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Responding to accusations that maybe Jim Flaherty shouldn’t have spent $3,000 for a double-double hours after talking about belt tightening, John Baird shot back: [Baird] also accused Mulcair of having something “against Tim Hortons” which he called “un-Canadian.” This is in addition to other positions deemed “un-Canadian” by this government, such as wanting to know […]

Jim Flaherty’s budget speech: GOVERNMENT EXPENSES Canadian families and businesses have accepted the need for restraint. Fairness requires that government too should have to keep costs under control. Later that day… OTTAWA — A day after Finance Minister Jim Flaherty promoted government restraint to balance the budget, he reportedly spent $3,100 of taxpayers’ money to […]

It’s not good enough for Danny Williams, but the Canadian Health Care system does have one supporter: Palin notes irony of using Canada health careBy DAN JOLING (AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin has been no friend lately of socialized health care. She has criticized Canada’s system, saying it should be dismantled in favor of […]

John Baird, on the Ottawa West-Nepean by election: “We got the message out on the impact of HST,” Ottawa West-Nepean Conservative MP John Baird said. “With 28 days, no one gave this party, no one gave Tim Hudak, and no one gave Beth Graham a chance at winning.” And which message would that be John? […]

From Jim Flaherty’s budget preamble: A year before the crisis, we saw the risk of a slowdown. It originated outside our borders, but we knew it would eventually affect us. I guess you just had to read between the lines: September 15, 2008: “My own belief is if we were going to have some kind […]

Yesterday’s throne speech was merely the appetizer for today’s banquet dinner. Throne speeches are by their very nature vague (as are opposition parties when they vaguely criticize throne speeches for being too “vague”). The main objective of a throne speech is to illustrate the government’s direction, but this becomes far less important when we get […]

…Stephen Harper is offering Canadians…wait for it…SENIOR’S DAY! From today’s throne speech: • In recognition of the contributions seniors make to society, our Government will support legislation establishing Seniors Day.

Immigration Minister pulled gay rights from citizenship guide, documents show Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney blocked any reference to gay rights in a new study guide for immigrants applying for Canadian citizenship, The Canadian Press has learned. Internal documents show an early draft of the guide contained sections noting that homosexuality was decriminalized in […]

The Mark publishes a cross-partisan look at 14 ways to save Canada. I’ll give a thumbs up to David Suzuki’s plea for a comprehensive strategy to tackle climate change (hell, even a half-ass strategy would look good by comparison to what we’ve seen over the past decade) and Michael Geist’s plea for a comprehensive strategy […]

I went to a riot and a street hockey game broke out…