james_nicoll pointed out that this article demonstrated the humour inherent to the current Canadian federal government. I just hope that it's not unique to Canada. Prime Minister Stephen Harper urged journalists to "shine light into dark corners" of government affairs during a speech late Saturday, but wouldn't take questions from reporters covering the event. Harper, who is known for his...
The Prime Minister's relations (or lack thereof) with the Ottawa press gallery has once again got the gallery worked up. The Toronto Star got all exercised after Mr. Harper gave a speech on Saturday extolling press freedom, then failed to take questions from reporters. (Note to Star: "Freedom of the press" isn't synonymous with having regular press conferences with the prime minister. Freedom...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today highlighted the importance of cultural media in Canadian society at a training seminar organized by the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada (NEPMCC) at Seneca College’s Markham Campus.
For quite some time, numerous progressives have made the argument that, even if you don't support Canada's mission in Afghanistan, you can still support the troops themselves. There was -- quite correctly -- a careful distinction made between supporting Canada's military men and women, versus supporting the idiotic and ill-defined clusterfuck that is Afghanistan. And I was one of those people. I'm...
In an amusing display of illogic, the editors at the Canada's National Toilet Wipe eventually get around to excoriating the Stephen Harper Party of Canada in the matter of l'affaire Colvin , but not before taking a delightfully cheap and irrelevant shot at the Liberals and Michael Ignatieff: Not least, the Conservatives also could draw attention to the fact that the Liberal assault on their position...
Who says the Tories can’t do ethno-politics? Throughout the Chrétien and Martin years, the Liberals had a lock on urban ethnic constituencies. Sikhs, Jews, Tamils, Somalians, Ukrainians, Arabs: The Liberal Party’s urban machines were staffed by a tightly corralled rainbow coalition recruited and programmed at mosques, temples and community centres. On election day, the Tories and...
The much-awaited public inquiry report, ordered by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, on the deadly 1985 Kanishka bombing is expected to be highly critical of the Royal Canadian mounted police, Canada's top security officer has said.
I posted a link on Facebook last week to a fun little contest/action that David Suzuki had set up: 1) Call Prime Minister Stephen Harper at (613) 992-4211 2) Leave a message about what you'd like to see Canada accomplish at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference 3) Videotape yourself doing it, and 4) Post the video to the David Suzuki Foundation . The best video gets a personal call from David Suzuki...
From here : "1. If current trends in borrowing continue for the rest of the financial year, Britain will be borrowing £9,500 every second. 2. £217bn of borrowing (what the Institute of Fiscal Studies fears may be this year's level of borrowing) equals 15% of GDP. 3. 9p in every pound of tax will soon be spent serving (NOT repaying) our debts. That's £50bn - more than we spend...
Stephane Dion must be one proud fella today. His wife, who obviously wears the pants in the house lost her mind on Friday and posted a facebook attack on Michael Ignatieff. Granted, Ignatieff is a class "A" stooge in his own right, but Dion's wife, who goes by the name Janine Krieber wrote a scathing piece on Ignatieff's underhanded means of grabbing control of the party, she criticized...
Stephen Harper New Delhi India Thank you Prime Minister Singh, and all Indians, for being such gracious hosts. Visiting a country whose past has so greatly enriched our civilization, and whose future stands to transform our world has been an extraordinary and invigorating experience. This trip comes at a critical time for both Canada and India. Facing the greatest global recession in half a century,...
There has been a little storm in a teacup over the itinerary of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent visit to India in the pages of the National Post . Some people have expressed unhappiness with Harper for his journey to Amritsar in Punjab, the sacred city of the Sikhs, and in visiting the Golden Temple for political mileage with Canada’s Sikh community. Others were put off by the prime...
Over the last three years, various politicians and commentators have highlighted a letter I sent to the National Post in October, 2006. I would like to set the record straight about what I wrote. At the time, Michael Ignatieff made a statement criticizing Israel’s action vis-à-vis the bombing of Kfar Qana during the 2006 Lebanon conflict, which Stephen Harper made a statement recognizing...
Over at Spanky's Sandbox and Pillow Fort, The Politic 's Charles Anthony postulates about a public torture inquiry rather puzzlingly : That attitude is unsatisfactory. An inquiry is only as good as it satisfies the level of scrutiny of all the left-wing and right-wing wack-jobs involved. In other words, you will spend more of my taxes to subsidize professional arguers on both sides of the fences who...
What do Uganda, Burundi, Sudan and Djibouti have in common? They are on the list of 49 countries that would receive billions of dollars every year from Canadian families as part of a new global-warming agreement proposed by the United Nations. The UN also wants to impose new taxes on industry that would increase energy costs and kill jobs. Stephen Harper should demonstrate global leadership by rejecting...
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