Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
May, 2006 – “I think if Mr. Harper was listening to Canadians instead of American right-wing pollsters, he would be taking very different positions on issues,” said New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton. He added that Canadians should be concerned about Harper meeting with Republican pollster Frank Luntz last Friday.
August, 2009 – Federal New Democrats listened eagerly Saturday as members of the team behind U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic electoral victory in November shared their winning strategies.
h/t Frank M.
Yeah, I thought it was strange when I heard it but, then this is the party that can’t even decide on it’s name at a convention.
Don’t you know? Obviously it’s ok for the “left” to talk across the borders. But anyone with an R attached to their name…
Asshats
Typical lefty elitist Asshats…
Do as I say NOT as I do!
Eric Margolis was interviewed on CBC this am…(yeah …it’s good locally) He claims the Obama gang will be ‘encouraging’ Canada to remain in A’stan past the 2011 deadline.
Won’t that get the Dippers confused?
Layton and the loony left are being taught how to take command of the ship of state using box cutters. It worked once on an airplane but will never work again. Still, it’s a fine example how brilliant these people really are.
NDP already knows how to lie and ignore facts. What would they learn from the O-team? Maybe extort more money from the unions and George Soros’ telephone number?
Layton and the NDP running dogs . . . barking at their American masters.
Hell Jack, heel.
Good boy.
ACORN
They might learn that first you need organization.
Not that they’d have any more of clue about how to do that then they do about what Canadians think of them.
I’m just waiting for Laytoon to start spouting off again about what Canadians think or what Canadians want while trying to pretend that his attempted hijack of our parliament just didn’t matter.
And on TVO that goof Dr Buckman couldn’t believe it when Kathy called Obama a Marxist. Well here’s the Big Owe’s people hanging around with real Marxists. Why dat, I wonder?
Kate, I would pay real money to see how you have your bookmarks arranged!!
I remembered I went to Canada trade commission in US as they invited me and other group and funny the trade commission was American worked in Canada and later group of American try to have lecture us and at the end some group of American said
Do not forgot we do not allow Canadian come to US and cut job or business from American
I really felt bad the way man was talking and we must stay polite to here him talk nonsense
Even small companies has struggle among Canadian as their ideas are taken as they believe they are smarter because they are bigger in comparison
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This is proof Canadain doing good job and some ideas is ready to sell to American
nobody work free here am I right?
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Mon Aug 17, 2:59 PM
By The Canadian Press
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TORONTO – American business magazine Fortune has named BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (TSX:RIM) the world’s fastest-growing company.
Research in Motion was one of two Canadian companies who made the top 10 of Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list after the magazine opened the survey to businesses around the world for the first time.
Waterloo, Ont.-based RIM topped the list, while Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. (TSX:POT), the world’s biggest fertilizer company, came 10th.
RIM has more than quadrupled its workforce in the last four years to about 12,000 people and seen its profits and revenues soar as the company has grown sales of its BlackBerry devices beyond the corporate world to the highly competitive consumer market.
In its latest quarterly report, Research In Motion reported that its quarterly profit was US$643 million, or $1.12 per share, compared with $482.5 million, or 84 cents per share a year earlier.
Revenues rose 53 per cent from a year ago to US$3.42 billion.
The Fortune article about RIM compares co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis to Apple head Steve Jobs and his popular iPhone, and says the two Canadians are “more than holding their own.”
RIM holds a 56 per cent share of the US$12-billion American smartphone market, and is expected to see three-year average earnings-per-share growth of 84 per cent and revenue growth of 77 per cent. Fortune says this is largely on the strength of RIM’s foray into the consumer market.
By comparison, Apple takes 39th place in the magazine’s top-100 list.
However, Fortune warns that RIM’s competition is “getting increasingly stiff” and RIM will have to keep up with changing consumer demands.
Shares in RIM lost $1.98 to $78.31 in afternoon trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange, while Potash Corp. shares lost $4.53 to $100.97.
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Canadian firm’s lawsuit halts some Microsoft Word sales in U.S.
Matt Hartley and Barry Critchley, Canwest News Service
Published: Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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Tyler Anderson/ National Post Loudon Owen, left, and Michael Vulpe’s software company i4i won a $290-million patent lawsuit against Microsoft.
A tiny Canadian company has won a landmark ruling against Microsoft Corp. after a U.S. judge ordered the software giant to stop selling a number of versions of its iconic word-processing software, Word, because the company willfully violated a patent held by Toronto’s i4i Inc.
Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court in Tyler, Tex., issued a permanent injunction barring Microsoft from selling Word in the United States – upholding an earlier jury verdict in the case – and ordered the world’s largest software company to pay i4i nearly $290-million in damages.
Please God, please let the dippers be so stupid as to repeat the Obama/Pelosi/Reid fiasco.
Simeon said “Acorn”.
You got that right. The NDP has been playing the same game as Obama for years and could never get it to work. (except for Bob Rae in Ontario) They are hoping that the Democrats can show them how to use Opseu, CUPE, the Teachers Union, The Ontario Federation of Labour, and all the other unions to take over all discussion on the issues and to bully people into keeping quiet.
Look for more intense “Days Of Action” in the near future. I wouldn’t doubt that they suddenly unveil a new Black candidate for the head of the NDP.
Tea parties anyone ?
The strategies are simple: ignore the leader’s obvious faults, wave his newest book around (a la Little Red Book), the hardcover one that retails around $45.99, slander thy neighbour, libel thy neighbour, kill thy neighbour (if need be), come up with a catchy phrase that really means nothing, parade around spouse who is as bold a criminal as you, come up with plans that would never work.
Well now, I say that if the NDP, and especially Layton, listened to the majority of Canadians, they would dissolve the party and the members would move to Obamaland. They have consistently been rejected by Canadians at the polls, which should give them a hint.
Don’t forget that the Liberals had Howard Dean give the keynote speech at their convention in 2006 — the one in which Stephane Dion was elected leader. And didn’t they invite a Democratic strategist to address them at their convention a few months ago when Iggy was elected — er, annointed — as leader?
So it would seem that Layton, the NDP and the Liberals would say that the operative word isn’t “American” but “Republican.” It’s foolish and irrational, of course, since the policy or action which they vilify when undertaken by a loathed Republican administration passes unremarked when a “progressive” administration does the same thing. There are so many examples in relation to the Obama administration that it’s pointless for me to mention any.
IMO the Dippers don’t need too listen to O’s team to learn what is required to attain the mantle of power. The script is already written. By Tony Blair no less.
He saw early in his leadership of the Labour party that ‘Clause 4 – essentially that the nationalization of enterprise was an essentail goal of the party’ (my quotes, my memory…) was a non-starter if they ever hoped to achieve power at the national level. He had it successfully removed. Labour was then seen to be a maintstream party inline with British views, and as they say, the rest is history.
I don’t give a skunks behind if the NDP has democrates as guests. I just wish they would have the same attitude with Conservatives.
This type of hypocracy has gone on long enough.
JMO
Federal New Democrats listened eagerly Saturday as members of the team behind U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic electoral victory in November shared their winning strategies.
The NDP can’t use the Kenyan’s 2 best strategies.
1) Use a stealth candidate who plays a moderate but is really a marxist.
2) Play the race card every chance you get.
The NDP can’t use these strategies because:
1) People know who Jack Layton is.
2) The race card is of no value to the NDP in Canada.
Last but not least, the NDP have never formed a government and if they are going to try, they will split the vote with the Liberals and/or the Bloc.
The Kenyan’s strategies don’t translate well to Canada.
Just call then ACORN-Canada. Oh yeah, Taliban Jack is still ticked that name is already taken!
I really didn’t follow anything about the convention, but I caught a blurb on the news. They apparently adopted a new slogan (ala Obumer).
IT CAN
BE DONE
I can envision some very creative reworking by placard graffiti vandals.
As the saying goes “you can put lipstick on the pig, but it’s still a pig.
The ND’s can rename the party any which way they choose, but in the end they represent and embody state socialism / communist-
collectivization …… only with lipstick.
Olivia and Jack at one time lived in taxpayer subsidized low rental housing in Toronto while pulling in excess of a hundred grand per year combined, as Toronto councillors if memory serves correctly.
In fact the ND’s very much remind me of cowbirds in nature.
The cowbird always lays it’s egg in a hosts nest letting the unwary host hatch and feed its young.
This is the guy exchanging strategy with the community organizer and Marxist, Obama.
The Demicans are having a good laugh at this Canuck Trotskyite’s hero worship of our Alinsky school Prez. We titter about how this frost-back neo-com will suck up a hundred yards of Barry’s poop just to get a whiff of political success.
Seems they want to change to the name democrats to ride on Obama’s popularity in Canada.
The NDP is to irrelevance what its leader is to buffoonery. They will never govern Canada … even with a new leader. Although turfing the annoyingly smug and extraordinarily dense Jack Layton would be a step in the right direction.
Whatever hijinks that the NDP come up with are best ignored. This party is almost as laughable as the Green Party.
It should surprise no-one that that there is much to admire in the US political system on both the right and the left by those on the right and the left in Canada.
The irritating part is that to be seen doing it publically is almost a political third rail for those on the right, but it goes by almost un-noted (and certainly not critically so by the MSM) if a leftist does so. The cause is obvious – a left-wing MSM that has similar admiration of those on the left. What else could it be?
In reality, Obama is a Canadian. He sent these people from his adopted country to show us the truth and the light.
http://www.rense.com/general82/pbb.htm
I just heard a great joke on QR77. If the NDP dropped the word New from their name, they would just be the DP. Apparently this is a term used in the adult film industry, which is exactly what the NDP wants to do to you.
biffy:
You’ve got the right idea, Comrade.
Laughter is the best medicine against the disease of marxist thought.
Since there has been no change to the Party’s message in the past 50 years, there is plenty of fodder for laughter and parody.
BTW. Don’t let them know this little secret we know about them .. they are incapable of laughing at themselves.
If two federal parties seem to think the Obama election is good for their prospects, it can’t be good for either.
Sounds like they’re competing for the same left of centre (and beyond) vote. Luckily for the Liberals, Jack Layton leads the (N)DP.
He had the Liberals dead in the water last election, and instead of sinking them and taking their vote, he went off of a ridiculous, elect me PM and I’ll screw the banks, oil companies and destroy evil, private medicine.
Except that’s not “what Canadians want.” Oh yeah, at 17% of the pop vote – this guy’s connecting.
He never asked for the job of the Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. He should have. It would have given Harper a majority IMO, so Layton tanked it. He hates Harper that much, he just can’t stand his intolerance.
Layton proposed to go to our kitchen tables to explain what he was about, then showed us after the reigning government was left just short of a majority, moved to the backroom table.
I think that is why he is dead meat next election. Too bad for him and the Tories, because the NDP still have a shot at Official Opposition, with Ignatieff as Grit leader.
OTOH, Ignatieff’s “soon” to be released platform will include lots of big city goodies, especially for Quebec. The centre left (big City sans Calgary) vote is crucial to any chance for vote momentum, and victory, this Fall. (They’re not going at Christmas or anywhere near the Olympic, that’s why).
The hypocrisy on display from the political parties is standard stuff. During an Ontario election a couple of decades ago, the Liberal leader of the day criticized the Conservative leader for obtaining an endorsement from the head of the federal PC party, then turned around and got one from the head of the federal Liberals a week later. They must think voters are all morons.
No doubt they discussed the pros and cons of various renaming strategies in leftist politics. Whether they were in agreement that renaming Obamacare with a more dynamic and accurate generic label such as New AcornWholeCare wasn’t mentioned.
Speaking of ACCORN !
They are here in Canada now !!
They should be watched carefully…
Also check out the groups that support them!!
For the sake of Canada be vigilant members of SDA !!
Ken W.
Acorn
To be clear, i id not mean the christian group but
the commuity organizing one
http://jml.acorncanada.org/
Oz, I think the dippers will indeed try to play the race card with Muslims. Now why seemingly small c conservative folks like muslims would want to hop in bed with Jack’s party folk is beyond me but then again Elmo and his gang don’t operate in a logical fashion anyway.
Dear Jack you are too funny. Your Halifax Convention was a hoot – items up for discussion transgendered bathrooms, alternating questions/comments from delegates based on gender etc. My goodness, if anyone needs Frank Luntz its you – you need to refocus on issues that actually drive opinion in the general population.
Cool Jack and the Hip Critters.
As the oft-Photoshopped SA poster says, “It’s not fascism when WE do it!”
Oz, I think the dippers will indeed try to play the race card with Muslims. Now why seemingly small c conservative folks like muslims would want to hop in bed with Jack’s party folk is beyond me but then again Elmo and his gang don’t operate in a logical fashion anyway.
~Rick Rae
Muslims aren’t a race and Jack Layton is an atheist who supports abortion, homosexuality, and radical feminism…he can play the race card all he likes with Muslims, it’ll be like trying to nail a bowl of Jello to the wall, sans bowl.
Is Jack planning on converting to Islam?
Layton…it always freaks me out a bit when I see a man who is at least normatively educated, wearing a decent suit, balding, fatherly, mustachioed…talking to the people of his country as if we’re all friggin’ children.
News flash Jack: we’re not ALL children. And those of us who aren’t – we get to vote, more’s the pity for useless baggage like you.
In Layton’s defence, the bulk of the NDP support comes from those who are accustomed to being treated like children and thoroughly enjoy the experience. He is, however, preaching to the choir.