Archive for category Crime & Safety
Women and Children are Terrorists?
Posted by admin in Crime & Safety on August 19, 2010
Creating diversions and whipping up hate to hide their mistakes, the Conservatives chose to pick on the vulnerable Tamil refugees to divert attention from the Census long form debacle, the shabby treatment of our Afghanistan veterans and the mismanagement of the G8 and G20 budgets. Vic Toews claimed that the 40 metre vessel that landed in B.C contained tubercular Tamil terrorists.
The facts? No tuberculosis. Women, some pregnant, and children on board as well as the men. So far, no terrorists.
Maybe Vic might have tried to escape with his family from a repressive regime if he was a Tamil? Would that make him a terrorist?
We need responsible government Ministers who check the facts before they speak.
What Stockwell Day really meant to say
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Crime & Safety, The Deficit on August 3, 2010
Jane Taber, The Globe & Mail, August 3, 2010
NOTE: You’ve got to see the video to believe it.
The Prime Minister’s Office was busily emailing its message of the day to supporters and MPs as Treasury Board President Stockwell Day was unsuccessfully trying to share it with reporters in Ottawa Tuesday. Read on »
Can you spare $10 billion?
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Crime & Safety, Taxes, The Deficit on May 11, 2010
VANCOUVER SUN MAY 5, 2010
Conservatism, in both theory and practice, advocates that governments must introduce changes only when there is substantial evidence of their potential efficacy, and only when their costs are known and manageable.
Just how unconservative the federal government is acting is evident from its criminal justice reforms. Read on »
Federal Liberals pledge tax break for volunteer firefighters
Posted by sitemaster in Crime & Safety, Liberals, Rural Issues on May 3, 2010
May 3, 2010. Huntsville – A Government of Canada under Liberal leadership would introduce a $3,000 refundable tax credit in recognition of the costs Canada’s volunteer firefighters incur for their emergency public service, Shawn Pudsey, Liberal candidate for Parry Sound-Muskoka has announced. Read on »
Harper plays to people’s worst instincts
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Crime & Safety, Justice on April 7, 2010
BY DAN GARDNER, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN, APRIL 7, 2010
Having spent the last four years being amazed and appalled by Stephen Harper’s style of governance — cynical, ruthless, controlling, unprincipled, and proudly ignorant of basic facts — I thought I had seen the worst. But then the news of Graham James’s pardon broke. Read on »
Parliament is meant to write laws, not interpret them
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Crime & Safety, Justice on February 18, 2010
By ERICH JACOBY-HAWKINS, Barrie Examiner, February 18, 2010
From the beginning, the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s attitude towards our judiciary has been partisan.
In the 2006 election, the PM informed Quebecers not to fear any excesses from a Conservative majority. “Liberal” courts would hold him in check, limiting his ability to impose a right-wing agenda. Read on »
Ignatieff outlines Liberal priorities in open letter to Harper
Posted by sitemaster in Aboriginals, Accountability, Canadian Armed Forces, Crime & Safety, Democracy, Employment, Energy, Environment, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Human Rights, Justice, Pensions, The Economy on February 17, 2010
Please click here to read Michael Ignatieff’s open letter to Stephen Harper, dated February 15, 2010.
Soft on truth
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Crime & Safety, Justice on February 14, 2010
BY SUSAN RILEY, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN, February 14, 2010
When you look beyond the paternalism, cynicism, genuine concern — whatever motives drive the Harper government’s punitive approach to crime — only one question matters. Is it effective? Read on »
Missing women’s initiative in limbo as memorial marches approach
Posted by sitemaster in Aboriginals, Crime & Safety, Women's Rights on February 13, 2010
BY MIA RABSON, WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, February 13, 2010
OTTAWA — Missing and murdered women in Canada will be remembered Sunday in memorial marches across the country.
But the occasion may also become a memorial for a government-funded research project that put a spotlight on the hundreds of aboriginal women who have gone missing or were murdered in this country. Read on »
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