Steve Janke: Angry in the Great White North

Weekly Archive: November 13, 2005 - November 19, 2005

November 18, 2005

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This is not a new post, but I thought the closing remarks of this other post deserved a spot of their own, if only to help me organize my thoughts. Basically, I'm wondering if I've been pursuing the wrong line...

The Abotech Affair: An open letter to the Ethics Commissioner

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It has been suggested by several people via comments and personal emails that I make the Ethics Commissioner aware of the material relating to David Smith collected on this blog. I've attached an open letter to the commissioner. I'd like...

The Abotech Affair: A twist in the road

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This post is a recreation of the original Morneau Sobeco post. Somehow that post has been deleted, and while I'm trying to retrieve it, I've decided to re-write it from scratch. I'm using the post I made for small dead...

November 17, 2005

The Abotech Affair: Ethics investigations during elections

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Ethics Commissioner Bernard Shapiro David Smith, the Liberal MP for the riding of Pontiac, is subject to a formal investigation with regards to his company Abotech, and the contracts it had with the federal government, contracts that have since...

Paul Martin and the difference between Christmas and Easter

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Crowds shopping in Maine last Christmas; the sign of a truly important religious event Paul Martin impresses us with his knowledge of the important religious festivals: Prime Minister Paul Martin warned the three opposition leaders today that they could...

Paul Martn: Is it time to pull out the "Yikes!" sign yet?

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Paul Martin claims to have saved us from this. From a speech Prime Minister Paul Martin gave to the Empire Club and the Toronto Board of Trade in May, 2005, discussing what other G8 countries thought of Canada in...

Open Source Media

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Known as Pajamas Media during the ramp-up, Open Source Media, or OSM, officially launched yesterday: Readers unfamiliar with blogs are sometimes puzzled by the concept, thinking that they are mere online "diaries," where egoists and sentimentalists record their thoughts...

The Arrogance of a Rhodes Scholar

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Bob Rae, former NDP premier of Ontario Bob Rae, former NDP premier of Ontario and more recently the author of a major study on post-secondary education, gave a speech in which he sung the praises of a post-secondary education....

Get set...

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Conservative leader Stephen Harper On your mark... Get set... Technorati Tags: Paul Martin, Stephen Harper, Liberal Party, Conservative Party, Canada...

November 16, 2005

Where to find Angry tonight

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At 9pm Eastern, I'll be on The World Tonight with Rob Breakenridge of CHQR Radio in Calgary. Wish me luck. This will be my first live interview. Update: Oh crap. I was awful! I need more practise at talking off...

The Abotech Affair: Turning up the heat on David Smith

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David Smith is now subject to a formal investigation by the Ethics Commissioner. Technorati Tags: David Smith, Frank Brazeau, Abotech, Liberal Party, Bernard Shapiro, Ethics Commissioner...

Routine theft and routine audits

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Is theft by the Liberal Party so routine that we should sit back and wait for routine audits to catch it? That seems to be the reasoning of Liberal Minister Andy Scott.

November 15, 2005

An important promise of accountability from the Conservatives

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Ralph Goodale, Liberal Minister of Finance Yesterday I posted about the frustration many people have about how the Liberals seem to have trouble with numbers. Ralph Goodale, our Finance Minister, pleads poverty until election time, then suddenly reveals "unexpected"...

The Abotech Affair: A twist in the road

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There has been an administrative screw-up on my part, and the content of this post has since been move to "A twist in the road"....

November 14, 2005

Ralph Goodale: "I forgot to carry the one"

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Ralph Goodale, Liberal Minister of Finance Somehow a surplus of $500 million has become a surplus of $8.2 billion! Just in time for an election, of course, and now Canadians will see all sorts of new spending. But only...

Another blog fix to suggest

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Well, the overlapping problem cropped up again. So I took a different approach to reduce the length of the home page. I changed the <MTEntries> tag in the main index HTML file to read <MTEntries lastn="10">. That resticts the home...

Solution to the overlay problem? Reduce the length of the home page

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I thought I'd share what I learned from my break from blogging to deal with technical hiccups with the blog. The major problem was a text overlay problem. Helpful readers sent screen shots, and finally I was able to glean...

Paul Martin: Shamelessly two-faced

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Paul Martin shows himself to be as two-faced as any person whose moral compass is pointed neither at right or wrong, but only at power. At least with right or wrong, you have to be reasonably consistent. But when you...

Quebec teeters?

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As an election looms, it's time to watch how the media spins the news. In this case, the Liberals are depicted as "teetering in Quebec"....

An election in January: A proposal or an ultimatum?

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The opposition parties are telling Prime Minister Paul Martin to call an election in the first week of January, or face an immediate vote of non-confidence. Is this a proposal or an ultimatum? It makes a difference....

November 13, 2005

Reader Survey [Updated]

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Apparently there are still some people out there who are having trouble seeing this blog, with text overlaid on other text. If you are experiencing problems, leave a comment here, preferably with an email. What I need to know what...

The Dean Factor

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Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean Republican Party Chair Ken Mehlman From Drudge: The DRUDGE REPORT has learned from exclusive sources that Democrat Party Chair Howard Dean turned down Republican Party Chair Ken Mehlman's last minute offer to appear together...

The Abotech Affair: Another notable absence at PWGSC?

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Recall that Frank Brazeau, the bureaucrat at Public Works and Government Services Canada, suspended over the Abotech affair, has had his entry in the Government Electronic Directory expunged. The Abotech affair involves questionable contracts handed to a company once run...

Picture headaches

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One of the things I've wanted to do for some time is to use pictures a bit more liberally. Just a photo of a major player in a story, or some other image that seems appropriate. Add some colour. Give...

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Tabloid Column
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quotes

I read Angry in the Great White North and find it smart, entertaining, and useful. David Frum of the American Enterprise Institute

One of Warren Kinsella's Top Ten Bloggers for 2005: "He's a conservative, but he ain't all that angry, quite frankly. Sometimes (as in his ongoing series about my pal 'Judge' John Gomery, who called me an 'inexperienced political staffer') he is quite funny, actually. During the election, he's been breaking income trust stories like he's the friggin' ROB. Impressive." Warren Kinsella, Warren's Musings, 31 December 2005

Angry in the Great White North was named Best Sleuthing Blog in the Best of the Web: 2005. Dan Cook, Globe and Mail, 2 January 2006

Angry in the Great White North is one of my three-times-a-day must-read blogs. Ezra Levant, publisher of the Western Standard

Your BLOG is awesome, I check it out all the time. It is good for the morale when I read your observations. MAJ Sherwood P. W. Baker II, US Army (TACOM)

So you're really a snivelling coward. Lord Black of Crossharbour

Named "Website of the Day" by Right Wing News for August 17, 2005. Right Wing News

You rule. Mike Brock

You may not be quite as witty as Monte Solberg... but you're close! Jason M

Read Angry and stay six days ahead of the mainstream media. ferrethouse

Angry is one of best and most resourceful political researchers in Canada. Somebody give this guy a job! Stephen Taylor

The writer is smart, cogent and insightful. Sigmund, Carl and Alfred

Angry makes Canadian news almost palatable! Rondi Adamson

Angry in the Great White North, probably THE best conservative poli blogger going right now. curt at North Western Winds

This blog gets better every single day. One of the best out there - anywhere. fawningpublican

'most moonbatish wacko right-winger post of the year' daveberta

You're a hard person to dislike, Angry. Dr. Dawg

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dedication

Gordon Sinclair, 1900-1984
The original angry Canadian
"Our neighbours have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high."

The Americans: A Canadian's Opinion, 1973