Federal Politics Archives - Page 26 of 47

To Tweet or not to Tweet: John Baird in Hot Water Over Mostly-English Tweets

This week on A Huge Waste of Taxpayer Dollars, we learn that official language commissioner Graham Fraser is investigating a formal complaint that Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird doesn’t tweet equally in bo...

Police Unveil Video of Polite Trudeau Residence Vandal

Just last week vandals broke into the Trudeau’s Ottawa residence. Only now have Ottawa police released a surveillance video showing a top person of interest: a bearded man talking on a cellphone at night near t...

Canadian Forces Militarizing Arctic “In Case of Emergency”

Well, when Harper withdrew from Kyoto, some said it was because he wanted to avoid wasting billions of dollars on non-compliance fees, while others said he wanted the ice caps to melt in order expand the Canadi...

Keystone Ad Campaign “Too Canadian” to Work

Canadians aren’t the only ones who have to put up with brainless ads from Natural Resources Canada; Americans suffer through them just like we do. Our suffering is greater, of course, because we pay for the dam...

NDP Audits Probe Motion into CRA Audits Rejected

Months ago, the CRA began auditing environmental charities that it claimed might have violated rules limiting political activity. Sure, they could have gone after the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers...

Marijuana: To Toke or Not to Toke, That is The Election

Do you keep reading the same article, forgetting about it, and reading it again, or have you stumbled into the swirling cloud of marijuana politics that every politician, government official, and journalists s...

Anti-Pot Campaign Is Not Political

A few days ago, the College of Family Physicians of Canada, the Canadian Medical Association, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada announced that they would not support Health Canada’s new...

Prince of Pot Marc Emery Returns to his Loyal Subjects

The return of Marc Emery has proven equal to that of the Jedi, and, in a way, he remains just as fabled as Luke Skywalker. To the pot enthusiasts of Canada, Emery is a legend known across the galaxy, who attemp...

Actually from Justin's flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/justintrudeau/6891447026/

Safety Minister “Understands Concern” After Trudeau Break-in

After a Saturday night break-in at the Trudeau residence in the uber-wealthy Ottawa suburb of Rockcliffe Park, Public Safety Minister Steve Blaney says he "understands" that Trudeau wants better security. It...

Justin Trudeau Weed Stance the Focus of Tory Attack Ads

For all your illegitimate narcotic needsVapor Central In the same sinister fashion that the gladiator wielded the eponymous gladius, the attack ad is by far the politician’s most potent weapon—a m...