The CTV headline screams: Harper to be investigated by ethics commissioner Ah yes, Bernard Shapiro the Liberal appointee whose resignation has been demanded by no less than Ed Broadbent after Shapiro was found in comtempt by a House of Commons…
(For a review of my previous musings on the Ben Chin story please see this article) There are two accounts in the public record and the discrepancy between the two has not been clarified. The first account (source): I moved to East York as a 13 year…
Last night, after attending a Ontario Liberal Party event, Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty called for the federal senate to be abolished because Ontario is not adequately represented in Canada’s Upper House. “My preference is that we eliminate the…
Ben Chin is known to most 416/905ers as a former television personality and news host for Citytv in Toronto. Chin’s now running for the Ontario Liberals in a by-election for the riding of Toronto-Danforth after the provincial seat was vacated by NDP…
Today, Stephen Harper pick for Supreme Court Justice faces a Parliamentary ad-hoc committee and this reflects our Prime Minister’s election promise to bring more transparency and accountiblility to government. Justice Marshall Rothstein must feel…
Today Stephen Harper announced that his nominee for the Supreme Court of Canada will be Marshall Rothstein. Rothstein was previously on the Federal Court of Appeal. I really like what Harper is doing with this new transparent process. Most Canadians…
I really think that Stephen Harper is reaching out past the 36% of voters that gave him a minority mandate on January 23rd. Those who know him say that he’s all about the long game and that while he’s a “policy wonk”, he calculates each move. Ladies…
“The nominee that we put forward will be satisfactory to the government. Judicial temperament means, in my view, that when someone’s a judge, they’re prepared to apply the law rather than make it and that they apply it in a way that uses common…
In his continued efforts to make a case for a majority government to the people of Canada, Stephen Harper announced today that he will make the appointment process of Supreme Court justices more transparent. The Judicial Survivor will be immune to…
When did we lose our nerve in the worldwide progression towards freedom? To be sure, in our self-anointed paragonal society, the controversy over the Muhammad cartoons has even made us introspective about our own fundamental freedoms. The University…
