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.
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 government does actually care what happens to our brave men and women in uniform. Or maybe it has to do with this gem a couple paragraphs down:
Wednesday’s changes also come in the wake of a class-action lawsuit filed against the federal government that veterans successfully won in May.
Oh snap.
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 worse.
So, basically it breaks down thusly: The “government” that wrote in on a promise of openness and transparency (in this instance, of course, promise being spelled L I E) is now going to lawyer up (using our money) and fight other lawyers (also funded by our money) from an office of their own creation (using our money) whose purpose was to identify exactly how they’re wasting our money.
Confused? No. More like depressed.
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?
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.
Sure sucks when someone doesn’t tell you what’s going on, eh Deaner?
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.
The money shot comes towards the end of the article:
This will not change the fact that C-30 is likely to eventually become law in some form, so long as the Conservative Party can whip its caucus properly. As the current government has amply demonstrated, it can and will ignore public opinion with impunity.
Can, will, and, omitted from the list, take great relish in.
Dark days ahead, boys and girls. Dark. Fucking. Days.
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 associated Stuxnet.
This will not end well.
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.
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 can’t stop dicking with the phones.
