Here is some wonderful news from the Globe and Mail this morning on the latest polls...

Sorry if it seems like I'm harping on this, but I think it's an important story that isn't getting the attention it deserves. Another day, and still no comment from defence minister (for now) Gordon O'Connor on the withholding from the public of previously available information in Afghan detainees ordered by the Chief of Defence Staff, General Rick Hillier...

You mean by-elections cost money? Politicians don't always serve their full term? Investigative journalism at its finest, or more aptly, jotting something down to justify a paycheck :) Yawn...

Minister of Natural Resources, Gary Lunn, might become one of the more high-profile casualties, stemming from the recent Liberal/Green alliance. It would appear there is a movement afoot in the riding of Saarich-Gulf Islands to "unite the left" against Mr. Lunn...

Dion released a letter, urging the government to support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples...

These concerns were raised and fell on deaf ears when the Conservatives first teamed-up with the NDP on this legislation. Perhaps now that the banks are raising these very pertinent concerns they'll be considered, although judging by the NDP and Conservative comments in the article I suspect not...

Forget the appalling timing of Jack Layton falsely accusing NATO forces of indiscriminately killing Afghan civilians on the same day that terrorists killed six Canadian soldiers and their Afghan interpreter.

No.

Focus instead on Layton's accusation...

t's not really Helena Guergis' fault, she's merely toeing the party line. Canada's secretary of state for foreign affairs has assured reporters in Rome that NATO regrets the deaths and injuries it inflicts on Afghan civilians...

Speaking of things Canadian, Canada Day is perhaps the only day of the year when it's considered Canadian to show a little patriotism. And certainly no where more so than the nation's capital, where Parliament Hill hosts the official, taxpayer-funded Canada Day bash...

Boss Harp has been PM for long enough to have a record. It's now Canada's Typical Tory Government. Spending like drunken sailors, cutting real services and tinkering on tax "rates". Just like Mike Harris with his Nonsense Revolution in Ontario. Harp is aided and abetted by the Four Horses Asses of the Harris Apocalypse...4Flaherty (Flim Flam Flip Flop, if you are wondering about the 4 in front of his name), Bully Baird, Creepy Clement and Tubby Van Loan...

Has it been but seventeen months since we had that breakfast? Seemed so shiny then, didn't it? As a fresh inch of snow fell on the parking lot in the shadow of twelve lanes of the 401, we talked about a fresh start in Canadian politics.

Perhaps like me you're a bit mystified by Stephen Harper's $3.5 billion Arctic sovereignty initiatives that were first mentioned during the last election and will be taking shape in the coming years with the acquisition of ice-capable ships and other military hardware, as well as the construction of a northern naval station and a training centre for winter combat...

Bob Mills, the chair of the committee has just stepped down and the committee is adjourned. Why? Well it's a long story, 2 hours long in fact, but here are the highlights...

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Besides it being incredibly dumb, I'm not surprised this whole ordinary family nonsense was started by the Deceivin' Steven's First Blogger the evening of the budget vote. It practically screams out ‘hey, forget what incompetent boobs we're being right now and look over here!'

Bill Casey might be soon having company in his new role as an “independent Progressive Conservative”...

Angus Reid poll on Afghanistan, with some interesting results. Taken immediately after the Harper photo-op in Afghanistan, the survey finds little support for the government..

You have reports of more abuse in Afghanistan...you have a PM making Canada into a laughing stock on the world stage...you have Tories playing games because one of them saw through the sham of Flim Flam Flaherty's budget...

A new study from Angus Reid says the recent Con attack ads hurt Decivin' Steven more than they hurt Stephane Dion.

The Globe and Mail is following up on a story reported on the weekend by Canadian Press that the provincial premiers are raising objections to the Harper administration's senate reform proposals...

The title of this post is in reference to the utter exuberance that some bloggers on the left (and right) were showing when Stephane Dion got jeered on the lawn of Parliament Hill last week...

In Question Period today, Stephen Harper argued that Stéphane Dion's opinion on the Minister of Defence is irrelevant because Dion never served in the army...

Too often, hurtful allegations from anonymous sources go unchallenged. The Jonathan Kay hatchet job on Kennedy, Dion and various ethnic groups represents irresponsible, divisive and damaging journalism at its worst. Good on Kennedy for not allowing this type of crap to go unchallenged...

Unable to break into majority government territory, Stephen Harper's Conservatives have turned to the burning issue on everyone's mind this spring...yes...Senate Reform! An exciting series of new ads attack Dion for...zzzz.....sorry, I'm already sleepy just thinking about the topic...

Watching Dion spar with Harper today in Question Period, I thought Dion looked particularly impressive. Speaking with easy, compassion and conviction, Dion appears to be finally hitting his stride...

The Harpoon is at it again. A story in the May 28th edition of The Hill Times, outlines the ham-handed heavy-fisted efforts of Prime Minister Harpoon to muzzle the press. Threats to arrest them. Turfing print journalists from a helicopter and allowing only a couple of photographers along on the visit to Afghanistan...

In the wake of this terrible tragedy in Toronto, debate has begun anew on the place of handguns in Canada. My answer is simple: handguns have no place in this country...

This week our current prime minister toured Afghanistan, gave a pep rally speech to our fighting soldiers there, hinted the mission could go on for far longer than previously believed and donned flack jacket and combat helmet for a photo op with a gun-toting trooper, as he spilled out of a battlefield helicopter. Was this a celebration of our military, or an indulgence in militarism?