If the Conservatives hoped that the Senate Scandal would distract voters from the missing $3.1 Billion tax dollar Scandal – IT WORKED!!

“That, in light of $3.1 billion of missing funds outlined in Chapter Eight of the 2013 Spring Report of the Auditor General of Canada, an order of the House do issue for the following documents from 2001 to the present,... Read More

So Called ‘Booming’ Saskatchewan (the home of publicly funded health care) FAILS In Health Care Performance

(Click on image to enlarge … )Saskatchewan is the home of publicly funded healthcare in Canada. Unfortunately, under the stewardship of Premier Brad Wall and his right leaning Saskatchewan Party administration, public health care performance has fallen to an embarrassing... Read More

$90,000

It appears to be the magic right wing scandal number right now.  It’s the amount Stepen Harper’s chief of staff surreptitiously paid to a sitting Senator in order to stonewall an embarrassing audit.And now its the amount the Alberta Wildrose... Read More

Saskatchewan Senator David Tkachuk Has Long History With Corrupt Conservative Governments …

In the dying days of the corrupt Conservative administration of Brian Mulroney, David Tkachuk was named as a senator from the province of Saskatchewan. His patronage reward of appointment to the undemocratic, unelected Senate was due to his may years... Read More

He Committed Fraud – Senator Nancy Ruth

Contrast these comments on Senate scandal… Senator Nancy Greene Raine – It’s okay to have the same people review Senator Duffy’s expenses and its okay to do it behind closed doors. Senator Nancy Ruth – "In my opinion (Senator Duffy) committed fraud."... Read More

Bill C-377 has Alberta Senator Seething!

Last December (2012) the Harper Conservative government passed Bill C-377.  The bill is nothing more than an attempt by non-union contractors to harass and create added costs on unions in their lifetime pursuit to eliminate unions. From Rabble.ca Well, there we have it. The... Read More

For Heaven’s Sake!

Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto continues the game of playing at being Mayor of a big city. Faced with numerous scandals over his term and a video that may show him smoking crack, The Mayor fires his chief of staff today. You... Read More

The Harper Government’s War On Science – an excellent chronology

From Science Blogs – The Canadian War On Science: A Long Unexaggerated, Devastating Chronological Indictment by John Dupuis. Excerpt: This is a brief chronology of the current Conservative Canadian government’s long campaign to undermine evidence-based scientific, environmental and technical decision-making.... Read More

The Rob Ford Scenarios

So what are the possible explanations for the infamous Rob Ford video. Rob Ford says it is just ridiculous, but beyond that he offers no explanation. So we are left to our own speculation. But there must be some explanation... Read More

Don’t insult us

The most rigid control freak running the most hierarchical top down PMO, controlling the most micro-managed government in Canadian history and we’re supposed to believe Harper’s chief of staff short-circuited Puffy’s embarrassing audit with a thick wad of cash WITHOUT Harper’s... Read More

– The Harpranos –

(Canada’s newest mob show is dominating the entertainment ratings)  (Click on images above to enlarge …)No one is producing better graphic representations of the Harper/Conservative/Senate Scandal than Simon from the Montreal Simon blogsite. Kudos sir!! ... Read More

Don’t let the Conservative government re-write history

Dear friends,Despite millions spent on 1812 ads and their self-proclaimed appreciation of history, Conservatives are actually attacking our history, at museums, archives, and national historic sites.After nearly destroying Library and Archives, the government is now about to “reform” the Canadian... Read More

Voter Turnout in British Columbia

The numbers from BC are quite underwhelming: Greens fell by 4,000; Libs lost 28,000 votes, and the NDP fell by 48,000. Clearly, people who actually vote are dying off rapidly:The Green Party: 2001 197,231 votes 2005 161,849 2009 134,570 2013 130,471... Read More

–Harper Completely Sidesteps PMO / Senate Scandal – Today marks the beginning of the end of his government …

Stephen Harper’s speech to his Caucus isn’t going to work out very well for the Conservatives in the long run.Here’s how the emergency Conservative Caucus meeting went this morning:1) Harper invited the Parliamentary Press Gallery into the Caucus room for... Read More

Synopsis of BC Election Result: We Should Have Known

{The following has been submitted for publication in the Omineca Express and Anahim-Nimpo Messenger–MC}I accept my share of humble pie for not predicting the re- election of the B.C. Liberals on May 17, 2013.  While I saw the narrowing gap... Read More

‘One Thing Leads To Another’ – How Stephen Harper Single Handedly Created The Current Senate Scandal ..

When Stephen Harper decided to add Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy to Canada’s unelected, undemocratic Senate, he started in motion a series of events that has ultimately become an ugly, nasty political scandal.For starters, neither Duffy nor Wallin qualified for... Read More

Stephen Harper Is Far Too Sleazy, Corrupt And Dishonest To Be Straight With Canadians About The Senate Scandal ….

-Stephen Harper is never going to be honest with Canadians about the sleaze that is oozing out of his political administration.-There isn’t even any point in the RCMP investigating the Senate scandal because the leadership of the RCMP is in... Read More

Nigel Wright, Adrian Dix are this Week’s Unexpected Losers

Nigel Wright and Adrian Dix are both people that I have written about, in a generally critical vein. But neither of them are people who I expected to flame out spectacularly in the ways that they did during this past... Read More

During the 2011 Federal Election Senator Wallin Defended Her Conservative Party Campaign Fundraising Activities. Here’s What She Said …

The following email was sent by Senator Pam Wallin to Postmedia News on April 15, 2011:I am in Saskatchewan supporting our MP’s who are seeking re-election. The NDP opposes the existence of the Senate so any comments or criticism they... Read More

Senate’s Internal Economy Board Removed Damning Findings From Sen. Duffy’s Audit Report Before It Was Tabled In The Senate

The Conservative Senate Crisis continues unabated …. “The Senate’s internal economy committee sanitized the original audit of Sen. Mike Duffy’s expenses to remove damning findings, documents obtained by CTV News show. A confidential report obtained by CTV’s Ottawa Bureau Chief... Read More