It looks as if the ghastly partnership of Stephen Harper and Jimbo Flaherty is heading for a messy breakup.
For after first appearing to agree with Flaherty that his income splitting plan was fatally flawed, he has now changed his mind.
The Conservative caucus appears to have put some woolly socks on Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cold feet on income splitting, convincing him to stick with a key campaign promise despite his finance minister's public reservations.
Leaving himself looking like a flip flopper, and poor little Jimbo gasping for air...
It must have been a frightening apparition in New York City today. Like a scary blimp in the Macy's parade eh?
Stephen Harper as Great Mother Leader, posing as a friend of women and children, while floating on a cloud of toxic hypocrisy.
It's hard to imagine a worse horror story.
A young woman is sexually assaulted, and publicly humiliated.
Her school does nothing. A police investigation goes nowhere.
Then she is bullied, and then she kills herself.
It seemed like just another day in the Great Frozen North.
A day when Canada looked liked it always does at this time of the year.
But then I remembered it wasn't just another day. It was the seventh anniversary of the day Stephen Harper and his Cons came to power.
The day of infamy, when everything changed, and the Canada I knew and loved started getting old and dying.
I'm glad to see that the sad story of Amanda Todd is getting so much attention all over the world.
An outpouring of grief from around the world continued on social media websites Saturday for Amanda Todd, the 15-year-old Port Coquitlam girl who ended her life Wednesday after years of bullying.
Even if some of it is so evil.
I've been waiting to see what our military had to say about the Afghan troops who raped boys at one of our forward bases in Afghanistan.And this isn't good enough.
"It was determined that the initial allegations concerning such incidents contained serious discrepancies, could not be corroborated, were not reported to the chain of command and ultimately were not substantiated," said a statement released Tuesday by the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service.Military police in Afghanistan did not receive sexual abuse complaints of Afghan male children, Tuesday's statement said, adding that the NIS has no jurisdiction over the Afghan National Army or locally contracted interpreters in Afghanistan.I know we're fighting a war...and brutish customs.But how can they suggest that it didn't happen when Canadian soldiers witnessed it?How can we seriously expect raped kids to complain when rape victims and gay people are jailed?How can we claim no jurisdiction over the Afghan National Army when we are TRAINING them...and it happened on OUR base.We need an inquiry because this reeks of a cover-up. (PDF)And if we don't do something about it, we'll lose more than just a war.It's bad enough what women and girls have to endure in Afghanistan. But if we look the other way.Who will protect the boys?
