I almost let this story slip by: OTTAWA–Literacy — it’s all about reading, writing and getting your story straight. Or so it seemed this week in Ottawa. On Monday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government axed $17.7…
Sad news struck the Conservative and general political community this weekend as it heard the tragic news of the death of Peter Naglik, a committed political activist. From the many discussions with a number of the…
This weekend, I find myself in Calgary for the Calgary Congress put on by the Citizens Centre for Freedom and Democracy. The conference is a discussion on Renewing the Federation, filled particularly with discussion on…
(please also read my previous post for more background) The Globe and Mail has been caught in error about Stockwell Day and RCMP Commissioner Zaccardelli. From the Public Safety committee meeting today in Parliament…
The Globe and Mail wrote a piece yesterday about the O’Connor ruling regarding the deportation and torture in Syria of Maher Arar. The article meant to be topical, however, the author Jeff Sallott (with files from…
Yesterday in the House, Derek Lee, the Liberal MP for Scarborough-Rouge River had a few choice words for the 60 Canadian border guards that walked off the job in the face of an armed American that was on his way to the…
We interrupt news and views of the Liberal Party of Canada leadership campaign (and the trainwreck of a continuous news release that is Joe Volpe taking money from kids and membership applications from the dead) to…
In 1937, Tommy Douglas said the following before Parliament: “Against whom are we arming? What potential aggressor is more aggressive today? Oh, I know that bogeymen have been trotted out in this chamber. It has been…
Last week, tragedy struck the West-end Montreal CEGEP Dawson college as an individual opened fire and killed one young woman and wounded a number of other students. It would seem that he was driven by hate and perhaps…
The House of Commons reconvenes today for the fall and there are a lot of topics on the horizon. For those of us who are tired of hearing the same questions, Softwood lumber has thankfully been removed from the agenda…
