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The Cons’ American coaches

08/03/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Back in June in Ottawa, PM Stephen Harper and House Leader Peter Van Loan quietly met with Scott Walker, the anti-SSM anti-abortion anti-union Wisconsin governor whose imminent 2016 Republican presidential candidacy is already teetering atop a pile of Koch Bros. dark money. When Glen McGregor reported on the meeting, PMO spokesey Stephen Lecce came out of […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: American Majority, Canada, Koch Brothers, Loan, Manning Centre, Peter Van Loan, Scott Walker, Stephen Harper, Stephen Lecce, U.S.

L’affaire Butt: What’s not to get?

03/05/2014 by the editor 2 Comments

Are you confused by the Brad Butt affair? We can’t imagine why. Look, it’s simple: The Con MP for Mississauga-Streetsville rose in the House twice on February 6th to say, in defense of the Fair Elections Act, that he’d personally witnessed voter fraud going on in the lobby of “an apartment building.” Then he rose […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: "Fair Elections Act", 2011 election, Alexandra Latendresse, Andrew Scheer, Blake Richards, Brad Butt, Canada, Canadian Parliament, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Craig Scott, Dave Christopherson, Elections Canada, House of, Jenni Byrne, Joe Preston, Kevin Lamoureux, Liberals, Marc Mayrand, NDP, Peter Van Loan, robocall scandal, robocalls, Scott Reid, Steven Fletcher, Ted Opitz, Tom Lukiwski

Changing the channel on Justin

04/23/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside On Thursday, three days after the Boston Marathon bombings, the Cons still had an opposition day scheduled for Monday — a day on which the opposition parties set the day’s agenda. But then on Friday, an hour after learning that Justin Trudeau would spend it introducing his “Backbenchers’ Spring” motion, Government House Leader […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Boston Marathon bombing, Canada, Canadian politics, Candice Bergen, Conservatives, Francis Scarpaleggia, G20, G8, Justin Trudeau, law, Liberals, NDP, Peter Van Loan, police, S-7, Stephen Harper, terrorism, U.S., Vic Toews

Penashue: Vice is virtue

04/17/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By David@Sixthestate.net Well, at least we have it confirmed for us. The reason that Vic Toews is a Cabinet minister despite being convicted of election fraud, the reason that Peter Penashue is allowed to stand as a Conservative candidate despite being responsible for similar violations of the law, the reason Peter Van Loan is still […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Gary Goodyear, Intergovernmental Affairs, Labrador, Newfoundland, Peter Penashue, Peter Van Loan, robocall scandal, robocalls, Stephen Harper, Tony Clement, Vic Toews

Ottawa expands its terror kit

04/26/2010 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Your government announced on Friday that it needs more powers to combat terrorism. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson: “These provisions are necessary to protect our country from the threat of terrorism.” A redo of the panicky, now-defunct Anti-terrorism Act of 2001, the new Combating Terrorism Act includes preventive arrest and forcing people to testify […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Abousfian Abdelrazik, Afghanistan, Alykhan Velshi, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, George Galloway, Lawrence Cannon, Liberals, Maher Arar, Mohamed Harkat, Peter Van Loan, Rob Nicholson, terrorism, torture

“That was totally useless. Thankyou.”

11/11/2009 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside On Thursday, reporters doggedly tried to wring from Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan exactly how long he withheld the RCMP’s Firearms Commissioner’s Report in favour of keeping the long-gun registry so that MPs would not have that info prior to passing the bill to scrap it. The report was released two days […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Conservatives, guns, Peter Van Loan, RCMP

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By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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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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From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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