Jay Currie

Jim Prentice is walking away from the CPC Cabinet. Becoming the vice-Chair of the CIBC is a great gig; but hardly the sort of thing to tempt a sitting Cabinet Minister. Is this policy disagreement? Did Prentice find it difficult to block a billion dollar mine in BC on the flimsy basis that it might [...]

Moreover, hierarchies are at a loss to defeat networks. Open systems have no leader or headquarters; their units are self-funding, and their members often work for free (think Wikipedia). Even in principle, you can’t count or compartmentalize the participants, because they come and go as they please—but counting them is unnecessary, because they can communicate [...]

In what can only be described as an unholy alliance, Dr. Dawg, Skippy Stalin and I are all concerned that the tremendous victory for Parliamentary Democracy which the Speaker’s ruling on document production represents, may be pissed away by the sheer spineless incompetence of Michael Ignatieff. The thinking being that if Iggy pushes this issue [...]

More balls than the Conservative and the Liberal caucus put together. “If you ask for more money, through equalization, you want to be poorer,” he said. “What I’m saying to Quebecers is, our goal must be to have less money from the equalization formula, because if we have less money it means we are richer. [...]

That was a little close for comfort. It is now just possible that there will be an election in 2010…Sunday we decide Spring or Fall.

A debate over the separation of church and state got cranked up a notch this week as Canada’s public safety minister suggested a Winnipeg MP would rather have kids join gangs than participate in programs run by a religious group. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews scolded NDP MP Pat Martin, who a day earlier said [...]

Now comes word that last week, Ottawa told the United Nations it would no longer fund the world body’s Palestinian refugee agency. From now on, Canadian aid to Palestinians will be directed to specific projects. We will no longer give lump-sum aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the [...]

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will prorogue Parliament Wednesday for a two-month break. The House of Commons and the Senate will come back in March, after the Vancouver Olympics, for a Speech from the Throne and a budget. The move will have the effect of stalling all bills currently in Parliament, including crime bills that the [...]

Blazing Catfur has obtained a sneak peak at the new CPC mailer the new B’nai Brith ad. Even more shocking – but graphically a bit better – than the last one. Features Cossacks and Hitler and a guest appearance.

Plus, says paragraph 17 of annex III E, developed countries such as Australia should “compensate for damage” to the economies of poorer countries “and also compensate for lost opportunities, resources, lives, land and dignity” allegedly caused by our gases. And here comes the bill, in paragraph 22, objective 41, of annex 1 of this extortion [...]

Ruby Dhalla over to the CPC? This would be yet another hole beneath Iggy’s waterline; but given that Ruby is apparently defecting on the basis the Libs don’t like her 3 years to pension idea, she might also cause something of an explosion in the CPC.

You in Canada destroyed things with your BlackBerry. Nassim Nicholas Taleb Talebgoes on to say: You guys are slightly more insulated than others. But there’s no way you can escape the mistakes made by others. They’ll just cost you somewhat less. But if we wind up with hyperinflation, Canada will be the best place in [...]

Here’s a hint to my new friends the Grits. This guy looks as though he is cadging change at my bottle store. Guys, Obama can do casual. He is brilliant at casual. The Count isn’t. Trudeau could do it, Iggy can’t. No problem. The CPC has had a bad suit issue for years; but don’t [...]

The federal government is taking the rare step of appealing a ruling that granted asylum to a white South African who claimed his skin colour would put his life in danger if he returned to his home country. Alykhan Velshi, a spokesman for Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, confirmed the government will ask the Federal Court [...]

“It’s one thing for a Prime Minister of Canada to go back on everything he’s ever said or believed in. But we expect more of our PR flacks.” andrew coyne

Okay, as my pal Alan would put it, group project: if all of the provinces are in deficit as seems rather likely, what happens to Equalization payments? Does this mean we can finally say “frapper la rue” to the have-not provinces already being have-not ourselves? Does it mean that the feds just print more money [...]

A senior PMO official warned federal Conservative Party candidates at the party’s political training conference in Ottawa last week that at least one of them would be turfed during the next election campaign for something they put on the internet. ” ‘At least one of you is going to get disqualified for something you put [...]

Poor Jenny. What she does not realize is that there are a bunch of people – no doubt on her list – who are paying attention. So, when she tells whopper after whopper in a National Post blog entry it is no surprise that Lynch is called on her lies in the comments. Over and [...]

No, the Liberal Party of Canada is the Opposition in name only. They made it clear long ago that they are Stephen Harper’s junior partners in government. There’s already a coalition government, it just happens to be a Tory-Grit coalition. Ignatieff is the Gilligan to Harper’s Skipper. And Dion looked better in the Bob Denver [...]

China will not make a binding commitment to reduce carbon emissions, putting in jeopardy the prospects for a global pact on climate change. Officials from Beijing told a UN conference in Bonn yesterday that China would increase its emissions to develop its economy rather than sign up to mandatory cuts. times of london And so [...]