A few quick links, before I’m off to paint slime on a Harley tank;
Grandinite, with the help of MK Braaten takes another look at the change in Accounting standardsfrom GAAP to International standards and wonders how that might apply to the billions the Liberals have tucked into foundations, out of reach of the Auditor General. He spots this:
For not-for-profit organizations: Not-for-profit organizations (NFPOs) will continue to apply those elements of GAAP for profit-oriented enterprises that are applicable also to the circumstances of NFPOs. The Board will consult with the not-for-profit sector to determine whether all NFPOs should base their accounting on the standards for public companies, or whether some might base their accounting on the standards for Canadian private businesses or be exempted from the scope of accounting standards altogether.
A story that won’t spawn hysterical headlines at the Globe and Mail….
Stupid Angry Canajun asks “What is in it for Jim Karygiannis?” and revisits Patti Starr.
And Arthur Chrenkoff has another roundup of good news from Afghanistan, while Riding Sun asks What Is Being Done In Our Name?
Some of our media friends might check these out – expand your horizons beyond the quagmire scripts you’ve been reading from!
Add your own tips in the comments – reminder: keep descriptions and quoting BRIEF.
I’ve recently become acquainted with http://www.incharacter.org. Others may like it too.
Re: won’t spawn hysterical headlines at the Globe and Mail….
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050605/ca_pr_on_na/christian_liberals;_ylt=Av0Rhp.B3Ox2FCZCBAaCPceFM1IB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
This is scary:
“Christian groups purportedly infiltrating the Conservative party ”
Infiltrating- isn’t that what subversives do?
“evangelical Christians are trying to hijack the party”
hijack – isn’t that what terrorists do?
Now I know. CPC is being subverted by terrorists. Probably part of Stephen Harpers hidden agenda.
The hour of maximum Canadian idiocy and self-delusion.
From Norman Spector’s blog
http://www.members.shaw.ca/nspector4/fordef1.htm
“Enlist our ‘diaspora’ to peddle Canada in U.S., McKenna”: The Ottawa Citizen�s Joe Paraskevas reports on June 4:
“‘The up to three million Canadians who have left this country to live in the United States stand to play an important role in improving cross border relations’, Frank McKenna, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., said yesterday.
The expatriates Mr. McKenna calls members of the Canadian diaspora’ must be identified, organized and put to use advocating Canada’s position on issues of interest with the U.S., he said.
In an address in which he set out new measures to better manage the Canada-U.S. relationship, Mr. McKenna called on Canadians with friends or relatives south of the border and expatriates themselves to contact the Canadian Embassy in Washington if they want to be part of the proposed network.�
How silly, truly transcendentally living on another planet, out of this world, lost in space, up a creek in a canoe without a paddle or a brain, can a senior Canadian government official get?
We–English Canadians or ROC-persons–are the vast majority of recently-arrived Canadians in the US, either as immigrants or working temporarily. It is doubtful that Quebecois residents of the US would respond to this call.
English Canadians in the US have gone there to seek better lives–career, money, freedom, whatever. Nurses able to work full-time and get a good salary.
Unlike the Irish, Jews, Armenians, and Greeks (to name the most successful such lobbying groups in the US) these English-Canadians do not have an inherently strong sense of national self-identification honed over centuries of struggle. It is indeed questionable if they have any strong sense of national identification at all.
The very idea that they would want to contact the Canadian Embassy in Washington, while getting on with their individual lives in the US and simply trying to fit in where they now live, to volunteer to somehow foward Canadian government policies on, say, soft-wood lumber, BSE, or the Devil’s Lake diversion, is simple lunacy or self-delusion.
English-Canadians have had it drummed into them for decades that they are better than Americans because we do not “Rally round the flag”. And now our expatriates in the US are to do a 180?
And imagine the reaction in Canada if the US ambassador had publicly asked Americans living here to report in to the US embassy in order to support US government policies. Nuclear would be an under-statement. The reaction would be thermonuclear.
“Oh wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel’s as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
And foolish notion.”
Robert Burns.
Mark
Ottawa
Looks like C-38 and possibly C-48 may not pass after all before the summer.
Pat O’Brien has just left the Liberal caucus and is willing to use his vote to push C-38 out to the fall. As the Hill Times pointed out “To sit beyond June 23, the House would have to pass a motion by a simple majority”.
If the CPC and BQ study C-48 sufficiently in committee the Liberals may not be to pass the NDP budget before the summer either.
How ironic if the CPC and Bloc push C-43 through and the NDP Liberals try to stall C-43 to preserve the Buzz deal.
Robbie Burns- a hero – a Scotsman; go laddie.
McKenna’s message is typical of left liberal tribunes: detached from reality is the message of the left; spun from utopian threads as was the gossamer chains with which Gulliver was tied down.
Millions of gossamer threads; which are not noticed by the host until the parasite left liberals have done their work; the end result of the left are prisons and death.
Example: Zimbabwe; a people ruined by the left.
New Biography On Stephen Harper – can we make this a bestseller?
http://www.mcclelland.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771043505
Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada
Written by William Johnson
There has never been a book about Stephen Harper, yet on June 28 he came close to being our prime minister. If Paul Martin miscalculates, Stephen Harper could be our next prime minister in months, not years.
Who is this man? Everyone knows that he became leader of the Alliance Party and, against all odds, gathered in the old Conservative Party to create a force designed to win power, coming very close in 2004.
Yet what are his core beliefs? To what extent does he agree with his party’s social conservatives, who scared away voters in the last election? Where will he take us if he gets power?
William Johnson has researched the Harper family background and the historical context that shaped his political career. He paints a fascinating picture of a man who, like Pierre Trudeau, trained mentally for political power like an athlete training for the Olympics, yet is not a natural politician and never really wanted the political leader�s life. By studying Harper�s approach to the main issues in Canadian politics, he shows that Harper is a sophisticated political operative, far more complex and intellectual than the right-wing Republican image that has been created for him.
This is a serious, objective political biography, short on gossip but long on clear discussion of Harper�s political views � and how he got them. Johnson�s message? Don�t underestimate this man.
Here’s a comment I came across on another site:
From an email sent to me by a friend in Northern Ontario:
“Everyone around here keeps asking how can Jack Layton continue to support this Liberal mob. So, I had a chat with a good friend who is a Liberal organizer here in XXXXXXXXX.
Here is his direct quote to me – “Layton can’t ever vote against us (the Liberals). He is so deep in our pockets that he’ll never get out. We have him by the short and curlies and if he tries anything he’s toast.”
When probed for more details this Liberal worker just said “it has nothing to do with any Budget bills, I can tell you that.”
So, there you have it. Was Layton bribed or bullied or both.
Does anyone have any insight here?
Attention all news editors – you should follow up on this article:
From AGWN – The Globe and Mail “Expert” on the Grewal Tapes – Certified by a Certification Mill?
A must reading especially after listening to the Liberal spin about the tapes in the house today.
http://angrygwn.mu.nu/archives/085851.php
http://drizwald.blogspot.com/2005/06/be-it-yours-to-hold-high_06.html
The Red Ensign Standard is Up.
Courtesy: Glenn reynolds.
I was once one of those 3-million expats in the US for 10 years. I can tell you all that while I was there, I would have been ROFLMAO if a Liberal tried to get me to lobby the US on their behalf. What do Americans think of Canuckistanians? Inconsequential holier-than-thou whining wimps! Somehow, I doubt that using holier-than-thou wimpy whining is going to change the American perception that Canuckistanians are holier-than-thou whining wimps – which is why we will remain inconsequential.
A week or so ago you were musing about getting an independant journalist to do some hard hitting un biased reporting on the Canadian political scene. A perfect candidate for this mission would be Arthur Kent, brother of Peter Kent.
Arthur is an internationally acclaimed journalist and correspondent.
Just a thought.
Perhaps off topic but,
CTV news’ headline regarding Pat O’Brien switching from Liberal to Independent is:
“O’Brien’s move triggers fears of election call”
http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1118065252405_33?hub=topstories
What kind of democracy are we when we apparently “fear” elections. My God, what a horrible thing to suffer through…an election.
We are officially a country of pussies.
BC Senate hints in the Grewal tapes:
An astute blogger pointed out the tapes had discussions that there was one BC Senate vacancy but that “someone else’ had already been talked to about it. And, that the Liberals don’t want to announce who yet because it is a matter of timing.
Could that timing be Chuck Cadman?
Just one of those little tidbits of information that makes one go Hmmmmm.
CTV is saying Grewal might be suspended, according to a Tory source. Also, Don Newman got so desperate, he said Air Canada also looking at “incident” at the airport in Vancouver involving Grewal on Saturday, where he was caught with a “package”. That’s it. Nothing else. Just left it hanging. The push is on to discredit him, and Shapiro has shut down the House while he investigates, yet Dosanjh and Grewal remain in their positions. The mantra is now ‘altered tapes’ or ‘edited tapes’. The only hope I can see here is that a bunch of O’Brien’s colleague join him in the nether regions until this government is toast. The PM has no interest in getting the RCMP involved, and it was left to Duceppe to hammer away at Martin during QP.
As soon as Paul Martin and his team say “wait for the RCMP investigation” or “wait for the Ethics Commissioner” as a rebuff to answering any questions we all know the fix is in.
IMHO These Liberals control the RCMP and the Ethics Commish and they will all go through the proper public motions as behind the scenes witnesses are tampered with and coached to lie or deny; as records disappear; as public scorn and defamation continues to be heaped on Grewal (he who dares to question the integrity of “The Big Boss”)
Canadians, through the media, will be fed a whitewash with probably the only victims targeted as those opposed to the ruling power.
This is not being cynical – this is being a realist. So, how can we assure clean investigations? Do we have any recourse? Do we need an outside law enforcement agency such as the FBI because ours may be tainted?
Perhaps all of the US should see those “Joe Canada” beer commercials. The Canadian Embassy would have lots to do.
Now there’s an idea. Have the FBI forensics folks get a copy of the tapes even if they have to be paid to do it. That way, we can compare outcomes and given that the RCMP answers to the Librano$, we’ll have an independent source that has a greater track record in this kind of thing that all the Dudley Do Rights in the world….
Iron Lady – maybe we should demand second opinions of every inquiry involving the Liberals.
Gomery, Ethics Commish, Grewal tapes, Arar… like a shadow cabinet of this shadowy cabinet.
Good idea.
Grewal is so much a lightweight. God, I love a good fight. That’s what frustrates me so much about some of these guys. Where the hell are the real fighters when we need them? Where are the people who are willing to put their reputations and careers on the line for their country?
Ya know, even when the odds aren’t on your side you can often win if you know how to fight, and if you believe in what you’re fighting for. But you need a little courage for that. Too much for some people it seems.
John – IMHO there are many people willing to fight but they don’t know how to fight dirty.
The Conservatives are badly out muscled on that front.
HappyDaze, that’s what I meant. If you’re going to get into the ring it pays to “know thy enemy.”
There are too many lightweights in the CPC right now. I’d just like to see a party who stands up for the principles of their base, instead of prostituting themselves for a few more votes they may never get anyway. The CPC has a stong base in Western Canada. They could make it even stronger. In doing so I bet they would pick up some seats in Quebec in the next election. There are probably 10 or so ridings where the people will never vote Bloc. I think a lot of people would vote for an honest politician, even if they didn’t accept all of his/her platform. Hell, I voted for Trudeau once.
Shab – I think they were showing how empathic they can be – honing in on the Liberals’ fear of an election.
HappyDaze – apparently the guy mentioned at AGWN has been called directly, and he has reputable certification and experience. Somebody called him directly and he was able to substantiate his credentials. Without something more than AGWN’s piece, I think that one has no legs.
the federal gov’t will never pay to get the FBI to investigate anything, it would have to be private. Does the FBI even do private (non government) investigations?
Why does the accounting function and fraud seem so synonymous to me?
Can’t Accountants afford to spend a little on public relations? I know you guys are frugal, but come on, you’re dying out here.
Now you hold a meet to chew over two deferent means of accounting, [public companies or NFPOs].
Come on you guys, be honest. There’s assets, there’s liabilities and then the difference.
I guess there are two different modalities. Straight forward and very convoluted. Like our hydro bills. Since Gordon’s Liberals got elected in B.C., even those with Accounting 202 can’t be sure about them.
There sure is a lot of convoluted in accounting eh? Did you ever try to read the fine print in your credit card details?
That print is so small that it could say you sign away your mother and no one would know. Most people find the interest figure and if it’s around 9 percent, they gamble on the rest and sign.
I hope fewer people sign those Bay and Sears credit cards at 28 percent these days.
Notice those cards are still pulled out at the check out. Some Canadians must be sleep walking. Talk about white collar crime, it’s very Libscammer like.
Then there are doctors who get people popping nine different pills. Pills pulling this way, pills pulling that way.
I just wonder about all these honourable practices and gain resentment from the pros no doubt. Don’t get mad gentlemen. Just asking. 73s TonyGuitar
I doubt it would be possible for the Canadian govt to pay the FBI to investigate. While local govts might cover lodging and rent-a-wreck, payment for the investigation itself wouldn’t happen.
OTOH, if the Canadian govt requested it, I have no doubt the FBI would get on it – but how likely is that to happen?
The only other possibility would be if the people up there requested it – it’d have to be a significant number of people before the FBI considered it, but then what would happen is the Canadian govt would say no and that would be the end of it.
The only real chance of the FBI doing any investigation would be if you get a new PM and he requests it. I wonder if the Queen requested it if that would work? More likely she’d put the Yard on it.
(all that said, considering the stink it wouldn’t surprise me to find the FBI has already investigated and come to conclusions – they just can’t do anything with it because there’s no reason to)