Documents on tortured Canadian Almalki say he posed no terrorist threat, Andrew Duffy, Postmedia News, October 25, 2011 OTTAWA — Ottawa engineer Abdullah Almalki says new documents show the RCMP’s assessment of […]
Shocking RCMP performance
Virtue in short supply
ETHICS:A matter of daily practical concern described glowingly in universal terms by those who intend to ignore them.– John Ralston Saul From West Coast Environmental Law, 11 October, 2011 In a recent […]
Screw us and we multiply
Susan Heyes says, “Best sign I saw today…..Thanks to Geoff Olson!”
$20bn± procurement – no bid, no competition
The Harper Government of Canada is continuing on a path to acquire Lockheed Martin F-35 multirole fighter jets. First Canadian deliveries originally were anticipated in 2016 but the U.S. Air Force reported […]
Threat to Canada is extravagant exaggeration
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says “draconian” anti-terrorism measures that were scrapped in 2007 are once again necessary because Canada faces a major threat from “Islamicism.” Interesting fact: the Christian and Missionary Alliance […]
Can he spell HYPOCRITE ?
Jane Taber, Globe and Mail, Harper takes a swipe at Turmel’s commitment to Canada “Stephen Harper took a swipe at Nycole Turmel Wednesday, arguing that at the very least Canadians should be […]
What a contrast to Canada’s Harper Government
The Telegraph, July 31, 2011 “The European Commission has apologised for decades of an EU fishing policy so disastrous that the next generation of children may never see fish on their dinner […]
Integration of church and state
The Government of Canada will match donations to World Vision for East Africa drought relief. Question: should Canadian foreign aid be delivered by an evangelical relief and development organization whose stated goal […]
After warning of benign dictatorships, he now heads one
With the Harper government finally holding a majority in Parliament, it’s worth re-looking at the radical milieu that gave early inspiration to Canada’s Prime Minister. Some years ago, writer Marci McDonald wrote The […]
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing – Edmund Burke
Montreal Gazette editorial: “Be afraid, Canadians. Be very, very afraid. That’s the message Stephen Harper has put up front at the outset of this federal election campaign. What we should fear, according […]
He served too — in a think-tank
Courageous Warrior or Chickenhawk? When Stephen Harper dropped out after two months as a student at his hometown University of Toronto, he had little interest in military service. Instead, he took a job in […]
Withdrawal? We didn’t mean full withdrawal.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announces additional funding for aid in Afghanistan, 26 February 2007, Ottawa, ON: …Afghanistan is a long way from home, but the issues we are addressing here – building […]
Faces of Canadian history
Harper says, “mass arrests all worth it” Toronto Canada 2010 C.W.A.C. 1944 – They served so we could be free. Lance Cpl John Babcock, C.E.F. 1916-18
Twisted irony: right winger proves government spending wasteful
Accountability officers of Parliament have a fairly decent record of improving spending practices, government efficiency and integrity. The effectiveness though of an Auditor, Ombudsman, Electoral commissioner or other officer is dependent on […]
A view back, a view ahead
The American style right wing agenda begins in Canada soon, if a majority Harper Government is returned by electors. If you like what BC Liberals achieved, you will love a Tory majority. […]
Sordid politics
An advisor to Stephen Harper left the PM’s office in 2008 to become executive director for the Canada School of Energy and Environment, a “think-tank” begun with $15 million in federal money. […]
Efficiencies or surrender?
Cuts announced in Tuesday’s federal budget are “the result of identifying efficiencies in operation“, says DFO Minister Gail Shea. By 2014, almost $57 million will be trimmed from Fisheries and Oceans. Read […]
One small sad piece of a very large failure
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Ottawa reinstates Murphy’s Law
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Friday, February 25, “When a plane of ours arrives, obviously we first board Canadians. If we still have room, we board others.” Harper said evacuation efforts will continue. […]
Objectives of statements are less clear than they appear
Liberal leadership candidate Kevin Falcon applauds the federal Red Tape Reduction Committee. No surprise there since it is a program of deception and misdirection, a specialty of Falcon, who claims he reduced […]
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Blair Fix at _Economics from the Top Down_ also wrote two very good papers on the converion of housing into…