The travels of Justin

Vancouver’s CKNW News Talk 980 reports this bit of irony: The NDP’s take on gas tax reduction The BC New Democrats want the provincial government to stand up to prime minister Stephen Harper…. by demanding he make good on his promise to roll back the GST on gasoline purchases. NDP finance critic Jenny Kwan chose [...]

In addition to reliable, and freely available, streaming video of election coverage, CPAC has a fantasic Flash-application to display results of ridings across the country. It’s supposed to represent live results and be tied to data as it comes in, but for a moment something just didn’t seem right. Ooops! Ten seconds later the little [...]

Some questionable spending on “relocation services” has been brought my attention at Conservative Life: 2.25 BILLION for “Relocation Services”: Going to Luxury Hotels, Spas, Golf Resorts When most of us move, we load our stuff onto a U-Haul and spend the night at the Howard Johnson’s. Not so if you are employed by the government [...]

“Mr. Speaker, the goods and services tax is a stupid, inept and incompetent tax.” — Paul Martin, November 28th 1989 The ghost of Christmas past?

Hurray for an election in Canada! Most Canadians will head to the polls on January 23rd, unless you, like me, happen to be living in another country. If you, or a friend, is studying abroad, you may want to point them to this page in the Elections Canada site where they can register to vote [...]

I found this after a visit to http://canada.info-syn.com: Telus is blocking access to a pro-union website that it argues “contains confidential proprietary information and that photographs on the site raise privacy and security issues for certain of its employees.” Michael Geist reminds us that internet service providers—especially Telus—have argued vocally to let the courts, not [...]