Truth be told, I don’t think that the prorogation, the presentation of major policy outside of Parliament or the firing of various independent government watchdogs has “hurt” Canada… per se.
I AM a bit surprised at the people who are coming forward to spin the media that it’s not a big deal. These are the same people [...]
Earlier this week, Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin set off a series of political bombs that suggested that senior Canadian government officials ‘knew about’, ‘ignored’, or generally ‘dismissed’ his reports regarding Canadian complicity in the torture of Afghan citizens by their own government.
The next day, various current and forumer government officials including Peter McKay, Rick Hillier [...]
Yesterday’s “flash protest” stunt in the House of Commons was silly, overly partisan and quite possibly a lie.
The protesters, some of whom have been outed as NDP activists, shut down the House of Commons in support of the NDP Private Members Bill just as Jack Layton was about to ask a question. Like many [...]
A Macleans blog entry by Andrew Potter today reminded me of something that I had been going to mark but almost forgot about.
Today WOULD have been election day if the Harper Government had followed their own fixed election law.
(See “<a href="“>Fixed Election Fraud“)
The blog entry is all about the silliness of the law, and the [...]
4 October 2009
Celebrating a quarter of a century of Canadians in space… without the Canadian who did it!
One of the sadder partisan moves I’ve seen recently is the spectacle of the Federal Government’s official celebration of 25 years of Canadian space flight. A magnificent milestone in our development as a nation. Absolutely. Certainly worthy of a little self-congratulating.
So here we have Industry Minister Tony Clement… nice remarks… congratulates the Canadian Space Agency. [...]
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