Cornwall ON – As election rhetoric heats up we are being flooded by ads on TV for Canada’s Economic Action Plan. Like most propaganda it’s pushing a lot of buttons, but is there any substance to this plan? For most Canadians the answer is a resounding no. Sure,Continue Reading
Dear Editor, The recent disingenuous response by Dimitri Soudas, director of communications in Stephen Harper’s PMO, to public outrage concerning the replacement on government documents of “The Government of Canada” by “The Harper Government” is self-serving partisan politics, an abuse of the term. Within parliament the government is the primeContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – The next Canadian federal election is always cropping up in news stories, with a general theme that the only reason we have not had one long ago is that the three main opposition parties do not want one. The Liberal party is seemingly leaderless and has soContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – Prime Minister Harper, along with local MP and PMO spokesman for Sport Gary Lunn are taking the threat from Elizabeth May and the Green Party seriously. With an election possible at any time, every riding is important to Harper in his quest for reelection and his effortContinue Reading
Ottawa ON – The latest rumour de jour is that the Liberals will try a snap nonconfidence motion before the Conservatives can deliver their budget. This is an interesting thought, but it is very high risk. Such a move reflects the desperation of the Liberals to try to get backContinue Reading
Ottawa ON – Parliamentarians often lament the lack of interest that Canadians have in the political affairs of the nation. This past week offers a glimpse as to why that might be the case. I would suggest that some of the most talked about issues of concern to Canadians thisContinue Reading
Dear Editor, Sixty-seven conservative candidates knowingly submitted false statements to Elections Canada, including 10 conservative members of parliament. . The matter has been tried in court and they have been found guilty by the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal for falsifying returns. . The appropriate legal remedy for violating theContinue Reading
Cornwall ON- We get a lot of content sent to us; letters to the editor, press releases, and all sorts of information. Today this arrived from the Progressive Canadian Party calling The Harper Conservatives on the recent Election’s Canada censures. LINK “An Ottawa Citizen investigation found 50 Conservative candidates claimedContinue Reading
Ottawa ON – It must be a bit embarrassing these days for those who have been criticizing the Conservative’s purchase of new military equipment. As the situation in Libya deteriorates and Gadhafi counters the efforts of the population to remove him, western powers must now consider if they will useContinue Reading
Dear Editor, Why should Canada bail out the F-35 Money Pit? Of little use in Canada’s airspace, the F-35 is described by US aerospace analysts as “too big to fail”. In January, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said the F-35B “should be cancelled” if the costly delays of theContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – In 2007, the federal government sought the collaboration of the provinces and territories to keep Canadian industry competitive by driving down business taxes. The plan would have seen combined federal and provincial/territorial corporate income tax rates drop to about 25% by 2013, one of the lowest taxContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – Maybe it’s the timing? CBC is doing a special on the G 20 and what happened to hundreds of Canadians last year at the hand of Police at the G20. That event changed my perspective about media and working in the media. You see IContinue Reading
Ottawa ON – The latest round of political opinion polls has a message for the opposition parties-focus on what matters to Canadians. While the so called Bev Oda scandal allows opposition politicians to hyperventilate with outrage in Ottawa and the media and political pundits are beside themselves over how notContinue Reading
Ottawa ON – The $13 billion budgetary surplus the Conservatives inherited when they took office in 2006 is gone. It has been replaced with a $56 billion deficit, the largest deficit in our history, and the Parliamentary Budget Officer is projecting that the government will add more than $200 billion in new debt byContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – Cornwall Regional Task Force (CRTF) along with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) have seized approx 1800 pounds of frozen poultry product which was smuggled into Canada from the USA. The investigation, which included the execution of a search warrant at a local Cornwall residence, is ongoingContinue Reading
Ottawa ON – It was almost obscene watching 116 Tory MPs and cabinet minister’s blitzing the country this past week bragging about how much of our taxpayer’s money they have spent. On one day alone some 70 MPs announced roughly a quarter of a billion dollars worth of spending. And,Continue Reading
Cornwall ON – The Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry Federal NDP riding association nominated community activist Mario Leclerc as their candidate for the next federal election at their nomination meeting on Feb. 23 at the Navy Veterans Club in Cornwall. Leclerc, a resident of Cornwall, is employed by Service Canada in Cornwall asContinue Reading
Dear Editor, The “Alerte-Info-Alert-bot memo about the situation involving International Development Minister Bev Oda, who stands accused by her political opponents of the serious charge of lying to Parliament” *.placed in the hands of Conservative M.P’s included the statement, “We stand by Minister Oda and her decision not to provideContinue Reading