QP: One week later
Jack Layton kicked off question period with a trio of questions about Libya, which asked about the mission Parliament intends to vote upon, why Canada was not playing a bigger…
Jack Layton kicked off question period with a trio of questions about Libya, which asked about the mission Parliament intends to vote upon, why Canada was not playing a bigger…
It’s not often that malfunctions of a political mind are put so obviously on display. Well, expect for perhaps our dear friend, Hugh McFadyen. OK, we all know that on…
The head of India's Air Force is urging his country to build and deploy intercontinental ballistic missiles of up to 10,000 km. range. Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik says getting…
Assange points out that there were illegal attacks on WikiLeak’s technical infrastructure, especially since it’s a legal, media organization and not an illegal group as some extreme critics suggest. ==…
...interviewed this aft about a "needle" they found in a head of lettuce at a No-Frills close to my place. Don't know if they mean a syringe or a knitting…
I dunno .. just seems to me that comparing the New Democratic Party to axe murderers might be a bit over the top ...... Who's Afraid of the NDP ..…
Italy’s embattled Silvio Berlusconi has just taken four more staggering body-blows, just a few days after he lost his personal stronghold of Milan. A nation-wide referendum has just shot down…
Elizabeth May is the only MP in the HOC, and The Green Party the only party (by definition!) in favour of due diligence when it comes to legislatin' crime laws.…
Two important issues have been emerging over the past several decades which are going to inform the events of this century. The first has to do with the way in…
Here is an item today that may be an indicator of the ideological underpinnings of this government shining through. See this post from Dwayne Winseck at the OpenMedia.ca site on…
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board issued the following news release on Monday: “The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB), in its role as Responsible Authority pursuant to…
Colbert-Tom-Ridge.jpg Tom Ridge, on the Thursday, June 9 edition of the Colbert Report, claimed he is "not a lobbyist." A quick glance at his resume shows that nothing could be…
And if what Mr. Joe Comartin says about you is true, Mr. Irwin Cotler, you’re really no better. However, Mr. Comartin, did you have to ask him to accelerate it…
I've figured for quite some time that the goings-on in the House of Commons probably deserve plenty more focus than they receive - and have highlighted at least some of…
How should we govern ourselves? Since Locke's Second Treatise, the presumption has been in favour of self-government -- that is, each individual adult person has the natural right to govern…
Many, many years ago, my first house plants were sweet potatoes and avocado vines. They were cheap, and satisfied my hunger for greenery. Guess that wouldn't work today!
Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say. A million here, a million there, pretty soon it adds up to some real money!
4981183847_4c5e148bfc.jpg Each year, in advance of United Nations (U.N.) climate discussions, governments around the world submit an inventory of their carbon emissions. This year, Canada is taki...
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