8 lessons Conservatives taught us about the true meaning of Christmas

Published December 21, 2015

Conservatives like to remind the rest of us there's a War on Christmas™. So, of course they must know a thing or two about the true meaning of Christmas, right? Of course!

VIDEO: James Moore defends using tax dollars to promote unelected Conservative candidates

Published April 27, 2015

Can Conservatives spin using taxpayers’ money to promote their own unelected candidates? Well, Industry Minister James Moore gave it a shot Monday. Rising in the House of Commons during Question Period, Moore responded to questions raised about several Conservative ministers’ use of “public funds” to promote an unelected Conservative candidate at several official government events. What did Moore say? […]

Conservative Candidate Repeatedly Photobombs Taxpayer-Funded Events

Published April 23, 2015

Is Tim Laidler the most gosh darned photogenic guy in Canada? Or are Conservative ministers using public resources to promote Conservative candidates at taxpayer-funded events? A British Columbia blogger has been wondering why Laidler, a Conservative candidate in the new riding of Port Moody-Coquitlam, keeps showing up at so many official Government of Canada events and posing next to Conservative […]

VIDEO: Does James Moore still think Vancouver has Canada’s #1 Coast Guard service?

Published April 10, 2015

On what planet does this look like a “world class” oil spill response? The oily substance topping the waters of English Bay covers a wide area @News1130radio pic.twitter.com/Nrd1x9dja5 — Chad Dey (@chad_dey) April 9, 2015 It took 6 hours to get started on containing a 2,800 litre oil spill in the waters next to Vancouver. Then it took 12 hours to let […]

It ain’t easy to spin dismal job numbers

Published January 10, 2014

The Conservative government relied on a familiar refrain to try to spin its way out of Friday’s awful jobs report released by Statistics Canada. First, the facts: 60,000 full-time jobs were lost in December, translating into a loss of 46,000 jobs overall (with the creation of 14,200 part-time jobs). Canada’s jobless rate increased to 7.2%, […]

Poor no Moore: Putting James Moore’s apology “in context”

Published December 16, 2013

When Industry Minister James Moore told a reporter, with a chuckle, that it wasn’t his responsibility to worry about hungry kids in his neighbourhood, he was revealing a philosophy that runs deep in the Conservative government. Moore’s apology aside (after attacking the journalist who broke the story), conservative ideology places individualism above community, meaning there […]