All the news that’s fit to bury
Peter Kent certainly isn’t the first minister in the Harper cabinet to bury an inconvenient report for months, only to finally release it when he figures it’ll do the least…
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I guess one man’s core service is another man’s redundancy
When reports about job cuts at Environment Canada surfaced last year, we were assured by Environment Minister Peter Kent that there would be no consequences for “core services.” We heard…
Streamline? Or gut like a fish?
The Globe and Mail‘s headline on yesterday evening’s story was “Ottawa wants to streamline environmental reviews”. After some discussion about eliminating inefficiencies and duplication, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver summed…
Yesterday in Gutter Politics
This time it’s Peter Kent and Aaron Wherry has the details. Given his long career in journalism I would have thought that more than most Conservatives, Kent would be aware…
Why am I not surprised?
May 19, 2011: A majority Conservative government will move ahead with regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Canada ..., says Environment Minister Peter Kent. ... "The oilsands ... will…
Mostly competent government
The Harper Government™ has been doing such an awesome job of protecting the endangered woodland caribou in northeastern Alberta that a Federal Court has decided to step in and order…
Our "world class" tarsands PR monitoring plan
This week saw our federal, provincial and territorial energy ministers, minus Ontario, trot out a joint communique describing the tarsands as "sustainable and responsible", even as the Cons were simultaneously slashing the federal Canadian…