Jay Currie

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper will prorogue Parliament Wednesday for a two-month break.

The House of Commons and the Senate will come back in March, after the Vancouver Olympics, for a Speech from the Throne and a budget. The move will have the effect of stalling all bills currently in Parliament, including crime bills that the government [...]

Bloomberg reports:

Canada’s government is considering ways of helping struggling broadcaster CanWest Global Communications Corp., the Canadian Press reported, citing an interview with Heritage Minister James Moore.

The measures, possibly changes to regulation or taxes, would also help other broadcasters, the news agency said. CTVglobemedia Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have also been lobbying the government for help, [...]

I have a new project called cash-stocks.com.

One of the articles is about why holding shares in Canadian dollars makes sense.

Canada is going into what looks like a nasty world wide recession in an enviable position. We have secure banks, an abundance of energy supplies, loads of water and a highly educated population. We also have [...]

Oraf parses the Count:

Oh, you want to “bring Canada back”, do you? Um – hello? Mike? Maybe you didn’t get the memo, but Canada is already back. And has been for about eighteen entire months! You can’t go any further back than “back”, which is the precise temporal, reputational and perhaps emotional [...]

Face Parliament on Monday.

Appoint a few Ambassadors and Crown Corp Chairman from the Liberal ranks. (But not Iggy’s people.) Take a meeting with Iggy. Ignore Dion.

Watch the Liberals scutter.

Win the vote.

At a time when he needed to look reassuring, to look prime ministerial, he looked exactly the way the Conservatives have been trying to portray him – like the leader of some sort of third-rate coup, being filmed in his hideout with one of his accomplices sticking a cheap video camera in his face. [...]

I was in Guelph last Friday for a meeting. I wish I had met Frank Valeriote then. Maybe someday soon.

Here’s another brave man, Michael Chong, from the other side of the aisle. We were at a wonderful Sikh wedding last weekend, and Michael was there – and I can attest to the fact that he, [...]

I know a good many Liberals who are utterly aghast at where this is taking their party. Simply put, Dion is driving them off a cliff. That picture of Dion, Duceppe and Layton together on the podium will be featured in every Tory attack ad from here to kingdom come. It will burn its way [...]

Ezra has an ear to the ground…at length; but here is the money shot,

I am optimistic today. I see the divide between the Parliamentary “community” – the Liberals and their base in the media on the one hand – and real Canadians on the other. The Liberals and their chorus in the media are just [...]

I wrote this over at Alan’s:

As my old professor Keith Spicer memorably put it – “There is an anger in this land.”

After being fed the Liberal Party/National Media line that to co-operate with Quebec separatists was pretty much treasonous there is the Toronto Party, with the Annex Media, on its knees co-operating.

From a Western perspective [...]

Fortunately the largest point drop in the TSE’s history had nothing to do with the Three Mouseketeers. For a look at life under the new junta you won’t do better than the Flaming Kitty.

From the pointy end:

Shout out to Glavin.

True North Strong and Free!

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Warning: It is not entirely impossible that your eyes might get moist what with the heros and the Celtic music and the kids.