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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Severed Foot Sent to CPC HQ Contained Note Warning of More Killings

Police are looking for Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, in connection with the discovery of body parts in Ottawa and Montreal.

Now subject for a world-wide manhunt, prime suspect for the severed body pieces sent to the Conservatives and Liberals, Luka Rocco Magnotta allegedly left a note in the severed foot warning of more killings to come.

Bev Oda secretive about her waste of tax dollars

International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda visited a refugee camp in Kenya last July. In recent weeks, her office has refused to explain why or how the amounts for expenses filed by the minister and her staff for that trip, and others, were amended from the original amounts.International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda’s office refuses to tell the Canadian people whether she has repaid the waste she charged Canadian tax payers for last Summer during her trip to London. While in London, Oda put Canadians on the tab for inappropriate travel costs, lavish hotel expenses, and chauffeured car service.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Human Remains Sent to Tory and Grit HQ

A police officer removes a package containg a human foot from the Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa May 29. The body part was mailed from Montreal, police said. Conservative Party headquarters made a gruesome discovery yesterday when a package delivered to them contained a severed foot. Police found a second package which was addressed to the Liberal Party Headquarters – this one containing a hand. Police believe the parts came from a body they found in Montreal and there is a nation-wide warrant for Luka Rocco Magnotta’s arrest.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Tories to Shut Down F-35 Probe

F35 Canada InvestigationThe only public investigation into mistakes made by the Conservatives in the F-35 purchase are set to be shut down, leaving questions pertaining to the $10 billion price gap found by the Auditor General unanswered and the acquisition further into the hands of secrecy.

Monday, May 28, 2012

Etobicoke Case to go to Supreme Court

Conservative Ted Opitz, left, is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to uphold his victory in the May 2011 election in Etobicoke Centre. Defeated Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyj, right, challenged the results in court and won, forcing an automatic byelection in the Toronto riding unless Opitz appealed. The Conservatives appealed the court ruling which effectively overthrew last year’s election results in Etobicoke which saw Conservative Ted Opitz win by a narrow 26-vote margin over Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyj due to irregularities.

Conservatives to Force CP Rail Back to Work

 The Conservatives have tabled legislation to force striking Canadian Pacific Rail workers to go back to work. Negotiations broke on Sunday and 4,800 locomotive engineers and conductors have been on strike since Wednesday, shutting down all freight traffic across the country.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Harper’s Afghanistan War Ends in 2014

The war that Stephen Harper pushed forward throughout his term is coming to an end and based on his body language, he became bored with it. Let us be reminded of how much effort and time Harper put into this war.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Harper: Canada to fund Afghan Army

Shah Marai/AFP/Getty ImagesCanadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has told NATO that Canada will help fund the $4.1 billion per year price tag to building the post-2014 Afghanistan army, the amount of which will be said on Monday, after his NATO meetings in Chicago. So much for accountable financing…

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Robocall Scandal: Etobicoke Center Nulled

Conservative Ted Opitz, left won the May 2011 election in Etobicoke Centre by 26 votes, but defeated Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyj, right, challenged the results over voting irregularities. A court challenge presented by former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj has been accepted today and the results of the last election that saw his seat upset to Conservative MP Ted Opitz by only 26 votes were declared null. The results were challenged due to voting irregularities.

Canadian Taxpayers Federation wants to Gut the GST on Gas

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says consumers save more at the pump when gas taxes are lower. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation claims that 21% of the price of gas is tax and is calling on the federal government to eliminate its additional layer to provincial taxes. The tax effects the daily commute, the price of transportation and the price of goods.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Retailers’ Greed Cost Canadian Economy $20bn

A shopper drags boxes of televisions through the aisles at Best Buy Black Friday last year. Canadians going to the U.S. to find retail bargains costs the Canadian economy at least $20 billion a year, BMO estimates.It is no surprise that Canadians are scurrying across the boarder. Go into most Canadian stores and look for the same products in the United States and you will realize that we have been gauged for some time.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

UN Slams Canada’s “Appallingly Poor” Food Record

UN envoy Olivier De Schutter: 'It’s even more shocking to me to see that there are 900,000 households in Canada that are food insecure and up to 2.5 million people precisely because this is a wealthy country. It’s even less excusable.'UN Food Envoy Oliver De Schutter blasted Canada for its widespread problem of food insecurity, stating that the country needs to drop its “self-righteous” attitude about how great a country it is. The UN person in charge of the right of food spent 11 days touring our nation as his first developed nation.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

EI Reforms Go Too Far

As part of the federal budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty decided to take a strong stance on EI, making it harder to get and forcing families to split and lose everything in order to get whatever job is available outside their region. Let’s remind Flaherty of how the system really works and why he really has no right to touch it – at all.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Libya cost 700% more than what we were told

A Canadian Forces CF-18 Hornet fighter jet taxis at the Birgi NATO Airbase in Sicily to enforce the no-fly zone over Libya.Defense Minister Peter Mackay’s cost estimate of Canada’s mission in Libya was 700% less than what it actually was. Canada paid close to $350 million for the war, quite a bit for a country that is dealing with economic constraint. None the less, above all, this reflects his honesty more than his management of taxpayer funds.

Old Port of Montreal CEO is Unapologetic

Claude Benoit, cheif executive of the Old Port of Montreal Corporation, appears at the Commons ethics committee in Ottawa on May 10, 2012. - Claude Benoit, cheif executive of the Old Port of Montreal Corporation, appears at the Commons ethics committee in Ottawa on May 10, 2012. | Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian PressTaxpayer-funded CEO of the Old Port of Montreal, Claude Benoit, is unapologetic over her use of taxpayer dollars for her personal trip to New Zealand. She wasted working days touring the waterfronts and museums of New Zealand and used her off days to board a cruise – all at our collective expense. During her trip, she did not meet with the heads of various institutions that she visited as part of her full-time job, instead, she took pictures. It is time we send a strong message to bureaucrats who intend to use our money for their gain.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Tories Linked to Quebec Construction Scandal

QuebecThe Quebec construction agency is under investigation for corrupt activities with the provincial government and Data Analysis has drawn a link between the companies being investigated and money flowing to Conservative party coffers.

Analysis: Mulcair Says Solution to Quebec Education Crisis is More Federal Funding

Protesters opposing tuition fee hikes demonstrate in Montreal, Monday, May 7, 2012. The sign readsNDP leader Thomas Mulcair said his party wants more federal funding for post-secondary education. Mulcair said that the demand was a criticism of the Harper government’s management of the Education portfolio and not an attempt to interfere with Quebec politics.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

The Conservative Economic Handbook

Did you ever wonder how we should be running the economy? Don’t worry, the Conservatives are here to make it clear and simple! Here are 10 steps to keeping a country’s economy in order and how to be financially prudent!

Robocall Scandal: Pierre Poutine Operated in Guelph Tory Campaign Office

Andrew Prescott worked as deputy campaign manager for Guelph Conservative candidate Marty Burke. An IP address used by Prescott to make legitimate campaign calls has been linked by Elections Canada to fraudulent robocalls in the riding, though no allegations have been made against Prescott.The Elections Canada has found that the misleading calls that targeted non-Conservative voters in the last election came from the same IP address (and thus same computer) as regular messages from the Guelph Tory campaign office.

Can you lend me a ride?

Rona Ambrose, (far left)Minister of Public Works and Government services and Minister for Status of Women; Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development (centre); Bev Oda, Minister of International Cooperation )far right). Ambrose's driver billed the government $40,074 for more than 1,000 overtime hours. Oda can under fire this month for limo rides she billed the government for that cost nearly $1000 per ay.

If the current amount of abuse of our money wasn’t enough, this government's baggage is about to get heavier. They say there is no money for pensions. They say there is no money for things that Canadians desire and need, but there is plenty of cash floating around for their perks.