Parliamentary privilege should not be overused
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee recently began legal proceedings against the Auditor-General because he was refusing to deny an access to information request. Access to information is a…
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Parliamentary privilege should not be overused
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee recently began legal proceedings against the Auditor-General because he was refusing to deny an access to information request. Access to information is a…
RIP Peter Lougheed
I remember Peter Lougheed mainly as a young boy interested in politics sparring with Pierre Trudeau over the Constitution and to a lesser extent the National Energy Program. I now…
ndp: war resisters are welcome in canada
From the New Democratic Party: Allow conscientious objectors to stay in Canada SURREY – New Democrats are calling on the government to respect parliament’s commitment to allow conscientious objectors to…
An Un-Canadian Insult: Pauline Marois Portrayed As Hitler On Facebook
This is hate speech par excellence! A Facebook Page, Montreal Official, portrays incoming Quebec premier Pauline Marois as Adolph Hitler, and as asks: “How long will it take her to…
cheri dinovo says: let kim stay
In this video, Provincial MP Cheri DiNovo introduces war resister Kimberly Rivera to the Ontario legislative assembly. She asks her fellow MPPs to contact the federal government on Kim’s behalf.…
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The Great Wall of Saskatchewan: popular, yes, but a peacemaker?
Brad Wall, Christy Clark, Alison Redford and Greg Selinger discuss the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline while visiting China. Actual Canadian premiers may not appear to their Chinese hosts exactly as…
Harper government fighting Québec’s law and order efforts
The federal long gun registry is back in the news. Québec has just won an injunction preventing the federal government from destroying the long gun registry, and has given Ottawa…
Photo Tells Us Why Canada Severed Diplomatic Ties With Iran
Last Friday, the right-wing Conservative government of Stephen Harper closed the Canadian embassy in Tehran, and kicked Iranian diplomats out of Canada. Since than, Canadians have struggled to figure out…
Quebec court makes Vic Toews very mad.
As you might have read, a Quebec Superior Court ruled that Ottawa must hand over gun registry data pertaining to Quebec over to the province, so it can help start…
A Robocall Invitation to Toronto Mayor’s Rob “Ford Fest” Barbecue
The term “robocall” reminds the majority of Canadians of the robocalls election fraud perpetrated during the May 2011 federal election. The robocalls and related U.S.-style voter suppression methods robbed thousands…
Harper’s wish for war with Iran: an ill Tory wind that blows no good for Canada
Unlike Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the Doge of the Most Serene Republic of Venice was prepared to receive the ambassadors of Persia. Below: Igor Gouzenko, Dr. Samuel Johnson and Winston…
Time to stop stressing about Québec
We Canadians love to worry, we worry about the economy, about the weather, about the direction our elected representatives are taking the country. When we’ve had Liberal governments in Ottawa,…
new send a (new) letter to jason kenney: let kim stay
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Is Canada’s left on the rise?
Discerning trends and making forecasts on limited data is not always the best recipe for making accurate forecasts, just look at pollsters. They take small snapshots of voter intentions based…
Robocalls Scandal: Elections Canada Paid Former RCMP Investigator $95,523
Elections Canada paid former RCMP investigator $95,523 for visit to only one out of 234 riding affected by robocalls during the May 2011 Federal election.
Ontario voters wake up today to what they had yesterday, (sort of).
Forum Research, the polling company, must be feeling pretty good today. Their opinion polls released the day before the 2 by-elections held more or less accurate. The Liberals held Vaughan,…
Why Banning Anonymous Comments is Bad for Postmedia and Bad for Society
Last night I discovered that my local newspaper – the Vancouver Sun – was going to require users log in with Facebook to comment. It turns out that this will…