October 2012
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XL Foods admits safety might not have been its... →
An article (with video) from the StarPhoenix in which XL Foods admits its safety protocols at the Brooks meat plant might not have been up to snuff.
I’m shocked.
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TL;DR: Cons to go the extra mile cleaning up mess... →
Veteran Affairs announced today that it will reverse its decision to end the cuts to long-term disability which would have affected an estimated 2,500 families.
Here’s what Steven Blaney has to say:
“We are working hard to bring real help where and when it’s needed most for Canada’s heroes,” Blaney said in a news release.
Seemingly altruistic, maybe the...
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TL;DR: Spending our money to hide how they spend... →
Well, folks, just when we thought the “our” government’s vendetta against its own creation couldn’t get any more ridiculous, the CPC goes right on ahead and proves us wrong.
The money shot is in the third paragraph:
Taxpayer-funded lawyers are about to take on taxpayer-funded lawyers to keep tax spending secret from taxpayers. If this already sounds silly, it just gets...
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TL;DR: It's for your own good. Trust us. →
South of the border, the Department of Horrible Shit has announced plans for testing drones over the US for “public safety”.
According to an RFI posted on the Federal Business Opportunities site, they want to begin testing the death machines by various manufacturers to see how they perform in various “law enforcement” operations.
I’m so glad I’m not attending...
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We're baaaaack.....
Hello again everyone, it’s been a while. I’m sure the twos of you that popped by regularly were wondering if some cruel fate had befallen your intrepid heroes in their quest to categorize, simplify and outright mock the comings and goings in Canadian politics. Had we become overwhelmed sifting through the stupidity and checked ourselves in to an institution? Had we been covertly...
June 2012
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TL;DR: NATO order ended prisoner transfers →
Money shot:
Canadian troops quietly stopped handing captured Taliban fighters over to Afghan authorities in mid-2011, almost six months before the Harper government publicly acknowledged the change to the controversial policy.
Of course it took 6 months, weren’t the CPC spindoctors busy somewhere else in mid-2011?
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TL;DR: Paul Martin critical of Mulcair's "Dutch... →
Money shot:
Martin says it’s overly simplistic for Mulcair to blame Canada’s prosperous oilsands for artificially elevating the dollar and hurting manufacturing exports.
I guess we could try blaming pixies and fairies, but I don’t think they exist.
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Sorry for the lack of updates, folks, life got busy for a bit but don’t worry, our beloved country still seems to be locked into a downward spiral which I shall endeavour to chronicle with dry sardonic wit, biting cynicism, and a tear in my left eye.
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TL;DR: Del Maestro didn't know about EC... →
Sure sucks when someone doesn’t tell you what’s going on, eh Deaner?
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Lies, damn lies and Vic Toews →
In which Justin Saunders over at Rabble reminds us all that C-30 isn’t dead, it’s merely taking a nap.
Expected to return for second reading in the fall sitting, it’s tough to say exactly what (if anything) will have changed but I’d imagine it hinges on how badly dear leader decides we need to be punished for not backing ridiculous shit like his “budget” bill.
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TL;DR: Peter MacKay loves him some drones →
Good write-up on pogge.ca about Petery MacKay’s defending the use of killer drones, regardless of whether or not a few innocent folks get death from above’d.
Remember, drones are little computer controlled baddies capable of flying around and killing people from 10,000 feet in the air. And the US has officially opened the door to cyber warfare thanks to Olympic Games and the...
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TL;DR: Get your asses in gear, SoC →
Chris Selley pens (emphasis his):
Conceivably, the Supreme Court might not rule on this until October — and if they uphold the decision against Mr. Opitz, Prime Minister Stephen Harper would then have six months to call a by-election.
I don’t know about you, dear readers, but I parse this as:
Stephen Harper will take six months to call a by-election.
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Adam Carroll: Push Poll in Etobicoke Centre - A... →
agcarroll:
It started Saturday morning with a twitter posting by Ross Morley in Etobicoke stating: “Just took a #CPC telemkter call in Etobicoke Centre “calling for Stephen Harper and Ted Opitz”. And “They’re trying to overthrow your vote”
Much of the subsequent online discussion related to the calls…
It would seem that, much like the phreakers of old, the federal cons just...
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TL;DR: Kenney throws staff under the bus to... →
Story from the Winnipeg Free Press detailing how Immigration Minister Jason Kenny threw his own bureaucrats under the pass after the fake citizenship ceremony broadcast a couple months ago by the Ministry of Truth.
Here’s the money shot:
An hour earlier, under the subject line “What we will say,” a political staffer in Kenney’s office wrote: “We didn’t know...
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TL;DR: Solitary Confinement != Dealing with mental... →
More from the UN: Seems they’re not exactly impressed with the way our system treats mentally ill inmates.
There are some hardliners who will maintain they did the crime, they can do the time, but those of us with compassion towards our fellow man will stop and wonder why they’re shut up in solitary confinement instead of somewhere properly equipped to help them.
A grander and much...
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TL;DR: UN: Canada risks human rights violations →
The hits just keep on coming, folks. We all know that a UN report came out a little while ago stating Canada was complicit in humans rights violations (ie. torture). Dear leader has until June 2013 to respond. Wonder who’s to blame this time: The liberals, the NDP?
On behalf of all Candians: Sorry, world.
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TL;DR: Green party promises to thwart "budget"... →
Due to the fact the Green Party doesn’t have official party status, Elizabeth May is allowed to propose an unlimited number of amendments to bills that come back from committees.
She’s promised to use this super power for the benefit of Canadians (wow, weird thing for a politician to do) and, with the help from a few Liberals, plans to table hundreds of proposed amendments in the...
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TL;DR: In which the Mop and Pail has the recipe... →
Strange, I thought it would’ve involved a VOIP provider.
The money shot:
Whether they like it or not, the Conservatives will inevitably spend a lot more time in the next three years defending themselves than they have before.
Apparently lost on Bruce Anderson is the simple fact that if the cons stopped being lying douchenozzles and actually listened to the people they claim to represent...
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5 ways in which Canadians are protesting the... →
What are you doing?
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TL;DR: Sally forth and polish this turd, boys. →
Actual title for those who don’t want to click the link:
HARPER GOVERNMENT MINISTERS PARTICIPATE IN EVENTS FROM COAST TO COAST TO HIGHLIGHT THE IMPORTANCE OF RESPONSIBLE RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT TO CANADIANS
Yup, all them sciencists and envirnmuntil folks is talkin bad bout our tar sands. Since listening and handling their objections is too much like actual governing, why not just send out...
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TL;DR: BUT WE NEED WAR MASHEENZ TO FITE TEH... →
Quotey quote:
But delivering on that long laundry list of ships, tanks and planes has turned into an excruciating experience, which found a voice last week in Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose’s declaration that she was “tired of being told why something can’t be done.”
Oh deliciousness. Remember this woman reps a party who, most of the time, won’t bother to tell us...
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TL;DR: Former Australian PM: Quit being a dick,... →
Well, folks, here are the goods, straight from the mouth of former Australian PM Malcolm Fraser (quotes added by me):
It is a pity the current “Canadian” Government, in relation to cluster munitions, does not provide any real lead to the world Its approach is timid, inadequate and regressive.
He also accuses “our” government of abandoning Canada’s traditional...
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Canada's income inequali -- Oh sod it, we're all... →
Jeff Fraser over at the Huffington Post Canada has been a very busy boy indeed. The link above is a great article chronicling the growing chasm between the haves and have-nots in our fair country and touches on some of the social problems it brings along for the ride.
With colourful graphs outlining the changes in inequality for most provinces from 1970 to 2009, as well as stats on which Canadian...
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TL;DR: We love members of the armed forces. Until... →
I’ve never been in the military or put my life on my line for my country, but I do have a good friend who has and he thanks ${deity} every day that he was lucky enough to come back in good health and spirit of mind.
Were I in his position, reading dear leader’s endless rah-rah drivel would piss me off to no end, especially as I’d see friends who weren’t so lucky being...
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TL;DR: If your dollar is high, people won't buy... →
Not too long ago, Thomas Mulcair found himself in the shit for mentioning the dreaded Dutch disease in reference to our dollar increasingly becoming resource-based.
Now, dear readers, I’m not an economist, nor do I play one on television or pretend to be one in a federal political party, but even I can understand this and see the potential it has for affecting other areas of teh conomy.
Or...
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TL;DR: No EI can match that of a failed cpc... →
Another surprising article from the Mop and Pail, this time ripping on the cons for giving failed candidates cushy positions at the public trough.
What up, Globe and Mail, was the pmo’s fax machine broken yesterday?
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TL;DR: Baby steps, mop and pail, baby steps →
Since everybody seems to be humping the tuition angle, the Mop and Pail seems to have decided it’s worth the time to find out why exactly several Quebecois have picked up the metaphorical torches and pitchforks.
For those in the immediate vicinity of their offices, that clunk and foul smell was a paradigm shifting without a clutch.
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TL;DR: Consumer spending slows, economy stagnant →
Broad cuts to large swaths of our social safety net, a government that doesn’t hesitate to drop back to work legislation, recipients of bribe^Wtax benefits closing up shop and moving to the states, stagnant or declining wages for workers, gasoline fluctuating between 1.25 and 1.40… Why oh why would consumer spending be slowing?
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TL;DR: Economy still stuck in neutral →
But… But… We have a trained economist at the helm focusing with laser-like precision on restoring our country’s economy!
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TL;DR: New duty free limits kick in Friday →
I’m not a trained economist or anything, but isn’t part one of kick starting your country’s economy keeping money in it?
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TL;DR: The watchers don't need watchers →
Yup. That’s a great idea.
May 2012
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In which @saskboy is righteously angered by... →
Stumbled across this post by @saskboy expressing his displeasure with the speed at which the robocalls investigation is playing out. From the post [emphasis his]:
A report to Parliament a full two years after a serious crime that calls the legitimacy of our government into question? What priority is higher than determining our lawmakers are legitimately elected?
In some ways, I wish us...
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TL;DR: They lost, but we pay them anyways →
Dropping a link from a couple days ago, because I’m sick and tired of hearing about “austerity” and large swaths of federally funded research getting the axe while shit like this goes on “behind the scenes”.
At the bottom of the article you’ll find a list of defeated cons who have been snuck in the back door and exactly where on the public trough they stick...
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TL;DR: Many out east not liking proposed changes →
The Packet reports that not a lot of people out east are enthused by the upcoming EI changes proposed in the “budget” bill, C-38.
Contacted for comment, I’m sure some cpc mouthpiece would’ve said something like:
Let me be clear, moving foward we only have the best interest of Canada’s largest compan^W^Wworking families at heart. This bill will help people put food...
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TL;DR: Liberal MP Byrne is a big stupid doodoohead →
NDP MP David Christopherson called Liberal Gerry Byrne a “dishonourable crybaby” for disclosing con plans to shut down the F-35 probe.
Frankly, I wish more MPs would start leaking what happens in camera as it’s fast becoming the only way us peons^Wvoters are going to learn about the movings and machinations of our open and transparent government.
All I’d have to say to...
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TL;DR: C39 expected to pass today →
Shockingly, the bill passed the house of commons on Wednesday with the vote breaking down exactly as we’ve come to expect (ie. cons on one side, everyone else on the other).
Its speedy flight through the con-dominated senate can only be explained using the words “shit” and “goose”. It will receive automatic approval from the GG, who won’t even have to stop...
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TL;DR: More Wilks fallout re: C38 →
Yes, Andrew Coyne, you are being far, far, far too nice to David Wilks given that he proved beyond a reasonable doubt who he actually works for.
Hint: It’s not the people who elected him.
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TL;DR: 22,000 barrels of oil leak into Alberta... →
Someone dun goofed and spilled 22,000 barrels of oil and water into muskeg in Alberta. Luckily we have experts for handling situations like this. What? Oh shit.
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Global warming gas levels hit 'troubling... →
Pfft, who should we believe, a bunch of scientsts or the oil indust^W^Wharper government?
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TL;DR: Dogs are just fuckin awesome →
$122 million on high-tech gadgets and fancy doodads and googas to detect drugs in prison, turns out they all they need is a couple dogs. Not even fifth generation stealth dogs.
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Uncle Tommy Goes West
Well, folks, today’s the day Tom Mulcair heads west to visit the vast tar pits^W^Woil sands of our Texas. If he comes back drooling out the left side of his mouth chanting “One of us”, I will be concerned.
Hopefully he doesn’t wind up being led by the nose around the greenwashed areas and comes back with some more fuel for the quantifiable objections fire.
Unreached for...
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Conservation: CPC style →
Dear leader would like you to know he’s a firm believer in conservation. When you can shoot the proceeds.
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TL;DR: Body parts suspect may have gone to France →
Zut alors!
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Eco groups aren't terrorists. Signed, soldier who... →
Soldier who got an axe to the head fighting terrorists would like to point out environmental groups don’t really compare.
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TL;DR: More CPC fiscal restraint and... →
Good old Bev Oda, the poster child for fiscal restraint and accountability.
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Tory politics exclusive, not inclusive →
Frances Russell opines:
Whatever this is, it isn’t democracy. It’s why younger Canadians aren’t voting. And why the Conservatives couldn’t be happier.
Before clicking the link, I hope you put on your steel toes, boys and girls, because she drops some serious knowledge and explains why “our” government doesn’t really give two hangs about us.
Sad but...
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TL;DR: Opposition MPs pissed re: F35 probe shut... →
Opposition MPs furious dear leader and his gang are moving to shut down the probe into Petey’s shiny new toys.
Naturally, it still hasn’t occurred to the CPC that these situations could be avoided if they’d simply stop being lying douchebags.
