Friday morning Robocon blogging
I had fully intended to do a recap of the week’s news regarding the investigation into the possibility of vote suppression in last year’s federal election and yesterday afternoon I…
pogge
In which Senator Duffy answers my question
When Senator Nicole Eaton kicked off an inquiry into the “interference of foreign foundations in Canada’s domestic affairs”, I asked: And will it be called the Senate Un-Canadian Activities Committee?…
Work-arounds
Before Justice Dennis O’Connor had even finished his final report on the Maher Arar case, officials in Paul Martin’s government were meeting with their American counterparts to determine how they…
It’s his brand
Susan Delacourt of the Toronto Star attended the Manning Centre for Building Democracy’s annual shindig in Ottawa this weekend and put up a post to summarize the proceedings. I thought…
Friday night Music Fog sampler
I was in the mood to sample some tunes I hadn’t heard before so I went wandering through the Music Fog collection on YouTube and picked out a few to…
Friday morning Robocon blogging
The Sixth Estate‘s crowd-sourced list of ridings where voters received “hoax” phone calls during last spring’s federal election campaign has now grown to 77. The establishment media reporting may be…
All the news that’s fit to bury
Peter Kent certainly isn’t the first minister in the Harper cabinet to bury an inconvenient report for months, only to finally release it when he figures it’ll do the least…
Mostly competent campaigning?
A number of my colleagues in the blogosphere are pointing to this interview with Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott this morning. As the Saskatchewan MP describes it, the Conservative Party of…
Dear DND: Not even close
Officials at the Department of National Defence are defending their efforts in attempting to cover Peter MacKay’s butt when he took fire from the opposition over his own bad judgement……
I wonder if Justice McDonald would be pleased
CSIS is back in the news, this time defending a policy of paying surprise visits to people at their places of employment. The particular case described in the current news…
Friday night
With a shout out to Moose at Classic Blues Videos, we begin with a little instrumental goodness from Gatemouth Brown. And go go dancers! (It was 1966. Everything called for…
Journamalism: Broken Record Edition
The other day I asked whether the Globe and Mail has a published policy about the use of anonymous sources. Now I would ask the same question regarding both the…
Monsters
A bit less than a month ago we learned that Public Safety Minister Vic Toews had loosened the rules governing the ability of CSIS to trade in information derived from…
And will it be called the Senate Un-Canadian Activities Committee?
With Senator Nicole Eaton publicly leading the charge, the government’s effort to demonize environmentalists is moving to the next level. Promising to reveal information that would make “your blood boil,”…
Inside the wire: What wire?
It’s true that government and Canadian Forces spokespeople will readily acknowledge that no part of Afghanistan is absolutely safe. But when the subject comes up there’s always the implication that…
Apparently the Conservatives have their own Anonymous
The sources for the first half of this Globe and Mail update on the robocall controversy are “Tories, in private conversations Monday”, “one Tory source” and “Conservatives who worked on…
A new school for Attawapiskat
Remember this? When I joined the blogburst in support of a new school for the First Nation community in Attawapiskat, I was already behind the times. The old school had…
Inside the wire
Canadian media outlets began reporting yesterday afternoon that Canada had followed the example set by other NATO allies in Kabul. Canadian officials in Afghanistan have been ordered to stay out…
Don’t dismiss Del Mastro
Conservative Dean Del Mastro popped up in the media briefly yesterday to claim that his campaign in the last federal election was the target of fraudulent calls, just like all…
So much for that strong mandate
Evidence continues to mount that there were numerous and widespread attempts to suppress the vote in the last federal election. Even if there is no direct link established between the…