Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Because how else can you explain this ? Annual Reports NOTICE : Reports issued prior to 2006 have been taken down to reflect the most up-to-date information. Canada's Conservatives: Because it is apparently not possible to have both old and new information linked from the same web page. I mean, come on, how would that work? (Wag of the tail to CFSR .)
Focus on Britain (and Europe) (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
When you look more closely, Canadians are quite the conservative bunch. They do not like anyone making waves, ripples perhaps, but certainly not any white-crested waves. This is not only true of so-called “born Canadians”, but also of the many people who have come to Canada from faraway shores. They, too, bring with them traditional and conservative views. It is therefore all the more surprising...
Carson's Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
He comes off as wooden and manipulating as his reputation but his office continues sending out staged photos of Canada’s Prime Minister in the hopes the feel-good pics will be picked up by newspapers and even blogs. The Globe and Mail has a few of them with comment, but the one the sticks indelibly in the [...]
Celestial Junk (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Not that long ago I chastised the Stephen Harper conservatives for playing the "monkey in the middle" on climate change. Harper & co. are hedging their bets by whole heartedly agreeing with IPCC claims, yet using every excuse under the sun to do nothing about climate change. Conservative apologists say that in a Canada dominated by a really really really mean media, Harper would be destroyed...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Friday welcomed the announcement that the 17th Pan American and Parapan American Games have been awarded to Toronto and the Greater Golden Horseshoe area of Ontario province. The decision was announced earlier Friday at the Pan American Sports Organization meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico. "This is an exciting day for all Canadians. We are all looking forward...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's law-and-order Conservatives have no valid reason to kill off Canada's rifle and shotgun registry, beyond pandering to their rural constituencies. So they've resorted to playing up the cost of the so-called "long gun" database and denying its usefulness, trying to cast it in the worst possible light.
Impolitical (Free subscription) | yesterday
This letter has been making its rounds across the country this week: Thanks for nothing, Stephen Harper Do we thank God that today’s H1N1 flu is apparently not as deadly as the First World War pandemic? As it stands, Canada is entering the height of its spread, unprotected. Consequently, millions of Canadians will miss six to 10 days of school or work, adding insult to an already injured economy....
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Canada is looking into why less sockeye salmon swam back to the Fraser River on the Pacific Coast this summer than the number that was predicted by scientists.Prime Minister Stephen Harper revealed the inquiry Thursday, noting that the federal government was worried about the shrinking numbers.Scientists had envisaged that about 13 million sockeye salmon would return for mating season, but only about...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
TORONTO — Canada has begun preparations to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in 2011. Maj. Cindy Tessier said Friday that the chief of Defense staff, Gen. Walter Natynczyk, has ordered preparations to get under way that would see Canada's 2,800 troops removed from southern Afghanistan in the summer of 2011. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has said it will not extend Canada's military...
Bowie's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
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...
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...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
'Round Ottawa Michael Ignatieff — starving artist. Now do you like him? A great moment of laugh-out-loud nonsense comes courtesy of Liberal MP Pablo Rodriguez in the National Post : “For 18 years, the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada … lived the life of an artist, with all the financial insecurity that comes with it.” Oh, for the love of... Are we to believe the last...
Celestial Junk (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I can understand why Stephen Harper drives "progressives" nuts with rage ... it's the bloody hypocrisy. I have no doubt that Harper & Co. are fully aware that the science that underpins the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming is badly flawed, and each month that passes finds more holes being drilled in the foundations of the IPCC's case. Just this week, for instance, 160 physicists...
Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Into the wayback machine, Sherman, to re-appreciate some Bush era sleazitude (emphasis nad-whompingly added): Internal Justice Dept. Report Cites Illegal Hiring Practices For nearly two years, a young political aide sought to cultivate a "farm system" for Republicans at the Justice Department, hiring scores of prosecutors and immigration judges who espoused conservative priorities and Christian...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaelle Jean, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, will present the first 46 Sacrifice Medals to members of the Canadian Forces and, posthumously, to a Canadian diplomat. The inaugural ceremony will be held on Monday, November 9, 2009, at 11 a.m. at Rideau Hall, in the presence of the Right Honourable Stephen Harper,...
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