Art cuts in Calgary and Alberta cut us off from connection to our roots and seed I am so disgusted with the stance on arts in Calgary and the province. There are minimal tax breaks for film productions. Mount Royal University is closing part of its arts program. What a disgrace. The arts are the poignant forms of human expression. [...]
Party officials confessed immediately and defused Wildrose robocall crisis You don’t have to agree with Alberta’s right-wing Wildrose Party to admire the skill with which it stick-handled yesterday’s revelation it had been fined $90,000 by the federal broadcast regulator for a series of improperly identified robocalls made to voters during the 2012 election campaign. Compared to [...]
Best evidence against Rob Ford is video of Rob Ford Poor Rob Ford. The Toronto mayor can’t get no respect, not in Canada and not in the United States after comedian Jon Stewart eviscerated him on Tuesday’s The Daily Show. I have to admit, it never gets old watching Ford walk into the lens of [...]
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has lost persuasive power needed to run a city It doesn’t take more than a Google search to turn up a string of allegations against Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. The latest — a short cellphone video of Rob Ford apparently smoking crack cocaine with drug dealers — isn’t really the point [...]
Conrad Black once again bellowing ultra-right clichés like a wounded dinosaur Oh dear! Poor old Conrad Black, welcomed back home after his legal difficulties south of the Medicine Line by our ever-tolerant Canadian nation, finds himself once again bellowing ultra-right clichés like a wounded dinosaur. It is almost as if His Lordship is in competition with [...]
Subterfuge and/or bribery would likely be required to abolish the Senate in Canada By Lee Tunstall, Troy Media Sick of the senators? And by senators I do not mean the ones on skates, although admittedly the other ones are skating on pretty thin ice right now. Given the recent antics in the Canadian Senate, it [...]
Thomas Mulcair and the NDP will benefit if there’s any long-term impact For some, Stephen Harper’s quick press conference following the Conservative Party’s caucus meeting was enough. He said he was on top of the Senate expenses mess, that it would be cleaned up, and that the perpetrators are gone (from the caucus, and the [...]
Stephen Harper heeded the lure of South America after calling for Senate reform Prime Minister Stephen Harper was apparently grinding away at his Conservative caucus yesterday morning about the need for Senate reform. An interesting strategy, his! First you pack the place with self-entitled cheats and porkchoppers like Mike “The Puffster” Duffy, then you argue [...]
Parliament of Canada – time for online reporting of expenses? If the recent Senate expense scandals have taught Canadians anything, it’s that Parliament of Canada officials will take advantage of the rules to pad their pockets if they can. Senator Mike Duffy has become the poster boy for Parliament of Canada abuse of expense guidelines but [...]
Thomas Mulcair needs to favour science-based economic policies in his opinion piece By Jennifer Winter and Trevor Tombe Thomas Mulcair recently wrote an opinion piece in the Institute for Research in Public Policy’s publication Policy Options, calling for Canadians to build a “balanced, sustainable energy future.” Overall, it is a thoughtful piece. Thomas Mulcair highlights [...]
