Sun TV vs. Avaaz and Atwood: who’s the real hate-monger?
By Frank Moher
Sure we should wonder what Stephen Harper was doing having lunch with Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes in New York last year. And of course the CRTC was right to refuse Quebecor a Category 1 specialty TV licence for its proposed SUN TV News Channel, which would force cable and satellite companies to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On shutting the fuck up
By Alison@Creekside
If there’s one thing Steve does really well, it’s using hot button issues to sew strife and division among his enemies.
Within a day of Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth’s tactical warning on Monday to NGOs that their insistence on having access to abortion included in Steve’s maternal health initiative for developing countries risked blowing the [...]
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 involved in [...]
Canada v. Khadr, abridged
By Alison@Creekside
Shorter Supremes :While it is true that the Canadian government violated the Canadian charter rights of a Canadian citizen when it sent Canadian agents to interrogate him in a foreign concentration camp and then turned the contents of that interview obtained under duress over to the owners of that concentration camp, and while it [...]
“Everybody does it,” and other reasons to prorogue democracy
By Alison@Creekside
Top Ten Reasons to Prorogue Democracy . . . so far:
~ Recalibratin’ Economic Action Plan Pt 2 — but not making any changes
~ We got nearly everything we wanted passed anyway
~ Busy busy busy back home on winter barbie circuit
~ Everybody does it, albeit mostly in the 19th century
~ Only “elites” and “chattering classes” [...]
Democracy is so last year
By Alison@Creekside
This is what democracy looks like.
It’s 1.2 million people marching on Mexico City in 2006 to denounce the abrogation of their right to fair democratic representation by their government.
You know why I’m posting this picture.
For the second time in a year, Steve the Despot and Her Excellency of the Rubber Stamp have dismissed Parliament [...]
Richard Colvin’s devastating reply
By Alison@Creekside
On Airshow Peter MacKay’s attempt to discredit Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin by accusing him of not having brought up detainee abuse the one time MacKay met with Colvin in Afghanistan:
He, Colvin, had only been on the job for 10 days and had not met with any detainees yet. And even if he had, protocol [...]
