Just when I fall into despair that justice will ever prevail, the gods send me a small bone:Former Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro lost his appeal of his election overspending case and was taken away to jail Tuesday, after an Ontario judge found he had…
Continue readingTag: harper corruption
Politics and its Discontents: Ah, But Will They?
Were they truly public-spirited citizens, the dozens of people recently appointed by Stephen Harper to government agencies and crown corporations would step aside if so requested by Justin Trudeau.The previous government under former prime minister Ste…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On The Company You Keep
This kind of makes it easy to judge Harper, doesn’t it? Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Now this Is Getting Ridiculous
Apparently, Stephen Harper feels that Canadians are real whores for tax cuts: Stephen Harper is kicking off a quiet day on the federal election campaign trial by promising tax relief for service club members. Harper says members of organizations such the Kiwanis, Lions and Royal Canadian Legion can claim a
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Sympathy For The Devil?
With tongue firmly ensconced in his cheek, Andrew Coyne writes that we are being too hard on Stephen Harper, a prime minister who has been cruelly betrayed by all those in whom he placed an absolute trust: You will be familiar with the picture we have created of him: suspicious,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More Fun With ‘Deceivin’ Stephen’
H/t Theo Moudakis And this from Star letter-writers: Re: Duffy scandal dogs Harper, Aug. 17 Liars. There are many types, just as there are many kinds of lies – white, boastful, malicious, and the Big Lie. This last kind can perhaps be used successfully only by one class of liar
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Company You Keep
You remember, I’m sure, what your mother taught you: you are judged by the company you keep. By that standard, almost all of the MPs who form the Harper regime are to be condemned, willing, as they apparently are, to trade any vestige or semblance of integrity and self-respect for
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Too Good Not To Share
H/t Michael de Adder Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Another Reason To Vote
If you know any young people looking for a reason to vote, please pass this on to them: National Pipeline Approval Board Posted by Robin Chat on Saturday, August 15, 2015 Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: It May Be Dry Out West, But It’s Raining Pork In Alberta
Desperate times require desperate measures, and there is definitely a whiff of desperation coming from the Conservative camp these days. With the majority of polls showing their fortunes in decline, it would seem that Pierre Poilievre’s giddy and fatuous Christmas in July’s bribe stunt was but the opening salvo in
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Harper Regime In One Easy-To-Understand Graphic!
H/t Boycott The Harper Conservatives For those of you who are more text-oriented or want a comprehensive recounting of the depredations of the Harper years, I encourage you to check out and bookmark Rural’s Harper History Series over at Democracy Under Fire. Rural has taken on the unenviable and herculean
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Reprobate Redux
For your Monday discernment, I offer this volley of wise observations about that unrepentant felon, Dean Del Mastro, from the usual suspects – Toronto Star readers: Re: Ex-Tory MP Del Mastro sentenced to month in jail, June 26 Finally a crooked Conservative gets a jail sentence, proclaiming his innocence all
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: God, I Love The Perp Walk
Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Breaking With Tradition
… there were no reports of Dean Del Mastro breaking down in tears, a first for the former star of the Harper regime. Perhaps knowing that he will only serve one week in jail for his crimes lightened his mood. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Entitled To Her Entitlements
That seems to be the attitude of Ann Gray, another former Harper appointee, on her and her husband’s lavish ‘fact-finding’ trips, which cost the taxpayer plenty. She regards the fuss as much ado about nothing, seeing the trips as a ‘thank you’ for her unpaid time sitting on the Blue
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Harper Reign Of Terror Continues
The Harper reign of terror, a.k.a, the CRA witch hunts, continues apace, the latest victim the Sierra Club Canada Foundation. Describing it as part of an “intimidation campaign”, John Bennett, the foundation’s national program director … has been asked to produce a list of all the politicians he met in
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Putting Things Into Perspective
H/t The Chronicle Herald Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Turnabout Is Fair Play
Thanks to Ed Tanas for bringing the following to my attention: Taking its cue from the Conservative Party, the Liberals Party is attempting to turn the tables on reckless, unjustified and overtly partisan political ads masquerading simply as useful public information (meted out to the public at taxpayer expense, of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: For Those Who Value Democracy
After watching Pierre Polievre make the Sunday rounds extolling his government’s achievements, it would be easy for the politically disengaged and ignorant to conclude that the Harper regime is the greatest thing since the proverbial sliced bread. By Polievre’s account, his government has put more money into the pockets of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Thought Of The Day
H/t Boycott The Harper Conservatives Recommend this Post
Continue reading