Just want to add my two cents to the television event of the week for the political junkies of the nation. This was not a substantive event, the information presented in the Stoffer study was worthy of noting, yes. But the larger interest here arising out of Duffy's presentation is one that has to do with the morphed Conservative psyche, I would submit. In two ways. First, there's the spectacle of...
Canada's ruling Conservative Party has maintained its double-digit lead over major rival the Liberal Party, according to a new poll released Thursday. The weekly EKOS poll put the Conservatives at 37.4 percent, compared with the Liberals at 26.8 percent. Both parties are back at the support levels they got during last year's election. The two parties were once locked in a dead heat during the summer,...
Harper one year later: over half a million jobs have vanished OTTAWA - As the Canadian economy shed a net 43,000 jobs in October, Liberal Finance Critic John McCallum criticized Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “don’t worry be happy” attitude in the early phases of the recession. “A little over a year ago, Stephen Harper promised Canadians that if they re-elected him Prime...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today received the Grand Cross of the Order of the Pleiades, awarded by the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie to honour his contribution to the Francophonie. This is the highest level of the Order.
I had assumed that this 100 million dollar self promotion exercise, under the guise of the Economic Action Plan, included all "expenses". That assumption was wrong, because on top of the gross misuse of public money previously exposed, we now find an addition 45 million allocated for signage, ceremonies, etc, so Harper can look good, and the kicker- most of the cost is put at the foot of...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with Canadian astronaut Julie Payette who, along with the crew of Space Shuttle Mission STS-127, was recognized in the House of Commons today. Ms. Payette and her fellow crew members returned from a 16-day mission in space on July 31.
As the gun registry meets the axe tonight , the Conservatives are refusing to publicly release an RCMP report, dated 2008, which is likely to be supportive of the gun registry. How ridiculous. A key vote on the gun registry today, yet a report from federal police lies hidden from public view. Why might that be? Because it probably builds on the 2007 report which stated that the registry is "key...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper spent time today with Chandler, a grade-9 student from Claresholm, Alberta, as part of the national Take Our Kids to Work Day. Chandler earned the opportunity to meet the Prime Minister by winning a photo contest organized by The Learning Partnership along with Scotiabank to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Take Our Kids to Work program.
Stephen Blaney is a Tory MP from south of Quebec City. As is the case for many MPs, Stephen Blaney likes to support his party's by-election candidates. Unlike many MPs, Stephen Blaney also likes to put out press releases to promote his efforts. Up to that point, there is no problem. The problem begins when Stephen Blaney mixes taxpayer funded Parliamentary resources with Conservative Party's by-election...
Former prime minister Jean Chretien might very well be the best thing that ever happened to Canadian conservatism. When it comes to the ongoing resurgence of Canadian conservatism, one has to give a big hand to former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien. When you start to enumerate the ways in which he laid the groundwork for the ongoing success of the Conservative Party, it almost takes your breath...
An op-ed today from the mother of one of those killed at Ecole Polytechnique on the need to maintain the gun registry (Google translation): The Law on Firearms is a monument erected in memory of victims of the massacre at the Ecole Polytechnique, including my daughter, Anne-Marie Edward. I am disappointed that the Conservative Party of Canada, who claims to be the party of law and order, chooses to...
Who should be the real villain of the Royal Mail strikes? Adam Crozier , the chief executive of Royal Mail. Look at what he makes in bonuses alone , let alone his ridiculously generous and wholly unjustifiable salary. **** I guess we can be thankful we live in a democracy. In Iran, Ahmadinejad is shutting down newspapers critical of him . If this were a dictatorship, no newspaper would be allowed to...
Hedy Fry, the Liberal MP for Vancouver Centre, suggested on Thursday that members of Parliament should get their own H1N1 clinic on Parliament Hill-- which presumably would allow MPs and their staff to receive the swine-flu vaccine on a priority basis, ahead of ordinary citizens. Her reasoning? "MPs are at risk:We shake hands with people I don't know how many times a day." Here's a simple...
This is the most poorly written, fundamentally unsound opinion piece I have read in a major daily in a long time. Naturally, it runs in the New York Times. If you aren't up to speed, Barack Obama named Rep. McHugh (R-NY) the Secretary of the Army. A politically connected liberal named DeDe was anointed to run as a Republican in a special election. All was well until the Conservative party candidate,...
To those who are shrugging “who cares'” about all the attention being paid to a Congressional district so far north it bumps up against Canada, I’m here to tell you why it’s important: even more than the couple of governor’s races to be decided next Tuesday, this dress rehearsal in New York is the sign of things to come in 2010. That’s when the Congressional races...
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