Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Joseph Heath discusses how the Volkswagen emission cheating scandal fits into a particular type of corporate culture: (W)hen the Deepwater Horizon tragedy occurred,…
Bruce Carson
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jim Stanford discusses how the Trans-Pacific Partnership is renegotiating NAFTA – and taking away what little Canada salvaged in that deal. And…
You’ve Heard This Story Before
http://www.torontosun.com/ Bruce Carson’s trial did not last long. We now await the judge’s decision. On one level, the trial was about one individual’s corrupt behaviour. But, on another level, the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Paul Weinberg discusses the need to focus on inequality in Canada’s federal election, while Scott Deveau and Jeremy Van Loon take note…
Jesus Harper and the Not So Miraculous Surplus
It looked like a scene in that sordid B-movie, The Rise and Fall of Jesus Harper.The one where the Oily Messiah takes a fishy deficit and miraculously turns it into…
For Harper, It’s Showtime – the Sequel. Fremdschamen, Indeed.
Okay, it’s not Mike Duffy. We won’t hear much of him again until the election is over. Today’s fare is more like a light lunch, maybe just a handful of…
Will Stephen Harper Go For a Late Fall Election?
It's been the subject of much fevered speculation. Will Stephen Harper call an early election? And if so how early?And no doubt Great Desperate Leader is consulting his crystal ball,…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jim Armitage discusses how the privatization of public services in the UK is being mashed up with the principles behind subprime lending and…
Lonely At The Top?
If Stephen Harper isn’t ‘feelin’ the love,’ it is a situation of his own making. Two brief excerpts from Tim Harper’s column in today’s Star, entitled Stephen Harper’s slide into…
The Blindness of the Media, and the True Nature of Stephen Harper
It's the question that haunts me the most. The one I keep asking myself, but can never answer:Why after all the horrible things he's done to Canada and its values…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Jim Stanford looks into the fine print of the Hudak PCs’ assumptions about corporate tax slashing and finds that even their own numbers…
The Harper Enemies List: A Prominent Member
Yesterday I wrote about a fund-raising plea that the Harper machine has sent out to its true believers with deep pockets; the missive stressed the need for big dollars to…
Could Stephen Harper Soon Be Toast?
It's all going horribly wrong. His foul voter suppression bill is only making even more Canadians want to vote to throw him out of office.He has more scandals than he…
Scandalous Senate and PMO appointments say Harper is unqualified to criticise Trudeau’s f-bomb
by: Obert Madondo | March 31, 2014 Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau dropped the f-bomb when he addressed the crowd at the Fight for the Cure charity boxing match in Gatineau,…
Stephen Harper and the Return of Bruce Carson
Well I think it's safe to say it's the last thing Stephen Harper needed, what with all his other scandals.It must be a bit like Scrooge and the Ghost of…
He’s Back! Bruce Carson Under Investigation for Influence Peddling.
Former top aide to Stephano Harper, Bruce Carson, is back in the news and, predictably, it’s bad news. CBC reports that the disgraced senior advisor to Mr. Harper is the…
Stephen Harper and My Fabulous Con Reunion
Well as you know the Con convention in Calgary had to be postponed due to an extreme weather event.And Stephen Harper is terribly depressed because he can't press the reset…
Former CPC candidate Saulie Zajdel arrested — what does this say about PMSH?
You remember Bruce Carson, a top adviser to PMSH? And, then there was that $90K cheque from PMSH’s right-hand man, Nigel Wright, to Mike Duffy… Well, now there’s Saulie Zajdel……