer madly scribing away, and getting it horribly wrong. He refers to three cases of what…
On The Ongoing Senate Scandal
As the summer wears on, more keeps dribbling out about the misdeeds of various Senators. Whether we are talking about Wallin, Duffy or Brazeau the outrage that we direct towards…
Gwen Landolt On Russia and Uganda
It seems that Gwen Landolt’s organization has gotten its knickers in a twist over the Harper Government’s flaccid response to Russia’s recent spurt of severely anti-LGBT legislation. While the CBC’s…
A More Detailed Analysis Of The Harper Government Factum
I spent some time today reviewing in detail the Harper Government’s factum arguments that they are putting to the Supreme Court of Canada with respect to the subject of Senate…
Harper’s Senate Reform Reference
For the most part, I have chosen to ignore Harper’s cheap gambit of trying to get the Supreme Court to overturn the amending formula in Canada’s constitution to enable Senate…
Wow, Walt – Generalize Much?
If the latest utterances from Walt Heyer were the first you had ever heard from him, you could easily be forgiven for believing that the man had never had anything…
Reasons For A Boycott Of The Sochi Games
In light of John Baird’s recent comments regarding Russia’s recently-passed anti-gay laws which basically outlaw any “gay propaganda” (such as two people of the same sex holding hands), I’d like…