Being Mike Duffy
I really have nothing insightful to offer today, merely a brief reflection on what it must be like to live a life devoid of even a shred honour. By now,…
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Not For The Faint Of Heart
Be careful who you open the door to this Halloween: H/t The Toronto Star Recommend this Post
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Andrew Coyne sees the disproportionate influence wielded by the representatives elected by a minority of voters in Canada and the U.S. as evidence…
Stephen Harper’s Disastrous Return To Parliament
OMG. This is so exciting. Somebody beat a drum, or a gong. After four long months of preparations, Stephen Harper's Con klown regime is finally shuffling back to Parliament. The…
Dean Del Mastro: Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and now Dean Del Mastro
Del Mastro the Dean of them all. Step aside Duffy and Pamela the Maestro himself is here. “Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro has quit the party’s caucus after he and…
Mike Duffy: Minimum punishment
He should walk in front of the Parliament with a sign: “I am a thief I stole money from the taxpayers.”
Mike Duffy’s Mysterious Visit to the Harper PMO
Oh my Satanic Sherlock. This PMO mystery just keeps getting more and more entertaining, in a nightmarish sort of way.Yesterday we found out that although the paper trail was lost,…
The Senate Scandal: How Did Harper Not Know?
Well as you know it's been hard to know what went on in the PMO as the Mike Duffy scandal was breaking. And the Cons were in a frenzy trying…
Stephen Harper and the Wonderland Nightmare
He must think he can get away with anything. He must think he can say anything and Canadians will believe him. One moment he's the Phantom of Parliament, the next…
Stephen Harper and the Dangerous Senator Duffy
Well I see that the former Law Clerk of Parliament believes that Mike Duffy may have committed no crime. Rob Walsh, who was Parliament's top legal adviser until 2012, says…
On family ties
Laura Ryckewaert’s report on the Cons’ Senate strategy has already received plenty of attention. But I’m more interested in a senior Conservative’s excuses for Stephen Harper’s actual appointees than what…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Mariana Mazzucato points out that important inventions tend to come from public financing aimed at the greater good – while noting that…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Tim Harper writes that Stephen Harper’s “lone gunman” argument – already implausible in light of the number of Senators and staffers required to…
The Scary Tale of Stephen Harper and Mr Chainsaw
Even by the standards of the Con propaganda machine it was a bizarre photo-op. Stephen Harper, Peter MacKay, and Julie Fantino in a room full of toys, in a community…
Is Mike Duffy Threatening to Bring Down the Con Regime?
Ever since the Senate scandal began I have always wondered why the Con regime went to such desperate lengths to protect Mike Duffy. Some suggested it was because he was…
Mike Duffy Expenses: The plot thickens
CTV explains with more specificity after senators David Tkachuk and Carolyn Stewart Olsen denied any involvement with Mike Duffy’s expenses affair and the payment by Nigel Wright to cover Duffy’s…
Mike Duffy’s New Portrait
To be hung in the Senate Chamber.
New Mona Liza in town
Mona Liza Wallin texting her friend Mike Duffy!
New column day
Here, on how the two Con appointees at the centre of Stephen Harper’s Senate are exactly the two who should have known better than to abuse the public trust. For…
Some Sunday Recreation
Think I’ll go out on my bicycle this morning. In the meantime, enjoy these letters on the Senate imbroglio found in yesterday’s Star: Machiavelli wrote: “Those who governed the state…