The Canadian Progressive: Canadians growing weary of Harper’s “Economic Action Plan” propaganda

“Canadians may be growing weary of — even hostile to — all those Economic Action Plan ads the Harper government has been pumping out for the last four years.” By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 18, 2013: Canadians are growing increasingly weary of — even hostile to — Stephen Harper’s ”Economic Action Plan” “1984″-style

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Politics and Entertainment: Mission Accomplished for the shrewd person who decided on the Deloitte Audit Release

It’s difficult not to think that the timing of the release of  the Deloitte financial audit of Atawapiskat was calculated in its anticipation of a potential backlash against Spence and, by association, #idlenomore.  The audit prompted Spence to shut down media relations, a closed door thus leading to the media’s usual the-people-deserve-to-know resentment and dog-with-a-bone mentality about being squashed.  That in turn led to bad press, especially from the Coyne, Blatchford,  and Wente types, and bad press led to an apparent shift in public opinion.  The squabbling over today’s meeting doesn’t help. 
Mission accomplished for whoever it was who decided to release the audit.
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Impolitical: Questions for Quebecor

From Gérald Fillion earlier this week in response to Quebecor’s public campaign against the Bell acquisition of Astral: En fait, il faut poser beaucoup de questions sur la transaction BCE-Astral qui donnera un avantage concurrentiel exceptionnel à BCE. Mais on doit aussi poser des questions à Quebecor aujourd’hui, qui lance

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Impolitical: On a positive note

I tweeted the other day about Michael Harris at iPolitics.ca being one of the gutsiest columnists going in the Canadian political media scene. That was prompted by this column. There’s another columnist who really brings it at times in asking tough questions about this government and it’s Lawrence Martin. Today’s

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