Chrome Beach (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
My government (not yours) does something useful : Canadian border guards have been told to bar a fanatic church group that was planning to protest the funeral of a man beheaded on a Greyhound bus, reports say. NDP MP Pat Martin told the Winnipeg Free Press that Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day sent the alert to border guards Thursday. Guess who? The daughter of the founder of the Westboro...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Kickback is such a strong word. It implies criminal intent.That question came from Pat Martin of the NDs in questioning David Lowry just a few minutes ago (I managed to watch part of the hearings this afternoon on CPAC, for some bizarre reason there was no morning session when I attempted to watch live streaming). As I wrote in my last post this morning, we have to be careful here. Parliament...
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
TIM NAUMETZ The Canadian Press 12 Aug 2008 OTTAWA — A parliamentary inquiry into the Conservative "in and out" election scheme descended into chaos Tuesday when four Tory witnesses failed to appear and the inquiry chair accused the governing party of ordering their absence. NDP MP Pat Martin said he suspected a Tory "conspiracy" aimed at thwarting the inquiry into questionable campaign expenses....
The Freethinker (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
... have been told to bar members of the fanatical American church from entering the country. NDP MP Pat Martin said his office was flooded with phone calls on Thursday from Winnipeggers outraged by the group’s planned protest. These people [the WBC] are almost as crazy as the murderer. If they are here to disrupt the social order, that constitutes grounds to deny them entry. There is no redeeming...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
... with the messages that the church promotes and to keep them out of the country, Winnipeg MP Pat Martin told CBC News on Friday."Entering Canada by a U.S. citizen isn't an absolute right, and if you're coming here only to disrupt the social order and to promote what we consider to be bordering on hate crimes or hate language, they shouldn't come into Canada," Martin said."We're not...
CityNews: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
... of Animals that used McLean's death to highlight the cruel treatment of animals.Winnipeg MP Pat Martin said federal Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day sent out an alert to border authorities to be on the lookout for people with signs and pamphlets that deliver the American group's message and to ban them from entering the country.Shirley Phelps-Roper, the daughter of the church's founder,...
Quotulatiousness (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
It's a PR coup for the pathetic wankers who announced they'd be coming to Canada to protest at Tim McLean's funeral : Canadian border guards have been told to bar a fanatic church group that was planning to protest the funeral of a man beheaded on a Greyhound bus, reports say. NDP MP Pat Martin told the Winnipeg Free Press that Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day sent the alert to border guards...
Daimnation! (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
No, "Baptists," you can't have entry into Canada. Not yours : Canadian border guards have been told to bar a fanatic church group that was planning to protest the funeral of a man beheaded on a Greyhound bus, reports say. NDP MP Pat Martin told the Winnipeg Free Press that Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day sent the alert to border guards Thursday. The church group, described in a British...
Tyee - Home (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Axe the Penny and the TwentyUbiquitous, useless and unwieldy. They've bullied our wallets for too long. I'm calling for a coup.By Published: July 23, 2008 TheTyee.caThis year marks the 100th birthday of the Canadian penny, and like a mean-spirited, bigoted old relative, some are trying to get rid of it. Citing a 2007 by the Dejardins Group, NDP MP Pat Martin introduced legislation in April that...
Far and Wide (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Pierre, did other parties do this? : A former financial officer for the party confirmed last month in a court examination that expenses incurred by Public Works Minister Christian Paradis and former foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier were assigned to other candidates. NDP MP Pat Martin, a member of the ethics committee, said if the party did shift expenses from Bernier and Paradis to other...
Aural States (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Alexa’s Take: On a Sunday, I was curious to see what crowd would show for this rainy summer night of punk-ish madness. Sonar introduced Ratsize, leading the show with a loud, messy performance, including a cover of the Adolescents’ “No Way”. Lead vox Pat Martin put on a pretty good show, ramming into the crowd [...]
