There’s nothing like some Injuns getting uppity and demanding political rights, etc., to draw out the kooky, paranoid racism from their fellow Canadians, including those who write about politics for…
The Council of Canadians has posted a new series of documents in relation to their robocall litigation. As you can see, they are attempting to get an affidavit from an…
Some new life was breathed into the investigation of election fraud in 2011 today when Elections Canada investigators filed court documents requesting that various phone companies reveal call records of…
Last year, as you may recall, the Conservative Party was caught bombarding residents of a Montreal riding with a misleading “poll” implying that their Liberal MP, Irwin Cotler, was resigning…
From the Venerable Kady: A Conservative-backed campaign to haul Liberal leadership contender Justin Trudeau and now former natural resources critic David McGuinty before the natural resources committee to explain their…
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…
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…
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…
Today the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the law governing Canada’s elections is less important than the principle of elections: that everyone has the right to vote, even if…
Once again, so far as I can see, the criminal neglect and incompetence of the nation’s media appears to be on display with respect to the new budget bill. Here’s…
CBC has been doing superb work researching financial improprieties with respect to the election campaign of the Harper regime’s Intergovernmental Affairs Minister, Peter Penashue of Labrador, for some months now.…
Seriously. They did. It’s all in this week’s column from Conrad Black — and let me just say how pleased I am that at least one of our major newspapers…
Does anyone know if there’s an archived website for the former Rights & Democracy organization? http://www.dd-rd.ca seems to have gone offline, and the Harper regime shuttered the organization this summer.…
The following post is deliberately alarmist. Orwellian, you might say. I’m not trying to paint a picture of what things are like in Canada right now, or even what I…
There are any number of ways in which a Parliamentary Speaker who wanted to make a name for himself could do so. They would be wildly popular, they would make…
I have taken far too long to write this post, but I think the time was warranted. I needed the time to sort out what I wanted to say in…
