It’s summer time and the living is—maybe—easy. Yann Martel has sent a nice big package to Stephen Harper for his summer pleasure, number 58 and 59 in his continuing attempt to provide our Prime Minister with some good bedtime reading. The first is a both a book and an audio book of Alice Munro’s short story collection Runaway . (If you aren't familiar with it, you should ead Jonathan Franzen's fascinating review from The New York Times.) Martel prefaces this part of his gift by asking if... Read Full Story
Let me repeat this: the end of Stephen Harper’s reign as Prime Minister of Canada is something that is essential. Nevertheless, I was reluctant to cheer for an early election because I thought the Liberals were in such disarray that the Conservatives would come back with a majority. While it pained me to see the NDP vote to keep the Harper government in office, it seemed to me to be a wise thing to do, all the more because the changes to the Employment Insurance program, however small, are... Read Full Story
A seriously pissed-off Scaramouche sends the PM an angry missive on Jennifer Lynch's efforts to chill dissent and remake Canada in the image of East Germany. Jennifer Lynch is nothing new under the sun, just your garden variety totalitarian who compiles enemy lists, expresses open contempt for honest debate, smears a bi-partisan opposition as "extreme right wingers" and worse , while blatantly lying to a public she clearly considers beneath her. Her actions should not come as a surprise... Read Full Story
L'AQUILA, Italy, July 10 (UPI) --
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized at an international summit in Italy Friday for making an incorrect claim about his chief political rival.
Speaking in L'Aquila at the Group of Eight summit, Harper said a remark he had made about Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff had been based on what he believed was a quote by Ignatieff who, in fact, never uttered it, The Globe and Mail reported.
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The Conservative prime minister's staff... Read Full Story
The latest poll by Strategic Counsel confirms that the Harper Conservatives are doing much better than Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals, which leads to believe that Ignatieff is absolutely incompetent and irresponsible. There's been no change over the summer. If anything, the Liberals are doing worse than they were last spring. This is no time to force an election, if Ignatieff wants to win. The best case scenario would be another minority government, but Canadians are tired of minorities. So... Read Full Story
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke to media at the conclusion of the G8 meetings in L’Aquila, Italy. He said, “It is critical that (banker bailouts) intervention reaches it’s conclusion….” That conclusion according to him is “some substance of global governance.”
These masters of the universe will use any crisis possible to advance their global one world government agendas. He continued to use the term “unregulated capitalism” that caused the financial problems throughout the... Read Full Story
Damn, damn, damn. Gary Doer is going to be the Canadian ambassador to the US. That is terrible news, first because he has agreed to to an appointment from Stephen Harper, and second because that removes him from the debate about health care in Canada and the enforcement of the Canada Health Act. NDP personalities have accepted appointments from Conservative governments in the past: Stephen Lewis was Brian Mulroney's ambassador to the UN. But to me that smacks of sleeping with the enemy. How... Read Full Story
I know what I hope Gary Doer does now that he’s resigned as head of Manitoba’s NDP and premier of the province: see that the federal NDP takes on defence of the Canada Health Act as a major campaign. After 10 years as premier of majority NDP governments, Doer says it’s time to step down. "I thought, if you ever get a chance in this job to go out on your own timing, you better take advantage of it,” he said. But he didn't say he was getting out of public life, and I take that as a good sign... Read Full Story
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