Oil sands science seeps out
By Alison@Creekside
Remember that two year Environment Committee study on the tarsands that was ultimately shredded because the four parties at the table couldn’t agree on the wording of the witnesses’s testimony? The Lib members of that committee have now released their own report on the testimony and, as Andrew Nikiforuk reports at The Tyee, it [...]
Canada: Please stop annoying Steve.
By Alison@Creekside
“They don’t bother us. It’s just that they are annoying,” a “senior Conservative official” told the G&M’s Dear Jane yesterday about the public’s uproar in reaction to the Cons’ scrapping of the compulsory long-form census.
“Census freedom,” this same anonymous Conbot amusingly called it.
Apparently we the public are “annoying” to Steve now.
And not just the [...]
Airshow Mackay and the Red Barons
By Alison@Creekside
Frankly I don’t think we can be expected to write a whole new blogpost every time Flying Ace “Airshow MacKay” and his trusty sidekick Woodstock Kory climb up on top of the Con doghouse to fight off the Red Baron yet again in the Arctic, so this time we’re just going with what David [...]
Munir Sheikh, StatsCan Jedi
By Alison@Creekside
Munir Sheikh, head of Statistics Canada, in his resignation letter (which has already been removed from the StatsCan website):
“I want to take this opportunity to comment on a technical statistical issue which has become the subject of media discussion. This relates to the question of whether a voluntary survey can become a substitute for [...]
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 to a motion [...]
Has Richard Fadden styled himself after George Smiley?
These things don’t happen by accident.
Related: Will Richard Fadden be McChrystaled?
Will Richard Fadden be McChrystaled?
By Frank Moher
While the States deals with its case of loose lips sinking General McChrystal, are we watching a similar self-capsizing occur up here? CSIS director Richard Fadden is today backing-off statements he made in two interviews with the CBC, broadcast earlier this week. Fadden said that CSIS suspects some municipal officials in BC, as [...]
Harper throws women overboard
By Alison@Creekside
Gerald Caplan, G&M: The Harper government, women’s rights and the cost of speaking out.
The Tories are playing punishment politics with Canada’s progressive NGOs — and eroding civil society in the process.
“Despite the chill on speaking out, this week the Canadian Council for International Co-operation announced its fear that its funding is likely to [...]
A leaky water bill
Alison@Creekside
Gosh, was it only 18 months ago that US Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci was recommending “constructing huge aqueducts to carry Canadian water to the US” ?
Ho hum, responded the Cons, as they continued to obstruct any and all opposition motions to protect Canadian water from bulk export, including the recommendation to do so from [...]
Goldman Sachs McGuinty
By Alison@Creekside
Ish Theilheimer at Straight Goods wonders why there has been no public outcry about McGuinty’s decision to hire Goldman Sachs to come up with a privatization blueprint for 49% of Hydro One, Ontario Power Generation, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.
The LCBO, OLG, Hydro One and OPG [...]
