Steven Harper sells Canadian Wheat Board to Saudis

and Canadian farmers down the river


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Taking lessons from the STASI?

Not content with silencing its scientists, Harper Government imposes new 'code of conduct' on Federal Librarians that includes 'duty of loyalty' and a snitch-line


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Can we say cronyism, ladies and gentlemen? Can we say corruption? Can we say rewarding one's friends?

A mere four and a half months into their majority government, the Harper Government hoists its true colours - the real Joly Roger.

The federal government is paying a high-powered management consultant firm almost $90,000 a day for advice on how ( Read more... )

Jack Layton's positive campaign bears unexpected fruit

(Originally posted at True North Perspective.)

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Kim Campbell's revenge


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It's not easy being Green
For Elizabeth May, it's debata-vue all over again

Tuesday was a good news/bad news sort of day for the Green Party.

On the one hand, Elizabeth May's band of political upstarts lost their bid to have the Federal Court make an emergency ruling giving her a seat at the table for next week's televised leaders' debates.

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Peter Watts, arguably the best hard science fiction writer in the game today, thinks my analysis of the recent G20 imbroglio "makes a scary kind of sense" and quotes me fairly extensively to explain why he does.

I don't know that I should admit to being more pleased by this recognition than I was when I received a cheque from the Globe and Mail ( Read more... )