In an emailed response to questions from CBC News, RCMP spokeswoman Lucy Shorey said Redmond has been removed from duty with pay while the force conducts a code of conduct investigation — and that as of last Thursday, his commanding officer "has served notice to the member that he is seeking to stop his pay."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/06/18/rcmp-inspector-sexual-assault-allegations.html

what??? a refreshing precedent? stopping pay for suspended sex offending RCMP officers?

“It’s completely preposterous to suggest that when a parliamentary budgetary authority asks for information from government departments he’s somehow overstepping his bounds,” said Liberal interim leader Bob Rae.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/polit...ng-mandate?bn=1

big mouth baird, using his comfortable majority position to poo-poo the facts. the pirates are afraid to reveal the costs, clear and simple.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney told him to take his lectures and go away and study countries where people are starving.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/polit...r-of-words?bn=1

kenney, we're starving right in your back yard, look over the fence, eh?

The deal “will only benefit big business, and Canada will have less say than Brunei in what the final deal looks like,” said Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians. “We commit to fighting this deal and Harper’s other economic pacts that have nothing to do with jobs or trade and everything to do with limiting what we can do as a society to live sustainably and equitably.”

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/...ific-talks?bn=1

give it all away harper before the rapture!

The sit-down with Mulroney signals how skittish the federal government is about their continued failure to connect with Quebecers.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/06/22/harper-wonders-how-bad-his-luck-can-get-in-quebec/

5yrs ago harper sanctioned mulroney and forbid anyone in the party to speak with him. so captain blah must really be needing a kiss and hug and a pat on the bum? he ought to be wondering how the rest of canada thinks about him too!

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be in Quebec today for a Conservative rally aimed at reviving his party's flagging fortunes in the province.

Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/2012062.../#ixzz1yiCoLM45

well this is gonna be one expensive BBQ Summerfest, Captain Blah's sagging in EVERY RIDING! His pirates stole the election and have remade the country. Come on down to my town stevie, preach the good news about $11/hr jobs and two hours commute.

While your cabinet members slurp up the $16 OJ, the private car services when they go abroad 1,000,000 families line up for food banks in order to eat today!

aint no chance of winning QC and your political career is over as the next Federal Election will demonstrate, so slurp it up and no need for me to remind you to stash a lil away, your pension will do very nicely thanks to poor and SICK working muthafuckers like me.

This means Canada has already agreed to be bound by TPP terms without having had any input. Since the TPP remains secret, the government can’t even tell us what has been agreed upon.

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/...rtnership-talks

it'll take years for the effects to be felt, but it will be post-rapture, so no harm.

Passing regressive and life-harming legislation that hurts the most vulnerable has thousands of Canadian health-care workers — physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, dentists, midwives and others — up in arms in our streets across Canada, demonstrating.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/1216136--a-new-low-for-refugees-in-canada

I wish the fight could be brought to the pulpit, that's where the pirates' supporters listen.

But Conservative party lawyer Arthur Hamilton told the court Monday the legal applications to overturn the results, by law, should have been filed within 30 days of the election outcome being certified.

http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120625/062512_tory_lawyer?hub=CP24Home

we didn't know the scope of the robocalls until after the election was certified, so this validates the pirates' win? disgusting!

“Everyone is just pretending they can mitigate everything but that is just a big myth,” said Baggio. “We need much more work done. That is why you need a rigorous environmental assessment and we don’t have that now.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/polit...ing-of-fir?bn=1

water, water everywhere...