New column day
Here, on the combination of institutional and personal flaws that’s combined to create the Stephen Harper Senate scandal. For further reading…– CBC reproduces the documents tabled by Mike Duffy in…
Pamela Wallin
The ghosts of senate reform haunt the Harper Conservatives
TweetThe ghosts of Senate reform will haunt Prime Minister Stephen Harper as his party establishment gathers in Calgary on Halloween to discuss and debate party policy. After more than seven…
Harper’s Eyes Wide Shut Moment
As the Senate Expenses Scandal unfolds, Canadians are seeing the consequences of the culture that Harper has fostered in the CPC in his drive to gain power. When Harper set…
*Yawn* Another ‘Scandal’ Masks the Real Issues
Senator Mike Duffy’s bombshell allegations raise more questions Duffy says PMO coached him to lie about source of $90,000 cheque CBC News Posted: Oct 29, 2013 6:02 AM ET Last…
There Is No Honour Among Thieves
Make no mistake about it, I have little sympathy for Mike Duffy. When I caught wind of his political aspirations several years before he became a Senator, he ceased to…
And Justice For None
You’ll have to forgive my late commentary on the issue that has been percolating this entire week, and promises to take up as much time next week as well. I…
And Justice For None
You'll have to forgive my late commentary on the issue that has been percolating this entire week, and promises to take up as much time next week as well. I…
And Justice For None
You’ll have to forgive my late commentary on the issue that has been percolating this entire week, and promises to take up as much time next week as well. I…
Senate’s Conservative leader is dilly-dallying on suspensation motion
Claude Carignan, the Conservative leader in the Senate, now says that he may consider amendments to the motion to suspend Senators Mike Duffy, Patrick Brazeau, and Pamela Wallin without pay.…
I’m sick of reading and hearing people say things like…
I’m sick of reading and hearing people say things like “It’s not fair to suspend those senators without pay, without conducting a full investigation and giving them their day it…
Mike Duffy: Story becomes more misty
Harper has changed his tune. Now his position on the Nigel Wright and Mike Duffy money exchange story has changed. If you remember Harper initially said that “nobody” knew about…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Tom Bergin reports on a predictable corporate attack on the very idea of government sovereignty – as tax evaders are insisting that their…
Stephen Harper and the Revenge of Pamela Wallin
Golly. If I wasn't enjoying Stephen Harper's pain so much I'd probably feel sorry for him eh? Because that sordid Senate scandal just keeps coming at him from all directions…
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…
Pamela Wallin’s attempt at contortion
She may not be the expert yet but she is trying hard. “Although I fundamentally disagree with the methodology used in arriving at that figure, particularly since the amount was…
Sen. Pamela Wallin says Canadian Senate has a “lynch mob” mentality
by: Obert Madondo Former Conservative Sen. Pamela Wallin. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld) If there’s anywhere in the world an appointed public official more arrogant than Sen. Pamela Wallin, please let…
Pamela Wallin and the Sad Tale of the Monkey Senator
Oh goody. Hooray !!!! We're all more than $100-thousand dollars richer (divided by 35 million). And all thanks to Pammy !!!! Senator Pamela Wallin says she has sent personal cheques…
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…
New Mona Liza in town
Mona Liza Wallin texting her friend Mike Duffy!
On patterns of behaviour
Sure, it’s tempting to treat Pamela Wallin’s role as a director of a failed oil sands firm as a personal commentary on the Cons and their Senate appointees. But the…