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I want to add my voice to those of other Saskatchewan bloggers who are shaking their heads in wonder at a poster being circulated for a Saskatchewan Party fundraiser:
-Accidental Deliberations
-Humble Opinion

This poster is from the constituency represented by Saskatchewan's current Environment Minister, ...">                              

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     'unfettered free market', Haiti must have seemed like an absolute paradise before the recent earthquake!

-No regulation on business,
-No welfare
-No Old Age pension plan,
-No unemployment insurance programs,
-No public health care programs,
-No public education (to speak of),
-Almost no income taxation,
-Almost no corporate taxation
-No occupational health and safety regulation
-Small limited government
-No Worker's Compensation plan

... and yet, the main flaw in the ideology of 'unfettered free markets' is that when they fail ... it always takes public/'social' dollars to rescue the situation and clean up the mess.


-If The Free Market System Works So Bloody Well - Why Does The Corporate Sector Always Seem...">                              

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     that's called DICTATORSHIP!!">                              

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     -Ottawa Citizen

(Even a former chief of staff and friend to Harper is speaking out about his recent actions) .....

Tom Flanagan: "Well, you know, it actually doesn't make much sense to me. The market just in this past year had, I think, its greatest increase in a single year, and that was in, during a minority government. I don't think the antics of politicians have actually t...">                              

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     distorting it even further. The misquotes and lies are just par for the course for global warming deniers.
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"When a government starts trying to cancel dissent , or avoid dissent, is frankly when it's rapidly losing its moral authority to govern."
Stephen Harper
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"It is as if the Conservatives were bent on proroguing, not just Parliament, but intelligent discussion of any kind"
Andrew Coyne

"Parliamentary scrutiny may be tedious, but democracies cannot afford to dispense with it."
The Economist

Encourage everyone you know to stand up to this evil bastard by joining the facebook group!...">                              

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     stomp on the rights of their customers just because Canada was embarrassed by the Yes Men.

The Canadian government managed to temporarily wipe out 4,500 personal and small business Web sites last month as it frantically grappled with a climate change hoax by the Yes Men, enlisting the national cybersecurity agencies of Canada and Germany in the process, a Danish web hosting company and the Yes Men tell TPMmuckraker.

Yes Man Mike Bonanno, on...">                              

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What is wrong with Jason Kenney? Does he really believe the crap that comes out of his mouth or is he too stupid to understand what 'anti-semetic' means?

In Kenney's world, anyone who disagrees with the Government of Israel is obviously 'anti-semetic'. How idiotic is that?

Mr. Kenney, many Jews do not recognize the State of Israel ... are they 'anti-semetic'?

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Believe it or not, some of our more insane fellow citizens want this guy to be Canada's next Governor General!

-Is Don Cherry preaching the wrong hockey message - The Star">                              

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     spoof press release claiming that Canada had put forward serious greenhouse gas emission reductions made fot a nice enough topic of conversation.

But isn't it usually a sound rule that proper satire has to have at least some basis in reality? And isn't the prospect of the Cons actually offering up the spoof targets somewhere in the range of "alien invasion causes recession and Tiger Woods' infidelity" on the plausibility spectrum?

Update: And this is why I need to remember to read CC before posting snark.">                              

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I love this pic. I think Noam does as well.
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     stealing the NDP's plan on pensions: people, don't sell the NDP's plan short like that. Yes, both plans deal with pensions and include some form of relief for workers whose employers go under - but otherwise, the Libs' plan is at best a pale imitation of what the NDP has suggested.

Here's the Libs' proposal for the CPP - i.e. the lone part of their plan that's even accessible to Canadians in general:
“Not enough Canadians are saving for retirement – which is why we need a hassle-free, safe and reliable way to save more,” said Mr. McCallum. “The Harper government should work with the provinces, pensioners, labour groups and the private sector to develop and implement an SCPP, which would allow Canadians to voluntarily invest extra fund...">                              

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One year ago, our Conservative Prime Minister suspended the Parliament that Canadians elected and locked the doors on our democracy. He did this to save his own political ass. No Canadian should ever forget the complete disregard Mr. Harper demonstrated for democracy. Never forget!

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Here is an editorial from the China Daily on Harper's visit to the Peoples Republic of China:

"Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper will make his first visit to China since taking office in 2006. He is aiming to not only boost trade but repair a strained relationship.

Harper, leader of his nation's Conservatives party, will be in China from Dec 2-6, a trip that former Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien, a Liberal, said is "better late than never".

Foreign experts noted that Harper's rationale to visit China is based on the global economic recession.

"Canada is committed to a strong relationship with China that re...">                              

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     Macleans, that right-wing bastion of faux objectivity, once again gives Mark Steyn the freedom to push his hatred agenda against non-whites. This time, he goes all out over the mass murders by Nidal Hasan, blaming the left for its evil 'political correctness'.
Sadly No!, in a post called 'Blame Canada', perfectly paraphrases Steyn's piece, 'Hate speech doesn't kill people, political correctness does'.
I wonder how Steyn and his buddy Ezra Levant w...">                              

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The spinners called into every open line talk show that they could - spinning and spinning. Even talk show hosts on certain Right leaning programs were repeating the Saskatchewan Party mantra ... 'no one could have projected this fall in revenue ...' blah blah blah!

Oh Really! Here is what the Financial Editor of the Regina Leader-Post has to say about the Sask Party 'line'!

"At the time, then-NDP finance critic Harry Van Mulligen warned production cuts announced by potash companies could easily derail the budget's revenue and economic projections.

"Bottom line,'' Van Mulligen said, "shaky economic and revenue assumptions, plus runaway spending, e...">                              

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     Graphic via The Skinny
When the facts are in and the Cons are exposed as liars about their knowledge of torture of prisoners Canada handed over to Afghanistan, the claims of ignorance and innocence will soon enough change to a defence of 'so what'.
Like the Republicans in the States who once decried torture, after being caught torturing prisoners, suddenly changed their tune to almost braggadocio levels - '...">                              

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"Harper's office in Ottawa "scripted and fed" the precise wording NATO officials in Kabul used to repudiate allegations of abuse "at a time when it was privately and generally acknowledged in our office that the chances of good treatment at the hands of Afghan security forces were almost zero."

"It was highly unusual. I was told this was the titanic issue for Prime Minister Harper and that every single statement that went out needed to be cleared by him personally," said the former official, who is not Canadian.

"The lines were, 'We have no evidence' of coercive treatment being used against detainees handed over to the Afghans. There were very clear instructions for a blanket denial. The pressure to...">                              

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