SNC-Lavalin in the news, an overlooked angle
SNC-Lavalin is in the news today in a big way: “RCMP raids SNC-Lavalin’s Montreal headquarters.” Thought I would raise an angle on this that might be overlooked. Recall the Government…
Nancy Leblanc
Pentagon ups #F35 costs again
From one of the leading aviation publications in the U.S., Aviation Week, the latest on the F-35’s increasing costs sees Canada in its headline: “Canada Concerned As F-35 Cost Estimate…
Renewal: New #LPC Supporter By-Law
Matt Certosimo, the new national Membership Secretary has posted on Liberal.ca a request for input on a new by-law on how the party will go about welcoming Supporters into the…
On academic freedom
Jim Balsillie has an op-ed in the Globe today in the wake of the rejection by York University of a major investment by him of about $30 million that was…
Tom in the boardroom
A corporate leader for the NDP? In a subliminable way? Can’t help but highlight what stood out in the ad, “Tom,” not Thomas, chose to deliver his intro in a…
Impetus for the push on the #F35
Dave at Galloping Beaver is going to work, picking apart the Harper government’s tales over the years on the F-35 acquisition. Go there to read the entire post, which I…
Friday night
Madonna at Easter, such an obvious choice, come on. How can you not like that girl, still going strong, with her ear to the ground on what’s new and so…
Accountability!
On this Easter weekend, let us reflect, yes. In the 2012 version of this video, let us ask: How is it that a government could fail to disclose to Parliament…
Auditor General #F35 fallout
Terry Milewski’s report on yesterday’s remarks by the Auditor General and the reactions those remarks set off, above. It is helpful to see whose eyes are grave, whose eyes are…
On the lighter side: Alien minister watch
It’s not foreign radicals that are a problem for Canada, it’s the alien ministers who walk among us! “Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver (right) gets a demonstration of the Reality…
Rae’s clever privilege motion on the F-35s
Here it is, the full text: Liberal Leader Bob Rae’s Point of Privilege (h/t to David Akin for posting) The most important parts are at pages 5-9. Essentially, Rae’s point…
Chart of the day
And maybe of the year (click to enlarge): (Source) 2.76 We also have significant concerns about the completeness of cost information provided to parliamentarians. In March 2011, National Defence responded…
The Mount Royal "Shadow Tory MP" departs government service
The right thing appears to have been done in the case of Saulie Zajdel, the ‘Shadow Tory MP’ who ran against Irwin Cotler in Mount Royal but who nevertheless gained…
Memories of Mulcair
This Canadian Press report from Friday is about the use of the debate time in the House of Commons Friday on the reaction to the budget. The NDP took up…
Harper at the Wilson Center
Harper spoke at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington yesterday following the meeting with Obama and Calderon. The C-Span video at the first link is just under an hour and…
Late night
Pro-penny elimination video: Study that says consumers will be bitten: A 2001 economic analysis by Penn State’s Raymond Lombra found that a post-penny economy—in which we round to the nearest…
The #TellVicEverything sequel: #TellDaveEverything
I was half joking in my post yesterday about the need for a #TellDaveEverything hashtag in the U.K. on the occasion of the U.K. Tories introducing their own intrusive internet…
UK Tories to introduce internet surveillance law
Conservatives worldwide seem to be uniting under a new banner of privacy invasion: Under legislation expected in next month’s Queen’s Speech, internet companies will be instructed to install hardware enabling…
Routine cellphone tracking in the U.S.
There is a must read as context for the Canadian C-30 legislation that is pending, the lead from the New York Times today: “Police Tracking of Cellphones Raises Privacy Fears.”…
Chart of the week
Click to enlarge. (Source) Elections Canada was largely singled out for budgetary savings, among all the Agents of Parliament in the Harper/Flaherty budget. When it is in the midst of…