There are rumours and quotations from unnamed PMO staffers that if push came to shove, Harper and the Conservatives would rather dissolve Parliament and call an election over the issue of turning over the unredacted Afghanistan detainee documents if they were found in contempt of Parliament and/or the Speaker issued a Warrant ordering the documents [...]
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The Atlantic Coast gets hit by record snowfall, and immediately the climate change skeptics come out of the woodwork. “This proves climate change and global warming is a hoax!” they scream. Presently at the Olympics, Vancouver’s interior inland is expected to hit 16 Celsius today – temperatures they don’t normally get to June. Snow or [...] Michael Ignatieff came out yesterday with a strongly worded appeal to the Prime Minister to support safe abortion and family planning programs abroad if he was serious about wanting to aid in improving the lives of women overseas. One of the PMO’s spokespersons, or at least a spokesperson for Harper, came back with this [...] Tags: Afghan detainees, Afghanistan, prorogation | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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 | Trackback for this entryWhile the lives lost may not be comparable to the 2004 Tsunami in Asia, the massive earthquake that has hit Haiti will be very similar in it being devestating to the people and to the country. As with the tsunami, the current and best way for Canadians to help is to donate money. Right now, the [...] Tags: Haiti earthquake | Category: International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryHarper came out on his CBC interview with Peter Mansbridge tonight claiming that the Canadian public “don’t care” about the issue. Well, Mr Harper, if people don’t care, then there should be no reason for you to not hand over the documents to Parliament and by proxy the Afghanistan Committee – as voted on and [...] Tags: Afghan detainees, Conservative Party, coverup, Stephen Harper, torture | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryThis is a very curious story over at Macleans on the sequence of events so far. Twenty eight countries have appointed officials to work with Richard Holbrooke on Afghanstan - the U.S. Special Represetative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, who was personally picked by President Obama, and who reports directly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Six [...] Tags: Afghanistan, Conservative Party, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryEllie Kirzner of NOW Magazine takes apart Jason Kenney and his ally in the Toronto Star Rosie DiManno, and their attacks on KAIROS. I’m going to quote a large excerpt, because it’s a good piece: …So unsettling is the anti-Semitism charge that many are preferring to believe that Kenney really didn’t say what it seems he [...] Tags: Bev Oda, Conservative Party, Jason Kenney, KAIROS Canada | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryThe impact is all very negative, as you would expect. “Canada’s back?”. More like Canada’s disappearing under Harper. Programs to 6 different countries will be specifically affected by this bit of petty vindictiveness by Harper, Jason Kenney, Bev Oda, and the rest of this disgraceful lot. Specifically, key partners of KAIROS in Columbia, Sudan, The Congo, [...] Tags: Gerard Kaplan, Jason Kenney, KAIROS, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entry#1 Bad optic – The Conservatives will continue to boycott the Afghanistan Committee investigating the Afghan detainee situation, meaning there will be no quorum and no formal hearing, renewing the charges of this government trying to coverup and squelch the truth over this messy affair for them. #2 Bad optic: That hasn’t stopped the opposition members [...] Tags: Afghan detainees, Conservative Party, coverup, human rights, torture | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryKAIROS Canada has just issued a news release responding to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s statements that CIDA funding was cut to it because of the organization supposedly being anti-Israel/anti-Semitic. I’ve highlighted a main point (or two) in here amongst some other very relevant and troubling issues that KAIROS Canada has brought up. It appears that [...] Tags: Bev Oda, Jason Kenney, KAIROS Canada | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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