Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Upworthy and the Equality Trust both provide fascinating examples of greed in action. – Rank and File discusses the relentless wage-slashing that has…
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Stephen Harper’s Creepy War on Canadians
I'll never understand why it took so long for so many Canadians to understand the true nature of Stephen Harper.Or the horror of his twisted mind.And to what nightmare place…
All Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing…
Many people were waiting for the on the horizon cabinet shuffle in Ottawa that finally took place today. Pundits saw it as an opportunity for a scandal plagued government to…
Stephen Harper’s New Cabinet
Really? What is new?
Oh my God – they shuffled Kenney! Those Bastards!
New Title, Same Job The much-hyped Cabinet shuffle was about what you’d expect: retiring Ministers swept aside, talented backbenchers and Pierre Poilievre promoted, and a few big names swapping portfolios…
Mike Duffy in Florida and money
I am disappointed by Harper’s Cabinet shuffle. I thought new finance minister will be Mike Duffy. He knows all about money.
Chutzpah and corporate ‘self-regulation’ won’t make Canadians trust our oil-transport infrastructure
Rail tanker cars hang precariously over the Bow River in Calgary before their successful removal from a flood-damaged railway bridge last month. (Toronto Star photo.) Below: Humourist Leo Rosten, who…
Stephen Harper’s Victory song
He sings after he won majority in 2011. Enjoy!
The Harper Regime’s War on the Maple Leaf
I have no idea why Stephen Harper and his Con minions have such a love affair with royalty.I have no idea why they want to turn us into a colony…
Stop Applying Marketing-Think To Government, It’s Disgusting.
CBC, with some analysis on Harper’s expected cabinet shuffle provides this quote from former Mulroney Chief of Staff David McLaughlin: “There’s a staleness about some of the ministry and some…
The Man Who Might Take Down Stephen Harper
It's one of my favourite photographs of all time.The golden moment in when the RCMP raided Con headquarters, to seize documents in the so-called In- and-Out scandal.Documents that were later…
Context, Tory MP Russ Hiebert’s shifty campaign for Bill C-377, and me
The Parliamentary trolley, on its way back from the Senate, stops in front of the Prime Minister’s Office in the Langevin Block. The dog at left was never owned by…
The Big Rain and the Sinking Harper Cons
Well I'm glad I didn't have to go to work yesterday afternoon eh?So I didn't have to wear a bathing suit to the office, or be rescued from a train…
The Duffy Deal: Persons having dealings with the government
Interesting articleby Crawford Kilian on the Sensitive and International Investigations unit of the RCMP affidavit (that unit is charged with investigating matters of significant risk to Canada’s political, economic and…
Politicians in Cowboy Hats: Come Hell or High Water
For a brief history of Stampede fashion, you can read the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 round-ups – or last year’s “100 Years of Bad Photo-Ops“ Flood waters…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – George Monbiot rightly challenges the attempt of corporate interests and their political sock-puppets to demonize anybody concerned about our planet’s future: Exotic…
Environment Minister Peter Kent embraces his imminent demotion from Conservative cabinet
by: Obert Madondo | Twitter: @Obiemad: Environment Minister Peter Kent. (Photo: Environment Canada) It’s a preemptive strike of sorts. Environment Minister Peter Kent knows he’ll be a backbencher after PM…
Darth Harper and the Coming War on Canada
Gawd. I knew it wouldn't last eh?I knew he couldn't play a real leader for very long. Oh sure, he tried. He did one photo-op after the other in flooded…