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Post by clone on Mar 19, 2011 9:06:35 GMT -8
Growing chorus of vocal MDs a headache for Tories March 19, 2011 No, Mr. Premier, this issue will not die A Calgary psychiatrist, an Edmonton anesthetist and a University of Alberta professor added their voices this week to a growing chorus of doctors who say their careers were threatened after they publicly spoke out about problems in the health system. More than half a dozen doctors have made public allegations of intimidation since Independent MLA Raj Sherman raised the issue two weeks ago in the legislature. Sherman alleged some doctors, including himself in 1999, were intimidated and some forced to leave the provinces or paid to stop complaining. www.edmontonjournal.com/health/Growing+chorus+vocal+headache+Tories/4470471/story.html
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Post by clone on Mar 22, 2011 4:16:24 GMT -8
Information watchdog wants tougher bite Last Updated: Mar 21, 2011 8:33 PM ET Read 11 comments Canada's federal information commissioner says she should have the ability to refer cases of wrongdoing involving a broader range of people, including political staff, directly to the RCMP. In an interview with CBC news after she testified before a Parliamentary committee on a different matter, Suzanne Legault told CBC News she wants the "ability to refer any instances, dealing with anyone to the appropriate law enforcement agency, as opposed to the attorney general." www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/03/21/pol-info-legault-report.html
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Post by clone on Mar 22, 2011 4:22:30 GMT -8
Some cost info released for Tory law-and-order agenda Last Updated: Mar. 16, 2011 11:01 PM ET Facing accusations of contempt of Parliament, the Tory government released the thick binder of notes that reveal over $600 million in new spending estimates associated with its heavy law-and-order agenda. ... Liberal finance critic Scott Brison criticized the government for providing last-minute information, calling it a “document dump” that was insulting to Canadians after f our months of refusing to provide the details. www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/politics/Some+cost+info+released+Tory+order+agenda/4452730/story.htmlcontempt: 1. the attitude or feeling of a person towards a person or thing that he considers worthless or despicable; scorn 2. ...
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Post by clone on Mar 25, 2011 4:55:50 GMT -8
Harper government's ad buy costs taxpayers $26M Sunday Mar. 13, 2011 2:35 PM ET OTTAWA — Taxpayers are shelling out $26 million over three months for all those Economic Action Plan ads the Harper government is airing on TV and radio. A marketing specialist says the outlay is more cash than a big advertiser like Procter and Gamble would spend in a year in Canada. www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110313/harper-ads-cost-economic-action-plan-110313/Ex-Tory MPs say they rejected ‘in-and-out’ financing scheme Thu Mar 03 2011 OTTAWA—Two former Tory MPs say they refused to join the party’s “in-and-out” election financing scheme, adding to the number of Conservatives who say they had misgivings about the system. www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/948626--ex-tory-mps-say-they-rejected-in-and-out-financing-schemeUK - Tory candidate caught using member of staff to pose as constituent... in leaflet about honesty - 28th December 2009 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1238900/Tory-candidate-Jacob-Rees-Mogg-red-faced-using-member-staff-pose-constituent-leaflet.htmlMP's newsletter just expensive advertising Jan 25, 2008 - 1:29 PM Now Helena has shown even more lack of judgment in this Green Party person's opinion by publishing the "Guide for Simcoe-Grey Winter 2008 4th Edition" which is really a thinly-disguised advertisement for herself. The front cover shows a picture of herself and a total of eight pictures of herself appear throughout the 16-page booklet. Let me ask the honourable member, just who paid for this advertisement sent to many tens of thousands of people in Simcoe-Grey? I bet the cost of the 16-page booklet and mailing it to everyone cost more than $50,000, and I bet the Canadian public paid for it. www.simcoe.com/simcoe/article/388366
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Post by clone on Mar 26, 2011 21:23:21 GMT -8
Resignation in part to avoid nasty election campaign Updated: January 26, 2011 6:26 AM He fingered the Tories’ main political rival on the right, the Wildrose Alliance, as one of the reasons he is going. He expected operatives to come at him this year with attack ads and gutter politics. www.albertalocalnews.com/news/Resignation_in_part_to_avoid_nasty_election_campaign_114640919.html---------------------------- Calgary’s Naheed Nenshi becomes Canada’s first Muslim mayor Last updated Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010 10:31AM EDT The 38-year-old Mr. Nenshi survived a smear campaign and a telephone failure in the crucial final days and hours, before running away with what was to be a close vote... Watching the returns of Mr. McIver closely were Mr. Harper’s Conservatives. The party’s veteran campaign duo of Sam Armstrong and Devin Iversen led Mr. McIver’s push. Along with Rob Anders, they’re credited as being experts in “deep mining” polling – identifying a conservative base, finding wedge issues, and driving those people to the polls. www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/calgarys-naheed-nenshi-becomes-canadas-first-muslim-mayor/article1762765/page2/
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Post by bye on Mar 27, 2011 20:05:16 GMT -8
Parliamentary law bars Harper from re-election. Found guilty of a culture of abuse of Parliament Sunday, March 27th, 2011 On Friday March 25, 2011 the Canadian House of Commons found Prime Minister Stephen Harper guilty of contempt of Parliament. According to parliamentary law, contempt of parliament is a federal crime. Being that Harper has been found guilty of a crime Harper is barred from seeking re-election on May 2, 2011. No federal government or cabinet minister has ever been found in contempt before. The vote by the Canadian House of Commons is very much the same as an impeachment of the president of the United States of America. presscore.ca/2011/?p=1980
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Post by clone on Mar 28, 2011 4:01:33 GMT -8
RCMP Watch Who is keeping them accountable? RCMP under investigation for non-probe of Tory eavesdropping David Akin, Ottawa (Canwest News Service) – The RCMP are under investigation for the way it handled a politically sensitive file last spring. The Commission for Public Complaints Against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police opened the investigation after the federal NDP complained that RCMP officers did not perform a thorough investigation of a politically embarrassing eavesdropping incident connected to the aborted Liberal-NDP coalition government of last winter. www.rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-under-investigation-for-non-probe-of-tory-eavesdropping/
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Post by clone on Mar 30, 2011 0:05:36 GMT -8
Erring on the side of ignorance Or is it fear ruling Alberta’s wildlife rehabilitation program? Published March 24, 2011 Bats, skunks, deer mice, raccoons, toads, salamanders and frogs (other than the threatened leopard frog) are to be immediately terminated by the very people who a year ago would have nursed them back to health and set them free. Large mammals, such as bears (both black and grizzly, the latter a threatened species), bighorn sheep, bison, bobcats, caribou (also threatened), cougars, coyotes, elk, lynx, moose, mountain goats and wolves are not to be rehabilitated under any circumstances. Instead, they are to be turned over to Alberta’s Fish and Wildlife Department within 72 hours, presumably for termination with extreme prejudice... The award-winning Cochrane Ecological Institute alone has released to the wild more than 8,000 injured/orphaned animals since 1971, including now-verboten moose, bighorn sheep, elk, bobcats, lynx, coyotes, 847 endangered swift foxes and countless orphaned black bear cubs... Next door in British Columbia, wildlife rehabilitators are licensed by the provincial government and allowed to rehabilitate and release into the wild everything from voles to grizzly bears. ... How did the Alberta government’s rationale stack up against what appears to be a significant and growing body of evidence indicating that rehabilitating wild animals and returning them to the wild is not only ethical, it’s also safe and effective? Well, in a word: poorly. SRD spokesperson Dave Ealey could not provide me with any written rationale for the decision... If you’re not overwhelmed with confidence at Ealey’s response, neither is Beecham, a 29-year veteran with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. The Alberta government has “no scientific rationale for this approach,” he told me in a recent email. “The best you can say is that it is a weak rationale for an action that is totally out of date. Apparently, they prefer to remain in the 19th century in terms of how they respond to public demand for more responsible wildlife management. This is especially unfortunate, given the status of their brown bear populations.” www.ffwdweekly.com/article/news-views/viewpoint/erring-on-the-side-of-ignorance-7208/
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Post by clone on Mar 30, 2011 0:14:05 GMT -8
Edmonton election volunteer investigated by RCMP Last Updated: March 29, 2011 4:36pm Earlier this month, the RCMP said it's reviewing the results of an investigation by Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault into the activities of [Sebastien] Togneri, a former aide to Christian Paradis while Paradis was minister of public works. www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2011/03/29/17798611.html
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Post by clone on Mar 30, 2011 0:32:01 GMT -8
"They always tell you - I don't know why they tell you this, they certainly don't tell you this to build you up - but you (Conservatives) could run a red dog or a bale of hay in this riding and get elected," [Lethbridge, outgoing Tory MP Rick] Casson said in an interview. "The local candidate matters somewhat but mostly it's the leader and the party policey." www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Outgoing+Tory+says+time+blood/4508061/story.htmlLet's just acclaim the lot. Why have elections at all.
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Post by clone on Mar 30, 2011 1:04:05 GMT -8
Here we are. Contempt of Parliament.
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Post by clone on Mar 30, 2011 1:46:53 GMT -8
The Bruce Carson show March 28, 2011 3:13pm The PMO’s one-time Mr. Fixit once considered jumping ship to the Liberals On the chilly autumn evening of Sept. 27, 2010, a gaggle of current and former Conservatives gathered at Ottawa’s Hy’s Steakhouse, the clubby respite of choice for many politicians and their hangers-on. Chief among them: Jim Prentice, then the federal environment minister, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, former Conservative cabinet minister Monte Solberg and party strategist Geoff Norquay. The next day would be all business: Stelmach was set to share the stage with Quebec Premier Jean Charest at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce to deliver a steadfast defence of the Alberta oil sands development. This night was social, and tongues loosened—a little too literally in one case, as far as some attendees were concerned. At one of the tables pulled together for the occasion sat Bruce Carson, long-time Parliament Hill fixture and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s one-time “indispensable right-hand man,” as Conservative insider Tom Flanagan recently described him. The 65-year-old was there with Michele McPherson, a 22-year-old former escort whom he had introduced as his girlfriend. It was jarring enough for several guests present that McPherson wasn’t dressed for the occasion—”the skirt a little too short and a little too tight,” said one person in attendance—or that Carson was dating a woman roughly the same age as Carson’s own daughter; worse still, the pair couldn’t keep their hands off each other throughout the meal. “People were taken aback” at the display, says the attendee. www2.macleans.ca/2011/03/28/the-carson-show-2/
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Post by clone on Mar 30, 2011 2:06:26 GMT -8
Alberta's Hired Gun in Washington March 29, 2011 He also worked closely with the Canadian embassy and Alberta's Washington office, crafting lobbying campaigns and helping set up meetings with Senators and their staffs... Meet Paul Frazer, the high-powered lobbyist paid by the province to portray an oil sands industry striving to be green. Latest in a series. Alberta's lobbying pitch was not merely being sold in Washington though. Wherever a clean energy law targeting the oil sands was proposed in states across America, the province's former U.S. representative, Gary Mar, intervened. He did so with the help of Canadian consulates across the country. Those satellites of northern influence helped him gain access to state legislatures and their representatives, Frazer says. Mar -- who's now running for Alberta premier -- spoke out against clean energy laws in Wisconsin, Maryland, Pennsylvania and at least nine other states.Direct line to Harper: Paul Frazer, Alberta's hired oil sands lobbyist in Washington D.C.thetyee.ca/News/2011/03/29/AlbertasHiredGun/Europe moves to ban imports of tar sands oil from Canada - 29th March, 2011 An attempt to classify tar sands oil as more environmentally-damaging than conventional oil would effectively ban its sale within European Member States www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/829665/europe_moves_to_ban_imports_of_tar_sands_oil_from_canada.html
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premier stelmach lol
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Post by premier stelmach lol on Mar 31, 2011 23:17:37 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Mar 31, 2011 23:21:16 GMT -8
Lots of Harper with the kids. What a friendly fucker.
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