CRA’s impartiality raised
This exchange from Hansard yesterday on the impartiality of the Canada Revenue Agency is well worth paying attention to and keeping in mind: Hon. Bob Rae (Toronto Centre, Lib.): Mr.…
Nancy Leblanc
All the Conservatives’ corporate-like donations
Well, what else would you call this happy set of events? Those SNC-Lavalin execs sure are of a like-mind politically. They all donate to the same two riding associations in…
Taxpayers subsidize more Harper litigation
There’s a story in Postmedia about Harper using a private lawyer and not a Department of Justice counsel to defend himself in the Guergis lawsuit against him and many others.…
Late night
Another time lapse video, one of the best though. Just beautiful. How that city even exists is remarkable. Please don’t sink before I visit you someday. (h/t)
Not sponge worthy
“‘Sad and pathetic’ anti-Mulcair salvo lacks punch of past Tory attacks.” That’s the spin from NDP spokesman Karl Belanger on the new Conservative website that was just launched as a…
The Conservatives’ very small Canada, continued
A follow-up here to a post from a few weeks back. Remember Jason Kenney’s announcement on dialing back health care benefits for refugees? It was couched in a way that…
Oliver on the defensive
It was a very lengthy and defensive statement delivered by Joe Oliver yesterday, read it here: “Statement by the Honourable Joe Oliver, P.C., M.P., Minister of Natural Resources, in Response…
Friday night
New Dragonette that you will probably hear alllll summer. A good remix of it here that makes it a lot less fluffy and poppy. Have a good night!
Friday political fun
A one minute classic. Atta boy! (h/t a little birdie & Sullivan’s site) P.S. Also in the fun category but of a different kind, this.
Something missing all around
So I watched this 8 minute video version of Harper’s speech to caucus yesterday. It was, as many reports have recounted, packed with a consistent economic focus. Of course. He…
Late night
Highlights from Wednesday night’s Hollande-Sarkozy debate in France: Quite the scrap! Name calling, repeated accusations of lying, relentlessly interrupting each other, man. From the New York Times, capturing some of…
Journamalism
Crikey, you’ve got to hand it to Sun Media, they’ve discovered the Elections Canada database apparently: “Media ‘experts’ are Grit, NDP donors.” They’ve tracked the political donations of three Canadian…
Flaherty’s international diplomacy
Remember the G20 finance ministers meeting recently where Flaherty made a splash? Canada was one of the few hold-outs in the G20 meetings last month that dissented against the International…
Evening roundup
1. This was quick: “Ottawa approves Conrad Black’s request to live in Canada.” Despite Jason Kenney and his doth protesting too much act today, leaking of this news to the…
Destabilizing Statistics Canada
This news is really something, another head shaking moment. This comes from a government led by a trained Economist™: Nearly half of the roughly 5,000 people working at Statistics Canada…
Languages shmanguages
Today in Harper government infractions: “Ottawa blâmé par le commissaire aux langues officielles.” Le gouvernement Harper n’a pas respecté la Loi sur les langues officielles en nommant l’anglophone unilingue Michael…
"People just don’t care about (political) labels"
From Stephen Carter, Alison Redford’s now former chief of staff who was instrumental in her campaign win: He was, however, willing to talk about the three campaigns that established his…
Good reporting
A great report by Postmedia of that chronicling style that lets the facts speak for themselves: “Three days from Alberta vote, cracks in Wildrose were showing.” It really stands out…
Friday night
Also, if you are a Kaskade fan, he released his Coachella set and it’s available for download. Have a good night!