Today’s UK lesson for Canada’s ‘Harper Tories’
Local elections were held in 181 local authorities in England, Wales and Scotland. The results for the Conservative government of PM David Cameron, and his coalition partners, the Lib-Dems, were…
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Why Canada will have a new government in 2015
Andrew Coyne has put his journalistic finger on the Achilles Heel of the ‘Harper Government’ – its inherent untrustworthiness: Stealth PM Harper But while the public might have been inclined…
F-35: Thirty Five ways to Fail
MacKay has implicated the whole CPC cabinet as being complicit in an attempt to deceive voters prior to last year’s election as to the true cost of new fighter jets.…
Something missing all around
So I watched this 8 minute video version of Harper’s speech to caucus yesterday. It was, as many reports have recounted, packed with a consistent economic focus. Of course. He…
No Party Closer To Hitler Than Conservatives
It’s odd that Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper claimed last week that the NDP were soft on Naziism in 1939, not only because it was erroneous, but because of all…
ConCalls: Two Months
Our country is taking its sweet time to dole out justice to the culprits behind the illegal election robocalls one year ago. It’s been two months since this story came…
One year on…
One year ago today, a minority of Canadians elected a Harper majority government. So, what have I learned? I learned that growing pot is a worse crime than being a…
Springtime for Hitler in Ottawa
Last week, our favourite sweatervest hoarding Prime Minister made the world’s laziest Nazi/Hitler invocation during Question Period. This is the latest in a string of Hitler references made by sundry…
Bob Dylan’s Ladder of the Law and Rupert Murdoch
The bombshell findings of the UK Parliamentary Committee that heard the two Murdochs testify about their role and their innocence in the phone hacking case, gave rise to Bob Dylan…
Languages shmanguages
Today in Harper government infractions: “Ottawa blâmé par le commissaire aux langues officielles.” Le gouvernement Harper n’a pas respecté la Loi sur les langues officielles en nommant l’anglophone unilingue Michael…
Story Bout A Man Named Steve
Steve Harper, oil man, with a cement pool.
Friday miscellany…
… no particular theme edition… ================================================================================== A big problem with social media is that it gives idiots, racists, bigots, misogynists, etc., a tool to spew their ignorant venom. And such…
Studying Cartoon #HarperHistory
The NDP broke up The Beatles and convinced Nickelback to get together. #HarperHistory— Joseph Uranowski (@Uranowski) April 27, 2012 There are many examples on Twitter of people mocking Stephen Harper’s…
Late night
This is not the sexy issue of the day but it’s a biggie. The F-35 scandal saw new key information disclosed on what the Prime Minister and cabinet knew about…
The Exxon Valdez? Child’s Play.
For decades we’ve used the Exxon Valdez incident to define oil supertanker disaster. Yet what Harper is planning for coastal BC, south and north, will make the Exxon Valdez disaster…
No one is really surprised, right?
That Harper is opening the door leading down a right-to-choose debate corridor? If you are, or if you really think that this is an innocent Private Member Motion to simply…
Against the Woodworth motion
Obviously, I am against the motion brought forth by Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth who is indeed reopening the abortion debate, despite Harper’s blather that his government would not do so.…
Harper’s Afghan Surprise – We’re In Afghanistan Until 2016.
Okay, we’re supposed to clear out in 2014, right? Maybe, maybe not. Now, according to CBC, Harper is saying he’ll examine all options when the deadline nears. Wait a minute.…
Seriously, We Have to Fight Back
Gagging the armed forces, gagging the public service and, now, sending minders to shadow government scientists at an international forum, this is too much. We are ruled by a regime.…
ConCalls: The NDP and Liberals were #RoboConned
A spokesman for the Conservative Party attacked Frank Graves, the head of Ekos, for donating to the Liberals in the past. “Frank Graves … is the same pollster who predicted…