Conservative’s Crumbling Defence Promises

The Prime Minister’s Office provides a relatively short list of “non-answers” to pertinent questions from reporters, Canadians, or the opposition. Along with “he’s in over his head,” frequent phrases also inclu...

Political Campaign Spending: So Sexy it Hurts

There’s an election on the distant horizon, so unless you live in complete isolation from society at large (i.e. on Parliament Hill), you should already feel overwhelmed by the unofficial campaign that’s been g...

What the Dean Del Mastro Verdict Means in 2015

The Trial of the Century has a verdict. Dean Del Mastro, former parliamentary secretary to Stephen Harper, has been found guilty of spending too much in the 2008 Federal Election  and of falsifying documents. ...

Revised Income Splitting

On Thursday, Prime Minister Harper officially announced that he will be implementing income-splitting for qualifying Canadians. He also increased Child Tax Benefits for children under six old, and expanded the ...

15 Ways to Spend Canada’s Budget Surplus

It appears that the Tories have made good on their promise to give Canada a surplus by the next Federal Election. The last time Canada boasted a surplus was in 2007, where it amounted to about 9.6 billion dolla...

Viagra in Military Considered A Cabinet Secret, Why?

As the list of Canada’s cabinet secrets pile up, the government’s blanket of secrecy continues to broaden. The federal Conservative government increasingly considers routine issues—from Canada’s feelings about ...

MP Spending Sprees: Where Budget Surplus Goes

An election is certainly just around the corner as MPs traipse across country with open pocketbooks! Government MPs, that is.  Those in the Opposition couldn’t get you a single penny unless they gave it to you ...

Dean Del Mastro, El Maestro, Conducts Classic Defence

Dean Del Mastro, formerly Stephen Harper’s main man, is on the ropes. It’s worth repeating because it’s painfully true. On Thursday, as the Crown lambasted Del Mastro for the last time during his trial for exce...