Conservative Candidate Ryan Hastman

Apparently if you are Ryan Hastman, the Conservative candidate for Edmonton-Strathcona, you don't feel so obligated. Rabble.ca carries the story: (206 words) More …

Twitter: @PMHarper follows @freepornpics

Apparently @PMHarper has been following @freepornpics for quite some time. In the blog Morton's Musings, James C Morton (a candidate for the Liberals in Oshawa) apparently first noted the connection back on August 3, 2010. (297 words) More …

CPC Senator Nancy Ruth: Potty Mouth

Courtesy the Toronto Sun's ever-attentive Susan Delacourt, Aid groups advised to "shut the f--- up" on abortion:

Listen up. (MP3)

Bad Personnel Choices Mr. Harper

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 …

Prentice: We are not boy scouts

Jim: the fact is most Canadians want Canada to be the boy scouts at that table. (201 words) More …

Health Minister Prescription: Resignation

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 …

HarpEr Hard At Work: Body Bags

Today's HEHAW installment, quoting The Globe and Mail: (149 words) More …

Harper's Kim Campbell Moment?

Tom Hanson/CP (624 words) More …

Harper: Caught In The Act V

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 …

Gaffes Of The Day

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 …

ABC To Claim Fabian Manning?

Maybe not. Events might just claim that seat too. (273 words) More …

New Plagiarism Questions Directed At Harper

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Gerry Ritz Unprepared

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 …

Legal Brothels and Pot?

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 …

Nude Election 2008?

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 …

Ritz, Aim, Fire

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 …