They say the first budget of a majority government is always the harshest; it’s a time when the government can do whatever it likes without the fear of answering to voters in an upcoming election. That being said, the first Majority Conservative budget in a generation could have been worse, but it could have been much better. The Conservatives plan to cut $5.2 billion over the next few years in an attempt to balance the budget before the next election. I have no qualms…
Tag: Canada
Big Tobacco’s Big Mistake
Few corporate so called legal “persons” are as heartless a big tobacco. When it comes to crushing their opponents, there is no low they won’t stoop to in their legal tactics, or, for that matter, their threats of violence towards whistle blowers (see The Insider, a movie about former tobacco company executive Jeffrey Wigand) and others who dare cross them. So I guess I shouldn’t be surprising when they dispatch a army of high priced lawyers to a small claims court in Rimouski Québec with the intention of scaring the shit out of the plaintiff…
Canada’s Corporate Ambassadors
Canadian mining companies in South America, mineral companies in Africa or Asia, these entities have become de facto Canadian ambassadors, in some cases being the […]
One Down, Nine to Go: Quebec Will Limit the Clout of the Omnibus Crime Bill C10
From ItCouldGetWorse: Quebec has decided not to implement Harper’s Omnibus Crime Bill C-10. Will other provinces follow suit? Omnibusters can only hope…and plan to continue pushing the premiers…
NDP’s Pat Martin gets SLAPPed in the face by RackNine
Of the all the absurd recriminations of the past week regarding the now infamous Harper government robocalls situation, my personal favourite was this: RackNine (the hucksters who operated call centres for several Conservative election campaigns, but which is not currently under investigation) is suing Pat Martin and the NDP…
The Conning Cons
The rapidly unfolding Robocall scandal is rocking our nation’s capital and has become the main issue in Canadian politics virtually overnight. The scandal started about a week ago when Elections Canada suspected a Conservative operative used automated calls to suppress the opposition vote in Guelph, Ontario. The operator known as “Pierrre Poutine” used the robocalls to falsely state to would be Liberal/NDP voters that their polling station had changed…
Anonymous’ Actions Amount to Blackmail
The message from Anonymous to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews was chillingly simple: scrap C-30 (the perversely titled Protection of Children Act designed to enable the government access to the IP addresses of the nation without so much as a court order) or else they will continue with even more scandalous revelations about the minister’s checkered personal life being made public. On February, 22nd, they released another video through YouTube where they revealed more details about Toews’ mistress…
Reflections on the Student Strike: How We Devalued Our Education While Raising Tuition
Access to free education ought to be a fundamental human right. Across Canada, students have almost free public education up to the end of the secondary cycle, with some provinces offering subsidized options for post-secondary studies. Because we are a consumerist nation…
Eco-Terrorists and Pedophiles – Welcome to the New Canada!
According to our Conservative Government, members of other Canadian political parties are pedophiles and environmentalists are terrorists…welcome to the new Canada. As unbelievable as it sounds, Public Safety Canada listed environmentalists among other “issue-based domestic extremists” that could pose a threat to Canadians…
Flag Day Reflections on Idealism and Avoiding World War III
On the surface it may seem like this planet’s current crop of ‘influential’ political leaders is deliberately trying to sabotage voluntary, collaborative societal evolution by placing draconian restrictions on freedom of doubt, freedom of criticism, freedom of assembly and expression, let alone the freedom to openly question, dissent and oppose the status quo. All over the world…