You think Harper might have said something with regards to the Census controversy today when he talked to his national Conservative caucus; particularly in light of his poll numbers dropping as a direct result of that (at least in the Ekos poll, if not Decima’s earlier this past week as well). Harper’s been out [...]
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 | Trackback for this entryWe find out today that 25 million of the 30 million extra dollars that the Conservatives are spending on making the mandatory longform census a voluntary survey is actually going to be used to explain to potentially confused people how they screwed the census up because of their ideological idiocy on the census. Some [...] Tags: Canada census, Conservative Party, Gerry Ritz, longform, Stephen Harper, Tony Clement | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryBriefly, My colleague the Jurist at his blog details some more blanket condemnations of the Conservatives bone-headed/ideological move to kill the mandatory longform census, but he did miss one article that should be read – C.E.S Franks at the Globe and Mail explains why Munir Shiekh resigned, and the probable chain of events. He [...] Tags: Canada census, longform, Munir Shiekh, Stephen Harper, Tony Clement | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryOn this particular day, it’s the Economist’s editors who decide to ask the question about what Harper was thinking about when he put together the Billion Dollar Boondoggle known as the G8/G20 Meetings. Rather stern stuff here: A loonie boondoggle: Ostentation in a time of austerity …The prime minister has become the butt of [...] Tags: G8/G20 Summit, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entry“Meeting celebrities isn’t my shtick. That was the shtick of the previous guy.” -Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2007 when asked why he refused to meet Bono to discuss funding for AIDS research and prevention in Africa. Pictorial evidence seems to contradict that statement however: Some selective shtick. I’m thinking the more accurate [...] Tags: Harper, Harpocrisy, humor, hypocrisy, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryThere are two traits of our newest Conservative Senator, David Braley (who, by the way, owns 2 CFL teams – the Toronto Argos and the BC Lions. I still don’t get how he’s allowed to own 2 different teams in the same league – conflict of interest anyone? – but that’s another story). The [...] Tags: Canadian Senate, hypocrisy, snark, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryI read this last night from Aaron Wherry over at Macleans: The private investigator says the Prime Minister’s Office did not accurately report to the ethics commissioner the information he passed on to them. He says he has no evidence as to the conduct of Ms. Guergis in his “possession or knowledge.” The concern, he [...] Tags: Conservative Party, Helena Guergis, Rahim Jaffer, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryWell, you see what happens when you cross Stephen Harper – he has no hesitation in throwing you under the bus. That’s not to say Helena Guergis might not deserve it – but I find it rather unseemly that Harper still refuses to exactly say why he sacked her the way he did, and [...] Tags: Helena Gergis, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryThat’s apparently Stephen Harper’s view from his Google Youtube “interview”. Normally, I’d be outraged, and post a long-winded rant about what a misleading and idiotic a statement that is, except Harper and his government (see Peter MacKay) have been saying that schtick for awhile (and a large portion of the Canadian electorate/public aren’t buying [...] Tags: Afghan detainees, Conservative Party, coverup, documents, human rights, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryI posted this yesterday as one of the contributors at the No Prorogue website in its blog section as an opinion piece; I reproduce it for everyone who reads my blog here . —————— The best rebuttal I’ve seen to that attempted argument comes from Michael Den Tandt, in his op-ed in the Owen [...] Tags: noprorogue.ca, prorogue, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics |
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