Archive for the ‘Canadian Politics and Government’ Category
Prince Edward Island’s Human Rights Commission may have nine staff members to police a population of 140,000, making it, as Ezra Levant pointed out, proportionately over ten times larger than the Canadian Human Rights Commission, but it’s not busy enough for at least one Islander. After PEI’s HRC rejected her claim of discrimination in 2003, [...]
Tags: CBC, Human Rights Commissions, Prince Edward Island
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government, Law Crime and Legal Issues | 3 Comments »
Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean’s trip to Nunavut has made a monarchist of former republican and Halifax Chronicle-Herald columnist Steve Maher. THE SIGHT — beautiful beyond words — of Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean holding a bloody piece of raw seal heart in her viceregal mouth has convinced me to abandon my long-held republican beliefs and half-heartedly [...]
Tags: Aboriginal issues, Michaelle Jean, Nunavut, Political correctness, Steve Maher, Wildlife management
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May 27th, 2009 | Comments Off
The Green Party lives up to its usual standards of organisation in the Nova Scotia election campaign. You can be forgiven if you can’t keep track of who’s running for the Green party. The party has been grappling with candidates pulling out at the last minute in many ridings. These include: •Guysborough-Sheet Harbour. The party’s [...]
Tags: Folly, Green Party, Nova Scotia
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Speaking in Israel last Sunday, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney (at right) condemned the new anti-Semitism arising from an alliance between Western leftists and Islamic extremists, calling it even worse than the “old European” anti-Semitism. “The existential threat faced by Israel on a daily basis is ultimately a threat to the broader Western civilization,” [...]
Tags: Anti-Semitism, Israel, Jason Kenney
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government, International | 3 Comments »
Federal Grit leader Michael Ignatieff just visited Nova Scotia and, based on the Halifax Chronicle-Herald report, he had nothing substantive to say. What do you expect from the man of whom Rick Mercer said, “Does he have any opinions on anything? I haven’t heard them.” Federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says Rodney MacDonald and his [...]
Tags: CBC, Folly, Hypocrisy, Liberal Party, Michael Ignatieff, Nova Scotia
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May 24th, 2009 | Comments Off
The Nova Scotia NDP offers another amazingly innocuous ingenious plan to improve health care if it wins the provincial election on 9 June. To reduce chronic disease rates, it will set up two ongoing gabfests—a council and a task force—and it will “work closely” with medical professionals. The sheer genius of NDP leader Darrell Dexter [...]
Tags: Folly, Health and medical, NDP, Nova Scotia
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The place isn’t going to open for another three years, and it’s already millions of dollars in the hole. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, not set to open until 2012, is already running a deficit. The latest corporate report for the museum, currently under construction in Winnipeg, indicates a $5.2-million shortfall in its operating [...]
Tags: Folly, Government finance, Manitoba
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May 21st, 2009 | Comments Off
An all-night negotiation session resulted in a tentative agreement between the Newfoundland and Labrador Nurses’ Union and the provincial government. No prizes for guessing who’s patting himself on the back. Williams says phone call led to tentative deal with nurses Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier said Wednesday it was his late-evening phone call that broke the [...]
Tags: Danny Williams, Government finance, Health and medical, Labour economics, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Jennifer McSwain of Hay River, Northwest Territories, is one happy lady because the NWT Human Rights Commission has ruled in her favour. She complained that the territory’s Department of Justice discriminated against her because of her marital status when the South Mackenzie Correctional Centre (SMCC) refused to allow inmates to remove snow at her home. [...]
Tags: Human Rights Commissions, Northwest Territories
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government, Law Crime and Legal Issues | 2 Comments »
May 8th, 2009 | Comments Off
Campaign signs for Kerry Morash are going up all across the riding of Queens in southern Nova Scotia. The problem is that the signs say Mr Morash is the candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party—and that’s not true. The PCs haven’t nominated anyone yet. The signs ask people to elect Mr. Morash and say in [...]
Tags: Chutzpah, Conservative Party, Kerry Morash, Nova Scotia
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May 8th, 2009 | Comments Off
Last month, someone from the Nova Scotia Liberal Party sent topless photos of actress and NDP candidate Lenore Zann to CBC reporter Paul Withers. The photos showed Ms Zann’s appearance in a shower scene on the lesbian television show The L Word. A brouhaha promptly erupted with the NDP in high dudgeon accusing the Liberals [...]
Tags: Dale Palmeter, Lenore Zann, Liberal Party, NDP, Nova Scotia
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May 8th, 2009 | Comments Off
The Nova Scotia election campaign is barely two days old, but already voters are knee-deep in political claptrap. The feeble health-care proposal from provincial NDP leader Darrel Dexter takes the cake—so far. Mr Dexter has a series of brainstorms to alleviate recurrent closures of emergency rooms at Nova Scotia hospitals: Hire an “expert” advisor/co-ordinator to [...]
Tags: Chutzpah, Folly, Health and medical, Nova Scotia
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Edward G. Hollett has the details. Effective March 1, 2009, Warren Kinsella is a registered lobbyist with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador as part of a nation-wide effect to spark up some kind of law suit against Big Tobacco. Danny Williams must be desperate.
Tags: Danny Williams, Newfoundland and Labrador, Warren Kinsella
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Scott Brison (at right), Liberal MP for Kings-Hants, has sent out a pamphlet with a few questions for the voters. At least, that’s what I’m told. He’s my MP, but I haven’t received one yet. Why do I have to find out about this from Kitchener-Waterloo resident Steve Janke? Scott Brison has sent out [...]
Tags: Liberal Party, Scott Brison
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April 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Atlantic Baptist University, the only English-language university in Moncton, New Brunswick, has been the subject of a long-running debate in the pages of the Moncton Times & Transcript. ABU has been accused of violating Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the provincial Human Rights Act because it refuses to hire homosexuals. In his latest [...]
Tags: Atlantic Baptist University, Civil liberties, Education, New Brunswick
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