Taking sloppy liberal thinking and tearing it a new one -- but always with a touch of class.
Weekly Archive: May 01, 2005 - May 07, 2005
May 07, 2005
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When I wrote about the attempt to sway independent MP David Kilgour into supporting the government in any non-confidence votes by getting more involved in Darfur, I thought they were talking about more aid money or more lobbying efforts at...
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Any Canadian above the age of 35 probably remembers the Hinterland Who's Who spots on TV. With that fluting musical backdrop, each spot highlighted a denizen of Canada's wild. Greg Staples of Political Staples has undertaken to catalog the strange...
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Frustration at the possibility, not in the least remote, that the Liberals could be re-elected in spite of the revelations of the Gomery Inquiry has brought Alberta separatism to the fore:Bob Mills, Tory MP for Red Deer and the party's...
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The Blue Maple Leaf has dug up another interesting connection, but I'm not all that sure what it means......
May 06, 2005
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Ed Broadbent, former NDP leader, current MP, and one of the senior MPs in today's Parliament (if not the most senior), announced he would not run in the next election in order to spend time with his ailing wife. Regardless...
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Another example of bureaucratic insensitivity.
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Go quickly and read -- I'm still laughing....
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Despite his teary testimony, this is not the first time Michel Béliveau has been caught up in a Liberal Scandal.
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Springfield is saved when the comet about to smash into it instead disintegrates as it passes through the hazy atmosphere:LISA: I can't believe that extra-thick layer of pollution that I've picketed against is what burned up the comet.Well, it might...
May 05, 2005
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Let me be a bit more clear about why I'm angry. It's not that the CRTC is restricting our choice as consumers. It is because the CRTC is preventing us from being consumers in the first place, and if we...
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Time to take the CRTC and politely but resolutely toss it into a deep mine, followed by a years worth of "output" from the Toronto Zoo:The Globe and Mail recently reported that two Canadian car makers won't be offering satellite...
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What if they called an election, but the Liberals didn't come? That's what might be shaping up:The Conservatives won a battle Thursday in their effort to force a non-confidence vote against the Liberal minority government, but it appears they could...
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An apology has been issued:The Conservatives have won an apology from a cabinet minister for what they characterize as a racial taunt. Treasury Board President Reg Alcock says he sent a letter of apology to Inky Mark because the Tory...
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In an attempt to cling to power just a bit longer, and to extend the lifetime of this moribund Parliament, the Prime Minister is making a deal with an independent MP concerning Darfur. Darfur? But apparently it's important to ex-Liberal...
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From the Globe and Mail today:Prime Minister Paul Martin and his Liberals moved closer yesterday toward a strategy to engineer their own defeat on the $4.6-billion budget deal they crafted with the NDP as the government signalled debate will begin...
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From Idaho: A 2-month-old baby girl was doused with pepper spray in a feud between two families in a Wal-Mart, police said. Lorlie M. Gantenbein, 36, of Sagle, was charged Tuesday with felony injury to a child. She was released...
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We're in the home stretch. Now that Chuck Guité has finished testifying, we're down to the last 17 witnesses, who will cover "facts pertaining to Liberal Party of Canada and/or Liberal Party of Canada (Quebec)". Here is your program. You...
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Apparently, the Liberals weren't satisified with just kicking money back to themselves from Sponsorship Program contracts. Bills for partisan TV spots were directly paid for out of the government's pocket (which is my pocket and your pocket), too: TAXPAYERS were...
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Controversy continues to swirl around the possible use of judicial appointments by the federal Liberals as a means a rewarding loyal Liberal lawyers. The focus has been on the Quebec judiciary, but now allegations have been made in Alberta. Loyalty...
May 04, 2005
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From reader John, this article in the NY Sun about the current state of the investigation in the Oil-for-Food scandal:The fresh clues to the money trail are emerging from a House hearing that focused last week on BNP Paribas, the...
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OK, the ban is off, again:A Quebec judge has lifted his brief ban on publication of testimony by the retired bureaucrat who ran the federal sponsorship program.And now everyone will know that names have been named:Throughout his week testifying in...
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With the ban on then off then on again, there is no guarantee that we will ever hear about what Chuck Guité said until the fall. So don't come here for any details. Go away. That means you. Update: Never...
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For the love of... More breaking news:A Quebec judge overseeing a criminal trial has ordered a ban on revealing sponsorship testimony shortly, after the inquiry judge lifted his publication ban. Justice John Gomery ruled that the testimony could not be...
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More news fresh off the presses:Justice John Gomery partially lifted a publication ban on the testimony of Chuck Guité, who headed the sponsorship program in the 1990s. Gomery announced the ban would be lifted beginning at 3:30 p.m.The main reason...
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In the last few minutes:A Quebec Superior Court judge has agreed to delay the fraud trial for Jean Brault and Chuck Guité, the two men at the centre of the sponsorship scandal. The move comes as Justice John Gomery is...
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From Captain's Quarters:Thanks to a new source, I have received an extensive amount of the testimony given by Chuck Guité last Thursday and Friday under the publication ban. This testimony will take me hours to review for content, so please...
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In our society, parents and the state share responsibility in raising children. This arrangement has again put these two parties at odds, in two very different cases....
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Warren Kinsella and Finance Minister Ralph Goodale are at. From the May 3 musings:Good old Ralph Goodale just called me a liar in the privileged forum of the House of Commons. Boy, am I ever glad I helped to get...
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I've noticed the lack of excitement about the pending public release of the Chuck Guité testimony compared to the intense media interest to the Jean Brault testimony at the Gomery Inquiry. I wonder why. Is it because they, the media,...
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From the Globe and Mail:The federal government will go to court to fight an effort by Chuck Guité's lawyers to maintain a publication ban on their client's testimony at the sponsorship inquiry.Yup. Read it again. Lawyers for the federal government...
May 03, 2005
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Conservative MPs are nervous. By comparison, Liberal MPs are downright manic:"The media are probably the major problem with what's going on in Ottawa," said Liberal MP Rose-Marie Ur (Middlesex-Kent-Lambton, Ont.), who sounded flustered when reached in her riding on Wednesday...
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The government fire sale continues:The Conservative party's deputy leader claims federal Liberals are calling opposition MPs to offer them plum appointments in an effort to keep Prime Minister Paul Martin's minority government in power. Providing no names, [Peter] MacKay told...
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Though the allegation of judicial appointments in Quebec have made little impact outside Quebec, inside Quebec, the French language service of the CBC is working the story hard....
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The Conservatives raised questions about Maurice Strong, senior man at the UN, architect for Kyoto, cheerleader for global governance, advisor and mentor to Paul Martin for four decades, and one of the people at the centre of investigations into UN...
May 02, 2005
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Apparently, we will be treated to a back-and-forth of motion and counter-motion as the Liberal-NDP alliance tries to hold off an election:To that end, the procedural chess match began in earnest Monday.Chess, tennis, whatever. The Conservatives planned to seek concurrence...
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From the May 1 musings of Warren Kinsella, Jean Chrétien booster:Sponsorships work. Sponsorships are worthwhile. Sponsorships are effective. And they’re cost-effective, too. Nobody is pulling your leg. And don’t just take the word of this die-hard Chrétien-era Liberal, either. Flip...
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With a hat tip to Rempelia Prime, we have new numbers from polling firm Angus Reid (which, to best of my knowledge, is not employing any current party re-election co-chairs):The opposition Conservative party keeps a slight advantage in Canada’s federal...
May 01, 2005
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More musings from Warren Kinsella, ex-executive assistant to former prime minister Jean Chrétien (entry for May 1 -- Mr. Kinsella does not provide permalinks):That’s why Jean Chrétien personally called in the Auditor General, and then the RCMP. (And those two...
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Gin and Tonic (those two go together?) has the scoop on the until now unnoted "Paragraph K":k) the Commissioner be directed to perform his duties without expressing any conclusion or recommendation regarding the civil or criminal liability of any person...
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Greg Staples posts to the Western Standard about the Chuck Guité testimony being heard at the Gomery Inquiry:The buzz is starting to build around the testimony that Chuck Guité is providing at the Gomery inquiry. It could be yet another...
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