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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Finance Minister Uses Tax Money for Make Up
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty Charges the taxpayer $130 for beauty care products like Maybelline, Covergirl and Smashbox. A document from ...
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Harper Brought us Back into Mulroney’s Hole
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Conservative |
Economy |
Election |
Featured |
Government Mismanagement |
Harper |
Senate |
Spending |
Taxes
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In the May 2011 election, Harper won on the premise that he was a good economic manager and the media touted his management as supreme. Apar...
Saturday, January 28, 2012
MP Pension Plan: One of our Great Investments!
Accountability |
Bureaucracy |
Conservative |
Government Mismanagement |
Harper |
Pensions |
Rae |
Retirement
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In light of Harper’s “major transformations” to the pensions of ordinary Canadians , it is time we take a look at MP pensions. MPs are eligi...
Friday, January 27, 2012
Harper: “Our Government will Undertake Major Transformations”
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Economy |
Energy |
Gas |
Harper |
Natural Resources |
Oil |
Pensions |
Retirement |
Science |
Trade
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Harper announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland that his Conservative government would be bringing in “major transformatio...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
NDP: Tony Clement Should Turn Himself In
The NDP have disclosed documents that prove that Tony Clement had a say in how the $50 million G8 “slush fund” was managed . In response to ...
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Accountability,
Conservative,
G8/G20,
NDP,
Scandal
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Price of Harper’s Omnibus Crime Bill
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Crime |
Economy |
Families |
Harper |
Justice |
Ontario |
Population |
Taxes |
United States
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Harper’s omnibus crime bill is set to cost Ontario tax payers over $1 billion in increased police and correctional service costs. With this ...
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Crime,
Economy,
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Ontario,
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Harper Government Accepts Funds from American Interest Groups
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Environment |
Foreign Interests |
Harper |
Natural Resources |
Oil |
Scandal |
United States
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The Harper government has labeled and attacked opponents of the XL Keystone pipeline project on the premise that they received funding from ...
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Harper’s Alliance with EthicalOil and Sun Media
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Environment |
Featured |
Foreign Interests |
Harper |
Natural Resources |
Oil |
Scandal |
United States
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Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has been aided by external organizations in their effort to start the exploitation of the Alberta...
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Rae Popularity Surpasses Harper and NDP
Things are starting to look up for the Liberals. For the first time in a long time, a Liberal leader has managed to get a higher approval ra...
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Attack Ads,
Conservative,
Harper,
Liberal,
NDP,
Public Opinion,
Rae
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Advice and Caution for NDP Leadership Candidates
The NDP leadership race is soon coming to a close and they will crown one of 8 people as their new leader. The media has claimed a two-way ...
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Poll: No Link Between Income Gap and Corporate Profits
Canadians agree that the gap between the rich and poor is increasing but they aren’t buying that the cause is corporate profits. In fact, ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Looking onward to the 21st Century
Canada is entering the 21st century based on technology of the 1800s. Our education system is an assembly line. Our healthcare system assume...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Department of National Defense: People or Fancy New Office?
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Bureaucracy |
Conservative |
Department of National Defense |
Featured |
Government Mismanagement |
Spending
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The Department of National Defense is one of the departments slated for cuts as Harper searches for $4 billion in savings. However, as 2,100...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
NDP Takes Page From Tory Handbook
What do Lise St-Denis and Irwin Cotler have in common? Apart from being Liberal MPs, they have both been attacked by their opposition using ...
Monday, January 16, 2012
A Look at Conservative Cuts
The Conservatives like to claim that they shrink government size and spending. Like with Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulro...
Monday, January 16, 2012
Liberals Lay Framework for Bold New Red
While skeptics fought a reasoned fight against some of the Liberal Party’s new constitutional amendments, the party voted with sufficient nu...
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Conservative Logic Behind Healthcare: Revisited
In a previous post , I analyzed the main talking points of the Conservatives and found that a basic logic behind their proposed cuts in spen...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Quebec NDP MP Crosses Over to Liberals
Quebec NDP MP Lise St-Denis crossed over to the Liberals citing the party’s pragmatism and her belief that their values are the best suite...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Harper’s Office of Religious Freedom: Worth It?
Sometimes you have to wonder where the Conservatives find the money to afford their new initiatives while they preach austerity. The Conserv...
Monday, January 9, 2012
How Harper’s Past Views Apply Today
In the 1990s and up to 2004, Harper championed on being the small government, low tax advocate, among other more controversial stances. Howe...
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Bureaucracy,
Conservative,
Harper,
Senate
Monday, January 9, 2012
Harper: Largest Prime Minister’s Office in History
As if the House of Commons and senate wasn’t enough, the Prime Minister’s Office is the biggest in history. This comes as the Canadian econo...
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Canada School of Public Service: Should Be First to Cut
As a society and as a community, you would expect that your contribution through taxes would be allocated wisely and as government being a m...
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Harper Adds 7 More Senators–Biggest Government We’ve Ever Had
The Conservatives and their followers like to brag about how the Conservatives are small government, non-interventionist government. Before ...
Friday, January 6, 2012
Harper Government Quietly Purchasing Rescue Planes
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Economy |
Families |
Featured |
Government Mismanagement |
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Military
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The Harper Government is quietly looking into a $3.7 billion purchase of new search-and-rescue planes. When the idea was pitched 6 years ago...
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Conservatives and the Concept of Freedom and Government Intervention
The Conservatives scrapped census and the gun registry under one principle: freedom and privacy. The Conservatives deemed their decisions we...
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Abortion,
Conservative,
Featured,
Freedom,
Harper
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Hospital Mismanagement Comes under Scrutiny
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Conservative |
Government Mismanagement |
Harper |
Healthcare |
Liberal |
NDP |
Ontario
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When you think of healthcare funding, you will likely think that the money we spend goes directly to healthcare. Unfortunately, it doesn’t. ...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
A Changing Paradigm: How Terrorists won their war against Western Freedom and Democracy

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Crime |
Featured |
Foreign Affairs |
G8/G20 |
Harper |
Population |
Public Safety |
United States
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September 11, 2001 will never be forgotten. The day of the largest attack on democracy in modern times has been marked by that date. It is t...
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