Making More Noise About the Tarsands!
The HarperCons are certainly giving the regina mom a lot of opportunity to diss them. And that would be fun! Perhaps, if we give them enough rope… I know. It’s…
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Getting it Wrong and Limiting Debate on Pensions
The first day of Parliament 2012 and the Conservatives are already strangling debate. As we have seen in previous years the Conservative MPs unable to speak for themselves got up…
Juxtaposing Harper: OAS version
Harper to the House of Commons, yesterday, when questioned on his proposed cuts to Old Age Security: “Everybody understands that there are demographic realities that do threaten the viability of…
Does Stephen Harper Support Coalitions?
If coalitions are undemocratic and a threat to Canada, why hasn’t this strong stable Conservative majority government done anything to make sure they don’t ravage our nation? Simple, Stephen Harper…
Minister of Threatening Canadians
Modified form letter I sent started with: Dear Prime Minister Harper, Threatening charities as ‘adversaries’ of your government, is wrong. The form response I got back started with: Dear :…
Harper needs to come clean on his Old Age Security ‘reforms’
Parliament resumes very shortly as of this writing. It is to be hoped that Stephen Harper will deem Parliament important enough to reveal the details on his very public musings…
Harper Conservatives – Cutting off Old-Age Security
The Harper Conservatives are making a move to cut off Old-Age Security. Their internal communications are framing Old-Age Security as a burden on ordinary Canadians. I don’t see many Canadians…
Dumb on crime indeed
Much of Harper’s “tough” on crime agenda has been described as dumb and that is particularly true in the area of parole or supervised release. Inmates in our prison system…
Yup, there are more than…
… few Grit and Dipper lips smacking at the prospect of running against Harper on the issue of raising the retirement age to 67. While some of Harper’s holy pronouncements…
About that "Secret Agenda"
L’il Steve Harper has spent the past six or more years assuring Canadians at every opportunity that he really doesn’t harbour any “secret agenda.” Then he goes all the way…
“Let Me Be Perfectly Clear…”
Our Canada is gone. Harper made that perfectly clear this morning in Davos, Switzerland. Sweeping changes to Old Age Pensions. Privatisation of science and innovation. Deregulation. MacKay signed off our…
More on raising the Old Age Security age eligibility
A brief follow-up to yesterday’s post on the possibility of a hike in OAS age eligibility here. Here is the first of many analyses likely to come along now that…
The Liberal Identity
The Liberal Party lost the last election not because they didn’t know what they stood for, but because they stopped looking. After the last election many party officials, pundits and…
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Harper is talking pension reform in Davos and one big change could be coming: In the wake of Harper’s speech, it now appears that the Conservative government could be poised…
Dances With Oil
If Stephen Harper were a character in a Hollywood epic movie about the western Canadian frontier, and went to live with the First Nations people, I can’t help but think…
Capitalism No Longer Fits
“Capitalism, in its current form, no longer fits the world around us.” What a curious thing for the founder and chairman of the Davos World Economic Forum, professor Klaus Schwab…
The Harper government, Ethical Oil and Sun Media connection – rabble.ca
What do EthicalOil.org, OurDecision.ca, JasonKenney.ca, JoeOliver.ca, GoNewclear.com, the original SunTVNews.ca website, Amerians4OPEC.com, Wildrosecaucus.ca, RichardDur.ca, CalgaryWard14.ca, Cummins4BC.ca, CorrieAdolph.com, HeatherForsyth.com, PaulHinman.ca, PierreMP.ca, and DriveOutTheTax.com… ..
What Did Steve Harper Just Say?
The Grand Dissembler, Steve Harper, picks his words carefully. That’s why it’s often worthwhile to pay close attention to what comes out of his mouth. Take his remarks to a…
Make It Stop
“Unlike Big Oil, are not transparent about their motives.” – Financial Post complaining about American environmental groups who oppose leaky pipelines destined to spoil freshwater and the Pacific coast. And…
Harper to First Nations: Bother my MP’s, not me, with your issues.
I’ve not seen another article come out yet on the meeting that Harper had with the First Nation’s Chiefs other then this one, but from the First Nations perspective, their…