Christian (Canadian) Conservative, Andrew Prescott, has been accused of being the flesh and blood of the aliases Pierre Poutine, Pierre Jones, by researcher Brian-Michel LaRue. LaRue gives his reasoning in…
Peter MacKay: Why does Rona get everything? Rona, Rona, Rona! Between the complete ignorance of the desolate living conditions found in the First Nation reserve of Attawapiskat, the suspected widespread…
In fact the burgeoning cost of Lockheed Martin’s light bomber may be the least of our problems. To begin, what do you do with 65-light bombers in a country the…
On this Easter weekend, let us reflect, yes. In the 2012 version of this video, let us ask: How is it that a government could fail to disclose to Parliament…
There are days I worry that the Globe and Mail is unfit for birds to poop on it. If their endorsement of the Harper Conservatives prior to last year’s electoral…
Those who are pushing the F-35 down Canada’s throat will take any chance to extol its unproven, awesome technical advantages, particularly its stealth technology. The idea is the enemy cannot…
Jason Kenney edition. Is Jason Kenney Canada’s Joseph McCarthy? I think so… OTTAWA — New Democratic Party MP Don Davies says it never occurred to him when he innocuously snapped…
Terry Milewski’s report on yesterday’s remarks by the Auditor General and the reactions those remarks set off, above. It is helpful to see whose eyes are grave, whose eyes are…
Charlie Smith asks the “The $10-billion question: why isn’t the F-35 scandal on the front page of “important” newspapers?” Good question. Well, we know about the Globe & Mail. Loved…
Here’s another repost, this from April, 2011, wherein an American expert calls out Harper on his endless F-35 lies. From Embassy, a preview of remarks to be made tomorrow in…
I’m reposting this piece from 12 December, 2010. It adds some useful context to the depths of Harper’s perversion of our federal government and its insitutions. What’s not to like…
I know we’ve been over this ground before, but remind me again… why does Canada even need this heinously expensive new class of fighter jet at all? What possible military…
It took long enough but our media are finally coming to realize that the Harper regime is no longer fit to govern. Andrew Coyne writes of a “government in collapse.”…
It seems Brian Stewart has been a CBC defence wonk since the days of muzzle loaders and black powder. That makes his take on the F-35 fiasco all the more…
And maybe of the year (click to enlarge): (Source) 2.76 We also have significant concerns about the completeness of cost information provided to parliamentarians. In March 2011, National Defence responded…
Steve Harper, perhaps unwittingly, set out to be the Defence department’s butt boy and today he finds himself with a blinding hangover, lying in an alley in a pool of…
Harper yesterday: While the government isn’t giving any guarantees Canada will buy the F-35, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the country will remain involved in the stealth fighter project to…
Okay, the F-35 isn’t a buggy, it’s a bomb truck – a very buggy flying bomb truck. The F-35 has had more than its share of lurches, stumbles and controversy…
Another day, another F-35 fiasco. This time it’s Australia that’s getting cold, make that colder, feet on the overdue, over priced, under performer. The Canberra Times reports that Australia’s defence…
Critics for the F-35 routinely slam the Harper government for single-sourcing the choice for Canada’s next fighter aircraft. They argue there should have been an open competition to assess all…
