Chantal Hebert has been getting under a lot of Liberal bloggers skin of late, because they view her as having an anti-Dion bias. Personally, I’m so used to it that I shrug it off - its when Hebert says something nice about Dion that I pay attention. What I found interesting about her latest [...]

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My friend JJ makes a pretty good observation at her blog about how John Mccain’s campaign slogan seems to echo the Conservative’s campaign slogan of last year, and she muses who copied who.
I would suggest that if these poll numbers hold up showing Mccain badly trailing to Rudy Guiliani, Mccain might consider trying to find [...]

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An interesting article in the Star today about a study done on blogs and which blogs out there make money. In this case,the study says that only the top 100 blogs out of an estimated world-wide total of 65 million blogs make any sort of profit from their venture. The article then goes into [...]

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To quote Jimbobby - whooooeeeeeeee… we’re up to Day 20 of Harper’s Anti-Environment/Anti-Kyoto Quotes.
Here’s an interesting quote of Harper’s:
“The accord does negatively impact every region of the country. So rather than talk up separation, it is important to build a coalition across the country to defeat Kyoto.” (Stephen Harper, Report Newsmagazine, December 16, 2002)
I’d [...]

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Ok, he didn’t QUITE say it like that, but it was close:
Federal governments have been reluctant to touch Alberta’s dismal record on climate change because they’re scared of the consequences, says environmental activist David Suzuki. “Ottawa kind of tiptoes around Alberta all the time, because they’re afraid. The closest thing to separation is Alberta, not [...]

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A pretty good cartoon editorial in the Star here

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Ah yes…we’re getting down neat the end of these, but the quality of the quotes arent decreasing any. Here then is Harper’s Anti-Environment/Anti-Kyoto Quotes for today:
“The Kyoto protocol does not deal with critical environmental issues.” (Stephen Harper, Address on the Kyoto Accord, December 9, 2002)
A bit of a puzzler at first.. but remember from our [...]

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Relating to my prior post on the Star Editorial on the Supreme Court decision to declare the current security certificates in their present form unconstitutional, there was also a pretty good Op-Ed in the Star today as well from Thomas Walkom. He says that while the Supreme Court decision is an important victory for human [...]

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The Toronto Star has an editorial today hailing the Supreme Court decision to declare the current Security Certificate system unconstitutional and ordering the government to re-write the law to make it comply with the Charter. What caught my eye was this part of the editorial:
This ruling reinforces a healthy national reappraisal of terror laws….opposition parties [...]

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Busy day… almost forgot to post this.. but I’m under the buzzer
Your Harper Anti-Environment/Anti-Kyoto Quote for today/tonight is this:
“.there is no environmental benefit [to Kyoto] of any kind.” (Transcript of Stephen Harper interview on the Rafe Mair Show, CKNW Radio Vancouver, November 29, 2002)
Cutting GHG not an environmental benefit? Yikes.
Tune in for [...]

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