Archive for March, 2010

East Coast Lessons for Ottawa

While MPs in Ottawa discuss whether or not to open their own expense accounts to Auditor General Sheila Fraser at a secretive committee, Nova Scotia has already led the way when they opened their own books. The result was less than flattering and led to a surge in public distrust, resignations and a Teddy Waste [...]

March 30, 2010 Tags: Auditor General, Expenses, Jack Layton, MLA Expenses, MLA Pensions, MP Expenses, MP Pensions, NDP, Nova Scotia, Sheila Fraser Posted in: Blog Content One Comment

Nice Things to Say About: Obama, Chrétien, Clark, Broadbent & Axworthy

I squirm at the thought as much as any realpolitik-minded foreign policy sophist, but President Obama has made a real and positive move on global defense and security policy in the form of today’s nuclear non-proliferation treaty. What’s more is that Jean Chrétien, Joe Clark, Ed Broadbent and Lloyd Axworthy – all doves of a [...]

March 26, 2010 Tags: Barack Obama, Ed Broadbent, Foreign Policy, Jean Chrétien, Joe Clark, John F Kennedy, Kennedy, Lloyd Axworthy, National Security, Non-Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Reagan, Ronald Reagan Posted in: Blog Content 4 Comments

Serial Child-Killer Olson on the Public Take

Everyone gets a slice of the pie in Canada, don’t they? Not just corporate welfare bums, government daycare (welcome to Ontario) and the countless client groups now beholden to government subsidies, handouts and tax-credits, but also convicted murderers as it turns out. Clifford Olson is also on the take, collecting from the Canada Pension Plan [...]

March 25, 2010 Tags: Canada Pension Plan, Clifford Olson, CPP, Crime, GIS, Guaranteed Income Supplement, OAS, Old Age Security, Petition Posted in: Blog Content 3 Comments

Canadian Makes an Ass of her Country on Fox News

Susan Cole (who is that btw?) made an ass of her entire country on Fox News today as she claimed Canada’s political culture is defined by “not freedoms, not rugged individualism, not free speech”.
And yes, I can say “ass”, because Canada, at least at one time, did stand for freedoms, did stand for rugged individualism, [...]

March 24, 2010 Tags: Ann Coulter, Canadian Human Rights Commission, CHRC, Ezra Levant, Fox News, Free Speech, Human Rights Commission, Susan Cole Posted in: Blog Content 5 Comments

Brown Shirt Hippies, or is that Tie-Dye?

While the hygienic-hippies may not have been wearing brown shirts at the University of Ottawa last night, the tactics used to shut down an event billed as a “Free Speech Tour” were not without some sense of nostalgia.
For self-proclaimed peaceniks, violently throwing aside the registration table, intimidating volunteers, attempting to storm the doors, blocking the [...]

March 24, 2010 Tags: A-Houle, Ann Coulter, Brown Shirt Hippies, Brown Shirts, Campus, Canadian Human Rights Commission, Censorship, China, CHRC, Communist, Extreamists, Fascists, Francois Houle, Free Speech, Google, Hippies, Marxists, Radicals, University of Ottawa Posted in: Blog Content 3 Comments

Sudetenland of 2010

The following article was written in the summer of 2007 during an internship with the ‘Canadian Coalition for Democracies’, a foreign policy and national security think-tank and advocacy group.
In the 1930s, Western leaders struggled with what to do with the resurfacing “German problem”. Most of Europe argued for a policy of “accommodation” or as it [...]

March 18, 2010 Tags: 2nd World War, Canadian Coalition, Canadian Coalition for Democracies, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Germany, Germany Problem, Nazism, Second World War, Word Ward 2, World War II Posted in: Blog Content, Published One Comment

Kicking Taxes and Taking Names: How did your MP vote on 10%er Junk-Mail?

Well those who claim that the Conservatives cannot do anything too taxpayer-friendly because the opposition won’t let them, please take a seat. Gather-round the fire as we roast the marshmallow logic used to keep small-c conservatives in line.
A Liberal motion to end the practice of taxpayer-funded MP junk-mail – oft known as 10%ers – passed [...]

March 17, 2010 Tags: 10 percenters, 10%ers, Bloc Québécois, Conservative, Liberal, Liberal Party of Canada, MP Junk-Mail, NDP, Teddies, Teddy Waste Awards, Waste Posted in: Blog Content 9 Comments

Gov’t Paper Flood to Cover Up Stimulus Advertising Cost: 200 Pages in a Single, Simple Request

As generals have their classic tactics in war – pincer, envelopment – governments have theirs in blocking the free-flow of information: paper flooding. A ‘paper flood’ is a torrent of documents sent in response to an Access to Information (ATIP) request with each detail buried in a vast pile of hardened pulp.
Recent requests by the [...]

March 8, 2010 Tags: Access to Information, ATIP, Economic Action Plan, HRSDC, Stimulus Posted in: Blog Content One Comment