Category Archives: Government
Conservatives bullied teenage Ala calling her “raghead slut”, candidate’s sister says
Conservatives bullied Ala Buzreba on social media when she was just 16 years old calling her “raghead slut” who should “go back to where she came from”, which prompted the Liberal candidate for Calgary Nose Hill to post the offensive
Harper opens campaign vowing to stay the course as Canada’s economy tumbles
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced official start of Canada’s 42 general election vowing to stay the course even as the country’s economy continues to tumble. Harper blamed China and the US for Canada’s economic troubles as the Statistics Canada announced
Constitutionality of bills C-51 and C-24: Dept of Justice won’t release study until after election
Department of Justice has decided to not release any information related to the its examination of the controversial Conservative bills C-51 and C-24 claiming that meeting the legal deadline would “interfere” with the Department’s operations. DOJ Act 1985 4.1 requires
Election 102: Voter Due Diligence
Stephen Garvey, Leader of Democratic Advancement Party of Canada (DAPC) The Canadian electorate has a vital role in our democracy in ensuring that Canadians who best represent their constituencies and country get elected. A case can be made that the
Employer found guilty of sexually abusing TFWs not blacklisted by Ottawa
The federal government has failed to blacklist an Ontario business fined $200,000 by the province’s Human Rights Tribunal for subjecting female temporary foreign workers to sex abuse and violence under the threat of deportation and whose owner pleaded guilty for
Poilievre slammed for yet another “misleading” tweet promising Canadians “$1,000 in a single day”
By Mary Simpson Jobs minister Pierre Poilievre is facing a chorus of derision for promising Canadian families “$1,000 in a single day” under the Harper Government’s Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB), coming in the heels of the Tory minister’s misleading
What’s Inside the Conservatives’ Box
By H. Grant Timms With a Conservative party ad running over and over (ad nauseum) throughout the NHL playoffs (and since), I could not help but think about political marketing, packaging and image making. The ‘nice hair’ anti-Trudeau ad is
Depart of Justice on trial today for not vetting bills for constitutionality
By Christopher Pearson Edgar Schmidt, a former special advisor and general counsel to the Department of Justice, will appear in Federal Court in Ottawa this morning to present his claim against the government demanding that the Minister and Deputy Minister
Conservative’s ISIS ad violates Geneva Convention, opposition says
By Mary Simpson The Conservative Party of Canada’s new ad using ISIS imagery of prisoners of war to attack the Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau’s stance on the terror group violates the Geneva Convention on the treatment of PoWs, according
Open letter to Justin Trudeau: Your Conservative light policies feed voter cynicism
By Derek Birch Young people don’t vote. Why don’t they vote? No one under the age of 35 even remembers a time when politicians actually did the will of the people. For anyone under 35 this means an entire lifetime