Read this first, then move on
Section 15 (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
I love watching theory be put into practice. "It doesn't have to be true, it just has to be plausible." -- Prof. Tom Flanagan Now go read Impolitical .
Tom Flanagan
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The Auditor-General is a Liberal hack and/or over-politicizing a crisis!
Scott's DiaTribes (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... Conservatives’ competence into question . UPDATE: This is a rather curious quote from Professor Tom Flanagan, former mentor of Stephen Harper. I’m not sure whether its a defense of the Conservative government or a criticism: “People get sick every day and people die. It is too bad, but not an emergency… The government was bullied by the World Health Organization and by the media into going...
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Business group elects longtime banker as chair
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry, a Colorado business coalition, elected longtime banker Tom Flanagan, a division president for Citywide Banks, as chair.
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Danielle Smith wins race to lead Wildrose Alliance Party
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
While Ms. Smith may be new to provincial politics, she has already gained the support of Alberta's conservative elite, including Tom Flanagan, the University of Calgary political scientist who helped to groom Stephen Harper for the Prime Minister's Office. Her campaign also received help from Rob Griffith. He is a well-known Harper campaign organizerThe Wildrose Alliance has attracted several...
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Danielle Smith wins race to lead Wildrose Alliance
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
... provincial politics, she has already gained the support of Alberta's conservative elite, including Tom Flanagan, the University of Calgary political scientist who helped to groom Stephen Harper for the Prime Minister's Office. Her campaign also received help from Rob Griffith, a well-known Harper campaign organizer. The Wildrose Alliance has attracted several high profile supporters, including...
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Condie North Brings You – Michael deVille
Harper Valley (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... be more apologess and Stephen Harper thinking it will earn him votes (even though he’s from the Tom Flanagan School of Genocide). Harper knows damn well that Canada is operating as an illegal nation because they won’t follow Rule of Law, and that rule of law is based on Queen Ann’s royal order of 1704, stating that Canada and the United States must recognize indifenous peoples as nations...
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Deliberately misleading
Accidental Deliberations (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
... to represent their constituents outside Quebec. In sum, Keddy looks to have taken a step past the Tom Flanagan standard for credibility. Never mind even trying to be plausible; better instead to make an utterly nonsensical accusation and let one's opponents try to spend explain why it's firmly grounded in the Cons' Kool-Aid rather than anything even remotely resembling reality. Worse yet,...
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Alberta's great right hope?
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
... hopeful that, under Danielle's leadership, the party could … become a serious contender,” says Tom Flanagan, the University of Calgary political scientist who helped to groom Stephen Harper for the Prime Minister's Office.Ms. Smith had been a lifelong Tory until this year. But Premier Ed Stelmach's government changed that: “There's nothing left that is conservative about this party at all...
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Lies, truth, and nudity
Bowie's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
This is just another case of a lie going around the world before the truth gets its pants on. Nobody was ever going to cross the floor. Jason Kenney's DComms just though, a la Tom Flanagan, that he could lie to a reporter. It didn't have to be true; it just had to be "plausible." It will be telling to see what happens to Alykhan Velshi. This wasn't spin, it was an absolute lie coming...
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The pianist
Dawg's Blawg (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
... else can possibly go wrong for them. Ivison couldn't be more mistaken. Harper has taken his mentor Tom Flanagan's advice: "A good political leader is like an outstanding athlete or entertainer" ( Harper’s Team , p. 5). But Harper is not an outstanding entertainer. This stuff rings patently false, like the " man and kitten " image, blue sweater-vest and all (note...
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St Dennis Public Meeting
Cllr Dick Cole (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
... an incinerator in this area. Julian German (the cabinet member for Waste) and Corporate Director Tom Flanagan both started the meeting by assuring local people that the Council will robustly defend the appeal. The meeting covered the content of the Integrated Waste Management Contract, the appeal (which will probably be through a Public Inquiry scheduled no later than March/April 2010),...
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EnCana Bomber's Truce Expires
Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
... with opponents of a pipeline off the coast of County Mayo.A recent report by political scientist Tom Flanagan published by the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute explored the potential for violent resistance to the rapid expansion of natural-resource industries in northern Alberta.If energy companies want to do the smart thing, they will give being a good neighbor an earnest...
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Traditionally Canadian
The Shotgun (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Review Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada's Founding Values , Brian Lee Crowley , Key Porter Books, $34.95 IF there is such a things as a Canadian conservative establishment, it has turned out to endorse this book. The back and inside cover includes positive blurbs by Michael Bliss, Barbara Kay, Margaret Wente, Tom Flanagan, Janet Ajzenstat, Rudyard Griffiths, William Gairdner and...