Gag Order Over Tax Increases?

"Harper's new gag order Could this new Stalinism in the PMO be because the Tories intend to introduce TAX INCREASES in their new budget?"

Nosferatu Fortier

The saying goes is that the Red House, the Senate is where the dead play. Hmmm perhaps this is why the Harpocrite's newly appointed Conservative Senator Michael Fortier looks like Nosferatu.

New Labor Law Draws French Protests

"Classes have been disrupted or halted in universities around the country since last week. Students occupied the Sorbonne in Paris over the weekend, and in Rennes, the main university has been shuttered for weeks....

What price information?

Article about how government agencies want to charge for data collected by taxpayers money and the battle being waged against them by campaigners. 

War Is Peace-keeping

When is WAR not WAR? When it is part of a convoluted argumentsby Progressives For War, (PFW) in order to justify their mistaken allegiance to the Canadian State and its military actions.

Stephen Chretien

Chantel Herberts latest column in the Toronto Star comparing, gasp, Stephen Harper to Jean Chretien

Price Fixing Booze

This is happening in Alberta home of Free Enterprize. Drink prices rising? Alberta is eyeing a minimum price for booze in bars and restaurants in a bid to stop customers from pounding back drinks and pounding on...

The King is Dead Long Live the King

King Ralph has announced, finally, that he is retiring October 2007, as he said he would during the last election. This allows him from being made a fool of on April 1 when in party gathers for its annual meeting...

Democracy is Ok Abroad

New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton said it would not look good for Canada's Prime Minister to deny MPs a vote on a military mission aimed at encouraging democracy. "We think it would be ironic that we're...

Geist: Don't subsidize Web providers

"Toronto Hydro's announcement last week of its plans to blanket the City of Toronto with wireless Internet access has sparked an important debate about the appropriate role for governments and public institutions in providing Internet connectivity. Significantly, it comes on...

Government Sanctioned Murder - It's a Job

th February 2006), Sue Arnold wrote of her son’s decision to join the Army. The piece, entitled No wonder my son is willing to fight in Iraq, explained...

Double Dipping Emerson

Trade Minister David Emerson is in an apparent conflict as Canada's lead negotiator in the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber trade dispute because he still has a financial stake in forestry giant Canfor Corp.,

Shmoozing

"Well ok here goes, the Shmoo Report says this, the proverbial Big Lie of the right that we all agree; "when it comes to being efficient and effective the private sector will always beat the public sector simply based on cost and time". Schmuck! The facts sir...

No See Um's

David Emerson is managing to be like the proverbial no-see-um's that plague Northern Manitoba and Ontario. Or perhaps he is hiding behind his hands, peeking out of his fingers hoping that the justly irate citizens of this constituency would go away.

Canada Out Of NATO

Galloping Beaver compares the differences between Iraq and Afghanistan. Quite right too. Both operations are different. And as a progressive he is opposed to the war in Iraq but then he continues to try and justify the war in Afghanistan as different, more noble. Because it...

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