Third Way MIA

King Ralphs mauch touted 'Third Way' in Medicare reform is still MIA. It wasn't in his TV Inofmercial the other night and yesterday it was absent, MIA in fact, from the Throne Speech.

The Conservative Dictatorship

Conservative blogger and a founding member of the Blogging Tories, Stephen Taylor has called a spade a spade, he says of the Harpocrite Regime in Ottawa ; "the evolving tradition of the Conservative Party's consultatively autarchic approach to PMO power." For those...

Build It And They Will Come

Ah the old arguement of the right wing raises it's anti-feminist, anti-working class, reactionary head again over at Stephen Janke's AGWN blog, namely allow the market to create day care spaces and the folks will flock to them with their new Conservative baby bonus.

Stephen Mulroney Brian Harper

So who is our new PM? Stephen Mulroney it appears, or is it Brian Harper?

How Many Audits Does It Take?

The new Minister of State Security Stockwell Day has announced that he wants yet another audit of the Firearms Registry

'Presumed consent' option for organ donations sparks debate

"Ontario hospitals should be able to freely harvest organs unless a dying patient objects beforehand, says a private members bill introduced in the provincial legislature on Thursday. New Democrat MPP Peter Kormos, who drafted the bill, said its aim is to reduce the number...

Mr. P3

Another example of the Harper regime planning to implement it's ideology of privatization at all costs is his appointment of Mr. P3 Michael Wilson as Canada's ambassador to the United States. He is spokesman for the The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships

public misinformed and manipulated

The revelations come in an extract from the Centre for Policy Studies pamphlet.

Audits Show Millions in Katrina Aid Wasted (AP)

"AP - In its rush to provide Katrina disaster aid, the Federal Emergency Management Agency wasted millions of taxpayer dollars by giving cash to ineligible recipients and overpaying for hotel rooms, government investigators said Monday."

On Gulf Coast, Cleanup Differs Town to Town

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - There is an eerie stillness here on Edgewood Avenue. Toys, broken glass and random pieces of furniture are strewn across yards. Not a single person is in sight. The only movement, nearly four months after the passing of Hurricane Katrina, comes from the...