"There are four byelections coming up on Monday — two in Quebec, one in Nova Scotia and another in British Columbia — and the Liberals could come in third in all four of them. In both languages and on both coasts."-High-stakes Byelections-Tory candidate invisible in New Westminster-Coquitlam byelection(Click on graphic above for profile)(Click on graphic above for profile)(Click on graphic above for profile)(Click on graphic above for profile) Read Full Story
Tax-averse MP content to spend public's moneyBy Howard Klein The StarPhoenixNovember 5, 2009Following is the viewpoint of the writer, a Saskatoon resident."Saskatoon-Humboldt Conservative MP Brad Trost receives a six-figure income provided through money from taxpayers, yet on the front page of a newsletter to constituents he avers: "I don't like taxes."He asserts that "tax and spend governments restrict freedom," and declares that "taxation is ... a form of slavery to the state." Yet, on the ... Read Full Story
Whether Conservatives or Liberals like it or not, New Democrat, Peter Stoffer was ELECTED by thousands of Canadian citizens to represent them in the House of Commons! Senator Mike Duffy was SELECTED by only one person, Stephen Harper, to sit in the fat cat club known as the Senate of Canada.Both the Conservatives and the Liberals have used this historic unelected institution to ply patronage and to put to pasture old politicans from their ranks who would otherwise continue to interfere with t... Read Full Story
Saskatchewan's minister responsible for policing says he's sorry for asking an opposition MLA whether police had come to visit him yet."I apologize for that remark," Yogi Huyghebaert told the legislature Thursday, a day after he said he was just joking when he asked New Democrat Kevin Yates about a possible police visit.Huyghebaert, also the minister responsible for corrections and public safety, said Thursday he does not have any influence over police investigations, as his comment suggested... Read Full Story
"The indignant attempt by Corrections and Public Safety Minister Yogi Hughebaert to castigate the NDP for using leaked information to publicize the mistaken early release of a dangerous sexual offender only draws attention to the hypocrisy of the Saskatchewan Party in government. [...] So what happened to the principles of the Saskatchewan Party that, when it sat in Opposition, felt safeguarding the public was so important that it introduced its own whistleblower protection bill in 2004 to pr... Read Full Story
A lot of Canadians would like to get a shot of H1N1 vaccine, but the Federal Government has screwed things up so badly that frustrations continue to rise across the nation:Extra Canadian flu vaccine sent abroad"Extra vaccine for the H1N1 virus has been exported out of Canada to other countries because producers are making more vaccine than can be stored in bottles, officials say. Canada's chief public health officer, Dr. David Butler-Jones, said Tuesday that GlaxoSmithKline has shipped bulk q... Read Full Story
57 people turned out to greet Prince Charles in Cupids, Newfoundland yesterday. He's going to Ontario today. ABC introduced a new sci-fi television series last night called 'The Visitors'. The pilot aired on prime time, featuring the arrival of Alien travellers from another world. Seems to me that we have our own Canadian version of that plot underway across the nation. Read Full Story
OTTAWA — The federal department charged with disaster planning is itself a disaster when it comes to preparing for emergencies as varied as the swine flu pandemic, floods and terrorist attacks, says Auditor General Sheila Fraser."We found that Public Safety Canada has not exercised the leadership necessary to co-ordinate emergency management activities," Fraser concluded in her latest report, tabled in the House of Commons on Tuesday.Her department did not study the current H1N1 crisis, but F... Read Full Story
