Harper's Government Reports: Canadians seeking EI at an 11-year high

By Daviolis

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Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski's Hate Speech

Apropos of this, we remind you of this and, oh yes, can't forget this:


By Scottross00

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JJedras - Where in the world is Stephen Harper

Cool beats.

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Andrew Coyne eviscerates Harper's lack of conservativism

Not only has Harper not acted in any way like a conservative and abandoned all conservative fiscal priniples and policies and ideologies, according to Andrew Coyne at the 2009 Manning Centre Conference, and not only have they not "moved the centre" of Canadian politics to the right, even before the recession Stephen Harper and the "Conservative" Party actually moved the centre of Canadian politics further to the left. That's his take; what's yours?



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HarpersVacation - Stephen Harpers Summer Vacation

A video summarizing a pretty awful week for Prime Minister Harper. And it doesn't even include Harper's major international gaffe this morning when he went full guns ablazing on Ignatieff over comments that Ignatieff did not make, which surprise surprise is being blamed on a staffer.

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"Wafergate" video back up despite censorship attempt

Apparently, the Conservatives CBC got youtube to censor the "wafergate" scandalette video due to "copyright" concerns. Right. Anyway, here is the full stream video. It actually includes more footage of the Prime Minister.



Note that this is not the first time the Conservatives someone has forced youtube to censor a clip that was critical of the Conservatives.

I still don't know what Harper did with the host, but it is clear that, in the first 10 seconds after he reached out to receive it inappropriately, he did not eat the host.

If he did toss it into his pocket, that is a pretty big sacrilege and worthy of the media feeding frenzy - including international attention - it is getting. Still, none of the Canadian media coverage seems to me to be "going after" the Prime Minister, but merely reporting the claim and giving the PMO a chance to reply. Indeed, most media columnists and several Liberal MPs - Dominic LeBlanc himself, and Pearson to name two - have said drop the story. None give the Prime Minister as stern a rebuke as ultra conservative LifeSiteNews.com, so it is hard to describe this as an anti-Conservative media bias thing.

Still, if all he did was to inappropriately receive and consume the host as a non-Catholic, wouldn't the easy thing be to simply say "ooops, my bad, not my religion, sorry - won't happen again"? Then we all move on. But that would be admitting that the Prime Minister is fallible, not perfect, so we won't be seeing anything like that.

What we do see, is a lot of Harper defenders quick to blame the priest and the media. That is the typical pattern for this PMO. It is always someone else's fault. And we see it again today with an outright and total screw-up by the Prime Minister, with Harper going on an anti-Ignatieff tirade in his concluding G-8 remarks based on something Ignatieff did not say. Will we see an apology from Mr. Harper? No, a staffer is already being blamed/taking the blame.

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Kramet1 - Steven Harper puts the host in his pocket

At the very sacred occasion of the funeral of former Governor General Roméo Leblanc, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is not a Roman Catholic, first accepted the host and then... put it in his pocket. Here is the video:



From the Catholic Encyclopedia:

Real sacrilege

Real sacrilege is the irreverent treatment of sacred things as distinguished from places and persons. This can happen first of all by the administration or reception of the sacraments (or in the case of the Holy Eucharist by celebration) in the state of mortal sin, as also by advertently doing any of those things invalidly. Indeed deliberate and notable irreverence towards the Holy Eucharist is reputed to be the worst of all sacrileges. Likewise conscious maltreatment of sacred pictures or relics or perversion of Holy Scripture or sacred vessels to unhallowed uses, and finally, the usurpation or diverting of property (whether movable or immovable) intended for the maintenance of the clergy or serving for the ornamentation of the church to other uses, constitute real sacrileges. Sometimes the guilt of sacrilege may be incurred by omitting what is required for the proper administration of the sacraments or celebration of the sacrifice, as for example, if one were to say Mass without the sacred vestments.

From Code of Canon (Latin Rite Code canon 1367; Eastern Rite Code canon 1442):

As Christians believe Jesus to be true God and true man, his body and blood in the form of the consecrated host are adored in the Catholic Church. Theft, sale, or use of the hose for a profane purpose is considered a grave sin and sacrilege.

I am not Catholic, so it is not for me to ask for an apology from the Prime Minister or to be offended by his actions at that sacred occasion. But clearly he knew enough to know, as a non-Catholic, not to eat the Host, so why did he receive it in the first place and why, having received it, did he toss in his pocket?

So I ask my Catholic readers: how bad was the Prime Minister's sacrilege? What should the Prime Minister do to atone for his sacrilege?

Clearly, many Canadian Catholics noticed, think it was a bad sacrilege and asking for an explanation and an apology from the Prime Minister for accepting the holy sacrament in the first place and then desecrating it by tossing it in his pocket in the second place.

Not surprisingly, many bloggers have noticed as well.

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Michael Ignatieff at Calgary Stampede, Part 2

Part of Michael Ignatieff's speech at the Calgary Zoo on July 4, 2009. Ignatieff speaks about education, health care, the new economy and broadening our competitiveness and efficient users of energy.

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Michael Ignatieff at the Calgary Stampede, Part 1

Part of Michael Ignatieff's speech at the Calgary Zoo on July 4, 2009. Ignatieff talks about the diversity of Canada, its strengths, and the Tory ads attacking Canadians who work abroad. The shapings of a really good stump speech.

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Michael Ignatieff in Calgary (April 6, 2009)

Michael Ignatieff speaking about what the Liberals plans for rural Canada (food strategy, better infrastructure, better access to healthcare, better access to post-secondary education) vs what the Conservatives offer (gun registry opposition), the importance of the West/Alberta to the nation, unemployment in the West, etc.

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Dosanjh and Coady on Working Together in Tough Times

On Canada Day, let's reflect on what kind of Canada we want and what kind of Canadian government we want. Do we want a government that is working together for every region of the country or a government more concerned with funnelling 80-95% of government spending for partisan gain into Conservative ridings?

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