Pretty spot on take of the liberals "legalization plan"
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The clown(Harper) was suppose to come to my place of employment today but canceled!Guess who's coming to Whitehorse on Friday? I have to go to Ryan Leefs building today...maybe I'll go beg for a pass to gods gathering and then pull out a "stop Harper" sign at the the appropriate moment....maybe there will be too much snow for him to land...or worse...
I wanted to wear my Harper's last day button lmao!!The clown(Harper) was suppose to come to my place of employment today but canceled!
Use a fuck Harper sign instead.... No more being politeGuess who's coming to Whitehorse on Friday? I have to go to Ryan Leefs building today...maybe I'll go beg for a pass to gods gathering and then pull out a "stop Harper" sign at the the appropriate moment....maybe there will be too much snow for him to land...or worse...
WHOA... CBC just posted that we pulled a $5Bn surplus in Q1.
Now I think I understand what the Angry beard meant by, "we won't deficit spend".
Perhaps he knew the books, although I seem to recall Joe Oliver stating we'd see a series of surpluses anyway.
That's rather surprising considering how the Asphalt Pits were decimated by the price of oil.
Poor Kid? that kids a piece of shit just like his father. You know you're in the public eye so you get underage girls drunk in a tax payer funded house?What must it be like to be the pm's son????
with all the wanting to punch yourself in the face....constantly....and he is the spitting image of daddy...
including the bulbous alcoholic nose ....lol
poor kid....did not get to pick his parental units....
his wife left him? Now wheres that little detail?His wife has left him, his son gets underage girls drunk. How can he be expected to run the country when he can't run his own family?
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Friday, December 24, 2010
Perusing the Special Holiday Edition of my morning read, I see that Laureen Harper has given her first television interview with the Prime Minister since he took office in 2006. And that we’ll all get to see her full nine minutes under the lights tomorrow night, when Lloyd Robertson and Robert Fife sit down with Mr. Harper for their annual one-hour chat on CTV.
According to The Globe article, Ms. Harper “is not shy at all...she has a wonderful sense of humour and a good political nose – but she has declined offers to sit down with journalists, preferring not to be the story. Rather, she wants the light to shine on the work of her husband and his government. …(Cynics may think that the couple agreed to the interview because an election may not be far away).”
Perhaps. But, I think that something else is at play here.
Three weeks ago, a most extraordinary paragraph appeared in a column published in the Ottawa Citizen. It read as follows:
“In Ottawa, tongues have been wagging for two years about trouble in one political marriage. One of the partners is now said to have left the nest. It hasn't made the newspapers, at least not yet.”
The column was written by Andrew Cohen—who’s not your ordinary thumb-sucker—and you would expect that it would have elicited a reaction. For one thing, Mr. Cohen is President of The Historica-Dominion Institute, “the largest, independent organization dedicated to Canadian history, identity and citizenship.” He’s also an Associate Professor of Journalism at Carleton University—the premier school of its kind in Canada. For another thing, Mr. Cohen has a long and distinguished career as a journalist himself, including stints as a member of the Globe and Mail editorial board, and as foreign editor and foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Post. As to his political preferences, I’d simply observe from having followed his writings over the years that Mr. Cohen once worshipped at the feet of Pierre Trudeau. And that the same cannot be said of his views of Stephen Harper.
In any case, Mr. Cohen’s “tongue-wagging” column was subsequently picked up by only one other PostMedia paper, the Windsor Star—a thinner take-up than usual for his offerings. And then there was silence—at least on the record.
Perhaps the silence was due to the limited circulation of the two papers that carried the column. Or maybe it was because the reference to the troubled marriage came at the end of the column, and many readers would likely have missed it. Or, and this is my guess, the same factors that kept the rumour of a troubled marriage out of the papers for the past two years continued to be at play.
Having been in the business myself, my guess is that there was one group of readers who would not have missed the reference to the troubled political marriage: staff at the PMO—up to and including the Chief of Staff--and the Prime Minister himself. In particular, none of these readers would have missed the kicker in the paragraph: that it was only a matter of time until someone reported the rumour--with names attached.
These days, being as far away from Ottawa as one can get, it was only a few months ago that I caught wind of rumours that the first couple (to borrow an Americanism) were living separately (Mr. Harper at 24 Sussex, Ms. Harper at the Chateau Laurier). And, truth be told, I learned this startling news, dear reader, in the comment boards on this website. Intrigued, I checked out the rumour with two journalists in Ottawa. From both, I got the sense that it was likely true. And that it was not being reported because it was deemed to be a personal matter.
I found this reasoning to be a bit strange—if the PM’s marriage was in trouble, that was something that could affect his performance and lead to bizarre decisions. (Have you heard about the census being abolished?) And given the power of the office, the troubled marriage could impact all Canadians. The Prime Minister himself acknowledged this, according to the Globe report, in one of his answers in the Christmas interview:
Asked about the stresses and strains of the job on their relationship, the Prime Minister jumped in to answer:
“Well, you know, we have a strong relationship,” said Mr. Harper. “I think, to be frank about it, I mean the demands are all on Laureen. Laureen is a very giving person. Laureen allows me to concentrate as fully as I do on the job and then on other things. She doesn’t put a lot of demands on me.”
The Prime Minister said his wife’s support is one of the reasons he has been “successful in this business.”
Having worked in the PMO myself, my guess is that Mr. Harper and his advisers have been struggling for some time over the best way to put paid to the rumours of marital discord. In the wake of Mr. Cohen’s column, wait-and-hold-your-breath was no longer an attractive option.
To deny the rumours formally would be counter-productive, as it would make out of them a huge news story that the media would have no choice but to report. The option decided upon--an interview with two friendly broadcasters—was the best course of action in the circumstances--and Christmas night you’ll get to see the results for yourself. A warning to all you Stephen Harper non-fans out there, however: Unless you have a PVR, you’ll have to stick with the interview to the end to see Ms. Harper scotch the rumours as untrue—albeit indirectly.
he's my moral compass........he can't do anything right and honestly. it all has angles and a string attachedlike a true shinning example of conservative principles he touts family values, personal respect and religious righteousness when in reality his wife is separated from him and rumored to be gay, his son is a predator and he is an alcoholic...family values indeed
this fucking joke gets to tell me how i live my life, hahahaha to funny
Says the guy who starts threads with titles longer then the op. Lolya got to post the article
Drunk teen picked up by paramedics outside PMO's house the same night as party for prime minister’s son
Meghan Hurley and Glen McGregor, Postmedia News | April 24, 2014 | Last Updated:Jan 25 1:40 AM ET
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Handout photo / National Capital CommissionParamedics say they were called to the area of 24 Sussex Drive early Sunday morning
OTTAWA — The PMO refuses to say where Stephen Harper or his wife was the night paramedics were called to the prime minister’s official residence to tend to a drunken 18-year-old woman who was outside on the driveway sick.
The call came early Sunday morning, after a Saturday night pool-house party was apparently being held to mark the 18th birthday of Stephen Harper’s son, Ben.
The prime minister’s office has declined to comment about the incident, which took place early Sunday morning.
“I have nothing to add to your story,” the prime minister’s spokesman, Jason MacDonald, said in an email to the National Post. The PMO was asked to provide any information on where the Harpers were over the weekend, or if the prime minister had any comment on underage drinking in light of Conservative attack ads on Justin Trudeau’s pot legalization policy.
Paramedics say RCMP called them to the prime minister’s residence around 1 a.m. in regard to a drunk young woman near the property’s west gate.
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However, there has been no confirmation that the unidentified young woman knew Harper’s son or was at a social gathering with him. It got as cold as -2 in Ottawa Sunday morning.
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Another young woman, who said she was at the party, said about 20 of Ben Harper’s friends and sports teammates attended, many wearing swimsuits.
“It was just a hanging out, a get-together,” said Devon von Eicken-Bursey, whose boyfriend plays volleyball with Ben.
“There was some drinking and mixing and stuff,” but no one who appeared to be seriously intoxicated, von Eicken-Bursey said. “We were all very controlled.”
She said Ben’s RCMP protective detail was around but she didn’t see either of his parents.
When von Eicken-Bursey and her boyfriend left the party around 1 a.m., she said, police cruisers had just pulled up and asked them if they had seen anyone vomiting.
The RCMP, which provides personal protection to the prime minister and his family, said only that it was aware that the Ottawa Paramedic Service had been to the residence.
“This was a medical call and not a police matter,” Cpl. Lucy Shorey said in an emailed statement. “It did not involve any of our protectees.”
The underage woman was reportedly taken to hospital with a suspected case of alcohol poisoning.
The legal drinking age in Ontario is 19. However, a parent may supply their own underage child with alcohol in their own home.
It’s not illegal for parents to allow other minors to drink in their home, as long as the parents aren’t supplying the alcohol.
Several of Ben Harper’s friends on Twitter had sent messages that suggest there was a birthday party for him on Saturday night.
https://twitter.com/vickgoleb6/status/457635775472234499
@Ben_S_Harper happy birthday prince of Canada <3 hope it's amazing.
— #1 connor ball stan! (@cultofclifford) April 21, 2014
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