Today marks one year since the Harper government won the election and acheived what Stephen Harper had sought: a strong, stable, conservative majority.
While Conservatives celebrate and the conservative movement weighs whether this has been a good year or bad, the looney left just gets loonier in their hatred for our Prime Minister.
Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin, who also writes for a website called iPolitics, claims that Canada should stop calling itself a democracy. Read more…
by Lorrie Goldstein
James Lovelock has been called the godfather of global warming.
He’s one of the world’s most honoured scientists and environmentalists.
His “Gaia theory” — that the Earth operates as a single, living organism — created an entirely new field of Earth science studies following its publication in 1979.
His electron capture detector first enabled scientists to detect CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) and other pollutants in the atmosphere, which in many ways was the start of the modern environmental movement.
His inventions have been used by NASA. Read more…
by David Akin
It sounds like a wonderful conspiracy theory: Banks get secret bailout worth $114 billion during the 2008 recession!
Bailout discovered by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
In fact, this is all hooey. There was no bailout of our banks. The government did, in 2008, set aside $200 billion to help all Canadian businesses and households hit by the global credit crunch and banks were the tool the government used to help us all out.
Taxpayer money was never at risk of being lost and, in fact, taxpayers are making a tidy profit with the credit crunch assistance program. Read more…
Brian Lilley is Senior Correspondent for Sun Media on Parliament Hill.
Brian has been covering politics for the last 10 years. Five of those years were spent as Ottawa Bureau Chief. More about Brian here.