Open and Shut: Why America Has Barack Obama, and Canada Has Stephen Harper
BIG BLUE WAVE (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The Fundamentals About Harper: The church he currently attends is theologically conservative and is strongly oriented toward public service and social justice, but even that tells us little about Harper. Does he accept some of his church’s tenets of faith? All? None? Does he simply go for the music and coffee after the service? In short, to state that he holds a “fundamentalist”...
Vive le Canada (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Politics sunk into an unprecedented abyss last week in this country when the Prime Minister of Canada approved advertising that accused the official opposition, the Liberal Party of Canada, of being associated with anti-Semitism.
Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
And here's Stephen Harper, looking to fuck over democracy, accountability and transparency one more time. First, there's the setup : David Mulroney was a senior adviser on Afghanistan at the time Colvin said he was sending his crucial reports and when he was told by superiors to stop producing written material on the issue. Mulroney, now ambassador to China, said he wants to testify, because of the...
Miami (Free subscription) | yesterday
TORONTO -- Canada's prime minister is reversing his position and will attend the Copenhagen climate-change meeting next month. Stephen Harper's spokesman Dimitri Soudas said Thursday ...
They Call Me "Mr. Sinister" (Free subscription) | yesterday
While Prime Minister Stephen Harper has promised the committee will get "all legally-available" documents, Colvin's lawyer said the Justice Department has clamped down on him. Lori Bokenfohr said government lawyers have told Colvin they do not accept an opinion that testimony - both written and oral - before Parliament is exempt from national security provisions of the Canada Evidence Act....
David Akin's On the Hill (Free subscription) | yesterday
This just in: Global coalition demands Canada's suspension from the Commonwealth on climate grounds 26 November 2009 - A coalition of prominent figures from the developing world have joined a former UK development minister, a UN scientist and British environment and development groups to demand the suspension of Canada from the commonwealth for its record on climate change. The groups claim that Canada's...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Northwest Territories MP is urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to protect Canada's claim to a disputed area in the Beaufort Sea, where the United States wants to drill for oil and gas.
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | yesterday
There's a piece in today's Globe suggesting the Liberal Party needs to go on the attack -- pull out and publish dated stories of Harper saying Canada is second rate etc. The piece suggests that being unfair is not a bad thing -- it is a necessary thing. My thinking is different. Attack ads are good but only if they actually attack a real policy or problem. Attacking something that isn't there will,...
CalgaryGrit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Flaherty to axe subsidies to political parties in fiscal update: sources The Conservatives are poised to eliminate the public subsidies that Canada's five major political parties receive, a move that would save $30 million a year but could cripple the opposition. Sources told CBC News and other media outlets Wednesday that the subsidy cut is one of the key elements of the fiscal update that Finance...
Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Crap. It was only a couple of days ago that I read this : OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper moved Tuesday to calm the political storm surrounding the handover of Afghan prisoners, vowing to release all "legally available" documents related to the matter. And the instant I read that carefully-qualified promise, I said to myself, "All Harper's going to do now is frantically...
Live Earth (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
After months of speculation, the White House announced today that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen on Dec. 9 to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference . During his brief time there, Obama will announce a U.S. emissions reduction goal "in the range of 17% below 2005 levels in 2020 and ultimately in line with final U.S. energy and climate legislation." This range...
A Creative Revolution (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Well. Steve is going to Copenhagen! I know I am totally jumping the gun here, but based on this report.... A White House official says President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen next month for a global climate conference. Recall Steve's whining just a few short weeks ago? Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s aides say he will attend a key climate change summit in Copenhagen next month, but...
Buckdog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
"Nova Scotians won’t do it — all those no-good bastards sitting on the sidewalk in Halifax that can’t get work." -Gerald Keddy, Conservatve MP from Nova Scotia Monday, November 23, 2009 "A culture of defeat..." —Stephen Harper, describing the Atlantic Provinces, May 2001 "There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism," —Stephen...
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Amazing how different the Commonwealth states are. Of course, homosexual conduct was illegal in Canada until Trudeau's revisions of the Criminal Code in the late 1960's. So it's not that long ago Canada was onside with Uganda's pending legal bigotry. Uganda's anti-gay bill causes Commonwealth uproar Proposed law that would impose life imprisonment on homosexuals has the potential to divide leaders...
Impolitical (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Day two of the in-and-out litigation at the Federal Court and the Conservative argument went to the free speech issue: "Free speech at stake in ad spending case: Tory lawyer." The argument is basically this: A lawyer for the Conservatives says freedom of expression for political candidates is at stake in a Federal Court case over $1.2-million worth of disputed party advertising in the 2006...
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