Got those Budget-Shoe Blues
![As per tradition, Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty buys new shoes for delivering the Budget: steel toed to make it easier to give charities the boot! [The Conservative Govt. has threatened to pull charitable status from some environmental groups.]](https://hungdrawnandcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1002201409022014.jpg)
As per tradition, Canada’s Finance Minister Jim Flaherty buys new shoes for delivering the Budget: steel toed to make it easier to give charities the boot! [The Conservative Govt. has threatened to pull charitable status from some environmental groups.]
Peter MacKay OKs
Canadian Defence Minister MacKay defended the CSEC spy agency’s collection of metadata from unsuspecting citizens through WIFI at Canadian airports. He also approved the agency’s secret electronic eavesdropping program in 2011
Black Out!
Media Mogul Conrad Black, convicted and imprisoned for fraud, was ousted from the Order Of Canada and told to return the insignia.
No Fans of Fantino!
Canadian Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino arrives over an hour late for meeting with Veterans, then abruptly storms out refusing to answer questions, forgetting, it seems, that it is his job to serve the taxpaying veterans.
Justin Bieber Arrested for DUI
More Canadians behaving badly: Bieber, arrested in Miami for street racing, admits to drinking and smoking dope.
Canadians are world’s largest consumers of antidepressants
![Because we have a lot to be depressed about: Stephen Harper, Rob Ford, Senate scandal, the weather, oil sands, train derailments, falling loonie...]](https://hungdrawnandcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/21012014.jpg)
Because we have a lot to be depressed about: Stephen Harper, Rob Ford, Senate scandal, the weather, oil sands, train derailments, falling loonie…]
Neil Young vs Stephen Harper
Battle of the bards. Neil Young protests the Oils Sands development
Enbridge CEO to Harper “At least we don’t have to contend with elves”
A massive road construction project in Iceland was halted as locals protested that it was disrupting an important elf church. Meanwhile in Canada, Harper seems determined to push through approval of the Enbridge Pipeline despite many real environmental concerns.
Opposing Views of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford
Disgraced, crack-smoking, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford defiantly announces he will run for re-elction in 2014, claiming he is “the best mayor this city ever had” !
Canadian Senators should expect “House Calls” from Auditor
“It doesn’t add up: 105 Senators and 210 official residences claimed!”
