Oh no. Poor Stephen Harper. He just can't get a break from that horrible senate scandal. As if having the hand of Pamela Wallin coming at him in his dreams, making it look like a sex scandal, wasn't bad enough eh? Today he had to admit that when he personally examined Pammy's expenses and declared them "satisfactory."He might have spoken too soon. Read more »
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…scumbag extraordinaire… Why one of Harper’s most vile attack mutts thought it was OK to use the stabbing in London as fodder against Justin Trudeau is beyond me. Stay classy, JK, stay classy. (2) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Not surprisingly, plenty of commentators have weighed in on the latest set of Senate scandals engulfing Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin, Nigel Wright and Stephen Harper among others. Diane Francis takes the opportunity to point out that the Senate is an institutional anachronism (a point with which I of course agree). Murray Mandryk notes that the Cons’ story involves the belief that their clan can do no wrong, Chantal Hebert sees the Cons having simply changed the party name in the Liberal culture of entitlement they once claimed to despise, while Andrew Coyne (Read more…) The Queen of the Wingnuts has weighed in on getting turfed by the York Region Cops from her speaking engagement at the Chabad Flamingo Synagogue. Naturally, she is unhappy about it. She says, among other things, this: The police also told the rabbi that Jason Kenney, Canada’s Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, has been asked to keep me out of Canada. Its probably bullshit. But somebody out there in, like, the media–the people who are paid to ask tough questions–should ask of Mr. Kenny whether he indeed was petitioned by police to keep Pam Geller out of Canada, and (Read more…) By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: In the House of Commons Monday, Jason Kenney denied that the Harper Conservatives implemented the 15% wage rule, the cornerstone of the scandal-ridden federal Temporary Foreign Work… The post Temporary Foreign Worker Program: Jason Kenney’s 15% Rule Selective Amnesia appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. Well it was quite a spectacle. Jason Kenney in the House of Commons, trying to limit the damage of the foreign worker's scandal.Desperately trying to make it go away.But the look on Peter Kent's face told the story, showed how much that scandal has hurt the Cons.And nothing Kenney said will make it better.For anyone who witnessed that absurd spectacle wouldn't have known whether to cry or laugh.Read more » Surely this progressive step by the AP should enlighten Canada’s mainstream media, the Canadian Border Services Agency and immigrant-bashing Conservative politicians such as Jason Kenney. It should make them “see” that recent non-European immigrants are as human as European immigrants and their immigrant ancestors? By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The Associated [...] The post Associated Press Ditches “Illegal Immigrant”. And A Lesson For Jason Kenney appeared first on The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis. Former Canadian Taxpayers Federation Alberta Director Scott Hennig, now the group’s Communications VP, in a nice AstroTurf-coloured sweater at last weekend’s Ottawa conference of the Manning Centre for Undermining Democracy. Below: CTF President Troy Lanigan; CTF member … rrrrrrr … supporter, Riley Climenhaga; CTF Operations VP Shannon Morrison. When it comes time to hand out the annual Turfy Award – named for AstroTurf, the green synthetic blades that look like grass and feel like grass but do not absorb carbon dioxide like grass – I expect the Canadian Taxpayers Federation to be a contender. Indeed, consider ’em nominated. After . . . → Read More: Alberta Diary: Minuscule Canadian Taxpayers Federation in running for ‘Turfy Award’ 
 Astroturf, astroturfing, Canadian Constitution Foundation, Canadian LabourWatch Association, Canadian Politics, Canadian Taxpayers Association, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Erin Chutter, f-35, Jason Kenney, John Mortimer, karen selick, Letters Patent, Long form Census, long-gun registry, Michael Binion, Paul Pagnuelo, public policy, Riley Climenhaga, Scott Hennig, Shannon Morrison, taxation, Teddy Award, Tony Clark, Troy Lanigan, Turfy Award Former Australian PM John Howard at the Manning Centre’s Ottawa gabfest Sunday. Below: Tom Flanagan pictured on a button worn by many at Preston Manning’s “big-tent” conservative revival meeting, “Calgary School” professor Rainer Knopff seen in passing sporting his Flanagan button. OTTAWA Was former Australian PM John Howard sending Canadian conservatives a coded message about their future Saturday, or was his research just not up to snuff now that he’s no longer a prime minister? Mr. Howard is a Liberal, which in Australia means he’s a conservative, which almost anywhere else would mean he’d be termed a neoliberal, which here . . . → Read More: Alberta Diary: Former Aussie PM’s unintended message to Canadian progressives: coalitions work! It was a wonderful Canadian moment.One of my Canadian heroes, Romeo Dallaire, talking about another of my heroes, the late great Stompin' Tom Connors.Telling Evan Solomon about the day when him, his U.N. soldiers, and about 200 civilians were in a Rwandan hotel under heavy enemy fire.How he played Stompin' Tom's song The Blue Berets, and how it cheered them all up, had them clapping their hands and stomping their feet, even as the mortars and shells rained down on the hotel.Read more » By: United Steelworkers Union (Press Release) | Mar 5, 2013: TORONTO – The federal Conservative government is showing it is not serious about fixing the discredited Temporary Foreign Worker Program, the United Steelworkers (USW) says. “It has been four months since the Conservatives promised a review of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program due to public outrage READ MORE Doctors’ group takes Ottawa to court over refugee health-care cuts.” Jason Kenney’s remarks in this report are a disgrace for a federal minister. He and his government continue to demonize the refugee “other” for crass political purposes. Meanwhile: “The Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care has for months documented an escalating number of refugees being denied care,” Dr. Philip Berger said Monday at a news conference to announce the court challenge. “Pregnant women, children and refugees with chronic diseases are not showing up for appointments, even at clinics who would see them, (because) they’re afraid of the costs.” Total . . . → Read More: Impolitical: Go Doctors By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 25, 2013: Canadian refugee lawyers, advocacy groups, doctors and patients are banding together to file a lawsuit against the Harper government’s recent draconian cuts to health care for refugees. The group from the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers (CARL), Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care (CDRC), and three individual patients, says the cuts READ MORE As you know I've always considered Jason Kenney's singular contribution to Canadian politics a real freak show.I've had trouble taking that ghastly religious fanatic seriously since he said that gays were free to get married. As long as they married someone of the opposite sex.One moment he's accusing Thomas Mulcair of being soft on religious freedom, like he did last week.The next moment he's bashing Iran. Or swearing allegiance to Israel. And now he's been caught with his pants down in an embarrassing position. Read more » “The Bank of Canada considered celebrating gay marriages, black hockey players, and turban-wearing RCMP officers on its new plastic bank notes” By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 11, 2013: And so the Harper Conservative-inspired whitewashing of Canada continues. Last summer, we learned that the Bank of Canada had nixed the image of an Asian-looking female scientist from READ MORE
0 Polymer Banknote, Aboriginal Art, Bank of Canada, Black Hockey Players, Canada, canada day, Canada Politics, Canadian Immigration Report, Caucasian, diversity, ethnicity, Featured, Focus Group, Gay Marriages, Inclusiveness, Institutionalized Racism, Jason Kenney, multiculturalism, Neutral Ethnicity, non-whites, opinion., Plastic Bank Notes, RACE CARD, Racism, Rob Ford, Roma, The Canadian Progressive, The Ugly Canadian, White Supremacists, Whitewashing The Canadian Progressive: Federal Court of Canada rules in favour of US war deserter Jules TindunganRefugee Protection Division ignored evidence that U.S. military justice system fails to meet basic fairness standards by War Resisters Support Campaign | Feb. 6, 2013: TORONTO – On Friday, February 1, the Federal Court of Canada released a decision granting United Stated (US) war resister Jules Tindungan a new hearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB). READ MORE
afghanistan, asylum, Canada, Canada Politics, Citizenship And Immigration, Defence, Draft Dodger, Featured, Federal Court of Appeal, Federal Court of Canada, Guest Blog, Immigration and refugee board, Infantry, international law, Iraq, IRB, Jason Kenney, Jules Tindungan, Press release, RACE CARD, refugee, rights, United States, War Resister Hindus have termed Canadian government billboards in Hungary targeting Roma (Gypsy) asylum-seekers as highly inappropriate and blatant racism. by The Canadian Progressive reporters on Jan. 30, 2013 Hindus have termed Canadian government billboards in Hungary targeting Roma (Gypsy) asylum-seekers as highly inappropriate and blatant racism. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) READ MORE
billboards, Canada, Canadian Politics, Citizenship And Immigration, discrimination, Featured, Government, Harper government, Harper vs. Canada, Hindu, human rights, Hungary, Immigration, Jason Kenney, media, Prejudice, propaganda, RACE CARD, Racism, Rajan Zed, refugees, rights, Roma, stephen harper, The Ugly Canadian, xenophobia Calgary City Hall: The next target for former Reform Party leader Preston Manning’s not-very-merry band of far-right ideologues? Below: Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and neoconservative ideological guru Manning back in the day. Is the so-called Manning Centre for Building Democracy preparing to target Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and other progressive city councillors for a corporate-backed reprise of the far right’s domination of federal and provincial politics in recent decades across Canada? So it would seem. Indeed, it would be fair to say the benevolent sounding Trojan Horse founded by Preston Manning, the former Reform Party leader and unflinching market ideologue, . . . → Read More: Alberta Diary: Preston Manning’s well-funded ideological hobbyhorse takes aim at civic progressives
Alberta Politics, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Brian Day, Calgary City Hall, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Canadian Politics, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, City Of Calgary, conservative party of canada, David Collyer, Ezra Levant, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, Jason Kenney, John Howard, Manning Centre for Building Democracy, Montreal Economic Institute, Municipal Governance Project, naheed nenshi, Preston Manning, Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Reform Party, stephen harper, Tony Clement Pop quiz: who wrote this: “Our government expects – as do health care providers – that this change will exacerbate the health conditions of patients with chronic conditions and those who are at risk of developing such conditions. In addition, … Continue reading →
andrea horwath, Cindy Forster, deb matthews, Interim Federal Health Program, Jason Kenney, Jim Bradley, Kensington Eye Clinic, Kensington Screening Clinic, Kevin Smith, Liberal leadership, Niagara Health System, Ontario Health Minister, Quinte Health Care, Sandra Pupatello, Suzanne Dajczak, Tim Hudak, Uncategorized, Windsor Regional Hospital This and that for your Thursday reading. - Karl Flecker discusses how the Cons’ push to encourage employers to use temporary foreign workers will affect wages for everybody: In fact, what Kenney said was untrue. He has conveniently forgotten that his government significantly changed the wage rules for employers hiring high-skilled migrant workers. On April 25, 2012, after direct consultations with a select group of employers, Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources Skills Development Canada, announced a new “Accelerated Labour Market Opinion” to provide employers with “greater flexibility.” “Wages,” she said, “that are up to 15 per cent below . . . → Read More: Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links Even right-wing Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall thinks it’s wrong. Recent cuts to the Interim Federal Health program for refugees have led to a storm of criticism by the medical community and provincial politicians across Canada. While Immigration Minister Jason Kenney … Continue reading → Jason Kenney is Jason Kenney’s Biggest Fan Immigration Minister Jason Kenney believes that Jason Kenney is doing a great job. In fact, Jason Kenney believes you should get a chance to thank Jason Kenney for all the hard work Jason Kenney has done on taking away health benefits from refugees. So Jason Kenney has taken it upon himself to start a petition on Jason Kenney’s website to allow Reaffirming Jason Kenney is an egomaniac To describe this story as simply a staged photo-op would be a great disservice to the grandiose dick waving contest that Minister of Immigration Jason Kenney and professional media troll Ezra Levant were able to fully conceive. Through sheer ego and incompetence, they made what appeared to be an oddball story a rapid descent into their warped “ In response to Kenney’s list, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs remains relatively mush-mouthed, but notes the following points of concern: However, we believe there are two key deficiencies in the DCO regulations that should be addressed. First, there are no clear provisions for how a designated country could be removed from the list should the situation there merit a re-evaluation. Second, DCO applicants awaiting a ruling by the IRB only have access to the same basic healthcare coverage extended to failed claimants awaiting deportation. We propose that DCO refugee applicants receive the same health coverage as non-DCO . . . → Read More: BigCityLib Strikes Back: CIJA On Designated Countries Of Origon |
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