PMO Issues Alert: “Foreign Radicals Threaten Further Delays”
Last night, Prime Minister Harper’s office sent off this “alert” to the media folks on its mailing list (via Kady O’Malley at the CBC). When I first read it, I…
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Who is Andrew Frank?
Andrew Frank, who on Monday was fired from ForestEthics for going public with accusations that someone in the PMO labeled the organization an “Enemy of the Government of Canada” and…
Merry Christmas Jean Chretien
Continuing on in the festive spirit around here today, it’s another pre-Christmas story to note: Ottawa has to pay $200,000 in legal costs incurred by Jean Chrétien in his fight…
It’s Your Turn PMO
It seems that the NDP has given the Conservative government a well deserved slap in the face. After weeks of hounding CBC to produce documents about their internal operations, likely…
With Persichilli Appointment, PM Harper Shows Quebec The Political Middle Finger, Embraces The Ethnic Vote
Quebec will not be a priority for the Conservative Canadian Prime Minister during the next four years of his comfortable majority rule. That was the message Stephen Harper sent with…
Almost as surprising as Duffy being named to the Senate..
..is that Angelo Perchelli, formerly of the Toronto Star, is now going to be the new Director of Communications for the PMO. He’s perfectly suited to it, as he has…
Angelo Persichilli – Now An Official Partisan Hack
Yeah, can anyone honestly say they didn't expect this? I can't.Who would think to name him director of communications, though? He can barely writeAddendum:Actually, I take that back. Angelo has…
Another Canadian muzzled by Harper
Franke James, you are not alone. It's not just the arts that get the Harper thug treatment. Science, the other most hated discipline of Conservatives, is also subject to censorship…
The Greedy PMO
This article by itself shows why this Conservative government should have little standing among the Canadian public interested in cutting expenses: Prime Minister Stephen Harper's own department has repeatedly broken…
Harper’s Vision For Canada
Here’s the criminal justice part of it via the superb QI: Unless you work in the PMO, that’s different somehow.