Life in the Senate
One of our favourite Senators, Senator Elaine McCoy, is back in the blogosphere after a bit of an absence from her blog, Hullabaloos. Back with some wit on display yesterday…
Senate
“Stop Harper” Protest by Parliamentary Page During Conservative Throne Speech
A Senate page managed to stand just meters away from the prime minister with a sign saying “Stop Harper” during the government’s throne speech in Ottawa today. Brigette Marcelle De…
A Senate page is fired for saying what most Canadians are saying
Senate page fired for anti-Harper protest - Politics - CBC News Brigette DePape, a Senate page, stood on the Senate floor during the Governor General's reading of the speech from…
What happens when august institutions are disrespected
(source) (click to enlarge) It breeds disrespect. That reference in the blog post title is to Mr. Harper's government and the actions it has taken which have bred that disrespect…
Mike Duffy: A happy man
Why he looks so happy? Close to $140,000 a year plus many perks:Senators are eligible for retirement at age 55 and receive 75 percent of their salary as a pension.…
Harper’s Right to Appoint Senators
Lot's of faux indignation amongst media and bloggers and politicians over Harper's decistion to appoint three senators, including two who ran for election to the House of Commons, and lost.…
Coward Thug Harper Appoints More Failures To The Senate
PM rewards three defeated Conservatives with Senate seats - The Globe and MailHow to become a senator under Harper? Show that the people don't want you to represent them. Another…
Cabinet and Senate: Ongoing bad behaviour is stability, of a sort
I don't have much to observe about today's developments in federal politics, except to say that I am profoundly unsurprised, unlike the madly twittering press corps. Harper's favorite cabinet ministers,…
Our Conservative Supreme Court, courtesy of Michael Ignatieff
If Michael Ignatieff had not allowed himself to be spooked by Harper's fearmongering in early 2008, we would have had a chance to implement the Coalition Agreement between the NDP…
An open letter to @jacklayton on the future of the Senate
April 23, 2011 Dear Jack, Recent media reports suggest that you see yourself running to be my next Prime Minister. As you know, the Harper Tories now hold a majority…
Write your MP about the Electoral Reform Motion
This is an email I just sent my member of parliament. If you care about electoral reform you should too. You can find your MP here. Here is the debate…
Calgary Herald Opposes Basic Democracy
To no one's surprise the Calgary Herald wrote an op-ed wholly justifying the Senate's vote down of Bill C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act. It seems so twisted, to me…
Link Byfield "Resigns"
Link Byfield resigned his position as one of Alberta's senators-in-waiting today. I was hoping at his press conference he might have explained why his friend Senator Bert Brown participated in…
Flaherty: Deficit will be retired by 2011
OTTAWA - Faced with record federal debt, Finance Minister Smilin' Jim Flaherty boldly predicted that the federal government's deficit will be erased within twelve months. "We're going to sell more…
Rand Paul Parties Like It’s 1964
by matttbastard Belated congratulations to newly-minted Kentucky GOP Senate candidate and latest Tea Party ubermensch of the moment Rand ‘Son of Ron’ Paul, for defeating the establishment candidate with Chuck…
Andrew Coyne speaks to the Liberal Party, but will they listen?
I’m just growing more and more fond of Andrew Coyne as time goes on. Maybe I’m getting older and more conservative, or maybe he’s getting less so. Or just maybe,…
The Next GG Should be Elected
News today that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is looking for a new Governor General. A number of names have already been suggested for possible replacements. I won’t speculate but my…
Andrew Coyne’s Modest Proposal
The Canadian Interwebs are ablaze with anger over the recent prorogation of parliament and polls tell us that even the general population is quite upset. Hopefully the fast growing Facebook…
You should read this about senate reform
You should read this about senate reform, espeically Jim Q’s comment on a PR solution http://ow.ly/TKs3 #cdnpoli #senatereform #fairvote Posted in Politics Tagged: democracy, fairvote, parliament, Politics, reform, senate
Not Everyone Thinks Like You
Posted from a comment via HuffPost What I find really interesting is how this is further evidence that people always assume that others would do exactly as they themselves would…