Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The Star’s editorial board sees Canada’s woeful job numbers as a signal that it’s time for some economic management in the interests of…
Julian Fantino
Sober second thought: A half-hearted defence of Don Cherry, Stephen Harper and Julian Fantino in military drag
Stephen Harper in his cool green Canadian Forces flight jacket. With him, Alberta Premier Alison Redford and Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, during last June’s flooding, both looking as if they…
Hoist with their own petard, Harper Tories face veterans’ Remembrance Day protest
A typical Canadian Remembrance Day ceremony: the scene in St. Albert one year ago today. Below: B.C. Conservative MP Mark Strahl, on-air Conservative partisan Don Cherry, and NDP Veterans’ Affairs…
Christian Crossroads Communications: A Bash From The Past
From the CBC archives:Crossroads Christian Communications founder David Mainse speaking at an anti-gay rights rally in 1979. Ken Campbell also shows up, suggesting that gays are prone to child molestation.…
The Harper Cons and the Bigot Trap
It was an extraordinary sight. John Baird sitting next to Julian Fantino at a committee meeting this morning, blasting the hideous anti-gay statements of a Canadian religious organization. Foreign Affairs…
Christian Crossroads Previously Dinged By CSBC For Gay-Bashing Show
Christian Crossroads Communications has been in the news recently over this: A Canadian Christian communications group that does taxpayer-funded development work in Uganda has rejected allegations that it is anti-gay…
I’m Not Sayin’ (I’m Just Sayin’)
The following nugget was buried at the bottom of a follow-up CP report on how CIDA helped fund the Ugandan aid work of the virulently anti-gay Crossroads Christian Communications (in…
Julian Fantino: once a dirty cop, now a dirty politician The…
Julian Fantino: once a dirty cop, now a dirty politician The dishonourable Julian “Mussolini” Fantino, Canada’s minister of international cooperation, was recently busted for ordering a pro-Conservative propaganda letter (signed…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Bill Curry reports on what looks like a thoroughly warped view of the role of the Minister of Justice and Parliament in assessing…
Paging the Clerk
On this brouhaha of yesterday: “CIDA rapped for partisan letters from cabinet minister appearing on website.” The core question in this incident is how these letters came to be posted…
Julian Fantino and the CIDA Scandal
Last night I wrote a post about how the Harper regime is turning CIDA into the Con International Development Agency. I was also planning to mention how the Harperites have…
Political Stooge of 2012: Pierre Poilievre
To be perfectly honest, I struggled with this. Here’s Pierre Poilievre repeating talking points ad nauseam without a hint of even considering answering the reporter’s question. So it should be…
Best Abbott & Costello Routine of 2012: The F-35 Fighter Jets
The Abbott & Costello routine above is exemplary of the Harper Government’s miscommunication. While the comedy routine is meant to amuse, the Government’s routine on F-35s is meant to obfuscate.…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Martin Kirk discusses the role governments play in allowing and facilitating the extraction of a substantial portion of the world’s wealth to tax…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Michael Harris continues to highlight some of the fundamental problems with the Cons’ view of politics, this time identifying Stephen Harper as being…
Making Politics Out Of Tragedy
The terrible shooting in Toronto that saw two people killed and 24 injured elicited this response from Julian Fantino and Rob Nicholson. I have no words to express my feeling…
Idle Saturday speculation
Will the real Minister of International Cooperation please stand up? Chris Alexander, Parliamentary Secretary for National Defence, on behalf of the Honourable Julian Fantino, Minister of International Cooperation, is attending…
Pearson on Fantino
Glen Pearson writes about the Julian Fantino appointment as Minister of International Cooperation, the ministry that oversees Canada’s international aid efforts. He highlights the qualities that those involved in the…
I’m not the only one…
… who thinks that the CPC talent pool must be pretty thin if Fantino is the best replacement for Oda that Harper can come up with. NDP MP Charlie Angus…
Umm.. this is ministerial accountability, Globe and Mail?
There was an editorial in the Globe and Mail yesterday, saying basically while it was overdue, Bev Oda deciding to leave as a Minister was a sgin that Harper holds…