The major news this week..

 

 I am not trying to get your interest with sensationalized one line headers, spin doctoring, or politically correct, pretentious, crowd pleasing  writings, but merely by telling you the undeniable truth as I  see it, others wrote about it too. If you want to be lied to there are many sites who will do that for you but one day you still will have to face the reality, the truth.

 

According to Statistics Canada, Alberta experienced the largest job losses in the country. The federal agency reported Friday that employment in Alberta decreased by 15,000 last month, pushing the unemployment rate up 0.4 percentage points to 7.5 per cent, up from 7.1 per cent in September and 3.7 per cent a year ago. Since October 2008, Alberta’s employment has fallen by 3.3 per cent, or 68,000 jobs, the steepest rate of decline among all provinces. 
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Alberta+shedding+jobs+fastest+rate+Canada/2196657/story.html

OTTAWA – Canada’s economy shed more than 43,000 jobs last month in a clear indication that the struggling economy is still feeling the aftershock of the deep recession that erupted a year ago. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091106/business/jobs and all the liars continued to say the recession in Canada was officially over, things were getting better, etc

 

 I ALREADY WROTE TO YOU WHAT BIG LIARS THOSE CONSERVATIVES SPIN DOCTORS, STATISTIC CANADA  NOW ARE STILL TOO, NOT JUST THE BANK OF CANADA. THE REALTORS NOW AS WELL..

 

 NOW FOR A START TOO LET MY GOVERNMENT OF CANADA RIGHTFULLY LOOK FIRST FULLY AFTER THE CITIZENS BEST INTEREST , CONSUMER PROTECTION AND NOT THE INTEREST OF BIG BUSINESS MAINLY TOO.

 

“Canadian officials are taking part in negotiations for a top-secret copyright treaty that could see families barred from the Internet for a year if someone in the household is suspected of illegal downloads.Under the worldwide rules of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Internet service providers such as Bell and Rogers in Canada would be required to become copyright police and filter out pirated material from their networks, hand over the identities of customers believed to be infringing copyrights and restrict the use of identity-blocking software.ACTA would employ a three-strikes policy. People believed to be regularly downloading copy-protected material, such as movie and music files, could have their Internet connection severed for up to 12 months and forced to pay a fine. “It’s incredibly disproportionate. Three unproven allegations of infringement will cut off Internet service for a year for an entire family,” said Michael Geist, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and e-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa.”It’s not based on the individual user, it’s based on the connection,” added Geist, who said he has received details of the proposals from people closely associated with drafting the agreement. The treaty, which is being pushed forward by the Office of the United States Trade Representative, closely mimics the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that governs copyright issues in the U.S. It puts in place measures that would make it illegal for consumers to make backup copies of DVDs or other media with built-in copy-protection technology. Other provisions could make information on iPods, laptops and other personal electronic devices illegal and force travellers to prove to border officials that the content on such devices was acquired through legal channels.  http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Canada+talks+over+copyright+laws+with+bite/2189494/story.html

 

The federal, provincial governments, the CRTC, Conservatives, Liberals  unfairly maintaining  archaic, monopolistic telecommunication firms, that are often   bloated, cost ineffective, incompetent, over staffed, un-competitively managed as well is the main reasons consumer costs falsely keep on going up now.

  

FIRST DO TELL MY GOVERNMENT, THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA THAT ALL THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA, THE RCMP TOO NOW,  COPYRIGHTS DO ALSO BELONG TO ME, A CITIZEN OF CANADA, ONE OF THE MAY OWNERS OF CANADA NOW TOO, AND THAT AS A RESULT I CAN PASTE, POST ANY OF MY COPYRIGHT MATERIAL  FREELY ON MY WEBS SITE FOR ALL TO SEE.

 

TORONTO – The office of Canada’s auditor general says it’s perfectly OK – and much appreciated – if websites link to reports on its government site, but warns they should not be hosted elsewhere. Advocates for copyright reform expressed concern Thursday when the auditor general’s office demanded the Globe and Mail newspaper remove a copy of a report that had been attached to one of its online articles. The Globe was displaying the report with a web application called Scribd, which allows large documents to be embedded on a web page without the need for an external program like Adobe Reader. It also keeps readers on the same web page, rather than sending them off to another site to read the document. Beth Stewart, a lawyer for the office of auditor general Sheila Fraser, said the document was ordered off Scribd’s servers because of concerns with the website’s terms of use. It was her understanding that users of Scribd documents are permitted to alter the files and use them in other ways, Stewart said.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/sci_tech/Auditor-general_s-office-says-it_s-OK-to-link-to_-but-not-host_-its-reports-69326817.html

 

An independent analysis of federal stimulus spending shows Conservative ridings received millions more than ridings represented by opposition MPs. Among the cabinet, Heritage Minister James Moore and Minister of State of Foreign Affairs Peter Kent ranked near the top of list due to their share of projects  in their ridings, An interactive look at the latest unemployment data broken down by province and city http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/jobless-rate-jumps-to-86-per-cent/article1353485/#interactive

 

Is Canada still in recession or in mother of all jobless recoveries?   (CP)  OTTAWA — Canada’s economic recovery is suddenly looking vulnerable after Statistics Canada shocked observers Friday with new data showing the country lost 71,000 jobs last month. The October figure was the third major economic indicator that has surprised well to the downside since the Bank of Canada declared the recession over in July. But the grim jobs data – glossed up by a 27,500-gain in self-employment that brought the net loss to 43,200 – puts into question the previous two months of reported gains. In conjunction with gross domestic product readings of zero growth in July and a 0.1 per cent shrinkage in August, the growth predicted for the third quarter appears to have vanished into thin air. http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5i7F0zSW7kKY265PrP7X0s5pqnb4Q

 

Bell ITSELF NOW WANTS TO MAKE MORE MONEY SELLING MOVIES DIRECTLY TO YOU ON THE NET SO IT READILY WANTS TO ACT LIKE BIG BROTHER POLICE TOO AND FORBID YOU TO DOWNLOAD ANY SUPPOSEDLY PIRATED MATERIAL.. AND WHAT ELSE WILL IT TRY TO CENSOR NOW TOO? BELL THE BIG DIABOLICAL POLICE STATE NOW TOO?  

 

 

 ”If we let Harper put the Conservative logo on EACH dose of H1N1 vaccine – there would be millions in short order.” with absolutely no lack of it…  It would all be very funny if it weren’t so sick.  Ken King, president and CEO of the Calgary Flames, should be embarrassed that he facilitated not only the team’s players, but their families and some executives of the hockey club, to bypass the normal channels to get inoculated ahead of people in the high-risk categories. The City of Calgary has been asking unsuccessfully since mid-October for vaccine units to immunize their police and fire department employees, yet King still sees nothing wrong with jumping the queue. He should do the honourable thing and resign from his position. Albertans and all Canadians deserve nothing less.

A second Alberta health-care worker has been fired for allowing 150 people connected with the Calgary Flames hockey team to jump the queue and receive H1N1 vaccinations at a special clinic last week. Alberta Health Services, the board that oversees health care in the province, made the announcement yesterday, two days after it dismissed “the most senior staff member involved” in the Flames flu controversy. “There is no process for authorization of the use of the H1N1 vaccine for this purpose, as it contradicts existing protocols and processes,” the board said in a statement. No other disciplinary action will be taken, the board said, adding that an advisory has been sent to everyone involved in the vaccination campaign to ensure “no exceptions will be made.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/second-worker-let-go-over-flames-furor/article1355178/

Albertan Auditor general may probe flu fiasco .  Opposition questions government’s ability to immunize all Albertans by Christmas http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Auditor+general+probe+fiasco/2186860/story.html

 

DO SEE ALSO http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/l-care-canadian-health-care-medical-cartoons-continued/    Now speaking about useless medical care, deaths.. see also http://picasaweb.google.com/anonconformer

 

Canada, OTTAWA – The biggest winners of the Conservatives’ stimulus extravaganza include one of the prime minister’s closest friends, a riding the Tories desperately hope to win in a byelection next week, and a longtime party stalwart.Conservatives come out on top in most provinces.. Eastern Ontario MP Scott Reid, the Nova Scotia riding of Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley and British Columbia MP Jim Abbott are three of the clearest winners in the distribution of stimulus spending, a broad analysis by The Canadian Press shows.Reid has deep roots in the party. Before he was elected in 2000, he served as a top adviser to Reform leader Preston Manning during the 1990s. Sharp and loyal, he has often been touted for cabinet, but was sidelined for a while for impolitic comments about bilingualism. He is the deputy House Leader.  Reid recently made the national news by posing with a giant stimulus cheque with his name emblazoned on top.Stimulus has also been relatively generous in the Quebec riding of Montmagny-L’Islet-Kamouraska-Riviere Loup, where the Conservatives hope their candidate can take the seat from the Bloc Quebecois in the byelections next week. The riding has 57 points, which seems low compared with other provinces, but is the fourth-highest in the province where stimulus has been slow to flow.spending programs most susceptible to pork-barrelling dedicate a large amount of money to a national purpose but don’t have specific local goals.. On the West Coast, the clear stimulus winners are longtime Tory MP Jim Abbott in the riding of Kootenay-Columbia..

The news media says that  New Democrat MP Nathan Cullen spent more on travel than any other MP this year, spending $228,603 to fly across Canada and trek around his sprawling British Columbia riding.  At the other extreme was Conservative MP Gordon O’Connor, who spent a mere $6,600 in travel — the least among sitting MPs. While O’Connor’s riding lies just west of Ottawa, his costs pale compared to the $28,553 chocked up by fellow Conservative MP Royal Galipeau, whose riding lies in the east-end of the city.  An analysis by Sun Media of documents tabled in the House of Commons shows a wide discrepancy in the travel costs MPs charged to taxpayers during the past year. And while the figures don’t include many categories of travel such as travel by cabinet ministers related to their jobs, travel by parliamentary committees and international conferences, it does give a glimpse of who is racking up the frequent flyer miles at taxpayers expense. Overall, Conservatives dominated the top 20 list, occupying 11 of the top 20 positions. While many of those who spent the most represent remote and isolated ridings, there were significant cost differences between MPs in far flung ridings. NDP MP Dennis Bevington, who represents the Northwest Territories spent $213,682 while Liberal Larry Bagnell, MP for the Yukon, charged $115,468.

Many senators are decent types trying to make intelligent and constructive contributions to public policy. But Mike Duffy’s only value has become that of poster boy for why the Senate needs, at very least, major reform if not outright abolition. With his wild rant on a CBC national politics show this week, the television icon has accomplished the difficult feat of offending all those in his parliamentary orbit — his former journalistic occupation, the Conservative party, senators, MPs and even the prime minister who appointed him. MP Peter Stoffer noted in passing, Senator Duffy racked up $44,000 in travel costs during just three months of unelected service in the Red Chamber. MPs from all parties have consistently ranked Peter Stoffer as the least partisan and most personable MP in Canada today. This is the same Duffy who, as host of his own politics show, presented himself for decades as journalistically neutral, then accepted Harper’s $130,000 appointment ten months ago and now devotes his energies to shamelessly shilling for the Conservatives. 
 http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/06/don-martin-mike-duffy-jumps-the-shark.aspx#ixzz0W9q67gRh

 

 Our governments and our leaders seem still too ready to allow all of our taxpayer’s monies to be abused and that is unacceptable always. Someone has to be concerned about it, and one of the best ways to deal with the abuses is to expose it and to prosecute fully all the guilty participants. ESPECIALLY THE BAD CIVIL AND PUBLIC SERVANTS.  

 

Firstly It is really a criminal offence to misuse the taxpayers money, to use one’s governmental, job, related resources, time and energy to promote one’s political party too..  

 

Liberals and New Democrats together could unseat Harper   The Prime Minister’s divisive partisan tactics have diminished the public’s respect for politicians in general. In just four years, he has changed the tone of media coverage and public discourse, shifting the mood of the nation toward cynicism and selfishness. http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/719037  The more simple, practical solution is to arrest Prime Minister rightfully on abusing the taxpayer’s money.. many world wide prime ministers have been successfully tried and convicted for their wrong doings  world wide.  It is undeniable that Harper has already now  hired many supporters into governmental jobs : conservative party supporters, organizers, promoters who also are now using their governmental positions, jobs and positions to promote the Conservative party.. so now do not hesitate to arrest and fire all of them too..  Most people still rightfully do blame the governments, politicians, bad cops and bad judges, for the existence of much too many crooked civil and public servants, crooked business persons, crooked persons in Canada.  More Laws that are unenforced also tend to be still mostly useless too.  

  

 

DO SEE ALSO
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/crtc-farcical-hearings-on-internet-speed-control/
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/bittorrent-p2p-sites/
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/no-gun-control-is-murder/
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/canada-and-the-recession/
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/harper-government-failed-miserably-on-swine-flu/
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/heads-roll-in-alberta/

We can often know too often our civil and public servants, governments. Medicare now are pretentious and none of that is very acceptable still as well, especially when they take their pay from the taxpayer’s money but now show little good for it still too.

Here also is what I do know  also for sure for decades now too. Visiting the local charge card happy medical doctors tends to be totally inadequate when you have a  serious health issue. In fact mainly, rather only hospital emergency facilities can help you, cause they alone tend to have all the expertise, medical equipment needed to do the proper diagnosis, necessary tests still too. 

 

Meanwhile British Prime Minister Gordon Brown threatens to end Afghan mission unless corruption is tackled.   In a clear policy shift, the Prime Minister cautioned President Karzai that unless he quashes endemic corruption he will have “forfeited” his right to international support. “I am not prepared to put the lives of British men and women in harm’s way for a government that does not stand up against corruption,” he said. “But let me also be clear. People are right to ask whether our soldiers should be placed in harm’s way, if the government of Afghanistan is unable or unwilling to meet its obligations to the Afghan people.  A poll last night showed that opposition to the war has risen markedly in the last fortnight. Only 33 per cent of the British public think that the war can be won, while 57 per cent think that victory is no longer possible.. and what does Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Canada say?

 

  Harper the bad Prime Minister of Canada 

 

 

Heads roll in Alberta

A senior staff member within Alberta Health Services has been turfed after members of the Calgary Flames were able to jump the queue and receive H1N1 vaccines. In a statement released today, AHS officials said they only learned of the situation on Monday. An investigation was launched. “Disciplinary action has been taken, resulting in the dismissal today of the most senior staff member involved,” says the statement. “An investigation is continuing and may result in further disciplinary action.” The statement was signed by Ken Hughes, chairman of the Alberta Health Services Board and Dr. Stephen Duckett, president and chief executive officer.

‘The special treatment … is unacceptable to us and contrary to all of our existing protocols and processes. I apologize for this breach of our duty to Albertans.’—Stephen Duckett, Alberta Health Services “I think it sends the message that this will not be tolerated,” said Alberta Health Minister Ron Liepert, adding that he does not know who the dismissed worker is, or why he or she decided to approve the clinic — held on Friday at an unnamed health centre — for the hockey team.   Top officials said they did not know about the arrangements for the Flames organization until Monday. “The decision to allow preferential access to the Flames and their families was a serious error in judgment on the part of the staff involved,” said Stephen Duckett, president and CEO of the board, in the statement

This is a perfect picture of what two tier health care systems look like. The rich get richer and those with money can buy their health care coverage/care. The Flames should be ashamed. Alberta Health Services should be investigated. How did the money/vaccine exchange happen and who’s pocket was filled. I am disgusted.Albertans have let there government get far to comfortable. 30 years in power says, we can do anything and you sheep will continue to vote for us. The governments should fear its people and yours does not. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/11/04/alberta-h1n1-flu-shot-calgary-flames-investigation.html

UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT -SELFISHNESS

Ont. minister says she’s outraged at reports that celebrity athletes got H1N1 vaccine  TORONTO – Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews vowed Thursday to investigate whether celebrity athletes jumped the queue for the swine flu shot while other groups are being forced to wait as the province’s supply dwindles. Minister slams H1N1 shots for Leafs, Raptors.  She said she shares the outrage sparked by reports that professional hockey and basketball players in Toronto got the shot even though the province doesn’t have enough yet to vaccinate school-age children.

Toronto hospital board got H1N1 shots early CBC.ca - Members of the board of directors at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital were given H1N1 shots last Monday, at a time when many people in priority groups had yet to be immunized. Shortage or not they used their position to beat the system. If you’re rich, famous or connected it seems you don’t have to wait.  Everyone else though…be patient.  Anyone but me tired of hearing ” we jumped to the front of the line because we did not know there was going to be a shortage? ” In whose world does that make it right when pregnant woman and small children spend hours standing in line? Not fair! These people should have had the decency to let the high-risk groups go first.  Sounds like the bureaucrats are looking after themselves again. Buffalo Jump said: “In Alberta they fired the person who made special arrangements for the Flames.   What is going to happen in Ontario?”  Nothing. This is Ontario

Canadian-editorial-cartoons IV

Cartoons Canada’s political scene

 

 

 

 

see also http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/2009-canadian-editorial-cartoons-iii/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/canadian-editorial-cartoons-v/

  

 Concerned about the federal government’s ability to manage the economy. The Conservatives have had it wrong from the start when they said there wouldn’t be a recession and that there would be a surplus. Today we have a recession and an ever-increasing $50-billion deficit. A different reality indeed.  The Conservatives  had promised to get money flowing for jobs within 120 days of the budget.  The deadline has come and gone, with not much to show for it.   The Conservatives  had done little . Instead we’ve lost over 350,000 jobs while infrastructure money from last year’s budget that could have stimulated growth and created jobs  never made it out the door. Adding insult to injury is that their stimulus plan is not working. Their infrastructure program is paralyzed and hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost. The Conservatives still have no plan to restore fiscal responsibility.   

 

363000 Canadians have lost their jobs since Harper’s re-election GlobalPost -  And since October, since the last election, where Stephen “lassiez faire I don’t care” Harper promised if there was going to be a recession Harper promised if there was going to be a recession it would have happened already and said we should trust him because he’s an economist, the Canadian economy has retracted by 2.1 per cent.

 

Mayors say construction season slipping away with no sign of stimulus cash Thu Jun 4,  WHISTLER, B.C. – Canada’s big city mayors say this summer’s construction season is slipping away with no sign of the economic stimulus cash promised by the federal government.   

 

  

Number of Canadians turning to food banks rising 20 per cent a month: survey  TORONTO – A new survey finds the percentage of Canadians turning to food banks is rising sharply. 

 

The Coalition had really rightfully unnerved, scared Conservative Stephen Harper and he has not been the same since, he is been running scared, doing things in desperation.. Harper he is not the leader of a democratic elected party cause he did not get 51 percent of the seats firstly.. he is a bully, dictator appointed by a bad  Governor General.

 

 Imagine how costly and what it would be like to tie all the police computers in Canada together too.. no wonder many criminals are get away with it too http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/06/11/9759611-sun.html

  

Cops seem to have it too easy in Canada, they do what they want, they abuse citizens and tend to get away with it too. Too many COPS, persons distort  the LAW. it’s meaning still too. 

“about the liars, thieves, ABUSERS, bullies, thugs, proud oppressors, war mongers “

 

THERE IS A  VERY BASIC COMMON MISCONCEPTION ON HOW TO DEAL WITH ANY PERCEIVED EVEN INJUSTICES, ABUSES, ANYWHERE, IN THE CHURCH AS WELL, BESIDES IMMEDIATELY CALLING THE LOCAL  POLICE..

 

THE NEW TESTAMENT IS CLEAR HOW TO DEAL WITH IT.. COMMUNICATION – AND YOU DON’T FIRST POST IT ALL ON THE NET.

 

First you merely ask the guilty, bad persons personally to repent twice, the first time without a witness, the second time with witnesses THAT you have asked them to repent.. and  detail  proof, substantiation is NOT required.. after you have done that you can next post it openly on the net, tell all the others.

 

Next God also is now fully free to deal with the unrepentant guilty offenders and believe me he will.. I have now been doing for decades too..
 
I SIMPLY SEND AN EMAIL, I PUT IT INTO CLEARLY WRITING, SO THE GUILTY PARTY CANNOT SAY I DID NOT ASK HIM OR HER TO REPENT.

 

WHETHER THEY ACKNOWLEDGE IT OR NOT TO GOD DOES NOT MATTER.

 

APPROPRIATE  PUBLIC EXPOSURE AND THE APPROPRIATE PROSECUTION OF THE GUILTY SERVES EVERYONE’S BEST INTEREST

  

FOR A GOOD NAME IS WORTH MUCH MORE THAN ANY AMOUNT OF SILVER OR GOLD AND A TARNISHED ONE IS WORTHLESS.

  

there are loads more cartoons on this site..

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/canadian-editorial-cartoons/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/2009-canadian-editorial-cartoons-ii/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/2009-canadian-editorial-cartoons-iii/

they abuse us, price gouge us

Ottawa moves to make auto repair more competitive  CTV.ca  Canadian motorists fed up with sky high dealer repair costs could soon have a new weapon to fight back, after the House of Commons passed the second reading of a private member’s bill. The “Right to Repair Bill” — or C-273 — would force automakers to disclose their closely guarded repair computer codes, opening the way for competition from independent repair shops and more options for consumers. NDP MP Brian Masse, the sponsor of the bill, said Thursday that the proposed legislation is aimed at making the repair system fair for all motorists. “That’s what we’re trying to do, is create the system that’s going to be fair and accessible to all.” The second reading passed Wednesday night. Masse explained that under the bill, independent repair facilities would be allowed to purchase the auto manufacturers’ computer repair code software, which would allow them to diagnose vehicle problems. The MP from Windsor, Ont., travelled the country, talking to independent repair shops, and said he was surprised at the scope of the problem.  Masse said that independents “were getting restricted information so they couldn’t fix vehicles so they would have to be towed to dealerships.” Masse also said the U.S. is far ahead than Canada on the issue of legislation forcing automakers to share computer repair codes Under the American Clean Air Act, Washington requires open access to software on diagnostics and repair. In Canada, it’s not required by law; some manufacturers share the information, some don’t. Auto industry observers say the car companies have kept secret their repair codes to keep their strong competitive advantage in the repair and service market for their dealer networks. Federal Industry Minister Tony Clement had been pushing for a voluntary agreement, saying “the status quo is not an option.” The Automotive Industries Association of Canada, an umbrella group representing everything from small independent repair shops to large aftermarket giants like Canadian Tire, has spent years trying to negotiate with vehicle manufacturers on this issue, with little success. But according to a representative from Canada’s car companies, the proposed system is in need of repair itself. “A piece of legislation like this is really, entirely unworkable,” said Mark Nantais, from the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association. “It will take several months, if not years, to actually become fully operational.” The auto industry is now working on drafting its own version of the system as an alternative to the government’s legislation.  http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090514/autorepair_bill_090514/20090514?hub=CTVNewsAt11

they abuse us, price gouge us and the Automotive manufacturers want our support? and the governments only pretend to look after the consumer interest still. 

The neo conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper is undeniably practicing socialism now, he is giving social aid to the automotive manufacturers, he is now helping our undeniable enemies.. the automobile manufacturers, the same ones who  want our support while they practice unfair and restrictive trade practice, price gouge us with their high repair cars, car maintenance costs now as well. 

 

 

  

Canadian Press   TORONTO – Liberal MP and gas price watchdog MP Dan McTeague is warning drivers to expect a 3.4 cent a litre increase in the price of regular gas today.  That brings the average price in the Toronto area to 97.7 cents per litre, but closer to the dollar a litre mark in Montreal and Vancouver. The price of oil has been rising on world markets to about US$60 a barrel, but McTeague doesn’t believe that’s the reason for the latest spike.  He says “this is nothing more than pure profit taking” and comes at a very bad time when the economy is not doing well.  McTeague says demand for gas is down and supply is up and gas prices should have been stabilized somewhere in the 75 cent range.  The cost of gas has now risen about 15 cents over the last three weeks   and no one does anything about it too…

 

 I would suggest als that the Liberals keep quiet about

 

- the supposedly underpaid, cost infective, inefficient RCMP firstly..for  it was the Liberal justice ministers as well that have let the police in Canada stay out of control and abuse the citizens the last 5 decades now too.. Now in reality the Police who are often lying and saying they are serving the public good by going overboard with their law enforcement are just merely being selfish thugs, self centered, trying to promote themselves at the citizens expense and that is now true Canada wide, with the local police, RCMP, sheriffs now too.

 

- and it was only one good liberal PM who did something good about the rising gas prices, the honorable Pierre Trudeau,they abuse us, price gouge us and the Automotive manufacturers want our support? and the governments only pretend to look after the consumer interest still.  The neo conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper is undeniably practicing socialism now, he is giving social aid to the automotive manufacturers, he is now helping our undeniable enemies.. the automobile manufacturers, the same ones who  want our support while they practice unfair and restrictive trade practice, price gouge us with their high repair cars, car maintenance costs now as well. 

 

- the rest of the Liberal PM were really  inadequate.. PM Jean Chretien and useless Paul Martin included.. the same ones who really  did not do any EI reforms now too.

- and it was the  Liberals as well did not do anything good  about bad Bell -Sympatico absuing it’s customers. lying, stealing, false misleading advertisements

 

- Quebec’s pension fund IS NOW IN REAL TROUBLE   “The new head of the fund is Michael Sabia, former head of Bell Canada Enterprises, who took over in March of this year.” QUEBCERS AND THE Quebec’s pension fund IS NOW IN REAL  TROUBLE,  JUST LOOK AT THE BAD EFFECT THE SAME PERSON SABIA  HAD ON BELL, WHOSE STOCKS, SALES, SERVICES, CUSTOMER SATISFACTION  HAVE GONE DONE DRASTICALLY. I HOPE THEY ARE ALL NOT STUPID ENOUGH TO LET HIM INVEST OUR MONEY INTO BELL AS WELL. Now also add to this Quebec’s Minister of Finance, Monique Forget, who always seemed to forget me too,  her  sudden resignation  from politics and thus who will not be around to answer what she also knows about this affair.. It sure looks like a cover-up…

 

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/canadas-ex-pm-jean-chretien-paul-martin-found-guilty/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/stephen-harper-and-the-economic-crisis/

 

 

Canadian Press  OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada says the federal government broke the law in financing the employment insurance system by transforming premiums paid by workers and employers into an unconstitutional tax.  In a 7-0 judgment, the court ruled Thursday the former Liberal governments of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin collected EI contributions illegally in 2002, 2003 and 2005.  In those years, EI rates were set directly by cabinet without proper authorization from Parliament, violating the ancient constitutional principle of no taxation without representation.  However, the court said Ottawa legitimately collected premiums in all other years since 1996 and rejected claims by organized labour that the Liberals deliberately ran up massive surpluses in the EI fund, then diverted the money to balance the federal budget and fund other initiatives.  The Confederation des Syndicats Nationaux, one of Quebec’s leading labour organizations, had demanded that $54 billion in allegedly diverted premiums be returned to the EI system and used to fund future benefits to jobless workers.  The court issued no order for repayment and suspended the effect of its judgment for one year in order to give the federal government time to sort out the legislative tangle.http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081211/national/scoc_ei_surplus

Critics have long maintained the strategy of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin  amounted to balancing the federal books on the backs of the unemployed.  The Liberals brought in legislation in 1996 that tightened eligibility rules for EI benefits but simultaneously opened the door to new training, education, placement and other programs.  Critics say the government then went on to set the premiums charged to workers and employers at higher rates than were necessary to fund the reduced benefits and new programs.  The result was a ballooning surplus in the EI fund – a revenue windfall critics said could be used first to balance the budget and later to support other Liberal initiatives that had no connection to EI. 

We should note that Brian Mulroney was the main reason his Conservative political party became obsolete too.

 

2009 CANADIAN EDITORIAL CARTOONS III

-A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

  do see also http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/canadian-editorial-cartoons/

2009 CANADIAN EDITORIAL CARTOONS II

CANADIAN EDITORIAL CARTOONS -A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

 

 

do see also http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/canadian-editorial-cartoons/

Stephen Harper considering a sleep in

    

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – Canada’s Liberal Party, which has been climbing in recent opinion polls, is also regaining its financial footing and the political unity it needs to fight a new election, leader Michael Ignatieff said on Thursday. But Ignatieff added he was still in no rush to force an election so soon after last October’s vote, and told party activists they still had hard work to do to regain the Liberals’ standing as a “national institution” that could elect candidates in all parts of the country.. “We have a unified party. We have a party out of debt. And we have a party basically ready to fight an election,” he told reporters in Vancouver at the start of the Liberal’s Party national convention.

 

The new Harper coalition: The sound you hear is Stephane Dion …  National Post -  Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Stephen Harper once say something about the inadvisability of getting into bed with the socialists and separatists?  On Wednesday, Parliament witnessed a bizarre move when the Conservatives voted in favour of a Bloc motion that transfers $2.6 billion to Quebec and allows the province to administer its own sales tax.

   

 Once again due to an obvious great fear of losing his job, becoming unemployed, losing the fringe benefits Shockingly Canada’s prime minister Stephen  Harper is considering a coalition sleep in,  he again hypocritically is considering doing the same thing he bashed others before for doing  … 

    

  

“CTV reports on a Conservative Party strategy to block the Liberal resurgence by … wait for it … cooperating with the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois to avoid a non-confidence vote and an election that they will probably lose.  In exchange for continued support, the Bloc seeks tax harmonization with the federal government and improvements to Employment Insurance. The NDP also wants changes to EI, plus more pension protection and stricter rules for credit card companies.  Of course, this is precisely the way Parliament is supposed to work: the governing party is supposed to introduce legislation that has the support of a majority of MPs in the House of Commons so that it can retain the confidence of the House.  But damn, the optics sure don’t look good for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who excoriated the Liberal Party in December and provoked a Constitutional crisis for doing the same thing.  At the time, Harper managed to avoid the defeat of his government in a non-confidence vote by successfully petitioning the Governer General to prorogue Parliament and avoid facing the elected House of Commons until announcing the 2009 Federal budget in January.   By that time, the Liberal Party had replaced lame duck leader Stéphane Dion with Michael Ignatieff, who decided that the Liberal Party’s agenda could better be served by withdrawing from a coalition with the NDP (and supported by the Bloc) and biding his time until public sentiment shifted away from the Conservatives. Public polling data since January has shown a steady slide in public support for the Conservatives as voters have shifted back to the Liberals.”  http://www.raisethehammer.org/blog.asp?id=1324  

 

 

WHAT NEXT?

A good leader knows when he’s in trouble. And Stephen Harper, on his 50th birthday, is in deep trouble. He’s in trouble in the country, especially in Quebec; in trouble with the public service, which is putting down tools with his government; and increasingly in trouble with the Conservative Party, whose fault lines are cracking under the divisive and mean-spirited management style of the Prime Minister’s Office. But Harper is apparently oblivious to how much trouble he’s in, because there’s no one, other than Laureen Harper, who can tell him. He is a leader without confidants and without mentors. There is no one to tell him what he needs to hear, as opposed to what he wants to hear: not in the cabinet, not in the caucus, and certainly not in his own office http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Harper+deep+deep+trouble/1547784/story.html

NEED HELP NOW AND NOT SOME DAY!

 

 Unacceptable new Conservatives lack of compassion, indifference, bad  ideology, obstinance, stubbornness – and  when asked in Parliament last week about making more workers eligible for EI, Diane Finley, minister of human resources, delivered this astonishing reply: “It is true that not everyone is eligible. Unfortunately, that is the way the system is,” well Minister you have the power to change it for the good of us all, so di it now.

PM STEPHEN HARPER SHOULD IMMEDIATELY GET OUT OF THE WAY AND LET SOMEONE ELSE WHO CLEARLY CAN DO A BETTER JOB GET ON WITH IT.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper insists the Conservative Government is doing everything it can to help people forced out of work by the recession.

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff points out that while new EI claims were up nearly 19 per cent in February, the number of people actually receiving benefits increased by less than eight per cent.

The federal government is looking increasingly NAIVE, INCOMPETENT in the face of MORE AND MORE bad economic news. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his crew appear to be DREAMING the recession away in it;s own rather than taking real, valid additional steps to counter it now.

STEPHEN HARPER DO STOP DREAMING AND DO TELL ME FIRST WHAT REAL WORK THEY THE UNEMPLOYED NEXT WILL FIND BEFORE THEIR EI AID RUNS OUT?  

 New Conservatives care only about helping themselves!

Manitoba government hopes for federal flood help in weeks, not months:minister Tue Apr 28,  OTTAWA – Two federal cabinet ministers have assured the Manitoba government that helping flood victims is a top priority and that any federal programs will be expedited, the province’s emergency measures minister said Tuesday.

 

 

 TRUTH and the REALITY

 

Exposure and prosecution of the bad, guilty persons serves everyone’s best interest. 

 

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty spent much of the weekend scolding other western countries, in particular the United States, for slow action on delivering stimulus packages and implementing reforms in their banking systems. He should take a look around his own backyard.. Where is all that money the Harper Conservatives promised to start rebuilding the Canadian economy? what’s stopping him from speeding up the response in Canada? He is the finance minister, after all.  it is less clear that the Harper Conservatives have delivered on promises to move swiftly to stimulate the Canadian economy.   “We are facing harsh economic conditions, and while the government must be applauded for its budget focus on infrastructure and job creation, we are concerned that delays in announcing details on how municipalities can access the fund might mean that we will lose this construction season,” Halifax Mayor Peter Kelly. The economic problems have only deepened. The longer Ottawa drags out this process, the longer a recovery will be delayed. By the time municipalities get approval from Ottawa and the province for their projects and then qualify for funding with CMHC, several more months will likely pass. .  Diane Finley, minister responsible for the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp., announced a $2-billion fund for low-cost loans to municipalities. The money will help municipalities cover their share of funding for infrastructure projects. Typically, these projects comprise equal one-third funding shares from the federal, provincial and municipal governments. The difficulty for smaller municipalities in regions with less boisterous economies is coming up with their share to participate in these federal programs.  http://thechronicleherald.ca/Columnists/1119056.html Ottawa’s ‘concern’ reaches out to Strathcona voters  Edmonton Journal -  The answer is furnished by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who — in his photograph — sits back on a chesterfield with a gorgeous flower pillow 

  

and when they do, it is because they often have borrowed money from the money from some other budget of theirs, and next it has to be repaid, so that money is actually not available for any real expenditure programs. More jobs now are still being lost, access to capital is still squeezed, provincial tax revenues are shrinking and people are also still having trouble getting employment insurance benefits in a timely manner. A federal budget focus on infrastructure and job creation based on Municipal projects mostly is also a very bad approach.. Business persons also now need real support as well to develop, to find new effective products, services, markets. A lot more real effective work needs to be done by the finance minister and the federal government still as well.. Now do it.. Action speak louder over  cheap words.   

 

 

“Now friends, I am not here to tell you everything we are doing as a government is perfect. We are operating in a very difficult political and economic environment. Options are limited, risk is everywhere, but I can tell you we are on the right track” PM Stephen Harper  http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=1547376

 

 

PM STEPHEN HARPER OFTEN REMINDS ME OF THE BAD RCMP,  even in that both have to use PR, public relationships promotions to advertise their supposed effectiveness because it is clear THAT OTHERWISE it is still very not directly obvious to most of the citizens.. because it does not exist, is a falsehood..

 

Harper missing while we struggle Windsor Star -  Stephen Harper and the Conservative government don’t seem to have any plan for Canada today or in the future …

 

Inspector found problems with Maple Leaf plant’s records before outbreak Tue Apr 28,  TORONTO – The Maple Leaf plant at the centre of last summer’s deadly listeriosis outbreak wasn’t properly recording the cleaning of its meat slicing equipment earlier in the year, federal inspection records reveal.

 

 

Unemployment insurance claims show recession afflicting all parts of Canada Tue Apr 28,  OTTAWA – The worst recession in decades is not choosing favourites, hammering Canadian workers regardless of where they live, new data on employment insurance payouts show.

 

THE SAD REALITY IS THE LIBERAL BC GOVERNMENT IS NOT MUCH BETTER ITSELF NOW..

 

Province refused to release report on welfare leavers, The British Columbia government has suppressed a report on what happens to people who leave the province’s welfare system,

Welfare to work CEO got million dollar raise  April 22, 2009 12:57 pm The CEO of an American company that provides job placement services to British Columbia welfare recipients got a $1 million pay raise in 2008. A single person on welfare in B.C. who is classified as “expected to work” receives $610 a month, or $7,320 a year. The company’s former vice president responsible for government relations and communications, Robin Adair, is now a B.C. Liberal Party candidate in Saanich South.

Auditor General slams BC failure on homelessness The British Columbia government has so far failed to develop a plan to reduce homelessness, according to a report released by Auditor General John Doyle  “We found significant activity and resources being applied to homelessness issues but there is no provincial homelessness plan with clear goals and objectives,” Doyle wrote. “The absence of clear goals and objectives raises questions about whether the right breadth and intensity of strategies are being deployed.” The government does not even have a grasp of the size of the problem, he said. “The lack of good comprehensive information about the nature and extent of homelessness in the province” makes it difficult to plan, he said. The only figures available are from homelessness counts conducted by municipalities and regional districts that likely underestimate the problem, he said. Those counts have been rising. “The continuing increase in the number of homeless counted suggests a lack of success in managing homelessness, let alone reducing it.” There is a good financial case to be made for better addressing homelessness, he said. “The cost of public services to a homeless person is significantly higher than to that same person being provided with appropriate housing and support services.”

Justice, social services failed Frank Paul: report AND Welfare application process ‘unduly complex’: Ombudsman 

 

 

DO IT NOW! HELP US NOW, political cartoons

 

The Ostrich RCMP is not the only one with a bad memory

 

The Oliphant inquiry is looking into the relationship between Mulroney and businessman Karlheinz Schreiber.

What Brian Mulroney had taken a very very large gift, alleged bribe, hundreds of thousands of Dollars from Karlheinz Schreiber and Mulroney had forgotten to declare it as an income on his income tax?  Now other people associated with Brian Mulroney also have memory problems relating to vast amount of money they too had received.. and why is that???  I do get a big kick out of these inquiry watching how the weasels try to lie their way out of the apparent wrong doings they are being charged with.. Denials, denials, denials..

 

 

Fred Doucet “A former senior adviser to Brian Mulroney said he can’t remember writing three letters or receiving a fax regarding the purchase and delivery of Airbus planes to Air Canada. Fred Doucet, testifying at the federal inquiry into the business dealings between Karlheinz Schreiber and the former prime minister, said he had no recollection of any of the correspondence relating to Airbus that took place between 1992 and 1994. Of particular note is a fax that was sent to Doucet from Denis Biro, then Air Canada’s manager of investor relations, and a letter written by Doucet to Schreiber. Both are dated April 27, 1993, the same date that Mulroney received his first cash envelope from Schreiber at a hotel in Mirabel airport.  Earlier, Doucet testified that he also can’t remember why he received $90,000 to lobby on behalf of a company controlled by Schreiber in 1988, more than a month after he had left government. Doucet also said he also couldn’t recall the details of requesting a waiver from the government that would allow him to engage in lobbying before the mandatory one-year cooling-off period for former government employees. Doucet had been employed by Schreiber to lobby the government on behalf of the Bear Head project — a plan for a light-armoured vehicle plant in Nova Scotia. Wolson asked Doucet about an invoice for “professional services” to Schreiber’s company Bitucan Holdings dated Nov. 2 1988. “What are you invoicing him for?” Wolson asked. Invoices followed by $90,000 cheques“. I have no recollection of the invoice. My presumption is that it was for services pursuant to the project,” he said.But Wolson pointed out that around the same time, invoices were sent to Bitucan Holdings in the exact same amount from: former Newfoundland premier Frank Moores, Gerry Doucet, Fred Doucet’s brother, and Gary Ouellet, a former chief of staff to a Conservative transport minister.“ Is that just a coincidence that everyone sends an invoice, within a few weeks of one another and cheques [are] issued for $90,000?” Wolson asked.“ I would have had no knowledge of when they were sending invoices or for what purpose, or for what amounts,” Doucet said.“And it just happens to be, of all numbers, it’s the same number that you send an invoice for. Everyone does,” Wolson said.  Wolson also told the inquiry about a waiver Doucet received that allowed him to lobby the government shortly after he left.He would normally have been subject to a one-year cooling off period before being allowed to lobby any departments he had dealings with while in government.But Doucet had obtained an unusual waiver of the cooling-off provision in the federal ethics code at the time.“You asked for that waiver. It was one of the requests you had made,” Wolson said.“I have no recollection of asking for that,” Doucet said, adding that it’s possible he may have.Wolson suggested that had officials known Doucet “was involved with the Bear Head project in government that that waiver may not have occurred.“I don’t know that,” Doucet said.  http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/04/27/doucet-inquiry.html

 

and everyone knows that we have too many crooked cops and too many crooked ppoliticans in Canada.. 

 

Mulroney denies wrongdoing | Canada | News | but  no matter how he spins the recent polls show that it most people, 95 percent  do not believe Mulroney and still believe he is one of Canada’s biggest crooks as bad as the RCMP and Harper and his bad boys   Yeah we STILL ALL DO NEED HELP WE NEED SOMEONE TO DEAL WITH THE DIRTY RCMP,  and the dirty lying Albertan justice minister  WHO said that many of the citizens did not complain about the bad RCMP and their unneeded use of the Taser.. he is a liar like the RCMP,   Top RCMP officer gives a cheap apologize  for airport Taser death while “a lot of the criminals are already going free, the four officers involved in this latest RCMP mess for example. Oh and interesting that you bring up drunk driving causing death because only one segment of our population seems to get away with it repeatedly. Off Duty officers.”  “When an organization looks after themselves more than who they are put in place to care for, it’s time to rethink at the roots.   “  “Fancy that, It only took the top cop 1 year and 7 months to give his  half-assed apology that they were more or less forced to give. (Public  outcry). Now if they put some of them in jail, it might show their sincere.  We know that won’t happen though, their infallible.  http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/05/11/bc-rcmp-apology-taser.html   http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/05/12/bc-taser-inquiry-wilson-dziekanski.html

 

Taser inquiry leaves RCMP image in  tatters By Don Martin, Calgary Herald April 24, 2009  The retired police officer thought  he’d seen the worst possible case of cop rot when he helped drag an RCMP  commissioner before Parliament to face cover-up perjury accusations.  But  what’s surfacing daily on the witness stand at the Braidwood Inquiry into the  Taser-triggered death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski has even Ron Lewis  mortified at the reputation ruination of Canada’s iconic police force.   In performing its duty to document the truth internally, properly brief the  public externally and testify to the facts accurately, this inquiry has become  a nightmarish example of a force that is not always with us. He admits the  force got a black eye from a prolonged pension scandal featuring nepotism,  contract irregularities and a blind-eye refusal by senior officers to enforce  the rules.  But the parade of fibbing Vancouver airport officers who  zapped a confused and unarmed immigrant five times, restraining him on the  floor until he died while a civilian’s video camera rolled from the far side  of the glass, is now giving way to evidence of a higher-level communications  whitewash where critical information was ignored, suppressed or manipulated.  In vintage Watergatish style, the cover-up is becoming worse than the  crime.  ”The investigators must’ve known immediately they had a huge  problem, but didn’t handle it well out of a sense of self-preservation,” Lewis  told me. “Now they’re locked on a global stage and they can’t get off. This is  not a localized event people will easily forget. It’s going to take a  generation for a lot of this to go away.” But the problem for the force goes  beyond using excessive force against a frightened immigrant trapped alone in a  situation he could not comprehend and waving around a stapler for protection.  The pension plan fiasco was confined to the top level of the police force.  This inquiry-probing incident started at the lowest level of policing, but is  now creeping up the chain of command. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Business/Taser+inquiry+leaves+RCMP+image+tatters/1529001/story.html   

Former PC N.L. cabinet minister fined, loses licence for failing breathalyzer 

 

 

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – A former top Newfoundland and Labrador cabinet minister was fined and stripped of his driver’s licence Tuesday for failing the breathalyzer test, a   fallout of his involvement in the province’s spending scandal.

 

The RCMP, cops are not the only one who drink alcohol and drive..

 

IF THE TOO  OFTEN DIRTY RCMP  DID NOT LIKE THE JOB THEY SHOULD HAVE QUIT, AN  OPTION EVERY ONE HAS BUT I MYSELF NOW HAVE RUN INTO DIRTY RCMP OFFICERS  AT  TWO DIFFERENT AIRPORTS, Vancouver, Winnipeg  even DECADES AGO  TOO.. AND MOST RCMP OFFICER THAT I HAD ENCOUNTERED ELSEWHERE WERE ALSO LIARS,  THOSE IN Montreal, Calgary, Canmore TOO.. Reality – THE BAD RCMP PROBLEM  IS NOT JUST ONE ISOLATED CASE.. IT HAS EXISTED THE LAST 4 DECADES IN MY  WITNESS.

It’s not a knock on Kenney to say that he’s a complete political animal; there are lots of those in government, and always have been. But the question is whether he can keep distance between two jobs that should not be held by the same person. You can’t be simultaneously in charge of the country’s immigration policy and your own party’s efforts to recruit ethnic voters without facing a potential conflict of interest on a daily basis – especially if you’re a win-at-all-costs type of politician, as Kenney certainly is. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090512.WBwbradwanski20090512122149/WBStory/WBwbradwanski/

  WHY IS IT THAT THE CONSERVATIVE MINISTERS ARE SO POWER HUNGRY WHEN IT IS NOW TOO OBVIOUS TO MOST PEOPLE THEY ARE FIRSTLY STILL TOO INCOMPETENT TO HANDLE IT.

 http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/mounties-ask-b-c-court-to-bar-taser-inquiry-from-finding-misconduct/

Every day police officers leave their homes and families and put their lives on the line for a salary, cause this is what they are being paid for, hired for and this does not mean that they are now even free of any negative criticism while they are doing their paid  duties, especially when there are so many outstanding questions regarding their    inappropriate use of authority, force by too many police officers,  plus the unacceptable false  cover ups of their wrong doings and their unacceptable lying now  too.  Plus basically  nothing has even changed in the Vancouver airport customs area since the RCMP’s death of the police immigrant Dziekanski. And there are still concerns about Liberal candidate Kash Heed and his former role as West Vancouver police chief and his unexpected retirement from the force less than two years into his contract, “There’s still a lot of anger about a $40,000 severance payout even though he voluntarily quit in February, leaving many unanswered questions about his status on the force,”  to supposedly avoid legal prosecution too. “The cops have a responsibility to follow moral leadership and let me tell you, the cops do not have that here [in Abbotsford] “NDP candidate for Abbotsford South, Bonnie Rai. These are all valid issues, concerns too.

 

 

In regard to the “The Alberta Serious Response Team, an independent body, is investigating the circumstances of Prentice’s death, which happened Wednesday evening shortly after he was found knocking on the homes of strangers in a quiet cul-de-sac.
> Troubled Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla  ‘a bit of a manipulator’ By ALTHIA RAJ, Edmonton Sun
>Prentice had convictions dating back to the late ’80s and early 1990s for drug trafficking, possession and resisting arrest by NADIA.MOHARIB Edmonton Sun

Nadia  along with her colleague Althia  HAVE A BIG DIRTY MOUTH, they LIKE TO GOSSIP, LIE ABOUT AND SLANDER the dead and GOOD PEOPLE now SHOULD BASH THE bad guys, the bad RCMP RIGHTFULLY INSTEAD..  and not rather sleep with them 

Canada News – WORSE AND NOT BETTER

    

Unemploynment, recession are increasing in Canada dramatlically presently  and not enough is being done about it by the governments too

 You need to get used to this fact  people lie, and often too, so does our PM stephen Harper, so do  the politicians, ministers, civil servants and cops, RCMP  now too as we all do know.. so do the statistics, polls as well.. and when you read about 10  percent uemploynment, 10 percent of reduction in manufacturing in  Canada this year, so you  now can easily, safely double those figures and that is how bad the situation really is too..

 

Anyone who takes home a pay cheques has definitely promised to do an assigned task honestly, and to do a full day’s related work, labor as well, Now you all know that if you have a dozen workers, at least a quarter of them next do not do their fair share of the work next.. they rather goof off on the job, they do other things on the job, they only pretend to be good workers in reality.. now that also includes our civil, public servants, politicians, ministers included.. 

 

I tend to highlight serious matters…and how little too often in reality our still too often lying,  pretentious , lip service governments do fail to properly act on all of the matters,,   even about  injustices, unemployment, police and health issues.  

For example I ADMIT I WAS UPSET WHEN I FOUND OUT HOW SERIOUS the finally revealed UNEMPLOYMENT WAS IN Canada..  the politicians seem to let you think it was a 2009 problem, but it had now even  existed even before 2008.., I was also seriously  upset to find out that many  educated young people were being laid off, having difficulties finding a job.. for those of you who have difficulty reading, staying focused, I also DO have related cartoons for you to look at below too..

 

 Recession hits young workers hard  OTTAWA – Mark Bresee had all the trappings of a successful young graduate a year ago: the plasma TV, the posh apartment and a new engineering job.    

As recession deepens, more and more jobless fall through the cracks Sat Apr 18, 1:19 PM    OTTAWA – The most severe recession in decades is exposing the gaping holes in Canada’s vaunted social safety net.  Only six months into an economic downturn, social advocates and the jobless say the employment insurance system that was supposed to cushion the fall is in reality either inadequate or so hard to access that tens of thousands of newly unemployed just don’t qualify for benefits.  As is always the case in times of economic troubles, it’s the most vulnerable in society that are being hurt most by the recession.   And it’s those Canadians, along with a smattering of individuals with unusual circumstances, who are finding the EI system not as advertised.  After giving birth last May, Maninder Rehsi of Maple, Ont., north of Toronto, was only able to acquire 430 insurable hours of work before her employer Progressive Moulded Products succumbed to the recession and went out of business, idling 2,000 workers, including her husband. Under EI requirements for her region, she was out of luck because she hadn’t accumulated 600 insurable hours over the previous 12 months.  Now Rehsi says her husband’s benefits are close to exhausted and she doesn’t know how they’ll make ends meet if they don’t find a job soon. 

Martin Smith of Guelph, Ont., a British manufacturing engineer who was recruited by auto parts maker Linamar (TSX:LNR) four years ago and had been paying EI premiums ever since, only to find out that for him the system was a one-way street.  When he was laid off for about seven weeks this winter, he was told his permit allowed him to work only for Linamar, hence he didn’t qualify because he couldn’t seek employment elsewhere without a new work permit.  Or Deonarine Persaud of Toronto who lost his nine-year job at a car parts supplier last May and is now barely getting by on his wife’s Wal-Mart Canada (NYSE:WMT) salary, after his EI benefits of about $400 a week ran out.  “It’s not like I don’t want to work,” said Persaud. “I used to work 50, 60 hours a week sometime. There are no jobs, not just for me, lots of people can’t get jobs now.”

Canada’s previously robust labour market began stalling last spring and went into a tailspin last fall, dropping 357,000 jobs since October. Economists believe as many as 600,000 Canadians could become victims this year of the worst recession in decades and possibly since the Great Depression.  It is precisely for such times that unemployment insurance was created and worked relatively well during the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s.  But unlike the past two slumps, when about 80 per cent of the unemployed collected unemployment insurance, today less than 43 per cent, or 560,000 of the 1.3 million Canadians who were officially jobless in January, are collecting benefits.  What’s more, they are likely covered for fewer weeks and are earning far less. Regardless of a worker’s salary before being laid off, EI’s top payout is $447 a week, and the average payout is abut $325 a week, the equivalent of minimum wage.
That’s significantly less than the $595, in today’s dollars, that EI recipients were receiving in 1995, according to a calculation by the Caledon Institute, an Ottawa-based social policy think tank.  Sylvain Schetagne, an economist with the Canadian Labour Congress, explains that successive Conservative and Liberal governments in the late 1980s to mid-1990s, cut away at the employment insurance safety net until it was in shreds. 

There are two explanations for why the EI system was gutted, or as governments of the day put it, “reformed,” says James Struthers, a professor of Canadian studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont.  The first was to save cash-strapped Ottawa money. The second was based on the prevailing deregulation mood of the times that put faith in markets and not governments to solve social problems.  That’s the nice way of putting it. The blunt way, says Struthers, is that governments felt benefits were too generous and that some Canadians were avoiding the plentiful work that was going begging during a period of economic prosperity.  The pogey-collecting Canadian sunning himself on a Florida beach was an obvious overstatement.  

 

  

PM Stephen Harper is also clearly traveling as much abroad as he can before he next gets fired, kicked out of office.  PM on minds of unsettled Tories   Toronto Star - ‎Apr 7, 2009‎ But there’s a whole lot of soul-searching going on here about where the Canadian conservative movement, particularly under Stephen Harper, is headed.  

 

 Conservatives slipping, Liberals gaining: EKOS poll  CBC.ca - ‎Apr 16, 2009‎ Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at the end of the G20 Summit in London earlier this month. A new EKOS poll suggests public support for his Conservative … 

Speaking about our good welfare and health..

 

Province not given full story in outbreak

Toronto Star - ‎18 hours ago‎  Maple Leaf staff show revamped cleaning methods at North York plant in December 2008 in aftermath of listeria crisis. Canada’s food safety agency withheld crucial information from the provincial health ministry during last summer’s listeria outbreak …

Food-safety agency accused of impeding listeriosis probe Globe and Mail

FIA admits error in listeriosis outbreak Canada.com

NorthumberlandView.ca  - London Free Press  - Ottawa Citizen  - Ontario Mirror Guardian

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 bad pretentious governments..  

 

Judge that led inquiry into sponsorship scandal blasts lack of transparency Sat Apr 18, 3:14 PM  REGINA – REGINA – A retired Quebec judge who oversaw an inquiry into the federal sponsorship scandal said Friday that unnecessary delays or outright denials of requests under the Access to Information Act are creating a lack of transparency in government.   John Gomery, speaking to a Canadian Bar Association luncheon in Regina, said this type of transparency is crucial to the Canadian public, to democracy and to society at large.   “It’s a danger to open government and to our democratic institutions, frankly. A public this isn’t informed is a public which isn’t able to vote intelligently,” he said.   Improving the flow of government information through such requests is not really on the radar of most politicians, he said.  “The whole subject has a low priority in the minds of too many politicians and definitely access to information is regarded as a pain in the neck to bureaucrats,” Gomery said.  He said he hoped that Canadians would pressure the federal government into improving the flow of information to the public.  Gomery has been critical of Stephen Harper’s Conservative government in the past.  Last year, he said that it had largely ignored the 19 recommendations he made in his report on the Liberal government sponsorship scandal.   At the time, he also voiced concerns about the growing concentration of power in the Prime Minister’s Office and warned members of Parliament about what he saw as a troubling trend.  “I suggest that this trend is a danger to Canadian democracy and leaves the door wide open to the kind of political interference in the day-to-day administration of government programs that led to what is commonly called the sponsorship scandal,” Gomery said in an interview in March 2008.   In his first report, delivered in November 2005, Gomery lambasted the former Liberal government for letting politically connected middlemen skim millions of taxpayers’ dollars from sponsorship projects designed to promote federalism in Quebec.  A second report with his recommendations was released in February 2006, shortly after Harper took power.   In that report, Gomery recommended that the prime minister’s power to appoint deputy ministers and senior bureaucrats come to and end.   He also recommended limiting the authority of the Clerk of the Privy Council, the prime minister’s right-hand bureaucrat, and giving more money and staff to the Commons public accounts committee, which acts as a spending watchdog.   

 

OTTAWA — Rapid contractions of both the Canadian economy and the job market eclipsed the Harper government’s stimulus package before the first dollar was dispensed, an economic think-tank says in study to be released Monday. The study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the stimulus package laid out in the Jan. 27 budget was too small, too late and failed to direct the money where Canadians would get the most bang for their buck. “The size of the federal government’s stimulus package is out of proportion to the threat that Canadians are currently facing and have already ensured,” says the report, entitled Too Little Too Late. Written by CCPA economist David Macdonald, the study urged Prime Minister Stephen Harper to increase the stimulus effort. The government ’s    $29-billion stimulus package .. the economic impact of the stimulus package was “exhausted” by the end of December, almost one month before the government introduced the package, CCPA said. The study faults the government’s infrastructure program for relying too heavily on matching funds from cash-strapped provinces and municipalities, saying it will almost inevitably mean a delay in the flow of money. http://www.canada.com/business/fp/Ottawa+stimulus+exhausted+before+money+released+think+tank/1467009/story.html

  

Imagine that last year the Corporate paid taxes dropped about 50 percent over the previous year showing the true recession figures.. buckle up your seat belts,  a rough ride is ahead still.

 

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CANADA WIDE election talks

 

June election likley cause Liberals believe they can get a majority government.. PM Harper is afraid of this.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – Canada’s Liberal Party, which has been climbing in recent opinion polls, is also regaining its financial footing and the political unity it needs to fight a new election, leader Michael Ignatieff said on Thursday. But Ignatieff added he was still in no rush to force an election so soon after last October’s vote, and told party activists they still had hard work to do to regain the Liberals’ standing as a “national institution” that could elect candidates in all parts of the country.. “We have a unified party. We have a party out of debt. And we have a party basically ready to fight an election,” he told reporters in Vancouver at the start of the Liberal’s Party national convention.

  

Ignatieff again threatens election if EI reforms not in place by summer  TORONTO – Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff sent his clearest signal yet that an election may be imminent if Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his minority government fail to reform Employment Insurance by the summer.

   

Key Liberal policy resolutions under consideration by Canadian Liberal party riding presidents,  members Canada wide..

 
- A  carbon tax proposal.  One resolution, proposed by the Quebec wing of the party, calls on a Liberal government to unconditionally commit to meeting the Kyoto Protocol targets, enacting legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that would include “establishing a carbon tax, a cap and trade system or a combination of both.”  Another, proposed by the British Columbia wing of the party, calls on a Liberal government to consider “all mechanisms of investment, incentive and taxation” to combat global warming and stimulate sustainable economic growth.  Ignatieff,   the leader has already signalled he wants no part of a carbon tax, no matter what delegates have to say on the subject.   Ignatieff has disavowed the concept since taking over the helm of the party last December. “We took the carbon tax to the public and the public didn’t think it was such a good idea,” he said last month. “I’m trying to get myself elected here and if the public, after mature consideration, think that’s the dumbest thing they’ve ever heard then I’ve got to listen.”-And another one calls on a Liberal government to ensure “equitable sharing of natural resources.” Provinces, particularly resource-rich Alberta and Saskatchewan, have always jealously guarded their natural resources, which are strictly under provincial jurisdiction, from federal intrusions.

-Another one  also from Quebec, urges a Liberal government to expand the mandate of the Canadian Human Rights Commission to include citizenship status and socio-economic class as prohibited grounds of discrimination.

-Another  priority resolution under consideration is calling on a Liberal government to adopt a plan to reduce poverty by 30 per cent over five years and child poverty by 50 per cent over the same period.

Other resolutions would commit the party to spending billions should Liberals regain power. They include calls for:
-A national, publicly funded child care program
-Increased maternity and parental leave benefits, which would be extended to part-time and self-employed workers.
-Expanded medicare to include publicly funded home care, dental and vision and mental health care.
-Endorsement of the principles of the $5-billion Kelowna Accord to improve the lot of aboriginal peoples.
-Development of a national electrical power grid.
-Enforceable national clean water standards and binding legislation prohibiting bulk water exports.
-An “aggressive” affordable housing program.
-Expansion of passenger rail “in every possible way across Canada.”
-A guaranteed living standard for all full-time adult workers, above the poverty line in each region.
Riding presidents have already passed over a number of resolutions that likely would have generated definate controversy. Among those that will not not make it to the convention were resolutions calling for the legalization of assisted suicide, elimination of the monarchy and financial penalties for provinces that refuse to provide abortions.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090410/national/liberals_policy   

Quebec’s population is aging faster than that of any other province, except perhaps Newfoundland and Labrador. Its economy also grew more slowly than that of any other province during the good times. Hence, in many ways, the real urgency for economic reform is in Quebec, not Ontario. 

And the prime minister’s line of attack against Michael Ignatieff in Moncton this week was a little over the top and a little intriguing.  Here’s what Harper said, as quoted by the Globe and Mail: “Mr. Ignatieff and the Liberal party, when this matter (the Brian Mulroney-Karlheinz Schreiber inquiry) first broke, were practically demanding that I throw Mr. Mulroney in prison without a trial. Now they’re out there pretending that somehow they’re his best friends and they don’t agree with any of this. I think that what Canadians will see is when it comes to a very difficult issue of government conduct and government ethics, the government has behaved responsibly and the other party, the other leader, has absolutely no moral compass.” No moral compass? Interesting.

Harper was a founding member of the Reform party. In the early 1990s Reform didn’t care much for government. It despised the notion of special status for Quebec. And it absolutely couldn’t abide deficits. Reform campaigned against Mulroney’s big-spending ways, his forelock-tugging to Quebec soft nationalists and his central Canadian bias. The Reform party didn’t believe there could be such a thing as a gay marriage. As recently as the early 2000s Harper didn’t believe in climate change. He thought it was a fad dreamed up by eco nuts.
 
Flash forward to today. Harper heads a government that has blown the doors off public spending in each of its three years in power. It formally declared “the Quebecois” — a distinct ethnic sub group within the province of Quebec — a nation within Canada. His government has repeatedly turned its back on calls from the Christian right for a ban on gay marriage. His government proposes a strict North America-wide regime to curb greenhouse gas emissions. And his government is hurriedly undoing the results of 13 years of painful fiscal discipline, which began with the Paul Martin deficit-breaking budget in 1995.

 
Harper’s overtures to the centre have been well documented. He’s trying to win a majority, for which he needs broad support. But his policy shifts present an obvious risk, particularly as he accuses Ignatieff — or anyone else — of moral shilly-shallying. All this because the Liberal leader telephoned a former prime minister to wish him a happy 70th birthday? The risk/reward doesn’t stack up. Unless maybe there’s something else at work.

    
In a speech to Conservative partisans in Ottawa recently, Harper defined the core values of conservatism as “freedom, faith and the family.” No doubt that made some western conservative jaws drop. The new Harper is all about big government and state intervention. Since when do the Harper Conservatives officially care about faith? The family, in any traditional sense? Ditto.

 Harper must be hearing from the people who first sent him to Ottawa — fiscally and socially conservative Albertans — that they don’t care for his centrist playbook. It cost them core ideas without delivering majority power. So, why bother?

If this is true — if Harper’s recent references to faith and morals are part of a new strategy to play the social conservative card — then one conclusion comes into focus. The Conservatives are more rattled by recent events than they’ve let on, to the point where they’re contemplating abandoning eastern Canada and any hopes of a majority and retreating to their western stronghold. http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2009/04/10/9074636-sun.html   

“ Defence Minister Peter MacKay’s otherwise inexplicable public attack on Russia earlier this year for daring to fly a military plane in international air space near Canada.Even U.S. military officials found MacKay’s tirade unwarranted.Some have suggested that MacKay did this as part of his failed bid to become NATO secretary-general. If so, it was a doomed gesture. The more logical explanation is that MacKay, like Cannon and Kenney, was acting under orders to appease the Conservative base and allow control-conscious Harper to reassert his grip.”

 

Meanwhile Conservative International Trade Minister Stockwell Day MP last week delivered another speech with an ardent defence of Israel, lauded Canada’s relative good position in the world economic crisis, and pledged Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s unwavering commitment to upholding human rights.  Day  talked about how the Conservative Party – both in opposition and in power – has not wavered in its support of Israel and when he spoke about the Tory stance against anti-Semitism, as well as for the government’s United Nations voting record and its position on terrorism. It was the Tories who pledged to reverse decades of Canadian voting at the United Nations that either supported or abstained from resolutions critical of Israel, Day said. “We said then, ‘If the government ever changes, that will, too,’” Day said. The Conservatives under Harper have lived up to the promise by supporting Israel at the UN and refusing to attend “Durban 2” (the followup to the 2001 World Conference Against Racism, at which Israel was singled out as racist), he said.

 

Calgary West Conservatives battle for leadership  April 09, 2009   Two-thirds of Alberta’s cardholding Conservatives have to send in a ballot before a race will be held.  After weeks of jockeying, the fate of the Conservative nomination in the Calgary West riding now rests in the hands of the party’s voters. Ballots were mailed out to Conservative Party members across Canada asking whether they want their sitting Member of Parliament to be automatically named the party’s nominee or if a nomination contest should be held. Two Conservatives who will be paying close attention to the vote are sitting Calgary West MP Rob Anders and Donna Kennedy-Glans. Kennedy-Glans has been spearheading the Our Calgary West campaign since early this year with the goal of running against Anders for the party’s nomination in the next federal election. The two-thirds threshold for a nomination race was introduced by the Conservative Party’s national council last month. University of Calgary political science professor Dr. Lisa Young felt that the rule change gives incumbents a distinct advantage in nomination challenges, Nomination ballots are due in Ottawa by April 30. According to party policies, any resultant nomination processes would begin within 90 days.  http://gauntlet.ucalgary.ca/story/13505

 

These perverse Conservative leaders supsend real deomcracy, instead of counting all real votes, they will now count all votes not mailed in as being a no  vote instead of being a yes vote.. so what is new they have been fixing voting results for ages in Alberta.

  

 

“It’s been six weeks since President Barack Obama arrived in Canada where he wowed crowds, bought baked goods for the kids, supped on a mouth-watering lunch and met Prime Minister Harper, several cabinet ministers and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff. But being a good host has its price. So, how much did Obama’s visit cost Canadian taxpayers? (INCLUDE THE COST OF THE RCMP SECURITY) Well, I really can’t tell you — because government officials say they can’t tell me.  Just over a month ago, I filed an Access to Information Request with the Privy Council office.  It read, “I am looking for a fulsome breakdown of all costs associated with the visit, but not limited to security, transportation, hospitality, hotels/lodging (for staff, police, etc.), food, per diem, etc.” I received an official answer today. It is comprised of three pieces of paper. As far as I can tell, it is the title page of a caterer’s proposal for the luncheon. It contains no information. It is followed by a piece of paper telling me pages two and three are exempted pursuant to sections 20(1)(c) of the Access to Information Act.  For those of you who don’t live and breathe this stuff, that section relates to information that could result in material financial loss or gain to a third party.  It costs $5 to file an Access to Information Request. ” AND YOU TEND TO GET NOTHING IN RETURN.. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/politicalbytes/2009/04/and_the_cost_is.html

 

“Yes, the Conservatives have strengthened accountability in the federal government in 21 ways, and tried to strengthen it is another six ways, mainly through their Federal Accountability Act. However, the Conservatives have weakened accountability in eight ways, and failed to keep 27 democratic reform promises. This is a very similar record as the Liberals under Jean Chretien from 1994 to 2003. Breaking so many election promises, especially promises to increase government accountability, is one of the most cynicism-breeding things a government can do. Very unfortunately, the Harper Conservatives and Chretien Liberals went even further, both misleading voters by claiming they had kept promises they had actually broken.  As a result, overall Democracy Watch’s report card gives the Conservatives’ an E — the same failing grade the Chretien Liberals received.  Another Accountability Act containing the more than 30 measures left out by the Conservatives, as well as a few dozen other key measures, is needed to actually clean up the federal government.  If they want increased voter support to help them win elections, all MPs have to do is start supporting each other, instead of serving their party leaders, and respond to voters’ concerns and frustrations by making these key democratizing changes.  Duff Conacher, Coordinator  Democracy Watch  Ottawa” 

 

Hypocritical, lying  Tories want watchdog for Senate, while they themselves still  have often  failed to keep their own past promises. The Harper government wants an Ethics Act for senators today cannot live up to it’s own promised ethics, accountability, and transparency. It’s at subjecting senators to oversight from the same ethics officer who monitors the conduct of Members of Parliament is unacceptable, a power hungry  PM is clearly control mongering again. Conservative and Liberal senators have rightfully said a separate Senate ethics watchdog should be created in order to keep the upper chamber independent.  Conservatives intend to reintroduce bills by the end of the month that would impose an eight-year limit on senators’ terms and require future senators to be elected. These Bills have no chance of passing through a Liberal dominated senate but makes a great diversions from the negative realities PM Stephen Harper is facing, and are a good   basis for more monetary donation appeals to the Albertan who want them implemented. Harper is worried about a possible June federal election. Canadian priority rather rightfully still is unemployment, job creation, EI benefits, dealing with the swine flu and crooked cops. 

NDP vows to abandon gas tax, increase BC deficit  Globe and Mail - VANCOUVER — New Democratic Party Leader Carole James unveiled her election platform yesterday, vowing to scrap what she calls “Gordon Campbell’s gas tax” and run a bigger deficit in a bid to kick-start a flagging provincial economy.

Powering up the platitudes Vancouver Sun

James promises NDP will scrap carbon tax if elected CBC.ca

The Canadian Press  - Globe and Mail  - Globe and Mail  - Vancouver Sun

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Now with both provincial and federal elections becoming often now a possibility  serious policy changes are being discussed by Liberals, New Democrats now as well.

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“The Liberals have only one person to thank for their good fortune – Stephen Harper. “If Harper hadn’t tried to put the Liberals out of business, by ending public subsidies to political parties in last fall’s economic update, the Liberals might have done it to themselves. “Instead, Ignatieff leads a united party to Vancouver at month’s end, to a convention that’s been transformed into a coronation. And a party that would have been drained financially by the fundraising demands of several leadership camps is instead raising millions toward the next election. The Liberals are also going to Vancouver resurgent in the polls, particularly in Ontario and Quebec, the two keystone provinces of Liberal dynasties since Laurier’s time. … “Looking back on the seven-day parliamentary crisis, the question is why Harper risked so much when the Liberals were already broke and in disarray. Quite apart from rescuing the Liberals from the incompetent Dion, and sparing them a divisive leadership campaign, Harper’s actions renewed suspicions in the country of a certain meanness of spirit, to say nothing of hidden agenda.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090406.WBwbradwanski20090406125520/WBStory/WBwbradwanski

 

There’s plenty of head-scratching speculation as to why Prime Minister Stephen Harper suddenly took leave of his media-averse senses to seek the spotlight of international television news.– Stephen Harper could be sending out job applications. His being an economist these days isn’t exactly a profession worthy of a prime ministerial retirement given that  Mr. Harper, didn’t see this recession coming….  against the backdrop of a resurging Liberal party and a recession blame game that may stick to the Conservatives if there’s no rebound before the next election, there’s little sign of a Tory majority in the future.. a power-seeker like Stephen Joseph Harper. But it’s almost as uncharacteristic as his sudden affinity for international media attention — which does little to impress U. S. or U. K. television viewers, but sure polishes Mr. Harper’s resume for future foreign considerations. http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Could+polishing+resume/1467732/story.html

People need to stop lying, to others, themselves 

and Coke, sex, adultery, divorce, Coca-Cola, wine, alcohol, beer or what ever they they are  not the answer to having a happy life! Following after Jesus Christ alone is!

Why are so many people still obsessed with  fantasy, romance, divorce,  drugs, alcohol, even TV, movies, sex, pleasure, pornography.. for most of them personally it is an initial lazy,  false escapism approach from the too often real negative aspects of life that we firstly all tend to have, particularly due to our own unrepentant sins and due to  Satan’s buffeting, harassment of them.. the grass may appear greener in the neighbors yard cause you do not know what hardships they are facing now, the supposedly rich persons included. While God for his faithful few give them the grace to endure hardships and even to overcome them, we are all nevertheless bound to have trails and tribulations, hardships, all of us..  Instead of personally first learning how to use the Bible to oppose Satan, obtain peace in their own life, too many persons turn to the flesh.. The problem also  with the common graphic misrepresentation of the pleasure of sex but the reality is that even the Gays, lesbians, adulterers tend to have even more negative consequences, oppressions in their life to force them into deeper bondage with Satan.. Jesus sets us free from all that.
 
(Gal 5:16 KJV)  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
 
(Gal 5:17 KJV)  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

(Eccl 7:8 KJV)  Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

(Eccl 7:9 KJV)  Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

(Eccl 7:10 KJV)  Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.

(Eccl 7:11 KJV)  Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

(Eccl 7:12 KJV)  For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

(Eccl 7:13 KJV)  Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

(Eccl 7:14 KJV)  In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

 

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