CCS U ~ r&d carbonmonster

Provincial government: there's no money for higher education ($100m cuts)(protests and leaving), because it was all spent on Frack U. ($300m) and carbon capture and storage (ccs)/clean oil energy ($745m), ($1.3b and federal enzymes ($4.7m)).

Frack U.

Oh look. September 23, 2009. Burying Carbon Dioxide in Underground Saline Aqifers: Political Folly or Climate Change Fix? By Graham Thomson, The Program On Water Issues (POWI). 'Program support from the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation and the Tides Canada Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.'

99 AHS execs on the wall

AHS, more re-structuring.

$3.2 million bonus payouts to 99 executives (AHS Executive Bonuses: Chair Openly Defies Government's Directive To Stop Bonus Payouts, Jun 12, 2013)

So: the Entire board is fired (Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne appointed AHS chair, Stephen Lockwood, less than a year ago). The province announces 24 new clinics and cuts long-term care ("P3" privatiztion).

AHS good news bad news

Doctors get a tentative contract. Nurses get layoffs during Nursing Week.
Alberta Health Services. 

In the past:

• severance details for former AHS CEO's
• Andrew Will, AHS Official Gets $738,000, 18-Month Severance Package 
• allaudin merali’s extravagant expenses and severance package
• Alberta Health Services cuts ‘bonuses’ but not necessarily executive pay
• Fired health boss Jack Davis gets $5.7M package, Sheila Weatherhill 
• Premier Alison Redford's Sister Expensed Public For Tory Party Events (Lynn Redford, former government relations adviser to the now-defunct Calgary Health Region from 2005 to 2008, is currently the vice-president in charge of special projects for the Alberta Health Services, or AHS, superboard)
• Alberta can't recoup executive's Mayo Clinic expenses
• Ralph Klein, the Holy/Huang Cross, private eye surgery
• AMA calls for inquiry into doctor intimidation (feb15/11) // Alberta doctors bullied by bosses, panel finds (feb22/12)
• Alberta’s queue-jumping inquiry shifts to University of Calgary
• Premier cool on past link with PM
• Redford elected MLA in Calgary-Elbow in 2008 and immediately appointed Attorney General and Minister of Justice

dustup at jails & fires

Calgary Prison Guards Rally At Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Calgary Constituency Office on Sat/September 15, 2012 -- "Mallette says the union has been trying repeatedly to meet with Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, but hasn't had any success." (After various protests at Harper's office, like Prorogue and Idle No More, no more of that youse... and Shoppers Only.) Calgary prison guards corrections officers protest at Solicitor General Jonathan Denis' office in Fri/ February 01*.

Grass fire - Calgary, Alberta

Edmonton officers are now on a wildcat strike with lockdown and riot police after the suspension of 2 union executives who on Fri/ April 26 relayed 'health & safety concerns' to management.

Fish Creek Park, dry & windy on Fri/April 26

*Russian student kicked into coma/ permanent brain damage by other inmates, Calgary Remand Centre.

Full moon: Thurs, April 25, 2013 1:58 PM

UPDATE: Associate Chief smartAssinine Justice John Rooke about the $100,000+ fines for province-wide strikers: "Banks are open tomorrow, last I checked." (Monday, Apr 29)

Amnesty ends strike.  Strike ends. Redford confirms pledge but

best of 2012

There are too many items from which to choose, so here's a list in the making.

1. Tory press statement at midnight. On Friday. It outdoes any other of its Friday media releases. (announcement: 163 words)
2.  Rob Anders. What does he do? And will he get a pension for it?
3. The beautiful game's match fixing. Canadian Soccer League (CSL): organized crime operating from a bar in Berlin and the advantages of avoiding the spotlight in lower leagues.
4. After imposing puzzling visa requirements for Mexicans (link, link and link) in 2009, the 'Harper' Conservative random expensive flipflop bobblehead changes its mind.
5. Shaw Communications learns a difficult lesson. In case of fire, it may not be a good idea to have a backup system in the same building.
6. Zoos: In Calgary, a penguin laid an egg, a dud, and an elephant miscarried. The Price Is Right guy wants to adopt the elephants (or is that Toronto's? or Edmonton's?), because it's too goddamn cold for elephants. It doesn't count as death, unless you're into zygote, fetus, ... er, ... animalhood.
7. Mall roof collapse in Elliot Lake, Ontario. Heavy Urban Search and Rescue was on scene, a program that incidentally received notice of budget cuts. The mall's owner, Robert Nazarian's lawyer with yipyap. How can a mall just collapse.
8. John Baird, Foreign Affairs Minister: Libya and ... Thomas Jefferson? -- not exactly referring to a Canucki, uh, but, uh, okay, at least Baird's not yelling.
9. Mary and Joseph announce a royal pregancy at Christmas time via morning sickness and what can possibly go wrong.
10. Don't worry. Nobody noticed that the 1812 video has the same name as David Orchard's book. (See #8.)
11. Mike Holmes, parade marshal for the 2009 Calgary Stampede, joins David Suzuki as a radical. ("The world is full of shady contractors who take shortcuts, use shoddy building practices or employ a band-aid approach...." hgtv.com (See #7.)
12. Automated, software journalism gains traction!
13. After amendments to the Local Government Act, BC's Jumbo gets a mayor, councillors. Jumbo has no residents. And Premier Christy Clark just cancels the fall session altogether.
14. Jason Kenney canceled an appearance with Nathan Jacobson, whose company in Tel Aviv, Paygea, processed payments for online gaming and adult websites. John Baird was also Jacobson's buddy and yet another dear friend got a bid. I guess the cosmetics dudes and dudettes went home / home. (Wikileaks Dead Sea minerals thingy, the financing of settlers, West Bank resources, scam&spam locksmiths.)
15. Amanda Michelle Todd is harrassed, extorted to death.
16. Vic Toews: the gun registry costs were either a million or a billion dollars.
17. The PM confounds everyone by announcing domestic policy in Davos, Switzerland (pensions) at the World Economic Forum.
18. Niagara is one of the two and final cultural capitals: $1.625m  for 1812 activities. Canadian officials select California-based Hornblower to provide boat tours, replacing American-owned Maid of the Mist Steamboat Company that operated at the falls since 1846. Calgary, the other, celebrates with an Enbridge, Nexen, Cenovus sort of Feel-the-Energy (get it?) orchestra playing a Russian, anti-Napoleonic 1812 Overture (get it? it's a nifty tie-in).
19. Canada's parliamentary budget officer wonders about the government's economic projections and whether budget cuts are even .... necessary.
20. CKUA gets a new building, then loses the news department.
21. Shell blames the whole Nigerian Delta mess on vandals. 
22. Calgary detective, Gerard Brand, of the "God Squad," gets busted for using the police database to sell Manila Capital Limited names, addresses and phone numbers. (more: rottenapples.info and what the HarryHackl is the Professional Standards Division) 
23. The Great Lakes fruit and blossom catastrophe. The US drought. Isaac, Sandy. Another 1 million bees die. First stage of new sarcophagus at Chernobyl’s nuclear power station. (Don't worry about Fukushima or other nuclear plants!) The Mississippi dries up, salt brine sinkholes out of control.
24. Omnibus B.S. http://local949.blogspot.ca/search/label/budget1812
25. Colorado wildfires. 
26. Assassination attempt on Pauline Marois and the participants at a Parti Québecois victory party: Métropolis. "The English are rising up!'yelled the well-armed man in a bathrobe. (Sept 4) “there’s going to be f------ payback.” One dead, one injured. 
27. It was learned that the fellow who beheaded his seat mate on a Greyhound bus in 2008 did so because it was an alien. (He's schizophrenic.) Apparently a year earlier, Greyhound announced a plan to enhance security, i.e. video, luggage inspections like airports do.
28. The long-gun registry vote. Gun fans cheer. Murder suicides. a) Not long before celebrations (the demise of long gun registry), a young man from Lethbridge tailed his ex-gf on the highway, killing her, the two male friends and injuring another girl, who crawled away and moved back to PEI, the one who made it home for. b) Family of three found in a ditch near St. Walburg, Sask.
29. The No's. The CRTC rejects Bell's $3.4-billion takeover of Astral Media. Bell says, N-o-o-o-! Dammit! we's a'gonna talk to Cabinet. Budget Rent-A-Car receives an order to stop photocopying customers' drivers licences, so it continues to take photocopies. (Also, Budget-Rent-A-Car has a cool appraisal scheme with itself for windshield and ding "repairs.") An Ontario Superior Court judge orders a by-election in Etobicoke Centre where Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj lost by only 26 votes. Conservative MP/"MP" Ted Opitz to the judge: No, and Supreme Court.
30. The Potato Incident with Calgary Alderman John Mar and 20 of his closest friends & sirens.
31. Machismo? Spanish Minister of Tourism (Balearic Islands, incl. Ibiza, Majorca, Minorca, and Formentera) poses with deer testicles on his head.
32. Oops. Critically endangered leatherback sea turtle nests are destroyed by bulldozers in Trinidad, a popular tourist destination for leatherback sea turtle nests. 
33. Not only does Google charge Project Glass guineau pigs $1,500, but the guineau pigs pay! 
34. Big Ben is re-gifted by the House of Commons Commission to honour the Queen of England's Diamond Jubilee. 
35. Six Italian seismologists and a government official (L'Aquila seven) are sentenced to six years in jail for manslaughter. 
36. Bitchslappin' members of parliament, Greece, on-air debate.  
37. Tom Flanagan waxing idiotic about Canada's founding fathers. (See #10.)
38. In a time of Ozterity, let us... poof! change the name of ... a national museum.
39. John Herrera-Garcia (Jan 19, 1963 - Sept 11, 2012), baptized in honour of American president John F. Kennedy and the eighth son in a family of 11 children, dies after a May 23rd beating and kicking by Neo-nazi 1 (Garrett Elliot Lee Smith), Neo-nazi 2 (Chantelle Tiffany Campbell) and Neo-nazi 3 (Jarod Donald Henry). Update, Jan 25/13 "Last of accused granted bail"
40. Court delays in Alberta lead to sex assault charges dropped. A man charged in the bombing death of a young Innisfail woman was a family friend, her financial advisor and former RCMP.
41. Clark Kent quits newspaper job. 
42. Lost in the harlemhooplas this-1812-cultureCAPwhatnot, CalgaryStampedeNation100 and that-Encanada-Franco-airhead-whatnot is one measly article about Alberta Parks' 80th anniversary, that's all the interwebs wrote. (See #18.)
43. One of the world's creepiest men presents a reward an award to Canada's prime minster, who delights, was recognized, nearly breaks his face grinning. Christopher Hitchens is dead.
44. Conrad Black gets a permit. 
45. A Canadian PM goes up north to have private, exclusive lunches with party faithful, supporters only. Another PM had gonads to walk among protestors, kick up some dust. Oh man, ATVs, vroom vroom.
46. Peter Manbridge's Franklin Expedition propaganda tour. 
47. Suicide nets installed at Apple's Foxconn factories.
48. JP Morgan estimates that €15bn of €410bn aid to Greece went into its economy - the rest went to um, creditors. 
49. In August the Province of PC-Alberta cancels funding for Fort Macleod RCMP training centre, several months after a money's-no-object election campaign. The Solicitor General’s website stated one year ago that the “$122 million training centre will play a critical role in ensuring consistent, state-of-the-art recruit training and ongoing professional development for law enforcement, corrections and public security personnel in Alberta.” Oops, the town spent $3.5+ million running service lines in preparation for the facility. How nice it was.



Proposed design for the Alberta Public Safety and
Law Enforcement Training Centre.

50. After a fake citizenship and reaffirmation ceremony that was broadcast on TV by Quebecor's Sun Media last year, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney blames ... bureaucrats® and Adscam!® and refugees® and
51. Parliamentary secretary to the PM, Dean Del Mastro, is confused about Jeffs.

More to follow!

Piplyme oilive oylsands, update

These new transmission (power) lines will help Albertans. It will reduce their electrical bills, except for a mere $3/mo residential customer interim, like shoot-shovel-and-shutup-Ralph-Klein's energy-deregulation did. (ha)

Ooops. Dec 7, 2012. "AltaGas withdraws permit to export to U.S."
"AltaGas filed the application in error, and has no plans to sell power from Alberta to the U.S. We expect to withdraw the application," said AltaGas spokesperson Neil Mackie.

May 19, 2011. "Wikileaks offers insight on Alberta power lines"

Cellucci writes that Alberta’s former Energy Minister Murray Smith “and others” want the U.S. government to be “aware that over time there will be tremendous electricity co-generation available as a result of the huge thermal needs of the oil sands refining process.” “This could over time make significant new electricity exports available to the United States.” The diplomatic cable also reveals Alberta’s provincial ministers and energy sector executives “broadly” supported “U.S. goals in Iraq” and resented former federal Natural Resource Minister Herb Dhaliwal’s assertion that former U.S. President George Bush was a “failed statesman.”

blackwhite&redallover

In the news:
Michael Sona speaks out (robocalls). link
Creepiness at the BBC (Jimmy Savile scandal). link
More Alberta Conservative donations. Oilers and Katz (NHL). link
Texas, Jesus and geological time. link
Twitter, hedge funds, Sandy and misinformation. link
Bananas at Wayne Simmonds (NHL). link and link

pc secrecy, eh

Wildrose demanded details of 28 organizations that were fined for making illegal political donations to the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta.

They [PC ministers] even shifted the onus to the previous chief electoral officer, Lorne Gibson, saying he asked in 2008 that names be kept secret.

Whoops, not quite.

Late Tuesday, elections office spokesman Drew Westwater said the 2008 request was only for the privacy of investigations, not of results or penalties.

lisa raitt: strikes are sexy

Never mind about the AECL Candu binder; it wasn't the same as Maxime Bernier (Beauce) and the tits cleavage biker chick NATO files. Never mind about the sexy isotope shortage for cancer patients. Never mind about no one signing off on the CEO, Toronto Port Authority expenses or a $9000 lunch. And just never mind about proroguing (and even more proroguing, forty days and forty nights). btw, are MPs 'essential services'?

Geez. Electro-Motive plant in London (now closed) and its Caterpillar parent strike in Joliet, Illinois. Canada Post. Air Canada flight attendants. Pilots. Mechanics ("flying coffins" & Aveos outsourcing), baggage handlers, cargo agents. Canadian Pacific Railway and Pershing Square's 14.2% equity stake.

Welp. Saskatchewan essential services legislation deemed unconstitutional (07 Feb. 2012).

Recalibration: On January 19, 2010, Raitt moved from the Ministry of Natural Resources to the Labour Ministry.

The house was beginning to shake,
And good press it just did not make.
So Steve shut it down, Caused the country to frown. But then he was
saved by a quake.  

Nuclear workers: 900 scientists, engineers, technologists and technicians said 94+ per cent of members sanctioned the strike action on Thursday, May 3rd 2012: a stinging indictment of SNC-Lavalin's cavalier management style and brinkmanship bargaining. A union spokeswoman said Candu is looking to gut most parts of the collective agreement.

Ongoing: RCMP officers want to end a ban, in place since 1918, on Mounties forming a union or police association and having the right to collectively bargain. (Toronto Star, Nov 20, 2012.) "Toxic workplace": Mounted Police Professional Association of Canada (MPPAC), a merger of BC and ON associations, is expecting a ruling from the Ontario Court of Appeal in spring 2012.

Lay-offs: Canadian Space Agency. 100 staff and more to come? Speaking of SNC-Lavalin Defence Programs Inc. (AECL) and MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Inc., there's now a signed contract "to extend operational services for up to eight years for the Canadian Department of National Defence’s twelve Kingston-class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels...Although their primary mission is coastal surveillance, the vessels perform a wide variety of operational tasks including search and rescue, fisheries and environmental monitoring, disaster relief, mine countermeasures and scientific research."

Does this make sense? The entire program of lay-offs in the public service is expected to cost Canadian taxpayers more than $2 billion.

Weird: Health care workers in Alberta have not had the legal right to strike since 1983.

on spec: canada a robocall test market

Enron is to California Energy Crisis Alberta as robocalls are to US election in November.

"Enron tested ploy in Alberta," February 5, 2005. See also: Klein and energy deregulation, circa 1999, and earlier. Electricity prices: The highest of any province in Canada. (Versacold)

Reliant Energy Services indicted for manufacturing
the California Energy Crisis of 2000 and 2001. source

The "robocalls" are only a software/demographic run, system,  results oriented management... op criminal a technological advance in electoral manipulation processes.

ewe, gary mar ... we're not in asia anymore.

Would that it would have been the ad hoc party membership sales for his provincial leadership campaign.

PCAA leadership candidate Gary Mar said his campaign volunteers did nothing wrong by selling party memberships within 50 metres of an Edmonton polling station. Adding that his supporters were only trying to help people who can't speak English. "Within the polling station, the advance polling station, you could buy a membership from the party," Mar said. "Except that there's no one at the party table that speaks three different dialects of Chinese."

Selling memberships within 50 meters of a polling location is against PCAA rules. Or, the $478,000 MLA transition allowance and $400,000 no-receipt verbal advice. Or whether he received a pay-out when he left his Washington job. No, Gary Mar is on unpaid leave pending an ethics probe, something having to do with a fundraiser at the Calgary Petroleum Club. His leadership run cost $2.7 million and he's in debt.

He's ba-a-a-a-ck.

alberta election: MLAs

MADD as hell

The writ hasn't been dropped yet, but PC party advertising has began (campaign style events). Another point is the budget: is the Redford government in breach of the legislature with budget 2012 ads? Premier Alison Redford had a nice time and was so well-spoken in Washington DC and New York City (Eastern Energy Conference) that she was asked to be Mitt Romney's running mate.

The unelected leader of the Wildrose Alliance Party in Okotoks picked an issue, and of all the issues from which to pick, it's 0.05 blood alcohol. The campaign is on drink coasters.

What's more intriguing are 21 MLAs who get paid $1000/mo. for being on a committee ("Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Printing") when there are no meetings. In fact, there has been no meeting since November 2008, so that's quite a few potatoes.

There also is the recent $500,000 MLA retirement transition allowance and or severance payouts, in addition to pension. That's half a million bucks for an MLA? So ---- 23 retiring MLAs ---- $10.5 million. Economist Herbert Grubel said every legislature in the country provides a transition allowance, but the dollars doled out here make Alberta stand out like a sore thumb. Thank you, Ken Kowalski. Of course, a lot of MLA's are retiring.

Next, the graph. Who knew!? 

Adding this up, it appears to be a big, expensive, self-serving, bullying, and bullying Alberta PC... oil & gas junta ... natural resource gestapo junta that went national. (Graph: Liberal 2012 Election Platform.) See also: Political funding spurs 52 probes.

In the previous election, March 3 2008, carbon capture and storage (CCS) was the cat's meow. Stelmach, Jul 2008: $2 billion in funding, the green image. Now it's not.

More: Wikileaks shines light on $16 billion electricity scandal.
Ah, memories: EUB spies on landowners.

robo.gov - update

The Conservatives blamed robocalls on multiple parties, including:

Liberal Party (Dean Del Mastro, Mar5/12),
Elections Canada (Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott, Mar5/12),
a third party (Mike Duffy, Feb 27/12),
isolated incidents (Peter MacKay, Feb 27/12),
they do not know who was responsible (re Guelph, MP Dean Del Mastro, Mar 4/12).

MP Maurice Vellacott (Saskatoon-Wanuskewin) explains that the Conservative Party’s central campaign office in Ottawa is in charge of all Elections Canada voter lists and candidate voter identification lists, including the addition of voter telephone numbers, for all of the 308 Conservative candidate campaigns in federal elections. (Mar 6/12)

Conservatives refuse to make their phone lists public, and demand the Liberals do (they will), which sounds like Stratfor's strategy for scandals: "Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations." (Fred's Rule #2) And PM Harper refuses to explain why Conservative MPs rejected an Elections Canada request to verify campaign financial returns. (Mar 7/12)

In 2008: "Robocalls the night before the election reached thousands of NDP supporters to urge them to get out and vote for the non-existent candidate." (more: shady 3rd party organizations advertising for Lunn, Saanich-Gulf Islands)

hack: i heart ted morton. 9x.
(federal announcement, social
housing units. July 22, 2011)

But, war veterans are so... boring: sleepytime MP, Rob Anders, was asked to resign from the Commons veterans affairs committee. His apology for "hacks" and "Putins" was not accepted. (Why not just resign altogether, or fire the bum.)

In 2007: "the courts overturned Anders’s acclamation and ordered a new nomination meeting after the judge determined the Conservatives had violated their own rules." Who is Vitor Marciano anyway?

speculation: rat3pack to$ monetize$ wolfhunt

Gary, and whats-his-name (covert, deleted emails or he's not here), and former energy minister Rick got it in with the hunting crowd and lodges and high end US trophy game hunters. And we all know the thousand plus wolves gotta go, for the woodland caribou recovery, says federal environment person, or no says another.

"Canada’s Minister of Environment Peter Kent supports a plan that would shoot or poison wolves that have been preying on caribou." Or was that paradis industry, can never remember, which is switch.

What's that worth, a heli hunt per wolf? Co-inkadinkly, and must be nice bizniz as usual fer flyboyz, "What is it, and why does vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin support the practice?"

http://howlingforjustice.wordpress.com/category/wolves-under-fire/

Haha! Reminds me of the funny Armstrong ranch story, 2006, and the hunt: Dick Cheney shoots Harry Whittington, mistakes a campaign contributor for a quail.

Who's Gary Mar?

Alison Redford is much better.

These jerks just ride back in from the lobby farm and think their bed's still made.

Alberta's lobbying pitch was not merely being sold in Washington though. Wherever a clean energy law targeting the oil sands was proposed in states across America, the province's former U.S. representative, Gary Mar, intervened.

He did so with the help of Canadian consulates across the country. Those satellites of northern influence helped him gain access to state legislatures and their representatives, Frazer says.

Mar -- who's now running for Alberta premier -- spoke out against clean energy laws in Wisconsin, Maryland, Pennsylvania and at least nine other states.

Nice.

mister canada gov - $26m economic caption plan

Clearly, ... Friends

Holy mcLuntz-and-disruption-manuals Jobotomy bobblehead meme! Now, after the $26m 3 month radio and TV campaign for the party, a record-breaking $1.2b G20 summit, and even a dispute with the Pentagon about the double cost of 200 F-35 jets (or their not often talked about Mulroney Winnipeg's Bristol Aerospace 1986 expensive maintenance contract)(and... no engines...?) and $300m prorogue, 2008, which all of course are someone else's fault like a wife batter's alibi, there's a new caption in TV town.

Friends. Listen. It's probably better, let me be clear, for the time being, and abandon the fact of the matter. Luntz's current company, The Word Doctors ("It's not what you say, it's what they hear"), specializes in message creation and image management for commercial and political clients.

on Fokus Pokus groups

Lemme guess: Harper is finger-pointy synonymous with "government of canada" (see:  "re-branded" "harper" "canada" "government"), which is reverse synonymous with Adanac (see: satanism or reverse speech or libtards or Taliban jackoffs, Ali Kaida, green terrorisms), which is synonymous, no antonymous, with TheTeaPotParty™ (see: perpetual campaigning), which is

reverse speech/ hceeps esrever

synonymous, maybe, with contempt (just made-up)(see: parliament), which is synonymous with canlit, no, hockey lit or water bottles for kiddies, which is synonomous with [insert US president] Administration and harmonization... (etcetera).(ca 2003: "National myth? Hockey?? -  write a goddamn hockey book!"} New logo for Canada? Forward-moving font, momentum, "on-the-move" parallelogram, Go-team,-go!™

And from the University of Pennsylvania, no less.

the caption plan - cost: $26m

Read on to find out how Environment Minister Ambrose is using Frank Luntz's tactics almost to the letter these days ("Bush's Chief Climate "Spinmaster" Tells Harper How It's Done"). New Conservative Party of Canada logo? Canada logo? Hard to no, it's mixed up. Strong Staples government, and oops, PM know longer taking questions on local campaigns. It's the Klein Public affairs bureau, all over again.

A manual of "key messages" produced exclusively for Alberta Progressive Conservative MLAs by the Public Affairs Bureau verges on propaganda, is a partisan misuse of taxpayers' money and provides the governing party with an unfair advantage, a panel of political scientists says.

"This manual is a straight-up abuse of taxpayers' money because it is money that is being used to communicate what the Tory party is doing, not what the government is doing," said Jonathan Rose, a Queen's University professor.

Leader™ with PeoplePaper™

Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear. It seems they can't tell the difference, just don't get it, mister fixed election dates. Kind of like national debt (up) and a GST reduction, lollipops for the kids, like Ralph Klein's election bucks when the deregulation fiasco didn't reduce consumers' energy bills and things got hot. Presto! The Prosperity Bonus! public pacifier. It's getting kind of funny: "the world will go wrong if I-me-me don't get majority. We need STABILITY!™ Luntz frequently tests word and phrase choices using focus groups and interviews.

party promo, former canadian government

Martin gained an important ally in GOP pollster Frank Luntz, whose polling revealed that "death tax" sparked voter resentment in a way that "inheritance tax" and "estate tax" couldn't match. Brampton whistle stop (March 27 2011 - the 4th federal election in less than 7 years!), where another booger drops out of the body politic. Giulio Maturi, who was a top official in the campaign of disgraced former Montreal mayoral candidate Benoit Labonté in 2009, was listed as late as Wednesday afternoon as the campaign manager for a Montreal Conservative candidate. [Agop Evereklian, Pierrefonds-Dollard riding]  The other: Sebastien Togneri, former aide to Christian Paradis, was helping with Ryan Hastman's campaign.[Edmonton-Strathcona] There is no consequence for Contempt of Parliament.

prorogue olympics 2010

This Strong™ Stable™ Leader™ gets a new fucking™ sign™ The Olympic jacket.™ Jesus Christ. True North Sports and Entertainment.

"... they cannot, apparently, cope with Parliament's deliberations while dealing with the country's economic troubles and the challenge of hosting the Winter Olympic games. This was the argument put forward by the spokesman for Stephen Harper." from The Economist, walking and chewing gum at the same time.