Memories of Del Mastro
The Del Mastro Facebook page and its content became an issue during the federal election of 2011. The video outlines the issues. Thought I would repost given the recent news…
Nancy Leblanc
The first robocalls victim – again
The Ottawa Citizen published an op-ed by former Saanich-Gulf Islands Liberal candidate Briony Penn on Tuesday: “I was the first robocalls victim.” It tells the story of the 2008 federal…
Refugee health care protest actions
Cuts to the Interim Federal Health program kick in this weekend yet protests will be ongoing. The doctors who are leading the opposition to the cuts, Canadian Doctors for Refugee…
Liberal leadership movement
A few developments to note. First up, word came last night of LPCBC President David Merner’s announcement that he is leaving that position in order to run for leader. I…
Harper’s risky economic theories
There are a few items in the news today that run contrary to the constant spin we get from our Harper government spokespersons about the solidity of the omni-present Economic…
New Mulcair ad
It’s a Mulcair day on the blog, it appears! How on earth did that happen… I find it hard to get too excited about this. Released just after the parliamentary…
Mulcair on the euro crisis
This is audio from an interview Mulcair did with Michael Enright on CBC radio this weekend where the eurozone financial crisis came up: That is a brief excerpt but I…
Government recognizes contributions of Canadian government scientist
Too bad it’s not the Canadian government! “China Bestows Rare Honour on Canadian Agricultural Scientist.” The Baicheng Academy of Agricultural Sciences is honouring Government of Canada agricultural scientist Dr. Vernon…
You go, Paul Martin
Yeah they did: “Tories made a ‘major mistake’ in their approach to the euro crisis, Paul Martin says.” “The major mistake that the government has made is the way that…
Friday night
Have a good night!
On a positive note
I tweeted the other day about Michael Harris at iPolitics.ca being one of the gutsiest columnists going in the Canadian political media scene. That was prompted by this column. There’s…
More Europe bashing from the Harper crew
From the “Today’s Must Reads” on the Globe’s Politics page, an op-ed from Conservative Senator and former Harper campaign chair Doug Finley with a familiar refrain: “Europe needs to take…
Supply management & #LPC leadership
I have two reactions to the issue of supply management becoming the first prominent issue to be featured as part of the still very early Liberal leadership race. First, uh,…
The world ponies up to the IMF
The IMF released this table at the end of the G20 yesterday showing pledges received over the past few months by countries around the world to increase IMF resources: That’s…
Tweet of the day
I have such amazing staff. Its 7:30pm & almost all of my staff are working hard, many preparing for an exciting policy announcement tomorrow — Jason Kenney (@kenneyjason) June 19,…
Toews and all his eavesdropping
We have learned this week that the Canada Border Services Agency, under the leadership of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, will be seeking to audio record what travellers are saying…
Late night
Another attack ad that can’t be run now. Such a shame. Who knows, maybe the Mulcair thing will catch on though…
Day of action on refugee health care
There are demonstrations happening across the country today organized by Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care. On Monday, June 18th, 2012 in cities across the country physicians and other health care…
Fun with headlines, etc.
“Liberal leadership: Justin Trudeau could lead Liberals to first place, new poll shows.” Um, what? I read this report twice. But nowhere do I see in that Star report anything…