19 entries filed this month:
Federal MP’s who hail from the Reform and Canadian Alliance parties are coming out in force to support firewall Ted Morton. That’s unsurprising – Ted Morton and Stephen Harper are firewallin’ soul mates. (631 words) More …
Federalist parties ought not to be kowtowing to Gilles Duceppe et le Bloc Quebecois. Harper has done so merely to score some political points in Quebec, a province where his party has seen serious erosion of support since the January 23rd election; Ignatieff dished up this mess trying to score some political points in Quebec in order to improve his chances in the upcoming Liberal leadership election. (340 words) More …
CBC: Flaherty promises new tax relief, aims to eliminate ‘net debt’
[The Conservative government] is proposing to eliminate Canada’s total government net debt by 2021, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Thursday. All future surpluses will be directed at eliminating the federal debt within 15 years, Flaherty said. (458 words) More …
Our group has committed to holding members from any party to account if they fail to do their duty for our democracy. Communique > (379 words) More …
They are pretending that they support Kyoto. They have never supported Kyoto. They do not support Kyoto and they never will. then Liberal cabinet minister David Emerson tells the truth on April 18th, 2005, referring to the Conservative Party (237 words) More …
Wake up, British Columbia. Why oh why are you all sleeping? My informal straw poll of regular citizens in our fair city tells me that fewer than 2 in 10 people even know that the Campbell government refused to call a fall session for the B.C. legislatures. (561 words) More …
What could a dispensationalist worldview mean for global politics? In the 1980s, Washingtonâs foreign-policy establishment worried that Reaganâs flirtation with end-time beliefs, including branding the Soviet Union âthe evil empire,â would hasten the nuclear apocalypse that he periodically referred to as inevitable. To speed the day, dispensationalists like Falwell who helped bring him to power were among the loudest voices urging Reagan on a course of brinkmanship. (751 words) More …
But first, the breaking news item of the day: Garth Turner is to hold a press conference this morning, promising to reveal disturbing details
about a certain political party and its leadership. A lot of people won’t be happy with me
, Turner said, adding “The die is now cast.” Knowing some of the inside workings of the party and Harper’s rise to power, I can well imagine… (443 words) More …
The Canadian arm of the World Wildlife Federation today released a report (Press Release) which brings into focus the risks to Canada’s fresh water resources posed by climate change. Water flows in the Athabasica River decreased by approximately 20 percent over the past forty years, and models predict a further 7 to 10 percent drop in levels under a 2 degree C warming scenario over the next forty to fifty years. Meanwhile, even as water levels drop, industrial usage of water is skyrocketing. Oil sands production consumes vast quantities of water which becomes forever polluted in the process.
Report: Oil and water do not mix in a warming world (PDF)
Promise #1: Harper has never supported an appointed Senate, instead is a long time proponent of the Reform Party call for an elected senate, the so-called triple E senate. During the last election campaign, only days before the vote, Harper re-iterated a promise to Montrealers in a french-language televised interview: (513 words) More …
John Ibbitson (Thursday Nov 9, 2006 We have our politics; they have theirs – The Globe and Mail) goes to great pains to paint Stephen Harper as the antithesis of George W. Bush, without illustrating any of the similarities so inconvenient to his thesis. (740 words) More …
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An Ekos poll shows Stéphane Dion as a solid second and third choice among Liberal delegates to that party’s upcoming leadership convention. (1770 words) More …
Days before the 2006 election Harper said that he and his party would not monkey around with their income trusts
.1 Then Finance critic Monte Solberg, gaining political ground over alleged income trust leaks from government reiterated that Harper and his party would protect investors.2 Solberg also stated that only the Conservative party would leave income trusts alone; that investors could depend on the Liberals to tax trusts.3 Stephen Harper in a November 2005 op/ed piece in the National Post again reiterated his position that taxing trusts is not what he would do if he were Prime Minister.4 (1472 words) More …
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During his hour-and-a-half lecture â part of the launch of an interdisciplinary media and communications studies program called Media@McGill â Hersh described video footage depicting U.S. atrocities in Iraq, which he had viewed, but not yet published a story about. (296 words) More …
Collateral damage in other non-trust investment classes is also there, although they will recover more quickly. (358 words) More …
Pre war intelligence was handled in a very un professional way, analytically. Basic procedures we should follow, were not. We didn’t follow process by: a) saying clearly what we know, how we know it and when we learned it, and then b) saying what we don’t know. That basic process of analysis was not performed. (189 words) More …