By Montreal Simon In the growing darkness of Harperland, it’s hard to know what’s the truth, what is illusion, and what’s just another Big Lie. But sometimes the truth is so blinding, like a fire in the sky, that it’s impossible to ignore it. Or to live, like so many Canadians, in a state of […]
Election 2011: The Liberals elect the Conservatives
By Alison@Creekside Just a 2% increase in the popular vote took the Cons from 143 seats in 2008 to a 167 seat majority tonight, thanks to our fucked up first-past-the-post system and because of what happened in key ridings in Ontario where presumably the Lib voters moved over to the Cons: ie., in Toronto the […]
Doing the Orange Wave
By Montreal Simon As you know I have always tried to be as non-partisan as possible. All I want is ANYONE but Harper. But these days, like most people in my neighbourhood, I’m also hoping for an orange wave. I’m hoping for that because I honestly believe that what Jack Layton has managed to achieve […]
Debate: By not losing, Harper won
By Montreal Simon I wish I could say that the three opposition leaders smoked Great Ugly Leader last night, and that they were still hoovering him off the floor. But they didn’t, so I can’t. Because at this point delusion could kill us. They held their own, they landed some good blows, but their attacks […]
Cons on the G20: “An unmitigated success”
By Alison@Creekside The Public Safety Committee report on the G-20 tabled in the House on Friday calls for an independent inquiry into the decision-making by all levels of government that resulted in – the outrageous cost – the unprecedented arrests of over 1100 people, including journalists and people on their way home from work – […]
The G20: Bill Blair and “preventive detention”
By Alison@Creekside At the Public Safety Committee yesterday, Toronto Chief Bill Blair lobbed the following statement about “preventive detention” at the G20 into the proceedings [just before the 4 minute mark]: “I think you are all familiar with images of members of that group who were smashing windows, burning cars, looting stores, and generally causing […]
The Librocons’ favoured tax haven
By Alison@Creekside A week ago Stephen Harper pledged to go after some 1,800 Canadian foreign bank accounts in Switzerland in a crackdown on off-shore tax evasion, amounting to an estimated $1 billion in lost federal tax revenues. The Cons — tough on white collar crime. Meanwhile back in the House, Lib and Con MPs are […]
A G20 public inquiry? Not at this rate.
By Alison@Creekside A special meeting of the Public Safety and National Security Committee was held Monday, “Requested by Four (4) Members of the Committee to Undertake a Study of the Issues Surrounding Security at the G8 and G20 Summits.” Will there be a parliamentary study on G20 security issues? Well, first they had to agree […]
Blocking the Bloc on Afghanistan
Alison@Creekside The Sun: “The Tories’ house leader Jay Hill told QMI Agency the government has not agreed to allow members of the Bloc to review confidential documents related to the transfer of Afghan detainees.” Haven’t said no; haven’t said yes. “Bloc MPs would ‘have to swear allegiance to Canada and the Queen’ if they want […]
Rights and Democracy, and Hypocrisy
By Alison@Creekside On the same day we are hearing from the three fired members of Rights and Democracy at the Foreign Affairs Committee (see below) comes an op-ed in the National Post by R&D board member Marco Navarro-Genie. And what a gong show stinker it is too. According to Navarro-Genie, the Foreign Affairs committee is […]
