I posted the video below while ago. I hope come October 2015 it will be final curtain for Stephen Harper. It is about hosting the G8 and G20 meeting in Toronto and spending $1.1 billion on it. He loves every opportunity for photo-op to promote himself.
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The Canadian Progressive: Pro-business Harper Conservatives coddling tax havens, tax cheats
By: Obert Madondo Twitter: @Obiemad An Alberta businessman is included in a massive online database of secret tax-haven names released to the public on Friday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. David Ghermezian, the president of the West Edmonton Mall, is linked to a British Virgin Islands-registered company called Regal Mega Malls Development Corp,
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Harper must act on tax havens and transparency at G8 summit: Oxfam
By: Oxfam Canada | Press Release Oxfam Canada urges Prime Minister Stephen Harper to help end global hunger by supporting strong steps at the G8 summit to close tax havens and lift the secrecy that enables massive global tax evasion. June 10, 2013 – Oxfam Canada urges Prime Minister Stephen
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: What Paulo Coelho and other global leaders tweeted about at World Economic Forum in Davos
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Jan. 31, 2013: Let’s agree in one point: we can have anything, but we CAN’T have everything #wef — Paulo Coelho (@paulocoelho) January 25, 2013 The tweet by Paulo Coelho, the world-renowned Brazilian author of The Alchemist, was one of the most popular of world leaders’ reflections during last week’s World
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Plenty of commentators are rightly speaking out against the Cons’ anti-democratic omnibus bill, including Tim Harper and the Star-Phoenix and Vancouver Sun editorial boards. And even John Ivison can’t muster much more than “but the Libs did it too!” in defence of
Continue readingOccupy Ottawa: Adbusters: Occupy May 2012 NATO and G8 Chicago Summit
Hey you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there, Against the backdrop of a global uprising that is simmering in dozens of countries and thousands of cities and towns, the G8 and NATO will hold a …Read More
Continue readingImpolitical: Clement’s G8 hangover continues
A lot going on in this thorough Canadian Press story on the latest documents to be uncovered relating to the G8 spending in Tony Clement’s riding of Muskoka. I’ll just go with this excerpt as one that jumped out: Mr. Dodds’ recollections also raise questions as to why Auditor General
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Mocha in Muskoka
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, ol’ Dr. Dawg wrote hisself a parody version of ol’ Merle Haggard’s Okie from Muskokee an’ it’s all about how Tony Clement took $50 million earmarked for border security an’ spent it on fixin’ up his stompin’ grounds so’s…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Mocha in Muskoka
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, ol’ Dr. Dawg wrote hisself a parody version of ol’ Merle Haggard’s Okie from Muskokee an’ it’s all about how Tony Clement took $50 million earmarked for border security an’ spent it on fixin’ up his stompin’ grounds so’s he’d be sure an’ get hisself
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Mocha in Muskoka
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, ol’ Dr. Dawg wrote hisself a parody version of ol’ Merle Haggard’s Okie from Muskokee an’ it’s all about how Tony Clement took $50 million earmarked for border security an’ spent it on fixin’ up his stompin’ grounds so’s he’d be sure an’ get hisself
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament in Review: November 2, 2011
Wednesday, November 2 saw the House of Commons debate two bills dealing with democratic reform. And the result was a remarkable gap between the values the Harper Cons presented in justifying their party’s policy orders, and the ones they actually apply in practice. The Big Issue The bill which received
Continue readingHarper shutting out auditor general from Commons committee meetings
I’ve largely refrained the past few weeks from posting about the grossly anti-democratic manner in which our government has chosen to conduct itself. Other bloggers have been documenting the atrocities better than I could and let’s face it, the whole corrupt Contemptuous mess has me silenced. For once. But this
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: October 31, 2011
Monday, October 31 saw a study in contrasts as two matters were debated in the House of Commons: a private member’s bill which understandably saw broad agreement, and an opposition motion which should have but was instead met with a painful level of denial from the Cons. The Big IssueThat
Continue readingA Little Juxtaposition
On one hand we have the Conservatives fifty million dollar G8 slush fund complete with two senior government ministers saying yeah so what if we broke the rules ,you can’t touch us. Yet despite the malodorous stench of accounting irregularities and possible criminality both the Auditor General and the RCMP
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Like that’ll work
Sure, a reasonable government would have some shame over its obvious doctoring of Hansard. But isn’t the most likely outcome of the NDP’s new complaint for Clement’s departmental officials to formally certify that no such committee hearing ever took place? Update: Or that would make sense too – particularly if
Continue readingImpolitical: He was a skater boy…
24 hours in the life of Tony Clement. Let’s see how it shapes up these days. First, there’s more bad news on the G8 file: The Canadian Press came out with new revelations Monday detailing the $2-million spent to renovate Deerhurst Resort, the venue for the summit. This included $3,000
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Barrie McKenna thoroughly debunks the claim that “financial literacy” alone is enough to put ordinary citizens on a level playing field with the financial industry: Looking to financial literacy to fill the void is like asking ordinary Canadians to be their own brain
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: October 26, 2011
Wednesday, October 26 saw a rare opportunity for the opposition parties to set the agenda. And as a result, the big issue was one which the Cons prefer to discuss as little as possible – even if it’s far more relevant to more Canadians than most of the Harper government’s
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: October 25, 2011
Tuesday, October 25 saw another day of discussion about the Canadian Wheat Board. But this time, the topic of debate was set on the opposition’s terms, as the proceedings focused on Niki Ashton’s motion calling to allow grain producers to vote for them…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Too close to home
Yes, the threat of a slander suit probably had something to do with Gerry Ritz’ desperate retreat after attacking the Canadian Wheat Board. But more important is the significance of Ritz’ allegation based on what his own party has done: if one consider…
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