Tim Hudaks Labour Platform In One Infographic

As they say a picture is worth a thousand words which suits me just fine since my garden beckons me this fine morning.

Show Me The Money

Hot on the heels of the Auditor General's revelation that the conservatives cannot account for $3.1 billion allocated for anti terrorism the Star tells us that ninety percent of $2.4 billion paid out to consultants comes with no description of what was paid for and get this our government refuses to divulge that info.

We Deserve Better Than This

Okay it's bad enough that the opposition parties are not interested in cooperating in the fifty or so ridings where the Conservatives benefited from vote splitting but dammit is it too much to ask that they stop sniping at each other and start opposing the Harper Government. It has gotten so bad that the NDP has even taken to questioning Elizabeth May's environmental cred, yeah that outta win them a ton of votes.

So how is Harper's peace and prosperity deal with Honduran coup leaders working out?

Great if you are a palm oil plantation owner or Canadian business there but for the rest not so much

Vandana Shiva: "Capitalist Patriarchy Has Aggravated Violence Against Women"

"This violent economic order can only function as a war against people and against the earth, and in that war, the rape against women is a very, very large instrument of war....

Irony!

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Q: When is a skills training program not a skills training program

A: When it is designed by the Conservatives

“It was seen as a risk for our reputation,”

That was the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres explaining why it pulled out of the Helmholtz Alberta Initiative a project to develop solutions to reduce the environmental impact of the tarsands

Some Simple Math

With the budget ...er sorry, Economic Action Plan 2013 due to be introduced this week it may be time to ponder a few numbers.

Toronto's Finest Pants on Fire

This week has not been kind too Toronto cops and their credibility. Judges in two separate cases questioned their honesty one saw an officer acquitted of assault causing bodily harm and threatening charges and in the other charges including impaired driving, assault to resist arrest against a Toronto man were stayed. What these two case had in common was the comments of the respective judges. Both accused the officers testifying in these cases of playing fast and loose with the truth while under oath. In the former calling police testimony “inherently incredible” and in the latter “indifferent to the truth”.

Rob Ford a man of the people

Whenever I ask someone why they support Rob Ford invariably I hear "He's just like us", a real man of the people if you will. A testament to how well he has been marketed, but as always in marketing and too often in politics perception and reality are two very different things.

Pick an issue, any issue

There doesn't seem to be a day go by where there isn't a new revelation about Conservative malfeasance, hell some days they seem to crop up hourly, there have already been so many it is hard to keep track. One would think this would be a bad thing for  Harper and his minions however it has in fact worked to their benefit.