Category Archives: Media Opinion

Lilley: Code of silence crosses party lines

Is there anyone left on Parliament Hill with clean hands? Canadians have been treated to a daily parade of outraged MPs fuming over the Senate expense scandal. Demands for audits followed by demands for more answers on edited reports, secret … Continue reading

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Shanoff: Why hasn’t mayor sued the Star? (3)

The most puzzling thing about the video purporting to show Rob Ford smoking crack and the Toronto Star’s coverage thereof is Ford’s apparent reticence in suing the Star for defamation. The Star coverage has Ford cavorting with criminals and smoking … Continue reading

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Heffer: The ugly truth is a smug Tory elite has sneered at the party faithful for decades (1)

A measure of the bizarre political times in which we live is that the Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative party felt yesterday that he had to email his dwindling band of activists and urge them to believe how … Continue reading

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Kinsella: Are political polls irrelevant?

After the B.C. fiasco, Canada’s polling industry is — once again — engaged in a painful existential debate about what they do and how they do it. Because, make no mistake, they were dramatically mistaken about last Tuesday’s British Columbia … Continue reading

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Goldstein: Is Wynne the real deal?

Will Premier Kathleen Wynne have the political courage to admit the painfully obvious fact that Dalton McGuinty’s experiment with green energy has been an unmitigated disaster for Ontario? After all, without personally blaming the former premier, Wynne finally apologized last … Continue reading

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Editorial: Senate reform badly overdue (2)

When the Commons returns Tuesday, and the festering mess in the Senate closes in on full stink, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be jetting to Peru and Colombia to discuss bilateral relationships. In other words, he will be conveniently out … Continue reading

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Lilley: Who do you trust? After the events of this week, it’s certainly not a politician

To say this is a bad week for politicians and the public trust would be an understatement. In Ottawa, a scandal involving expenses for senators has burst wide open with claims and denials that the prime minister’s Chief of Staff … Continue reading

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Harper: Time to end my relationship with pollsters

VANCOUVER—I’m breaking up with pollsters. Yes, it should have been done ages ago, but I continued to break bread with them, let them whisper sweet nothings in my ear and slip me some numbers. But they have issues and they … Continue reading

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Goodwin: O’s scandals take nation by storm (5)

As a metaphor for big government, it is hard to top the Justice Department’s seizing of journalists’ phone records from The Associated Press. Unless, of course, you think the best example is the Internal Revenue Service turning the screws on … Continue reading

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Delingpole: 400 ppm! We didn’t listen!

So, it has finally happened. The tipping point. Now, whatever Prince Charles may claim, it is too late to do anything. We are doomed, totally doomed. We had our chance to save the world from the greatest peril it has ever known … Continue reading

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Will: IRS Tea Party scandal is more than just ‘inappropriate.’ It’s criminal (10)

“He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to … cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.” — … Continue reading

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