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In another head shaking column by the Globe and Mail’s John Ibbitson, he somehow comes to the conclusion that although the country is moving further to the political right, Harper is being held back by the part of this same group?
If the poll he sites is correct and the political sentiment of the country is [...]
BC Blue | posted 44 minutes ago
In a case that exposes the glaring holes in Canada’s multibillion-dollar research system, researcher Daniel Kwok, who has collected almost $2 million federal grants and fellowships has never had to explain where $150,000 worth of big screen TVs, entertainment systems and high-end car rims went. (see story here)
BC Blue | posted 6 hours ago
Steven Chase of the Globe and Mail writes today: (see article here)
“The Harper government has always insisted it heard no warnings of torture risks facing Afghan detainees in 2006, but documents show that in the same year it was carefully following a NATO campaign to take responsibility for captured prisoners away from the country’s notorious [...]
BC Blue | posted 1 day ago
No wonder MP Vic Toews flipped out on a local Winnipeg columnist (see here) about the Rahim Jaffer coverage.
You have to feel for anyone having to put up with the obviously anti-Conservative Winnipeg newspapers. I knew that the Winnipeg Free Press was terribly biased but didn’t realize that the Winnipeg Sun employed the same overly [...]
BC Blue | posted 1 day ago
Adrian MacNair today in the National Post nails the reason why the Canadian Left and their media cronies will never be satisfied on the Afghanistan/Taliban fight:
- If we hand them off to Afghan authorities, as is proper, they say torture
- We take no prisoners, and shoot them all dead, they say inhuman
- We build a [...]
BC Blue | posted 2 days ago
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson apparently loves the idea of empowering police to conduct random breath tests and of course MADD is gaga with the idea of infringing on Canadian rights against unreasonable search and seizure.
I’ll support this unconstitutional legislation when federal politicians submit to random drug and alcohol screening during their work day at the [...]
BC Blue | posted 2 days ago
“Former Trinity-Spadina Liberal MP Tony Ianno will appear in front of the Ontario Securities Commission following allegations of illegal trading.”
The accusation is that he:
“manipulated the market for Covalon shares by raising or artificially maintaining their price.” (see story here)
Now I’ll patiently await David Akin and the like to start blogging, Tweeting about h
BC Blue | posted 3 days ago
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews came out swinging today at David Akin and Mia Robson for their pathetic attempt to link the Conservative’s with the favourable sentence of ex MP Rahim Jaffer.
Robson quoted Akin yesterday (here) trying to smear the judge in this case as being a politically appointed Conservative lap-dog. Akin was worse as [...]
BC Blue | posted 3 days ago
Don Martin from the National Post has a helluva lot of nerve to write about the optics of ex MP Rahim Jaffer getting off lightly: (see column here)
“the perception of political favouritism will not easily go away”
What a hypocrite…Martin just had a recent charge dropped which I’d be willing to bet was due to the [...]
BC Blue | posted 3 days ago
After fanning the flames that ex MP Rahim Jaffer got favourable treatment from a judge due to the judge’s political stripes, David Akin is now trying to do some damage control.
Earlier Akin sent these out on his Twitter account:
“Rahim Jaffer Judge Doug Maund was once Chief of Staff to former Tory minister Perrin Beatty”
“Rahim Jaffer [...]
BC Blue | posted 3 days ago
Remember how the media was so shocked how “toxic” the House of Commons was “being the worst in memory” etc.
The truth is that the media loves the faux outrage and asinine question period antics and even encourage the behaviour. Case in point is Canwest News’ David Akin today:
RT @davidakin Rahim Jaffer Judge Doug Maund [...]
BC Blue | posted 4 days ago
What braniac in the liberal war room thinks that asking for a full public inquiry into the Afghan detainee will do anything positive for the Liberal Party?
Did someone forget to tell Iffy that if there was any scandal, it was all done on the Liberals watch and that the Conservative’s fixed the prisoner transfer system? [...]
BC Blue | posted 5 days ago
Steve Janke had looked into the background of Dr Amir Attaran who alleges that detainees in Afghanistan were deliberately transferred so that torture could be used to extract information and that he has uncensored documents proving it and found out that Attaran happened to owe Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff a big favour for defending him [...]
BC Blue | posted 5 days ago
Dr Amir Attaran who alleges that detainees in Afghanistan were deliberately transferred so that torture could be used to extract information and that he has uncensored documents proving it, responds to how he got these documents and why he doesn’t release them.
Apparently it was from a FOI request but because they are so sensitive and [...]
BC Blue | posted 6 days ago
Adrian McNair finds some more interesting connections and earlier torture accusations from our good friend Dr Amir Attaran (see here) who alleges that detainees in Afghanistan were deliberately transferred so that torture could be used to extract information and that he has uncensored documents proving it.
Ottawa sure does seem to be a very small town [...]
BC Blue | posted 6 days ago
Steve Janke digs into the background of Dr Amir Attaranwho alleges that detainees in Afghanistan were deliberately transferred so that torture could be used to extract information and that he has uncensored documents proving it. (see CBC story here)
Janke finds out that the good doctor just happens to owe Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff a big [...]
BC Blue | posted March 6th
The BC Liberals have targeted the profits from both BC Hydro and ICBC to help pay for their own fiscal mismanagement.
The stealing of $778M from ICBC and $254M from BC Hydro comes straight out of the pockets of BC’s drivers and Hydro customers. The $778M would work out to be a reduction of $240 on [...]
BC Blue | posted March 6th
Apparently Naima Ahmed (who launched a human rights complaint) is “shocked” that she is considered a hard-line Islamist for wearing a niqab and looking away from men when she removes it:
“I’m just like any other person”
Just an average Canadian…(see story here)
BC Blue | posted March 5th
Showing just how left-wing school boards are even in the heartland of what is considered Conservative country, the morons on the Calgary Board of Education put forward Liberal PM Pierre Trudeau as a possible name for a new school.
Trustee Gordon Dirks:
“In the past the CBE has, over decades, named schools after Canadian prime ministers. Mr. [...]
BC Blue | posted March 5th
John Robson of the Ottawa Citizen wants some accountability from all the journalists but specifically the likes of the Globe and Mail’s Jeffrey Simpson, who wrote on February 3, 2007:
“There will remain denials about the IPCC report from the fringe … just as there are those who believe the Earth is flat.”
He also calls out [...]
BC Blue | posted March 5th
Ron Danderfer, who oversaw the province’s now $222-million eHealth initiative, is accused of allegedly demanding or accepting accommodation at a Kelowna condominium, along with income for his wife and potential post-retirement income for himself, in exchange for influencing government contracts and business to medical consultant Dr. Jonathan Burns. (see full story here)
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BC Blue | posted March 4th
The new BC Liberal budget is another step in the wrong direction for this government, in a series of wrong steps dating back to 2001. The new budget increases record spending, puts us on a path for record debt, and continues to confirm the myth that Gordon Campbell’s government runs a sound economy.
What this budget [...]
BC Blue | posted March 4th
Patrick Brethour coins the BC Liberal budget the “Gimmick Budget”as the Liberals resorted “to sleight-of-hand measures that create a distraction from the unfolding political debacle of the HST, and the future peril of a blow-out deficit.”
He points out that this budget does nothing to restore the terrible reputation of Finance Minister Colin Hansen due to [...]
BC Blue | posted March 4th
A compilation of verbosity somehow deemed worthy of being printed today in our nations newspapers:
- A Liberal Senator giving lessons on truthfulness. see here
- Thomas Walkom defending Israeli Apartheid Week. see here
- Once great writer Chantal Herbert,who has fallen apart lately, compares Harper’s term against Chretien’s and Mulroney’s. see here
- A Liberal riding presiden
BC Blue | posted March 3rd
In the “you got to be kidding me, this is news?” category, Jane Taber of the Globe and Mail blogs about the latest pathetic Liberal press release that complains about the title of the Conservative government’s throne speech. (see here)
This is even more pathetic than her giving credence to the lefty pap from The Mark [...]
BC Blue | posted March 3rd
Quebec Liberal candidate Nancy Charest doesn’t think too much of her leader Michael Ignatieff saying:
“I believe Mr. Ignatieff understands our realities but he doesn’t have the ability to give Quebec what it wants”
This was at goodbye party for ex-Liberal Quebec lieutenant Denis Corderre who quit in a huff due to Iffy’s “inner circle from Toronto”.
Charest [...]
BC Blue | posted March 2nd
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff asks:
“Is Parliament the sovereign or isn’t it? That’s a question that every Canadian can understand”
Seriously Iffy, do you really think all Canadians understand what the heck you are talking about? Is Iffy free lancing this stuff or is there a Liberal back room braniac who ca,me up with this loser of [...]
BC Blue | posted March 2nd
BC Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell is gearing up for the defense of his carbon tax on fossil fuels by dragging out the global warming bogey man as he says:.
“I think people are not looking at the big picture. We just had the warmest winter in over 100 years in Vancouver”
Must be budget day here in [...]
BC Blue | posted March 2nd
After reading Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff’s retch inducing op-ed in the Globe and Mail today (see here), it sure was nice to see Kelly McParland’s take on how the leaders of the parties showed their sporting knowledge and spirit during the Olympics.
McParland’s best line:
…Michael Ignatieff, as he watched the game at Stornoway, sipping a stiff [...]
BC Blue | posted March 1st
Must be great being able to demand things that you will never have to live up to like NDP Leader Jack Layton does.
The leader of the 4th party “is demanding that prime ministers lose the ability to prorogue parliament.” Love a socialist talking about democracy…
“The New Democratic Party will bring the voices of those millions [...]
BC Blue | posted February 28th
Check out NDP leader Jack Layton pushing the person’s arm out of his way so he can get seen on TV. What a media slut!
Thanks to Unambiguously Ambidextrous for the video
BC Blue | posted February 28th
Lorrie Goldstein writes today in his column why all the “defenders” of Canadian medicare didn’t raise a peep about Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams’s trip to have heart surgery in the US.
Can you imagine if it was PM Stephen Harper who had gone? (see column here)
BC Blue | posted February 28th
Beginning Monday, six Canadian university campuses will play host to an annual event known as Israeli Apartheid Week, where feminist, gay/lesbian and Arab groups organize anti-Jew errrr… Zionist events.
David Frum gives a good run-down on how the York University officials help this shameful “free speech” hatefest here.
Also: see Leonard Stern’s op-ed on it here
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BC Blue | posted February 27th
After a lengthy (and I’m sure very costly) legal battle between the Hutterites and the Alberta government, the court said that they have to abide by the same laws as everyone else who wishes to legally drive.
As if this should have even ever gone to court in the first place but it’s all about being [...]
BC Blue | posted February 27th
This is the link to the unedited version of article that ran yesterday in the National Post by Adrian McNair. McNair lays out the details of the scandal and links the Liberal insiders. (see full version here)
BC Blue | posted February 26th
Once again the Newfoundland Premier is deciding who gets access and what gets reported and the CBC meekly goes along with it. (see here)
Of course there was no media boycott and organized walk-out (see here) like they did against PM Stephen Harper. Funny how the media union picks and chooses the politicians it battles huh?
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BC Blue | posted February 26th
What a climb down for NDP MP Pat Martin who all of a sudden is saying he will help the Christian organization, Youth for Christ, build an inner city youth centre in Winnipeg.
This is from the guy who condemned this group last week (see here). Don’t expect to see Martin shovel-in-hand as his religious conversion [...]
BC Blue | posted February 26th
Am I the only one that finds the letter sent from a Charlottetown airport worker about Conservative MP Helen Guegis’ behaviour to Liberal MP Wayne Easter more than a little suspect?
Why would an Air Canada employee send a complaint letter such as this to a Liberal MP instead of through the proper company channels? It [...]
BC Blue | posted February 26th
A study done by the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy reports that provinces that receive equalization payments from the “Have” provinces (BC, Ontario and Alberta) shows that:
“Recipient provinces have more public servants, nurses, doctors, teachers and long-term care beds per capita than in the three major contributors to Confederation. Tuition at universities an
BC Blue | posted February 25th
Adrian McNair of the National Post does a nice break down on the BC Rail scandal and upcoming trial.
After 6 years of pre-trial stalling, the Basi/Virk trial is set for May and:
“For five weeks the government will be under the microscope, and this time there will be nowhere to hide. Mr. Campbell, who was re-elected [...]
BC Blue | posted February 25th
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