Steve made mention at his site earlier today about how Harper was talking to his Conservative riding organizers and made the inference that he stood up for Canadians who had “no time to protest or money to hire protesters.” (and then Steve did a beautiful job of listing all the groups who are supposedly [...]

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Well, I’m very glad I decided to go to my grandfather’s 85th birthday party. It turns out it was a surprise one for him, and about 20 or so people from both families showed up to wish him well. Both he and his wife Mary were very touched by the event, and it appears the [...]

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I said I wasn’t probably posting on here till Sunday unless I saw something that riled me up. Well, something has.
If you were to consider yourself an investigative blogger trying to delve deeper into a story, there are several options you could choose to do right now. You could investigate the Conservative campaign funding [...]

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It’ll probably be a quiet weekend here til Sunday (unless I see something that riles me up so much to force me to get online to post about it). I’ll be visiting my folks for the weekend. My grandfather’s 85th birthday is on Friday, and they’re having a big birthday party for him at the [...]

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A couple of things. First, this isn’t a direct quote, but if this is in general what they feel, I”m rather unimpressed:
The darkest fear for Quebec-based Conservatives is that opposition to the conflict could scotch their electoral hopes there. That sensitivity was in evidence this week when Defence Minister Peter MacKay was dispatched to [...]

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Elections Canada and the Conservatives are in a fight over how much money they really spent in the last election campaign:
The Conservative party shuffled more than $1 million in advertising money between itself and Tory candidates in the 2005-06 campaign, boosting candidate expenses and qualifying them for larger Elections Canada rebates for their riding war [...]

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A reader of mine sent me this Youtube link showing a video on something called Camp Okutta. He called it bizarre:

It certainly IS bizarre. However, it is depicting what kind of training child soldiers are put through when they are forced into combat duty, and that is even more bizarre, that we as a society [...]

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A nice op-ed here in the Toronto Star this morning by Carol Goar further shows why I and others are skeptical that new minister Chuck Strahl is going to do anything productive while he’s in control of the Indian Affairs Ministry. The op-ed shows how Canada has for years been defending the concept of aboriginal [...]

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Harper and Bush and Calderone can belittle the opponents of the SPP talks all they want, but the easiest way to dispel public suspicion of the motives behind what was described today as a “process that is now routinely pricked by unnecessary secrecy and an unseemly skew to corporate elites” is to open up the [...]

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Oh boy, I loved this quote from Chuck Strahl after he spoke to Native groups:
“There was a good exchange of ideas and we’ll be back again soon,” Mr. Strahl said. “Obviously, a good list of questions, but by working together, sitting down together, that’s how you solve them. I was here today to start that [...]

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