Ethics committee talks social media without Del Mastro
I had a few committee meetings to choose from while I was in Ottawa last week, and attending the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics meeting on…
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Video: Scrum shopping on Parliament Hill
Every day that the House of Commons is sitting, just before the end of question period members of the press gallery begin to gather in the foyer outside the chamber…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – On the Robocon front, Terry Milewski connects the dots between identification of voters as non-Con supporters and the deceptive robocalls that followed. Steven…
Robo-Gate: Harper Conservatives stole the 2011 election from the NDP
The New Democratic Party (NDP) suggested in a press conference today that the Conservatives rigged the May 2011 federal election against the Bloc Quebecois, NDP and Liberals. Call it election…
Leadership 2012 Roundup
Yes, it’s only been a couple of days since my last roundup post. But I’ll let the pace of news determine how often I put them up – and the…
Welcome to Harperland
How we embraced hate. I was watching the CBC News this morning, Suhana Meharchand was the host. Talking about Attawapiskat, she interviewed NDP/MP Charlie Angus. Hostilely, she asked him, “What…
Shame on Canada! Shame on us all!
Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan tells an outright lie in this chance encounter on the stairs at the CBC. As if that is not bad enough, the Minister goes on…
Occupy Ottawa evicted from tents, Attawapiskat First Nations forced into tents
The irony of it all! At around 2.am Wednesday morning, more than 150 Ottawa Police officers pounced on eight Occupy Ottawa protesters peacefully resisting eviction from Confederation Park, where they’d…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Linda McQuaig points out how the Occupy movement has at least started to shift the terms of our political debate: Rather than…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Stephen Maher nicely summarizes Tony Clement's sad committee appearance yesterday:The evidence shows that Clement chose the projects himself, in some kind of mysterious…
Canada’s gun lobby’s election failure reveals NDP gun registry fallacy
Reading today's Postmedia story about labour union spending during the 2011 federal election campaign led this blog to wonder about other third party spending.Reviewing the listing of third parties on…
Tony Clement: anything for a friend
While the media pretty much ignores the scandals around Peter MacKay's elite transportation perks, Tony Clement is not so lucky. He's being ridden hard and put up wet, if not…
Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Friday reading.- Susan Riley points out that nothing positive figures to come from the Cons' plans to slash Canada's public service:No good will come of proposed…
Leadership 2012: The Week In Quotes
A few quotes worth noting from both candidates and non-candidates alike - feel free to suggest more in comments.Thomas Mulcair on his considerations in deciding whether to run:There's an old…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Just as in this year's federal election, the NDP will need to look to move voting intentions once the campaign is underway. But…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - The NDP follows up on the Tony Clement G8 scandal by pointing out the connection between his pork-barrelling and the 2008 federal election…
On official distortions
Charlie Angus is right to note that one of the more serious aspects of Tony Clement's G8 pork-barrel coverup may be the prospect that senior bureaucrats gave false information to…
Wednesday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your day.- Charlie Angus is leading the charge against the Cons' plan to ram through lawful access legislation, labeling it as warrantless snooping and spying on…
Parliament In Review: June 21, 2011
Issue of the DayMuch of the day's debate was taken up with the final debate on the Cons' budget legislation, with the NDP particularly highlighting provisions to subsidize private mortgage…