The Sixth Estate Open Government project tracks, among other things, the extent to which Parliamentary committee meetings occur in camera, meaning in secret. I began tracking this after there was…
After weeks of Conservative pundits telling us that Ted Opitz should keep his seat because there was no evidence of vote fraud in Etobicoke Centre, CBC has shown the value…
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz is hopping mad. He put a civil servant in Guelph, one Bill Teeter, in charge of a spending review in Ottawa, had him travel back and…
A month or so ago I reported on independent journalist Brian Michel LaRue’s claim that Guelph Conservative activist Andrew Prescott, whose blog can be found here, was actually “Pierre Poutine.”…
It is not only plausible, but inevitable, that any future Quebec referendum will generate a national debate on whether the province should be allowed to stay. A nationwide referendum on…
Last weekend the entire national media abandoned fact-checking and printed a bogus story claiming that the Martin majority government allowed committees to meet in secret for 116 minutes a day,…
The latest Postmedia revelations, which appear to be consecutive teasers drawn from a single court record (why give us the whole story when you can drag it out over multiple…
In the wake of the Progressive Conservatives’ unprecedented surprise re-election in Alberta last month — and by unprecedented surprise, I actually mean their twelfth consecutive victory, which somehow threw our…
For a while now a number of progressive bloggers have been fighting a losing war with the media to stop referring to the Harper regime as “Tory,” on the grounds…
Two important revelations can be found in the latest batch of robocall corut filings to make the news in connection with the Election 2011 fraud scheme, about which Sixth Estate…
Since winning its majority, the Harper régime has forced most Parliamentary committees behind a veil of secrecy. They meet in camera and, despite being our elected representatives, sitting in our…
This week former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj is in court arguing that his defeat by Conservative candidate Ted Opitz last year should be overturned because the number of ballots which…
Given how agitated the Harperites got whenever there was even a whiff of “collusion” between the Bloc and the other Opposition parties, it’s always amusing to see how many former…
You wouldn’t think the victory of a Progressive Conservative government in Alberta, of all places, would be able to send the media into such a tizzy. A few months from…
Six months ago, I would have said the future of Canada was looking pretty grim. Universal healthcare is a dead letter: the federal government has openly declared that the provinces…
British Columbia is in the process of setting one record, and in the next few months it may set another. I can’t think of another occasion in Canadian history when…
I take a week off from blogging, and things stay interesting in my absence anyways. The National Post reports that the Elections Canada investigation into the Guelph robocalls has spread…
The Guelph Conservative campaign currently under investigation for sending fraudulent calls to suspected opponents has now filed a complaint of its own, alleging that their supporters were targeted by someone…
As the professional media dithers about the future of Rights & Democracy and whether or not lying to Parliament about the cost of the F-35 jet fighter actually counts as…
Since the election fraud story appears to be dying an entirely undeserved death at the hands of the perennially moronic professional media, I thought I’d stir the pot a little…
