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From CanadaCausesCancer.ca a little humour driving home a point:
From CanadaCausesCancer.ca a little humour driving home a point:
Conservatives ask Elections Canada to nullify votes cast at University of Guelph (April 14, 2011 - Guelph Mercury) (905 words) More …
Why the preamble? Each election brings new readers to my humble blog and I feel a little uncomfortable publishing partisan materials and links without having introduced myself. (355 words) More …
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Earlier today Stephen Harper went on at length before the press to claim that he knew of some of Bruce Carson's criminal past but not about "revelations that we're finding out today". (792 words) More …
I am entitled to my entitlements (1066 words) More …
I hope that a majority of Canadians do not care at all if there are partisan implications, for any party, in the Afghanistan detainee affair. We just want to know the truth. (317 words) More …
Even a quick scan of the eight megabytes of scanned images (PDF) illustrates ample justification for calling a full public inquiry. Here is a quick extraction from the material: (1196 words) More …
Facts relentlessly rising to the surface of this fetid scandal serve only to buttress an inescapable conclusion: Canadians have been lied to directly and through omission by the Harper government. (347 words) More …
As these allegations were brought to the surface in 2006 by Colvin and others, the Harper government -- brand new to governing at that point -- could have puffed out its chest and directly faced the allegations and put a stop to either the torture, or bring to an end Canada's involvement in Afghanistan. Taking on such an explosive issue in a very public way would elevate the newly minted minority government in the eyes of Canadians and delivered much needed political capital for use in the next election. (1055 words) More …
Evidence continues to mount that Canada was complicit in hiding the facts of Afghan detainee torture allegations. Implicated are senior officials and politicians in the federal government which include former and current Ministers of Defence Gordon O'Connor and Peter MacKay and Prime Minister Stephen Harper. (916 words) More …
It's the home version of the Stephen Harper's Conservative Party spending scandal, dubbed the Cheque Republic and now you can make your own cheques too! (129 words) More …
Call it cheque-gate or promogate but when a normally Conservative-friendly columnist starts writing about your shiny tory-blue party in an objectively negative way, clearly something is wrong. (1158 words) More …
The charge is simple: federal spending is politicized. Canadians might be forgiven for yawning with apathetic boredom but instead we should be shouting. (819 words) More …
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