The Conservative government’s treatment of officials with dissenting views is under fire. The following high-ranking people have left their jobs in the past few months. They have variously resigned, been sacked or replaced, or not had their appointments renewed. Marty Cheliak The RCMP Chief Superintendent is being replaced as head of the Canadian Firearms Program, [...]
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Veterans gird for battle over ombudsman
Murray Brewster, Ottawa — The Canadian Press Published on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 Critics say decision not to reappoint military advocate shows that under Tories ‘you become a lapdog, not a watchdog’ Former soldiers from different parts of the country are gearing up to fight the impending removal of the veterans’ ombudsman. Several veterans, representing [...]
Canadian trapped in Iranian jail: Islamic state claims shoe salesman is a spy, faces death penalty
Joe Warmingston, August 16th, 2010. Toronto Sun: With a little diplomatic pressure and appealing to the good nature people in all countries posses, we were able to bring home Cody LeCompte. Same goes for Brenda Martin. Perhaps now we can do the same for fellow Canadian Hamid Ghassemi-Shall, a resident of the Beach. But if [...]
Tories twisted census findings: memos
Les Whittington Ottawa Bureau: Tue Aug 10 2010, Toronto Star OTTAWA—Industry Minister Tony Clement was well aware that Statistics Canada had little use for a voluntary census when he was telling Canadians that StatsCan was onside with his decision to scrap the mandatory, long-form survey, internal government documents show. In an email to the minister’s [...]
McTeague sets the record straight on right wing media trivializing the importance of the census:
Financial Post Staff July 30, 2010 – 10:23 pm Re: Time For Census Reform, Terence Corcoran, July 28 Terence Corcoran ignored, just as Industry Minister Tony Clement did, the glaring fact that no Canadian has ever been jailed for not filling out a census, long or short! Indeed, if the Minister truly felt much angst [...]
