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I'm really, really disappointed in Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. I think this kind of behavior is completely offensive and beneath him…
Seriously! What's he doing at a Medieval ceremony celebrating ritualistic sacrifice like that? He doesn't need to pretend to believe in that kind of childish superstition.
President Obama is spending a few hours in Canada today, and the Canadians are freaking out, because this is the coolest thing that's happened to them since last winter.
Meanwhile, Obama has to — in the course of an afternoon — reassure Prime Minister Stephen Harper that he was totes j/k about those "Buy American" provisions in the bailout, and the whole "screw NAFTA" thing, and anything else that's troubling Prime Minister Stephen Harper's bobbley little head.
For those of us who missed the last bus to Ottawa, Kady O'Malley (Canada's sassiest political blogger) is liveblogging the whole frigid circus right here, eh…
Alright, I’m outside The Perimeter – on the Lawn, in fact – awaiting the motorcade. I’m behind the first row or so of assembled masses, but some kindly staffers are strategically kicking snow into a makeshift platform.
Okay, so the crowd is — actually, about as random as you can imagine — old, young, black, white, male, female, you know the drill — lots of O-poster and banners and a sense of O-verall O-nticipation. Also: snipers!
It's a longstanding tradition for presidents-elect to move into Blair House, a mansion across the street from the White House, five days before the inauguration.
This year a minor scandal ensued when Barack Obama asked to move in a few weeks early to accommodate his daughters' school schedule. "Uh, no," said the Bush administration, citing "guests" who were "booked" at the mansion in January. Awkward! So Obama and his family have been relegated to some cheap motel called the Hay-Adams, where they are living on Toblerone and seltzer from the mini-fridge.
There you have it! This thing goes deep. Real deep. And remember, if the mainstream media outlets overlook this bombshell, it's because they've been infiltrated by the Canadians.
It's been known to happen. They're stealthy and they look just like us.
We've been so busy watching Barack Obama's press conferences to announce secretaries of stuff, we're just getting to this now: Canada's government is in pandemonium! What the hell is happening up there?
Here's what we know. In October's wacky House of Commons election, Prime Minister Stephen "Bobblehead" Harper's Conservatives won more seats than any other party — but not enough to secure a majority. Opposition disgruntlement ensued, and last week, Harper announced a bobbleheaded budget that set off a full-scale political crisis…
Harper introduced an economic plan that included no stimulus measures but called for a three-year ban on strikes by civil servants and the abolition of public financing for political parties. The Liberal party leader, Stéphane Dion, accusing Harper of seeking to politicise the economic crisis, formed a coalition with the leftwing New Democratic party. The two also secured support from the separatist Bloc Québécois to bring down the government.
Facing the risk of being, I don't know, extradited to Nunavut, Harper pulled out the big guns: yesterday he talked the Governor General, the Queen's representative in Canada, into letting him shut down Parliament until the end of January (!).
Plus! Just for good measure, the opposition coalition is now fighting with itself.
Good grief. And I thought the hockey games were vicious.
Canada has spoken, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives got 143 seats in the House of Commons, thereby hanging on to their minority control of the government. But they fell short of the 155 seats they needed to win a majority, which means things haven't changed much in Ottawa, despite all the exciting partisan rancor of the past few weeks.
The Conservatives have won about 37 per cent of the popular vote, up one percentage point from 2006.
But [Stephane] Dion's Liberals garnered the lowest share of popular vote the party had ever tallied — lower than the 28 per cent the John Turner-led Liberals garnered in 1984.
On the tree-hugging side of the ballot, the Greens picked up 6.8 percent of the popular vote, but they still haven't managed to win a single seat in Parliament. Oh yeah, and with 59% of eligible voters going to the polls, this election had the lowest turnout on record.
In the interest of cheering up our Canadian friends, here's my favorite clip from Rick Mercer's "Talking to Americans." Nothing takes the edge off a losery election like seeing Mike Huckabee, a real American loser, complimenting you on your national igloo.
In less than 24 hours Canadians from Whitehorse to Halifax will head to the polls, but Conservative leader Stephen Harper — who just gets more and more mavericky every day — wants his supporters to wait until February 14th to vote…
Speaking of important dates, today is Thanksgiving in Canada.
Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian friends, except Mr. Harper, who will be eating his turkey on St. Patrick's Day.
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President Obama is spending a few hours in Canada today, and the Canadians are freaking out, because this is the coolest thing that's happened to them since last winter.
We've been so busy watching Barack Obama's press conferences to announce secretaries of stuff, we're just getting to this now: Canada's government is in pandemonium! What the hell is happening up there?
Canada has spoken, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives got 143 seats in the House of Commons, thereby hanging on to their minority control of the government. But they fell short of the 155 seats they needed to win a majority, which means things haven't changed much in Ottawa, despite all the exciting partisan rancor of the past few weeks.
