By Alisom@Creekside Welcome Vic Toews to Stephen Harper’s Perps with Perks for “giving patronage a bad name,” as Dan Lett wrote in the Winnipeg Free Press. Appointed to the Queens Court by Justice Minister Peter MacKay in March last year, eight months after leaving the Cons cabinet, Toews — a former Justice Minister, Public Safety Minister, and […]
A Modest Opinion – You’re going to jail . . . because maybe you might do something, possibly
By Nathaniel Moher In “This isn’t news” news, the Conservatives recently pushed through a bill that nobody else wanted. That’s the beauty of our system — a Prime Minister can be held in contempt of Parliament, for the first time in the history of Canada, and not only be re-elected but given a majority. Yay, […]
Changing the channel on Justin
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 […]
Penashue: Vice is virtue
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 […]
Omar Khadr: A Child Soldier Comes Home
By Montreal Simon It has been a seemingly endless nightmare, a horror story not only for Omar Khadr, but also for the country that let him down so shamefully. But at least he is finally home. From cbc.ca: “Omar Khadr has been returned to Canada and is being held at a maximum-security prison in eastern […]
Quebec ducks Ottawa’s long guns
By Montreal Simon The Long-Gun Registry Lives!!!!! At least in Québec. From The Globe and Mail: “The federal government’s plan to destroy all data from its long-gun registry is unconstitutional, a judge has ruled, giving Ottawa 30 days to hand to Quebec records collected from the province’s gun owners. “‘Quebec didn’t embark in the project […]
Toew’s Internet surveillance bill walks again
By Montreal Simon About a month ago I made this little photoshop, because I was sure that Vic Toews would try to use the Luka Magnotta case to peddle his internet snooping bill. For a Con zombie is a Con zombie, and there is nothing Toews wouldn’t do to stumble through our computers without a […]
Don’t just thank Jason Kenney — thank them all
By Frank Moher Jason Kenney, or perhaps someone on his ace staff, has come up with a brilliant idea: hosting a petition on his own website allowing the public to thank him for being such a fine minister. Specifically, the petition invites you to thank Jason for “his efforts to streamline benefits afforded to refugees […]
Life In Canada’s Small Government Dystopia
By David@Sixthestate.net The following post is deliberately alarmist. Orwellian, you might say. I’m not trying to paint a picture of what things are like in Canada right now, or even what I think they’ll be like in the near future. I’m not an idiot. But I do want to paint a picture of the sort […]
Toews plays Gitmo jailer
By Montreal Simon It’s a Canadian horror story. A young boy is taken from his Toronto home by his Jihadi father to a place he never should have been. He is riddled with shrapnel, shot twice in the back. The bullets exploding out of his chest and exposing his beating heart. He is taken to […]
