Police Deserve Our Respect – When They Don’t Abuse It
Contrary to what one might believe reading my various entries on the police, I recognize the difficult job that they have, and I realize that they are often capable of…
Julian Fantino
Why is Julian Fantino hiding his campaign donors?
Blogger The Sixth Estate has written a post drawing attention to the campaign finance filing of Vaughan Conservative MP Julian Fantino from last year’s election, noting two campaign contributions of…
F-35 insanity: The movie reel
Is this a “tactical retreat” as the Globe very generously frames the Fantino backtrack on F-35s this week? Is Harper admitting he was wrong? It’s hard to believe anything this…
Julian Fantino Hates Canada According To Julian Fantino
Julian Fantino of February 13th, 2012 hates Julian Fantino of March 13th, 2012 Julian Fantino has been unequivocal: anyone that questions the purchase of the F-35 fighter jets hates Canada.…
An Epochal Moment in Toryland
While there has been a long and sustained objection to Canada’s planned purchase of F-35 jets, today marks the first time that the Harper regime has, even for a moment,…
Vaughan M.P. Has Some Splainin’ to Do.
My my my. It looks like Mr. Law-and-Order, the dour and humourless M.P. Julian Fantino, may not have been playing by the rules in the last election. Recommend this Post
If Maurizio Bevilacqua Wants to Clean up Vaughan I Know Where he Should Sweep
404 System Error, score another home run with their exposure of some questionable financing in Julian Fantino’s campaign. Seems Fantino is running two separate accounts, in a non-transparent fashion, one…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Mike de Souza’s report on the Cons’ attempts to hide both the oil industry’s involvement and its own lack of credibility is…
Why The F-35 Won’t Fly
If you are interested in why the F-35 is an exceedingly poor choice for our next generation of fighter planes, read this article, where you will also see the infantile…
On the lighter side…
Blessed art thou, F-35, amongst holy implements: Associate Defence Minister Julian Fantino reached heavenward for words Thursday when trying to defend his government’s purchase of F-35 fighter jets during question…
…and Boisvenu makes three.
First, Julian Fantino writes about his love of the death penalty in his book. Then PM Harper talks about his support for the government having the ability to kill Canadians…
Lawful access legislation to retain warrant requirement?
Fantino last night: Speaking to the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police in Windsor, Ont. Sunday evening, associate Minister of National Defence Julian Fantino said the government will retable a…
Fun with Numbers: The Conservatives
Last month, I looked at ridings where the Liberals exceeded expectations. Today, a look at ridings where the Tories did better than we would have thought given what was going…
CPC Pork and You
Big day in federal politics today, as Con MPs fan out across the country to hand out taxpayer dollars in an attempt to purchase re-election. I have a rather lengthy…
Prime Minister marks five years in office
Prime Minister Cowboy Steve marks five years in power as Canada's big cheese, eclipsing the tenures of long-serving Conservative heavyweights Joe Clark and Kim Campbell. Party faithful gathered to celebrate…
Kelly McParland Repeats Big Lie About Toronto
This was the most remarkable idiocy in an otherwise blisteringly stupid column about how Toronto doesn’t matter any more in Canadian politics: “Toronto’s political clout hasn’t disappeared altogether — it…
Tories tab former Mallcop Fantino as Vaughan byelection candidate
Former mallcop Julian Fantino has been handpicked by the Conservatives to run as the party's candidate in the upcoming federal byelecton in Vaughan, it was revealed at a press conference…