Jason Kenney: business up front… Party on the side

Published February 19, 2014

Jason Kenney is on quite a road trip, mixing government business with fundraising for the Conservative Party. When the Employment Minister announced the kick-off of his “coast-to-coast-to-coast winter tour to advance the skills agenda” via Twitter on Feb. 14, he didn’t flag that he would be headlining partisan fundraisers during the taxpayer-funded trip. On Wednesday […]

Conservatives on climate change: “the climate always changes. It goes hot. It goes cold.”

Published February 17, 2014

The Conservative climate change skeptics club is getting bigger. Tory MP Gordon O’Connor showed his colours last week, when he explained why the Conservatives couldn’t support an Opposition motion at the House of Commons government operations committee. It called for the Parliamentary Budget Officer to study and forecast the cost of climate change on the […]

Blue Valentine: Conservative pick-up lines

Published February 16, 2014

Feeling blue at the end of Valentine’s Day weekend? These imaginary pick up lines from Stephen Harper and some of his cabinet colleagues, courtesy of Ottawa artist Gabe Thirlwall (also known as Fish on Fridays), may cheer you up. The Valentines are from Thirlwall’s Political Circus puppet series.

Howler alert: Harper government has “the highest ethical standard of all time”

Published January 31, 2014

Forget about the ongoing RCMP investigation into the Senate spending scandal and a cover-up in the Prime Minister’s Office. And don’t think about all those times that Elections Canada caught Conservatives overspending during election campaigns. And definitely don’t get stuck on Elections Canada’s ongoing voter suppression investigation involving Conservative Party operatives. And about those fundraisers by cabinet ministers raising conflict […]

The real story behind latest Conservative attack on labour

Published January 30, 2014

The Conservative government’s ongoing attack on unions — “a key driver in the creation of the middle class” — has reached a new milestone. Bill C-525, the anti-union private member’s bill tabled by a Conservative backbencher and backed enthusiastically by Stephen Harper and his cabinet, cleared a major legislative hurdle Wednesday night, when the bill passed Second Reading in the House […]

Welcome back, Harper

Published January 26, 2014

Now that the House of Commons is back in session after an extended winter break, watch to see how the Conservative government handles problems they’ve created and fights they’ve picked. 1. Stephen Harper’s bagman Will Senator Irving Gerstein stay on Harper’s good side, despite being knee-deep in the Senate spending scandal and cover-up in the […]

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