Posts tagged as: Politics

Former, former, former solicitor general resigns again

Share Am I hearing this right? Former BC solicitor general Kash Heed has resigned AGAIN?? How do we address him now — Former-former solicitor general? What a joke… Well, with all this flip-flop-flip-and-flop’s, the credibility of Heed is devastated. Even if he’s eventually be cleared AGAIN his credibility and the government’s credibility is crushed. Politics [...]

25,000 march against Harper’s proroguing of parliament

Share 12,000 rally in Toronto, 3,500 in Ottawa, 1,000 in Calgary, hundreds more elsewhere Photo gallery: anti-prorogue rallies Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament (CAPP) release – In over 60 cities and towns across Canada and internationally, tens of thousands of Canadians rallied against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s suspension of Parliament. In Toronto, police estimate between 10,000 [...]

China’s emerging strength in snowboading is a ‘Chinese invasion’: Globe and Mail

Share With the Winter Olympics just weeks away from opening, I was shocked at the narrow-sightedness or interpretation of snowboarding in an Globe and Mail article today, titled “Once out-of-place gymnasts, now halfpipe heroes: Chinese reach summit of snowboarding world”. When describing the Chinese snowboarding atheletes, one paragraph says: Their lack of English and their [...]

Harper the de facto dictator

Share There are two pieces of commentaries in the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail lately that speak up my mind re PM Harper’s dictatorial style of governance. We’ve opened our eyes during our recent trip with Harper to China — on his and his office’s way of handling the media and the extent [...]

What is it about Harper’s China trip?

Share Dear readers: Here’s the transcript of today’s briefing on PM Harper’s visit to China. Enjoy. Main point? Just a tour. Nothing to be signed. But free entrance to the Great Wall and the Forbidden City. (my emphasis in bold) ———————- TRANSCRIPTION DATE: November 30th, 2009 – 1:00 p.m. LOCATION: National Press Theater, Ottawa, Ontario [...]

Campbell loses everything, but NDP gains nothing

Share OK, we all know that Gordon Campbell’s popularity is flushing down the drain. However, isn’t it even a bigger problem that the NDP is failing to capture any gains while the BC Conservatives picking up support? There was a caller to a Chinese phone-in radio show last week, saying he felt that Carole James [...]

BMO expands China business; Flaherty in China

Share Looks like the most high profile delegation led by Canada’s finance minister Jim Flaherty to China this week will open REAL business for Canadian enterprises… finally. If China and Canada can sign extradition treaty before PM Harper goes to China in the fall, the stage is all set for a full-blown recovery of Canada-China [...]

Tory MP doesn’t like party’s attack ads

Share The Liberal (federal) war room was too happy about this article published by the Kamloops This Week today. Afterall, it IS interesting. I wonder what kind of punishment from her boss Ms McLeod would face :P McLeod pans party ads Recent released Tory ads attacking Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff have failed to impress at [...]

Day’s ice-thawing mission to China

Share What the Globe and other English media didn’t report was that Stockwell Day said today Stephen Harper is “very eager to visit China”. However, it’s quite well known that the Chinese govt has not given any invitation for visit to Harper. So when western leaders are visiting China one after another, we can only [...]

Ignatieff popularity growing, Harper stalled: poll

Share CP — People seem to be gradually warming to Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, but many still have a love-him-or-hate him view of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a new poll suggests. The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey indicates the two men have similar levels of support, but Harper’s negative ratings are much higher. It found that [...]

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