When the Harper government elected not to discipline ranking MPs Dean Del Mastro or Peter Penashue or Peter Van Loan when serious allegations about financial improprieties were raised with respect…
The more cynical readers of this blog will doubtless be unsurprised, but I think that the recent shambles of a “public consultation” embarked upon by Elections Canada is strong evidence…
I’ve been thinking through how to write this post for a while. I hope I don’t regret it. But recently a commenter forced the issue, and I had to censor…
As I pointed out in my last post, the fact that the Conservatives have admitted they will miss their budget projections next year isn’t news. There hasn’t been a single…
Last week, the media delivered its resounding judgement on the Conservatives’ fall budget update. Jim Flaherty, they say, has unfortunately allowed the projections to slip. The deficit has grown. Canada…
Here’s a thought for would-be editors of a national paper of record: any time your headline editorial starts with the phrase “in spite of the evidence,” it’s probably a good…
Try this one on for size. The Canadian media, which for the most part hasn’t met a Canadian corporation they think shouldn’t be sold to foreign interests, has latched on…
For those of you who don’t know, retired Harper Cabinet minister Stockwell Day now has two jobs: political “counseling” and journalism. Mr. Day has taken a position as occasional contributing…
There are any number of things that a newspaper’s ombudsman/public editor/fancy-symbolic-spokeswoman might want to write about as the public’s representative at the paper. For instance, they might want to write…
I know I shouldn’t let her bait me like this, but I can’t help myself. The two-facedness of it is among the worst I’ve yet seen in the Canadian press.…
I thought it might be nice to have a check-up and see how Canada’s favourite plagiarist is getting on with her career. Regular readers will remember that after Globe &…
When Christy Clark became premier of the B.C. “Liberal” Party a couple years ago — a term which probably makes her one of the longest-serving unelected heads of state in…
After yet more evidence of electoral shenanigans in Labrador last year, Harper regime intergovernmental affairs minister Peter Penashue issued a bizarrely mealy-mouthed statement today that seems to imply that an…
The robocall scandal, which Sixth Estate helped document during the spring, resurfaced in several weird ways over the past week. Documents have been filed in the ongoing Council of Canadians…
There were two major developments in the ongoing, CBC-led investigation of election misconduct by Harper regime governmental affairs minister Peter Penashue in Labrador. First, it was alleged by the Liberals…
If only there was a way for the news media to search through this country’s voluminous laws before writing a story. Oh wait, there is. This week Conservative MP David…
An extraordinary exchange took place in the House of Commons environment committee a few days ago. It was so extraordinary that it made the news, but only just. A little…
This weekend’s warm-up natural disaster, a 7.7-magnitude earthquake west of the Queen Charlotte Islands, should but won’t serve as a vital wake-up call to the federal and provincial governments: British…
Last time, in my new Hollowing Out series, I began taking a look at the Globe & Mail’s list of Canada’s largest 1000 companies back in 1996. (This list is…
The following is the official opinion of the Conservative government, as stated by Stephen Harper’s Parliamentary Secretary Dean Del Mastro, who by all indications is a man with a deep…
