Entries tagged with “Gaffes”
In 2007 Stephen Harper punted from caucus MP Bill Casey, a popular, hard-working, constituency-focussed MP of many years. Why? Because Mr. Casey had the temerity to stand up for his constituents. Casey subsequently ran again as an independent while Conservatives vowed to bring him down. Result? Casey won by a landslide and continues to earn the respect of his constituents to this day, his last day as an MP. Bad staff decision, Mr. Harper, Canadians want more MPs like Bill Casey. (357 words) More …
Jim: the fact is most Canadians want Canada to be the boy scouts at that table. (201 words) More …
The one important thing they could have done well in advance of vaccine distribution is public education; instead we have Vancouver SkyTrain and Toronto Go trains decked out with gratuitous advertising. (179 words) More …
Today's HEHAW installment, quoting The Globe and Mail: (149 words) More …
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Harper Conservatives are not only plagiarizing speeches from the Aussies, supporting the Iraq War like the Aussies, now we see evidence Harper's gang are lifting their election tactics straight out of the Australian handbook: (296 words) More …
LIBERAL: Say it isn't so, Stéphane! On a day where a third allegation of plagiarism against Stephen Harper surfaces, Stéphane Dion is shown to have delivered a speech in 2005 containing text apparently lifted from a speech presented by Dr. Robert Corell of the American Meteorological Society before a 2004 U.S. Senate committee on the environment. (487 words) More …
Maybe not. Events might just claim that seat too. (273 words) More …
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On Saturday the Globe and Mail reported that Ontario health officials ordered hospitals and nursing homes under their jurisdiction to pull Maple Leaf meat products they suspected were tainted. But the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which reports to Ritz, didn't issue an alert for another three days and didn't make the public broadly aware for a full five days after Ontario health officials had already acted. (459 words) More …
No, its not yet another NDP or Green candidate-gone-wild. Its the supposedly staid Conservative Party who today is dealing with the blogospheric rantings (via Jerad Gallinger) of Ryan Warawa, the unlikely CPC candidate for Vancouver-East challenging the indefatigable and can't-be-defeated Libby Davies. (482 words) More …
Another group of Canadians seems intent on giving Stephen Harper the bums rush (2008). I bring you the strange but true: moonstephenharper.ca (142 words) More …
Here's something to while away the time with until Conservative MP Gerry Ritz is finally fired - the cold-cut cannon game. (67 words) More …