Charity linked to Manning Centre compares African refugee camp to Alberta in partisan e-mail

Published May 18, 2015

Can the results of the Alberta election be compared to a refugee camp in Ethiopia with over 40,000 Somali refugees? online pharmacy order vibramycin no prescription with best prices today in the USA Well, the Manning Centre and its charitable arm gave it a shot in a bizarre e-mail blast. The Manning Centre, a right-wing think […]

WATCH: Officer of Parliament warns Tory bill gives government power to cover-up own crimes

Published May 15, 2015

In a stunning television interview, an Officer of the Parliament of Canada took only 60 seconds to spell out why a new piece of legislation proposed by the Conservatives would allow the government to cover-up an alleged crime by the RCMP and should alarm every Canadian. Buried deep in the government’s new omnibus budget bill is a provision to retroactively rewrite […]

The CRA stripped an end-of-life group’s charity status. But what about pro-life charities?

Published January 22, 2015

Here we go again. On Tuesday, one of Canada’s leading organizations in the end-of-life care debate announced it had been stripped of charitable status after the Canada Revenue Agency determined the charity had been “registered in error” – this nearly 32 years after the organization was first registered as a charity. According to Dying with Dignity Canada, […]

Watch Conservatives mount courageous defence of their right to talk gibberish

Published September 30, 2014

Peter Van Loan is a freedom fighter. The Conservative government’s House Leader on Monday offered a spirited defence of the right to dodge legitimate questions with off-topic answers during debate of an NDP motion to empower the Speaker to clamp down on irrelevant answers during Question Period. “This change would affect responses to oral questions, […]

VIDEO. Imagine if the Speaker told the Prime Minister to stop talking like they do in Britain

Published September 29, 2014

Maybe it’s time for Andrew Scheer to watch how his British counterpart shuts down Members of Parliament — including the Prime Minister — when they veer off into irrelevant talking points in response to questions in the House of Commons. On Monday, the Conservatives made it clear they won’t be getting behind a new NDP motion to […]

This emotional video of a Conservative MP’s tearful apology will make you cry

Published September 26, 2014

Stephen Harper’s Parliamentary Secretary is sorry. How sorry? When Conservative MP Paul Calandra stood up in the House of Commons on Friday to apologize for repeatedly responding to questions about Iraq with answers that had nothing to do with the topic, emotions started flowing. Here’s a remix with sad violin music:

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