A recent example:
Gloves are off in the war against the greens
Riley, Susan. Times - Colonist [Victoria, B.C] 17 Mar 2012: A.14.
You don't want to give too much credence to the unhinged accusations of crotchety Conservative senators, but their recent attacks on environmentalists suggest a bold escalation in the government's antigreen messaging.
At a recent meeting of a Senate committee examining foreign contributions to Canadian charities, Conservative Senator Percy Mockler described some respected environmental organizations - including the Sierra Club and David Suzuki foundations - as "bad, not to mention, ugly." ("They're all anti-Canadian," chimed in Conservative Senator Mike Duffy.)
Senator Don Plett, a former Conservative party president, picked up on a flippant remark from one environmentalist who said he would accept money "from Martians" if it helped preserve B.C.'s pristine coast.
"If environmentalists are willing to accept money from Martians," Plett said, "where would they draw the line? Would they take money from al-Qaeda, the Hamas, or the Taliban?"
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Senator Don Plett: "Would you take money from al-qaeda?"
Don't you mean, would I take money from the PMO?
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Why MR. BIG: [Final Edition]
By MARK ABLEY of The Gazette. The Gazette [Montreal, Que] 24 July 1988: D9.
Duffy ranks high in what TV strategists like to call "recognition factor."
He inspires confidence in viewers and politicians alike.
Duffy does not share the prevailing cynicism about the men and women who enter public life.
"I try to avoid the cheap shots," he says, "and I try to treat people the way I'd like to be treated. The other thing is not to betray them.
"That's one reason why I haven't written a book. I've had all kinds of people bugging me to write one, but I'd have to tell most of what I know. And then I wouldn't be able to work anymore!"
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"I used to be quite shocked by the reaction to me," he admits. "If I go into a bank to cash a cheque in, say, Vegreville, Alberta, the whole bank stops. be quite shocked by the reaction to me," he admits. - "Why Mr. Big"Paraphrased: ......Today, if I were to go into a bank with $90,000 to pay off a loan, the whole Canadian Press Corp comes to a stop.
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"I still look at things as a journalist and I say 'How will this go over with Canadians?'"
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"There are games within games and you're never really sure who your friends are," Duffy said.
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In a Senate speech this week, Duffy suggested Ghiz may get the "shaft" by getting in bed with Williams, and
the sight of two politicians in bed is "a grotesque scene."
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"Conservatives have made good use of their senators, particularly former media star Mike Duffy who now does outreach for the party."
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Christy Clark's Pamela Martin does the Outreach gig for the BC Liberals, and she's a media star just like Mike Duffy.
If Christy is asked by Steve to come up with a solid candidate to replace Mike (who doesn't live in PEI), will British Columbians be looking to Pamela?
Her most recent job was doing the same one that Mike did, OUTREACHING to the minorities. 99% and 1% = 1%
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“On our side of the House, we won’t touch the envelope. On the Conservative side, they hand them out,” Mr. Mulcair said Tuesday. He’s got them there.
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It's bad enough that Duffy flies around the country, sometimes aboard government Challengers, preaching the Conservative gospel at party fundraisers or at private conferences where he charges a fee for his drivel.
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On another note – we are still not finished with the HST fight. Please share this newest campaign with all your contacts. We have to do it through the social media as the msm isn’t interested in presenting both sides.
http://www.hstinbcfacts.ca/
Remember that it was concern over open-net fish farms that won the North Vancouver Island riding for the NDP in the last election. Recall, too, that the government handed the chair of the commission to study, and hold public hearings on fish farming to the Opposition NDP, a conspicuously unusual move probably designed, the BC Liberals hoped, to blow up in the commissioners’ faces, or, at the very least to lay the blame for any negative findings about open-net systems squarely on the NDP. Instead of playing into a booby-trap of partisan polarization, the commission heard expert witnesses, studied the mounting pile of scientific evidence and listened to the growing public concern about open-net fish farms. Some two decades ago the then-governing NDP placed a moratorium on new fish farm licences. The industry was relatively new to BC, then. The irrefutable body of evidence accumulated since that time, which shows that open-net fish farming harms the marine environment and wild salmon stocks, along with public awareness of the issue, lead the NDP-chaired commission to recommend converting open-net systems to closed-pen or land-based systems. The recommendation was not only presented to the government (who mandated it), but was also adopted as NDP party policy.
Yes, anyone and everyone can do something about ending open-net fish farming, write letters, attend hearings, eat only closed-pen farmed salmon, etc. Ultimately it’s government that makes the rules. So, if one wanted to vote for ending open-net fish farms, which party would one pick?
Which one might only be fishing for votes? Which one can be trusted to do what it says it will do…or not do what it said it wouldn’t do?
The International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) has just published a report saying that “the ocean’s health is in a critical state” and worse than previously thought.
Distressed oceans foreshadow mass species extinctions, because the recent fast global decline of ocean health points to a level of marine organisms die-off similar to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.
http://panokroko.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/oceans-12-midnight-for-species-and-man/
Dr. Rogers said, “If the ocean goes down, it’s game over”.
They are saying we have ten years to turn things around. Maybe we talk about other things and forget about leaving a planet for the next generation? or maybe – we need to get the fish farms out of the ocean – clean up the water. Maybe this is the one reason our new Premier will address the fish farm problems. We haven’t even begun to talk about doing nothing… but maybe there is no time to ralk. We need a hero – Is the new Premier willing to be that hero?
thanks for the post
Harper and Campbell support the dirtiest energy on this planet, the Alberta dirty tar sands. This dirty crude, goes to the most polluted country in the world, China. Harper and Campbell had worked hand in hand with China, behind the citizens backs, to force the Enbridge pipeline and the dirty tankers, onto the BC lands, and into our beautiful northern coast.
Christy is just following the map that was laid out for her, by Harper and Campbell. She has no say in anything important. Christy says family’s first? Horse puckey, the HST comes first with Christy. You would have to be as brain dead as Martyn Brown, not to see, the HST is the most harmful tax of all, for the people. However, Christy has her orders, and she is using every dirty tactic in the book, to force the HST onto her own citizens.
As far as fish farms. Three First Nations bands at Campbell River, signed in favor of the fish farms. What a let down. I had supported the F.N. people, I signed petitions for them. I spent hours on the computer, asking others to support them. But I guess, who I thought were the stewards of, lands, lakes, rivers, streams, wildlife and the oceans, can be had for a price, and to hell with the eco systems, I thought they wanted to protect.
It’s been 2 months since a fresh syllable appeared on your blog. Disappointing.
I’d certainly like to hear from you more often.