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Remembrance Day. “It looks like it’s going to be a long wait”

Harper Government spends millions commemorating the Battle of 1812, but won’t pay adequate compensation to wounded Veterans or funeral costs for impoverished Vets.

Harper flies his own limos to India for travel at taxpayers’ expense

“They didn’t brief us about the sacred cows!”

“They didn’t brief us about the sacred cows!”

Harper and Manning, 25 years later,Politics, Policies, Perks and Peeks

Harper takes Reform policies even farther right. Manning: “open, accountable, transparent government”. Harper: “divisive, autocratic, secretive”

Pillow shares: Love is blind but not marriage

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other Canadian Conservative Government Ministers’ spouses, hold publicly traded shares in companies that could be affected by government decisions.[Govt. ministers must put shares into blind trust to avoid conflict of interest]

Flaherty will get you nowhere, “Hand over your wallets”

Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty introduces major cut-backs to MP’s lucrative pension plan.

A Rabbi a Buddhist and an Imam don’t walk into a prison…

Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, cancels all contracts for non-Christian prison Chaplains

Puttin” on the Ritz?

Canadian Agricultural Minister Gerry Ritz dances around food safety issue: won’t accept responsibility for nation-wide E.Coli-contaminated beef recall.

This news Just-in. Can it be Tru,deau?

Justin Trudeau, son of former famed Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, expected to announce he will run for leadership of the Federal Liberal Party