Harper Spends $90k of Our Money/Day to Spin Us on His Cuts
The Harper government is paying consultant Deloitte Inc. almost $90,000 a day for advice on how to manage the cuts. via Harper personally approved $22,000 tab for visiting bureaucrats –…
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Here is a fairly complete…
… annotated list of Harperite misdeeds, lies, slushfunds and illegal activities over the past while. Reads like news headlines from, oh, a Central American banana republic. Or maybe Italy. Nicely…
Robocon Scandal continues…
It started off with just a few robocalls… Now, it seems that there were thousands of robocalls and/or live calls designed to misinform/misdirect/insult/intimidate, etc. certain Canadian voters and these robocalls…
Should the NDP Renew Itself with a Shoot of Green?
Before our last federal election in 2010, I’d proposed a rationale for the NDP and Green Party to merge (from an NDP perspective). With the NDP leadership convention operating at…
How the GOP candidates choose who to attack
Ron Paul: There has been a lot of buzz recently about the fact that Ron Paul, while viscously attacking his other opponents, seems to give Ron Paul a free pass.…
Coming clean…
… damned classy move and the right thing to do. When was the last time a Con apologised for a personal attack? No, I can’t remember either. Atta boy, Bob.…
It seems like the Cons were using Robocalls everywhere…
… except for one riding – Parry Sound/Muskoka – where they got their votes in the 2011 election the old-fashioned way. They bought them. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
“Fone Fraud Fiasco” Finalizes Federal Fate
Will Canadians finally get our country back now that the lid has come off the Fone Fraud Fiasco? Will Stephen Harper finally accept responsibility for what is happening?
The Conservative Party of Canada – A Study in Contradictions
I can’t help but notice that Conservatives have been all over the board with their policies and positions arguing on one side of an issue in one circumstance and the…
I. Am.
Ironman. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Looks like March…
… might come in like a lion, eh? Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
A Plan to Strengthen What???!!
Today I was surfing the internet when an advertisement caught my eye. It was an ad for a contest put on by the Manning Center for Building Democracy. (http://manningcentre.ca/conference/?page_id=379) The…
WikiLeaks: Amp Up The Hype – Stratfor Spy Emails Exposed #gifiles
Now I can hardly wait until Monday (now in the UK), with a series of promotional tweets going up today. And I don’t have to wait any longer! Stratfor emails…
Train drivers and bus drivers
So there are three train engineers dead after their train derailed in Burlington, ON today. It’ll be a year before we know the how and the why of what happened.
Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It’s Off To Court We Go! Or do we?
Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It’s Off To Court We Go! Or do we? PART 20 of the Canada Elections Act discusses Contested Elections: Means of contestation 522. (1) The validity…
PEI Premier silent on Resolution #58 – Day 39
In January the PEI NDP called on the Premier and MP’s to comment on how they voted/if they voted on Resolution #58. We heard on Compass that MP Wayne Easter…
Stephen Harper, Fascist?
Is Stephen Harper a Fascist? You take the survey and judge for yourself.
Harper’s Win-At-All-Costs Approach Led to Electoral Manipulation
The first wave of dust is settling from the revelation this week that a company hired by the Conservative party made fraudulent calls to voters trying to mislead them about…
Harper’s Win-At-All-Costs Approach Led to Electoral Manipulation
The first wave of dust is settling from the revelation this week that a company hired by the Conservative party made fraudulent calls to voters trying to mislead them about…