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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) The Chair of the Canadian Pork Council, Jurgen Preugschas, and board member Stephen Moffett, appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food yesterday as witnesses to the committee's study on the crisis in the Hog sector.
Buckdog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Whether Conservatives or Liberals like it or not, New Democrat, Peter Stoffer was ELECTED by thousands of Canadian citizens to represent them in the House of Commons! Senator Mike Duffy was SELECTED by only one person, Stephen Harper, to sit in the fat cat club known as the Senate of Canada. Both the Conservatives and the Liberals have used this historic unelected institution to ply patronage and to...
NRA-ILA Site Updates (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The first step in getting rid of the boondoggle known as the long gun registry was taken in the House of Commons on Wednesday. MPs voted to scrap the requirement to register individual rifles and shotguns -- a registry that has consumed more than $1 billion, been condemned for its wasteful and reckless spending by the Auditor General, and pitted urban residents against those who actually use guns as...
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A minor news story today, coinciding with Charles and Camilla's visit to Canada, is the news ( National Post , Globe and Mail ) that in 1992 Ignatieff was decidedly critical of the British monarchy and Charles. This could complicate his meeting later with said prince. In the Ignatieff article, which was published in the Montreal Gazette in 1992, the politician writes about the separation of Prince...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The cagey MP sat back holding his glass of merlot and smirked at my naive assertion that the gun registry was indeed dead. A private member's bill killing the billion-dollar registry was endorsed with surprising strength in the House of Commons on Wednesday and is heading off to committee for fine tuning and, in theory, a rubber stamping. Not so fast, apparently. "It's going to the Public Safety...
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I suppose the legislature's intention is clear. And with that guns become anonymous in Canada -- well, fair is fair, gun advocates organised, got the votes and won. That's the way it's supposed to work so good for them. I disagree but recognise and respect the decision. I do hope this doesn't presage removing the limits on handguns in Canada. Vote to kill gun registry passes Private member's bill now...
H5N1 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Via the Globe and Mail: H1N1 hits the Commons. Excerpt:Bloc Québécois MP Claude Guimond wore a face mask in the House of Commons this evening, fearing he was coming down with H1N1 and not wanting to infect his fellow parliamentarians....
Devin Johnston (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I don't have a strong position one way or the other on scrapping the long gun registry . I think there are some valid criticisms of the program, particularly in respect of the cost to the public. That said, I strongly disagree with those who argue that long guns don't contribute to criminal violence. It is empirically true that more crimes are committed with handguns than with long guns, especially...
Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The private members bill to get rid of the billion dollar grit boondoggle passed secon reading easily 164-137.(12 ndp mps, 8 libs, 1 ind vote with CPC) That means around 20 opposition MPs voted with HM Government. This would never have happened under the grits so it's yet another reason that freedom loving Canadians should vote Tory. This long gun registry was another attempt to reward grit friend...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Politicians in Quebec are calling on their counterparts in Ottawa to save the long-gun registry as a private members' bill calling for its abolition heads to a vote in the House of Commons Wednesday.
Gen X at 40 (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
That was the line of the night. Apparently, the last time portions of New York state's 23rd district of the US Congress were not represented by Republicans, they were represented by Whigs. It was the equivalent of a by-election for the House of Commons. But it had a very different feel. While party affiliation is huge here, so is personal contact as well as local issues that might, in Canada, be handled...
Buckdog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
OTTAWA — The federal department charged with disaster planning is itself a disaster when it comes to preparing for emergencies as varied as the swine flu pandemic, floods and terrorist attacks, says Auditor General Sheila Fraser. "We found that Public Safety Canada has not exercised the leadership necessary to co-ordinate emergency management activities," Fraser concluded in her latest...
Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
# 3944 I’ll leave it to a far more qualified Crof over at Crofsblog to weigh in on the growing debate over the Canadian government’s handling of the H1N1 crisis ( and Canadian politics in general). I have enough trouble ignoring American politics. This Auditor General’s report, however, is certain to add fuel to the fire. AG targets weakness in government's emergency preparedness...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
You can’t spell pandemic without the panic. The Liberal party has taken it upon themselves to attack the Conservatives in the House of Commons surrounding the H1N1 flu pandemic, leaving Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq to repeat the same reassuring message over and over in Question period: “Mr. Speaker, six million doses were produced ahead of schedule. As soon as they were available and...
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/urgency-from-feds-still-lacking/article1349010/ The bumps in Canada's biggest-ever vaccination campaign that sparked an emergency debate in the House of Commons last night seemed inevitable. From the beginning of the H1N1 pandemic there has been a calm, verging at times on complacency, from federal officials. On top of that, jurisdictions overlap,...
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