By Alison@Creekside Notable how many of Steve’s patronage peeps are grifters, conmen, or alleged perps. Starting from the left . . . Dr. Arthur Porter, “His Excellency, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Republic of Sierra Leone,” also Harper-appointed chair of CSIS watchdog SIRC and lead investigator into CSIS’ treatment of Abdelrazik. Money once paid to former Israeli arms trafficker to sell […]
The Plan
By Frank Moher As we enjoy, if that’s the word, the second summer of the Harper majority, I’m pleased to say The Plan is working. The Plan, of course, is the one I hatched back when I was working at Alberta Report in the 1980s. AR, some of you will know, was the conservative newsweekly […]
Danielle Smith: standing up for bigots’ rights
Editor’s note: Since Montreal Simon posted on Tuesday about about Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith and her defense of candidate/bigot Allan Hunsperger (see below), another runaway pastor has emerged. Ron Leech, Wildrose candidate in the multicultural riding of Calgary-Greenway, cleverly told a radio station that, as a Caucasian, he can “speak to all the community” […]
Stephen Harper, funny guy
By Alison@Creekside In every election now, Stephen Harper’s June 1997 speech to a right-wing U.S. think tank in Montreal comes up. You know the one: “Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term” “the NDP is simply the left-wing agenda to basically disintegrate our society” “the PC party were […]
“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 […]
