Because it prevents heinous crimes such as the one that James McLeod perpetrated at his graduation from Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia.
Mr. McLeod's mother, Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod, Conservative Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod was reported by the Canadian Press to have been horrified when she found out about what her son did at last Thursday's convocation.
Wait, she wasn't there? For one of the most momentous occasions of her son's life? But, but, but, isn't the Conservative Party the party of family values and all that? I would understand it if she was a member of the Godless NDP or Green parties but a Tory? OMG.
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Showing posts with label Conservative Party of Canada. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
953...When He Is Wrong He Is Wrong
If you watched Lloyd Robertson on the CTV National News last night you got a peek at NDP leader Jack Layton's adverts that are hitting the air for real today across our home and native land.
The ad is an attempt by the NDP to sell its new message, the message being we are propping up the Stephen Harper government because if there is an election we will get beaten like a rented mule and end up with 8 seats.
This from the party that made such a big deal about being the party that consistently voted against the Conservatives at every turn.
Until now that is.
When it counts.
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The ad is an attempt by the NDP to sell its new message, the message being we are propping up the Stephen Harper government because if there is an election we will get beaten like a rented mule and end up with 8 seats.
This from the party that made such a big deal about being the party that consistently voted against the Conservatives at every turn.
Until now that is.
When it counts.
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952...When He Is Right He Is Right
Michael Ignatieff has said no truer words than those reported by the Canadian Press in a story just moved:
"'How do I explain to these people that I keep letting this government go on?' Ignatieff told reporters. 'And that's why, in my heart of hearts, after much reflection, we've decided as a party that we can't continue to give the government confidence in the House of Commons.'"
Jack Layton, the ball is in your court brother, your court.
"'We will do our job, even if they will not,' Ignatieff told the nearly empty Conservative benches in the Commons after detailing his list of government failings for more than 10 minutes."
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"'How do I explain to these people that I keep letting this government go on?' Ignatieff told reporters. 'And that's why, in my heart of hearts, after much reflection, we've decided as a party that we can't continue to give the government confidence in the House of Commons.'"
Jack Layton, the ball is in your court brother, your court.
"'We will do our job, even if they will not,' Ignatieff told the nearly empty Conservative benches in the Commons after detailing his list of government failings for more than 10 minutes."
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
948...The View From Montreal
La Presse, the popular Montreal broadsheet, weighs in on what is happening in La Belle and, more specifically, up the street from La Presse in Outremont.
Andre Pratt postulates that the next Prime Minister of Canada may have hit a road bump in the last few days, one that will only serve to boost the Bloc Quebecois. He makes the point that in the last five years or so the two parties that can and will govern this country for the foreseeable future, the Liberals and Conservatives, have not done a great job at attracting the vote of Quebecers.
Mr. Pratt's take on this current situation is that history shows that federal party leaders, even when they come from Quebec, need a strong Quebec lieutenant. A boss. An Ernest Lapointe or a Marc Lalonde type.
My take on the situation is similar; like it or not, Quebec is Quebec and it is important to realize that. I just think that it is a bit early to do like media have been doing for the last few days, attacking Michael Ignatieff.
The only party that truly understands the dynamics of Canada from Sea to Shining Sea is the Liberal Party and the only leader that gets that is ours.
This is merely a speedbump.
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Andre Pratt postulates that the next Prime Minister of Canada may have hit a road bump in the last few days, one that will only serve to boost the Bloc Quebecois. He makes the point that in the last five years or so the two parties that can and will govern this country for the foreseeable future, the Liberals and Conservatives, have not done a great job at attracting the vote of Quebecers.
Mr. Pratt's take on this current situation is that history shows that federal party leaders, even when they come from Quebec, need a strong Quebec lieutenant. A boss. An Ernest Lapointe or a Marc Lalonde type.
My take on the situation is similar; like it or not, Quebec is Quebec and it is important to realize that. I just think that it is a bit early to do like media have been doing for the last few days, attacking Michael Ignatieff.
The only party that truly understands the dynamics of Canada from Sea to Shining Sea is the Liberal Party and the only leader that gets that is ours.
This is merely a speedbump.
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Monday, September 28, 2009
935...Now On To More Important Things
The party that should be running the show will be introducing a motion today to topple the Tory government today.
The Canadian Press reports that the Liberals will table a non-confidence motion in the Commons today and bring a vote on that Thursday. According to the story I am sourcing this is probably going to fail but at least, unlike, well, not to point fingers but, Jack Layton, hello, at least Mikey I talks the talk and walks the walk.
Gilles Ducppe, the Bloc Quebecois leader, says that he will support the Liberal motion.
This week we find out if the NDPers really are true to their convictions or going to hang with their friends in the Conservative Party. Like they did earlier this month.
The NDP's only Quebec MP Thomas Mulcair said today "...the important thing is to try to keep Parliament working so that we can do things that are in the public interest.'' He failed to mention that if the election is held this fall the NDP will get beaten like a rented mule.
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The Canadian Press reports that the Liberals will table a non-confidence motion in the Commons today and bring a vote on that Thursday. According to the story I am sourcing this is probably going to fail but at least, unlike, well, not to point fingers but, Jack Layton, hello, at least Mikey I talks the talk and walks the walk.
Gilles Ducppe, the Bloc Quebecois leader, says that he will support the Liberal motion.
This week we find out if the NDPers really are true to their convictions or going to hang with their friends in the Conservative Party. Like they did earlier this month.
The NDP's only Quebec MP Thomas Mulcair said today "...the important thing is to try to keep Parliament working so that we can do things that are in the public interest.'' He failed to mention that if the election is held this fall the NDP will get beaten like a rented mule.
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
925...Tobacco Troubles In La Belle
Going through a pile of this week's papers I came across an article by Steven Chase in Thursday's Globe and Mail. Apparently Rothmans, Benson & Hedges is threatening to close a Quebec factory, an enterprise that provides 300 people an income, if Ottawa doesn't narrow the scope of a bill aimed at stopping the manufacture of candy- and fruit-flavoured cigars and cigarettes.
These smokes are allegedly aimed at children and entry level smokers, although, I for one, am aghast that anyone would accuse a cigarette company of deliberately trying to increase sales of its products by hooking young people and tobacco novices to their deadly and addictive product merely by making the taste tasty.
The aforementioned plant is in Quebec City and Quebec MPs are all a twitter, a Twitter and a blogging try to prevent the passing of this bill which is on the floor of the Senate as I write this. Quebec Tory MP Maxime Bernier, you may recall the name, he had 99 Problems last year and the b**ch was one, said in a posting on his blog Wednesday that Conservatives from his province are going to press for changes to Bill C-32.
Kids and smokes, ah, love those Tories.
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These smokes are allegedly aimed at children and entry level smokers, although, I for one, am aghast that anyone would accuse a cigarette company of deliberately trying to increase sales of its products by hooking young people and tobacco novices to their deadly and addictive product merely by making the taste tasty.
The aforementioned plant is in Quebec City and Quebec MPs are all a twitter, a Twitter and a blogging try to prevent the passing of this bill which is on the floor of the Senate as I write this. Quebec Tory MP Maxime Bernier, you may recall the name, he had 99 Problems last year and the b**ch was one, said in a posting on his blog Wednesday that Conservatives from his province are going to press for changes to Bill C-32.
Kids and smokes, ah, love those Tories.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
915...DidNotWorkInThe U. S. So It Will Work Here
Or not.
I am leaning toward not.
Our beloved Prime Minister and his boyz are going to bring United States style prisons to The Great White North and according to Michael Jackson, not the dead one, this one is a professor at the University of British Columbia, the idea sucks.
Graham Stewart co authored the report with Professor Jackson A Flawed Compass and is quoted by CBC News as saying that ""It tramples human rights and human dignity..."
Their report provides a scathing review of a government blueprint for corrections called A Roadmap to Strengthening Public Safety.
The whole idea behind Roadmap is to punish not rehabilitate according to Professor Jackson and Mr. Stewart and is a recipe for violence. The CBC News story indicates that "... the program will eliminate gradual release and deny inmates rights that are now entrenched in the Constitution."
Apparently, according to the report, the Tory government has already allocated hundreds of millions to the plan, even though it has had no input from either Parliament or the public.
Mr. Stewart is quoted as saying the Conservative's plan is "...an ideological rant, which flies in the face of the Correctional Service's own research of what works to rehabilitate prisoners and ensure community safety."
Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan said, and I am paraphrasing, that Professor Jackson and Mr. Stewart are full of it.
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I am leaning toward not.
Our beloved Prime Minister and his boyz are going to bring United States style prisons to The Great White North and according to Michael Jackson, not the dead one, this one is a professor at the University of British Columbia, the idea sucks.
Graham Stewart co authored the report with Professor Jackson A Flawed Compass and is quoted by CBC News as saying that ""It tramples human rights and human dignity..."
Their report provides a scathing review of a government blueprint for corrections called A Roadmap to Strengthening Public Safety.
The whole idea behind Roadmap is to punish not rehabilitate according to Professor Jackson and Mr. Stewart and is a recipe for violence. The CBC News story indicates that "... the program will eliminate gradual release and deny inmates rights that are now entrenched in the Constitution."
Apparently, according to the report, the Tory government has already allocated hundreds of millions to the plan, even though it has had no input from either Parliament or the public.
Mr. Stewart is quoted as saying the Conservative's plan is "...an ideological rant, which flies in the face of the Correctional Service's own research of what works to rehabilitate prisoners and ensure community safety."
Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan said, and I am paraphrasing, that Professor Jackson and Mr. Stewart are full of it.
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914...Did You Hear? There Is A Flu Going Around
Apparently.
I have heard about it.
You have heard about it.
Everybody has heard about it.
Everybody except the people who order vaccines for kids apparently.
Caroline Alphonso and Jane Armstrong in today's Globe and Mail write that about 100 students at Notre Dame Regional Secondary School in Vancouver didn't show up for class yesterday, either due to illness or because they were afraid of contracting the H1N1 virus. A student was confirmed to have been infected with H1N1 at the school but the vaccines are still not available.
St. Patrick's Regional Secondary, also in Vancouver, and Shawnigan Lake School, a boarding school on Vancouver Island, also had swine flu cases. Perfect, flu at a boarding school, whatever could go wrong.
Wait, there is more. At Elsie Roy public elementary in Vancouver, 113 of 329 pupils were absent, as well as six staff members. Flu fears.
A vaccine likely won't be rolled out until mid-November, although federal, read Stephen Harper's Conservatives, officials have indicated it could be pushed forward if the swine flu virus quickly turns more severe.
The country below us, the one with the supposedly crap health care system, the United States, will start its H1N1 vaccine campaign early next month.
Perhaps, and this is just a thought, the Tories could send body bags to Elsie Roy, St. Patrick's and the rest of the schools on the west coast?
No need to be unprepared right Leona?
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I have heard about it.
You have heard about it.
Everybody has heard about it.
Everybody except the people who order vaccines for kids apparently.
Caroline Alphonso and Jane Armstrong in today's Globe and Mail write that about 100 students at Notre Dame Regional Secondary School in Vancouver didn't show up for class yesterday, either due to illness or because they were afraid of contracting the H1N1 virus. A student was confirmed to have been infected with H1N1 at the school but the vaccines are still not available.
St. Patrick's Regional Secondary, also in Vancouver, and Shawnigan Lake School, a boarding school on Vancouver Island, also had swine flu cases. Perfect, flu at a boarding school, whatever could go wrong.
Wait, there is more. At Elsie Roy public elementary in Vancouver, 113 of 329 pupils were absent, as well as six staff members. Flu fears.
A vaccine likely won't be rolled out until mid-November, although federal, read Stephen Harper's Conservatives, officials have indicated it could be pushed forward if the swine flu virus quickly turns more severe.
The country below us, the one with the supposedly crap health care system, the United States, will start its H1N1 vaccine campaign early next month.
Perhaps, and this is just a thought, the Tories could send body bags to Elsie Roy, St. Patrick's and the rest of the schools on the west coast?
No need to be unprepared right Leona?
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913...Another Reason To Hate Toronto
Add this to the list:
EKOS new poll done for the CBC shows the Tories with a five point lead, 42 to 37 on the Liberals in the Greater Toronto Area.
Stugots.
What are y'all thinking and drinking in the Big Smoke?
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Tories making inroads in Toronto, poll suggests-CBC
EKOS new poll done for the CBC shows the Tories with a five point lead, 42 to 37 on the Liberals in the Greater Toronto Area.
Stugots.
What are y'all thinking and drinking in the Big Smoke?
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
906...I Love The Conservative Gov Of Canada
I really, really, really do.
Everyday they bring joy into my life.
If it ain't one t'ing it's another.
Today, according to the Canadian Press, a reputable group that, the help line introduced today by Fisheries Minister Gail Shea, a number that was developed to help Maritime lobster fishers in need of help about a short-term assistance program, turns out to be manned by "...a sultry-sounding woman [who] offers callers 'some tantalizing fun' from a bevy of 'nasty girls.'"
Sadly for lobstermen and lobsterlesbians in Newfoundland, Quebec and the Gulf, their toll free number is not manned by sultry women, 'tis merely a help line.
Ah, the Tories. Anything for a laugh and bit of slap and tickle.
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Everyday they bring joy into my life.
If it ain't one t'ing it's another.
Today, according to the Canadian Press, a reputable group that, the help line introduced today by Fisheries Minister Gail Shea, a number that was developed to help Maritime lobster fishers in need of help about a short-term assistance program, turns out to be manned by "...a sultry-sounding woman [who] offers callers 'some tantalizing fun' from a bevy of 'nasty girls.'"
Sadly for lobstermen and lobsterlesbians in Newfoundland, Quebec and the Gulf, their toll free number is not manned by sultry women, 'tis merely a help line.
Ah, the Tories. Anything for a laugh and bit of slap and tickle.
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902...MoreTalkingOutOfBoth Sides Of Their Mout's
This time it is Alex Atamanenko in the Nelson Daily News explaining how, as the MP for the BC Southern Interior, the NDP MP for the BC Southern Interior, he is not supporting the Conservatives he is just voting for them.
In fact, Colin Paynes writes, Mr. Atamanenko "...says the federal NDP has done Canadians a favour by voting for EI reform and helping avoid an election." See, and if you have boots, put them on now please, "...his party did not support the Conservatives, but it supported the initiative."
By the way, and this comes as no surprise, Mr. Atamanenko, a retired school teacher, was first elected to Parliament in 2006 and he needs three more years to get his pension. Not that personal interests would supercede the interests of the country and of his riding. It pains me to think that anyone would consider that a man of Mr. Atamanenko's regard would be thinking of his pension at a time like this when BC Southern Interior, West Kootenay and the country are in peril.
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In fact, Colin Paynes writes, Mr. Atamanenko "...says the federal NDP has done Canadians a favour by voting for EI reform and helping avoid an election." See, and if you have boots, put them on now please, "...his party did not support the Conservatives, but it supported the initiative."
By the way, and this comes as no surprise, Mr. Atamanenko, a retired school teacher, was first elected to Parliament in 2006 and he needs three more years to get his pension. Not that personal interests would supercede the interests of the country and of his riding. It pains me to think that anyone would consider that a man of Mr. Atamanenko's regard would be thinking of his pension at a time like this when BC Southern Interior, West Kootenay and the country are in peril.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
899...The Next Prime Minister Speaks The Truth
The Canadian Press reports that in a speech to the Toronto Board of Trade earlier Monday the next Prime Minister of Canada said that upon taking office he would open the books and conduct a full audit of public finances.
Michael Ignatieff said that the Conservatives have made a mess of Canada's economy and that his party will be the one to clean it up.
After four years of Stephen Harper's Conservative reign of error Mr. Ignatieff suggests that we ask the question "Are we better off than we were four years ago?''
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Michael Ignatieff said that the Conservatives have made a mess of Canada's economy and that his party will be the one to clean it up.
After four years of Stephen Harper's Conservative reign of error Mr. Ignatieff suggests that we ask the question "Are we better off than we were four years ago?''
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893...Speaking Of Heat
The Canadian Press' Murray Brewster passes along the news that the next Prime Minister is making Jack Layton squirm. The heat was turned up on the Dippers yesterday when Mikey I declared that they'll soon have to make a choice whether they are true believers in Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the minority Conservative government.
Principles or pensions is the question at the New Democratic Party's federal caucus meets these days.
The NDP spin is that "Instead of playing games, Mr. Ignatieff should look at his record," these words emerging from the mouth of spokesman Karl Belanger Sunday. "He propped up Stephen Harper for 79 confidence votes in a row and got nothing in return. The NDP is making Parliament work, trying to get a billion dollars to help the unemployed."
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Principles or pensions is the question at the New Democratic Party's federal caucus meets these days.
The NDP spin is that "Instead of playing games, Mr. Ignatieff should look at his record," these words emerging from the mouth of spokesman Karl Belanger Sunday. "He propped up Stephen Harper for 79 confidence votes in a row and got nothing in return. The NDP is making Parliament work, trying to get a billion dollars to help the unemployed."
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
886...Mikey I Goes On The Offensive
I believe it was homecoming week or something in Kitchener-Waterloo this weekend, I do know that The Score had a football game between Laurier and Waterloo on the tube. For those of you wondering who won said game, let me tell you that Joe Paopao is coaching at Waterloo so you know that Laurier won.
Tying in with homecoming was a visit by the next Prime Minister of Canada Michael Ignatieff who, as Chuck Howitt reports in this mornings Waterloo Region Record, made a visit to Wilf's, a pub on campus at Sir Wilfrid Laurier University. While having a pop or two Mr. Ignatieff, and I am quoting here, "...attacked the Liberals on a broad range of issues, including the rising deficit, high unemployment, its response to the H1N1 flu epidemic and its failure to fix the problem over medical isotopes."
Tying in with homecoming was a visit by the next Prime Minister of Canada Michael Ignatieff who, as Chuck Howitt reports in this mornings Waterloo Region Record, made a visit to Wilf's, a pub on campus at Sir Wilfrid Laurier University. While having a pop or two Mr. Ignatieff, and I am quoting here, "...attacked the Liberals on a broad range of issues, including the rising deficit, high unemployment, its response to the H1N1 flu epidemic and its failure to fix the problem over medical isotopes."
Note to Chuck Howitt: I don't believe that Mikey I attacked the Liberals; you may want to reread things before you send them to your somnolent proof reading staff at The Record.
I am going to assume Mr. Ignatieff attacked the Conservative Party and rightfully so.
Two victories for Laurier on Saturday. One a win over the crosstown Waterloo Warriors and secondly a visit from the next PM.
Good times, good times.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
885...The Headline Says It All
NDP support for Tories sign of broader strategy, analysts say (NDP-Switcharoo)
The Byrds sang Turn, Turn, Turn in 1965; Jack Layton sings Spin, Spin, Spin in 2009.
After a gazillion years of not supporting the anathema that is the Conservative Party of Canada the NDP did a nice 180 degree turn this week propping up the Stephen Harper regime so they, the Tories, can fight another day and shape Canada in the Conservative image.
The above Canadian Press headline is reflective of the both the spin "...broader strategy..." and reality "...Switcharoo...".
The broader strategy is the Dips strat to rule the country by being more practical and accessible and acceptable to Canuckistanians in the same way Premier Darrell Dexter appeals to the Nova Scotians.
The switcharoo is their selling their souls to save their thirty plus seats, a number that will go way, way, way down [Julie Van Dusen on CBC Radio Friday mentioned the magic number could be crazy, as in eight] if we hit the polls this fall.
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Friday, September 18, 2009
880...Gotta Ask:Why/How R Tories Ahead In Polls?
As Detroit and Montreal are to cities, they are where the unthinkable happens on a regular basis; the Conservative Party of Canada is to political parties, they are where the unthinkable happens on a regular basis.
Yet, and let's be realistic folks, if an election were held today Stephen Harper and his crew would get more seats than the Liberals and form yet another minority parliament.
What the f'ck do these guys have to do to convince Canadians that they are unfit to govern?
Take this week. The Health Minister's department sends body bags, properly called post mortem kits because it is more than just a bag, there are toe tags and everything, before vaccine to remote communities in Manitoba, remote aboriginal communities.
They are going to skate. Sure, the native leaders are pissed. "It was insulting," said David Harper, Grand Chief of the Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, quoted in today's Globe and Mail. "Body bags may be part of flu preparations, but so is medications. Why do we get body bags before we get medication?" The chattering classes are also pissed but the inbetweens, the ones who decide elections, not so much.
Wait, there is more.
The former national caucus chair, married to a minister, Helena Guergis, Rahim Jaffer, got busted for drinking and driving and cocaine. What makes this ironic in the GOP kind of way is Mr. Jaffer, the only Conservative to lose in Alberta last year, pinned his electoral hopes in 2008, as reported on Global National last night, on smearing the NDP as pro drugs with attack ads. The arrest of an anti drug champion on multiple drug charges is, well, ironic, doncha think?
Yet the Conservatives are going to skate and spin their way out of this too and continue to lead in the polls.
WTF?
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Yet, and let's be realistic folks, if an election were held today Stephen Harper and his crew would get more seats than the Liberals and form yet another minority parliament.
What the f'ck do these guys have to do to convince Canadians that they are unfit to govern?
Take this week. The Health Minister's department sends body bags, properly called post mortem kits because it is more than just a bag, there are toe tags and everything, before vaccine to remote communities in Manitoba, remote aboriginal communities.
They are going to skate. Sure, the native leaders are pissed. "It was insulting," said David Harper, Grand Chief of the Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, quoted in today's Globe and Mail. "Body bags may be part of flu preparations, but so is medications. Why do we get body bags before we get medication?" The chattering classes are also pissed but the inbetweens, the ones who decide elections, not so much.
Wait, there is more.
The former national caucus chair, married to a minister, Helena Guergis, Rahim Jaffer, got busted for drinking and driving and cocaine. What makes this ironic in the GOP kind of way is Mr. Jaffer, the only Conservative to lose in Alberta last year, pinned his electoral hopes in 2008, as reported on Global National last night, on smearing the NDP as pro drugs with attack ads. The arrest of an anti drug champion on multiple drug charges is, well, ironic, doncha think?
Yet the Conservatives are going to skate and spin their way out of this too and continue to lead in the polls.
WTF?
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
877...The Tories And Environment Canada Listen
To your news station, at least the one you watch the most, FOX.
They wouldn't use water bottles nor would they waste power.
They wouldn't use water bottles nor would they waste power.
In fact on the bottom of the email they sent me they are advising you and, I suppose, me, to
Plug your electronic devices into a power strip and turn it off whenever you leave the house. This small change could save the country over $1 billion a year in wasted electricity.
FOX
Green It.
Mean It.
Shades of Stephane.
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873...More Tory Propaganda
This time from a more credible source, Peter Worthington, in the Toronto Sun.
Mr. Worthington postulates that the next Prime Minister of Canada, Michael Ignatieff, may be getting bored with partisan politics and may just be gerrymandering an election so he can get defeated and go back to scribbling books and sipping champagne on the international smart guy circuit.
The emminent Toronto Sun writer goes on to say that he is speculating and that now that both the Bloc Quebecois and NDP seem to have backed off what was sure-fire election agitation a couple of weeks ago, maybe Mr. Ignatieff is now captive of election-mania rather than its instigator. He also makes the important point that since the Tories seem likely to benefit most if there's an election, maybe Stephen Harper will provoke one.
After a few hundred words disparaging partisan politics, Mr. Worthington does point out that Mikey I is an intriguing fellow and that it would be surprising if one as bright at the next PM wasn't distracted a bit by the goings on on the Hill.
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Mr. Worthington postulates that the next Prime Minister of Canada, Michael Ignatieff, may be getting bored with partisan politics and may just be gerrymandering an election so he can get defeated and go back to scribbling books and sipping champagne on the international smart guy circuit.
The emminent Toronto Sun writer goes on to say that he is speculating and that now that both the Bloc Quebecois and NDP seem to have backed off what was sure-fire election agitation a couple of weeks ago, maybe Mr. Ignatieff is now captive of election-mania rather than its instigator. He also makes the important point that since the Tories seem likely to benefit most if there's an election, maybe Stephen Harper will provoke one.
After a few hundred words disparaging partisan politics, Mr. Worthington does point out that Mikey I is an intriguing fellow and that it would be surprising if one as bright at the next PM wasn't distracted a bit by the goings on on the Hill.
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872...It's Over Now
Charles W. Moore, a Nova Scotia based freelance writer and editor, writes in today's Telegraph-Journal, a bird cage liner that is prominent in New Brunswick, that the remedy for all that ails in the halls of power in Ottawa and, by extension Canada, is to give Stephen Harper his majority.
This should give pause to all good Liberals [and those from the Orange and Green parties too].
Charles W. Moore has spoken.
In the Telegraph-Journal.
In his thoughtful article Mr. Moore points out that the Liberals received support in only 77 ridings last year and that 2008's result was their worst in over a century.
Actually, Mr. Moore, if you may recall, back in '84 the John Turner Liberals got smoked badly, 40 seats. 2008 - 1984 = not a century.
Why let facts get in the way of a good argument, eh?
But there is more in this poorly researched piece of Conservative drivel and propaganda. Mr. Moore just makes up stuff as he goes along but comes to the same conclusion at each turn: to save Canada from the quagmire it is in one must vote Conservative.
It's over.
Charles W. Moore has spoken.
Drop the future Pulitzer Prize winner a line and thank him for the advice:
cwmoore@gmx.net
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This should give pause to all good Liberals [and those from the Orange and Green parties too].
Charles W. Moore has spoken.
In the Telegraph-Journal.
In his thoughtful article Mr. Moore points out that the Liberals received support in only 77 ridings last year and that 2008's result was their worst in over a century.
Actually, Mr. Moore, if you may recall, back in '84 the John Turner Liberals got smoked badly, 40 seats. 2008 - 1984 = not a century.
Why let facts get in the way of a good argument, eh?
But there is more in this poorly researched piece of Conservative drivel and propaganda. Mr. Moore just makes up stuff as he goes along but comes to the same conclusion at each turn: to save Canada from the quagmire it is in one must vote Conservative.
It's over.
Charles W. Moore has spoken.
Drop the future Pulitzer Prize winner a line and thank him for the advice:
cwmoore@gmx.net
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
870...At Least Michael Ignatieff Has Stones
Love him or hate him, fact is at least one knows where the next Prime Minister of Canada stands.
New story out of Ottawa bureau of the Canadian Press states that, following the Bloc Quebecois, Jack Layton and the NDP will support the Tories in Stephen Harper's bid to cling to power and the perks that it gives him.
"The NDP says it will support the Conservatives on a crucial budget motion Friday - and keep propping up the government long enough to pass EI legislation to help unemployed workers. The news appears to rule out a fall election - as long as EI legislation is still in play."
So now we have the right wing right way Tories in bed with the party that wants to break up the country and the dreaded socialists. At least you are consistently inconsistent Mr. Harper.
My Lord we do need Mikey I and we need him now but I am willing to wait til next summer when all the pensions of the soon to be losing candidates in the NDP and Bloc are vested.
Then Canada will truly soar.
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New story out of Ottawa bureau of the Canadian Press states that, following the Bloc Quebecois, Jack Layton and the NDP will support the Tories in Stephen Harper's bid to cling to power and the perks that it gives him.
"The NDP says it will support the Conservatives on a crucial budget motion Friday - and keep propping up the government long enough to pass EI legislation to help unemployed workers. The news appears to rule out a fall election - as long as EI legislation is still in play."
So now we have the right wing right way Tories in bed with the party that wants to break up the country and the dreaded socialists. At least you are consistently inconsistent Mr. Harper.
My Lord we do need Mikey I and we need him now but I am willing to wait til next summer when all the pensions of the soon to be losing candidates in the NDP and Bloc are vested.
Then Canada will truly soar.
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