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Stephen Harper’s phony regionalism

08/21/2015 by the editor

By Frank Moher Benjamin Perrin’s testimony on Thursday reminded us that, regardless of what Stephen Harper knew or when, every tendril in the Duffy scandal leads back to the Prime Minister, and his insistence that hapless Mike pretend he lives in P.E.I. When Duffy’s Senate appointment was first mooted, it was Harper, not Duffy, who decided […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Benjamin Perrin, Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian Senate, crime, law, Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright, Ottawa, Preston Manning, Prince Edward Island, Ray Novak, Senate scandal, Stephen Harper

Wright: The Bible told him so

08/14/2015 by the editor

By Montreal Simon It couldn’t be a more outrageous statement, or if you are a Christian a more blasphemous one. But there was Jesus Harper’s fallen but still faithful disciple Nigel Wright, citing the Bible to defend his actions in the Mike Duffy scandal. A star witness of the Mike Duffy trial cited a Bible […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canadian politics, Canadian Senate, law, Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright, Ray Novak, religion, Senate scandal, Stephen Harper, The Bible

Afraid of the scaremongers

06/24/2015 by the editor

By Frank Moher Now that the Conservatives’ Bill C-51 is law, having been boosted over the wall by 44 compliant Senators, it’s time for the RCMP to get to work and start arresting people. They can begin with the Conservatives. Because if any organization has been instilling fear in Canadians lately, for blatantly political and ideological ends, it hasn’t been […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Bill C-24, BIll C-51, Canada, Canadian Parliament, Canadian Senate, Conservatives, family, law, Stephen Harper, terrorism

Duffy trial: Harper is the tie that binds

04/09/2015 by the editor

By Montreal Simon If Stephen Harper thought he could run away from the trial of Mike Duffy, as he was trying to do on Tuesday at a photo-op in Vancouver . . . Which is about as far away as you can get from Ottawa, and Ol’ Duff’s even more massive photo-op . . . The look […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canadian Senate, Cnada, crime, Duffy trial, law, Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright, Prince Edward Island, RCMP

CBC’s diminished news world

04/07/2015 by the editor

By Frank Moher The CBC cut some more jobs last month. Where’s the news in that, you say? It was just 140 jobs, you say? Just a droplet in the bloodletting of 1500 jobs projected to be lost by 2020? Well sure, but besides the fact that another swack of people are out of work, […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, Canada, Canadian Senate, CBC, CBC News, CRTC, digital media, Jean-Pierre Blais, Naheed Nenshi, online media, Pierre Juneau, PMO, Reform Party, Stephen Harper, Toronto, Vancouver

Wright and Frum on the Republican dole

04/23/2014 by the editor

By Alison@Creekside In a week that featured  . . . 1) Nigel Wright being let off the hook by the RCMP for bribing sitting legislator Senator Mike Duffy in spite of weeks of PMO discussions involving over a dozen senior party officials re buying Duffy’s silence, and 2) Senator Linda Frum making the most idiotic and widely-mocked attack on […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: "Fair Elections Act", Canada, Canadian Senate, Conservatives, Elections Canada, Linda Frum, magazines, Nigel Wright, Republican Party, U.S. politics, universities

“Fair” Elections Act heads to chamber of sober pre-thought

04/04/2014 by the editor

The monster Fair Elections Act, with its “sharper teeth, longer reach, and freer hands,” is being fast-tracked to the Senate even before it passes in the House of Commons because Steve is in a huge rush to ram it — and its accompanying muzzling of Elections Canada’s investigation into Con election fraud in the last election […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: "Fair Elections Act", Bill C-23, Canada, Canadian Parliament, Canadian politics, Canadian Senate, Claude Carignan, Conservatives, Elections Canada, Peter MacKay, Pierre Poilievre, Stephen Harper

Senate scandal: The bagman cometh

11/29/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside Please welcome Senator Irving Gerstein, chief Con bagman and in-and-out election scheme perp, to Harper’s Parade of Perps with Perks for what the Mounties allege was his role in trying to kill off the Deloitte audit into the expenses of Mike Duffy. At a Con Party meet earlier this month, Gerstein announced to […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian Senate, Carolyn Stewart Olsen, Conservatives, crime, David Tkachuk, Deloitte, Irving Gerstein, Marjory LeBreton, Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright, PMO, RCMP, Senate scandal, Stephen Harper

The Mountie who may bring down Harper

11/25/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Montreal Simon I’ve always thought it ironic that a man called Greg Horton should be the one who might bring down Great Timmy Leader by exposing the corruption of his evil empire. But it wasn’t until today that I realized how much we owe that RCMP investigator. From the Ottawa Citizen:  “Mountie investigating the […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian Senate, Carolyn Stewart Olsen, Conservatives, Cpl. Greg Horton, crime, David Tkachuk, Irving Gerstein, Marjory LeBreton, Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright, PMO, RCMP, Senate scandal, Stephen Harper

Senate scandal: If it’s a bribe, how come no charges?

11/21/2013 by backofthebook.ca

So, the RCMP are calling the payment between Nigel Wright and Mike Duffy a “bribe” and “breach of trust.” No charges yet. How come there are no charges from the Crown prosecutor? The justice system shouldn’t wait until there is an angry protest 24/7 outside of the PMO before they enforce the law once they’ve […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian Senate, Conservatives, crime, Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright, PMO, RCMP, Senate scandal, Stephen Harper

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By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

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