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Mark Steyn has a definite flair for cutting to the chase

"If you're stopped in the street by a CBC reporter and you tell him, "Oh, everyone does it. That's politics. What's the big deal?", you're not being worldly and cynical, you're being played like a violin by the Liberal party fiddlers. In the diseased Dominion, our rulers are so cynical they're cynical about cynicism: they understand that once a political culture reaches a certain point of decay a large segment of the population is content to take refuge in the pose of cynicism."

When it comes to integrity in Canada, it looks like it's in a free fall-maybe if Canadians believe politicians can be fast and loose, ............

.......they can follow their example.

Police allege the accused used her position to obtain personal information from unsuspecting coworkers and then used this information, without their knowledge, to facilitate a group sponsorship of her family members to Canada. The RCMP initiated this investigation in October 2004 as a result of a request from Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Immigration officials became suspicious of this matter after two separate, similar sponsorship applications were received. The second application identified sponsors with names and addresses that were variations of the first application. As a result, the first sponsorship application was placed on hold and is currently under review.

Liberals stalling on vote

Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson has spoken with Prime Minister Paul Martin and consulted constitutional experts this week as Parliament descends into chaos.

"The Governor General is monitoring the situation very closely," said an official.

House votes to give cities a larger share of anti terrorism money

Better late than never ,but it's nice to see they showed some common sense

WASHINGTON A House bill approved today would cut the amount of terrorism-fighting money given to rural states and increase funds for cities.
The House voted 409-to-10 in favor of the measure to change the formula used to award money.

Dezainde was afraid to testify?- in Canada?

For those in the Toronto area, looks like some good panelists on current affairs

Monday, May 16, 2005 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Moderator: Margaret Wente: Author and award-winning columnist with the Globe & Mail
Keynote Speaker: Stewart Bell: Chief Report of the National Post, author and award-winning foreign correspondent and many more featured panalists...
Free Admission, Metro Hall Council Chambers, 55 John Street.,

Good story on Military bloggers via Nealenews.com

Another vote in Parliament to adjourn for the day

They're having another vote to adjourn in PArliament.If passed there won't be a Question Period this afternoon.



Update:

They voted to adjourn until 10:00am tomorrow. Just stalling until a vote on the budget next week. They could have voted on a budget today and the election would be on.

Instapundit.com points to a Senate report on UNSCAM

Interesting bit from footnote 5 of the Senate Report: "Terrorist individuals and entities who received allocations include the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Abu Abbas, and the Mujahedeen-e Khalq." (Via Power Line, which has much more).

Discrepancy in polls-to reflect opinion or manipulate opinion?-polling will lose credibility if they aren't more accurate and the methodologies given

"Take two recent national polls -- one by the Strategic Counsel and the other by Decima Research Inc. -- which came out the same day.

Both polling firms were in the field polling 1,000 Canadians during the first week of May. They had the same margin of error, accurate to within 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. But they had completely different results.

Decima had the Liberals with a commanding lead of 37%, suggesting the Grits were beginning to open up a wide margin over their Conservative opponents, who had fallen to 28%. That's an impressive nine-point spread.

The Strategic Counsel, though, had the Conservatives in the lead with 31% support and the Liberals trailing at 27%.

How could they be so drastically different? "

Adscam- Preponderance of evidence

UNSCAM

Debunking Kyoto

Seems like those that are pro Kyoto get most of the press, those opposed are relegated to the back pages if they get any space at all.