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• Mindreading Would Be A Great Asset With BC Liberals

  
  Unambiguously Ambidextrous — Authority: 480
  Photo: Stephen Hui, Georgia Straight David Schreck summed it up quite well in the Tyee yesterday when he suggested that Gordon Campbell is asking voters in B.C. to believe a paradoxical statement from the Liberals: The Gord giveth and the Gord taketh away. In the legislature Wednesday, the Premier stated: “Let ...
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• Iffy actually thinks he has a choice

  
  Blue Like You — Authority: 496
  As Wilson so aptly pointed out, Michael Ignatieff is planning to take “his own sweet time” to decide whether or not he will honour his promise to Dalton McGuinty.Or does he think he has the right in B.C. Finance Minister Colin Hansen’s words, to “second-guess the decisions taken by provincial government to ...
  12 hours ago

• Dupuis: Its time to update GST rebate threshold

  
  TheStar.com - Travel — Authority: 854
  This is going to be hard for me to admit but I am guilty of the second of the seven deadly sins. I am envious. Im envious of my colleagues in B.C. where the provincial government has introduced some very positive amendments with respect to the pending HST on new homes.
  1 day ago

• Liberals skating on HST stand

  
  TheStar.com - Travel — Authority: 854
  When the going gets tough in politics, the tough start skating.
  1 day ago

• Analysis: HST issue toxic — handle with utmost care

  
  TheStar.com - Travel — Authority: 854
  Blending federal and provincial sales taxes is perhaps the most toxic issue in Canadian politics, one with the potential to derail both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Dalton McGuinty.
  1 day ago

• "A powerfully problematic ultimatum to Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff"

  
  CalgaryGrit — Authority: 540
  Thats how Harpers HST legislation was described this morning . It turns out, it may not be quite so ultimatum-y : The Bloc Québécois says it will “probably” support a Conservative motion next week on the harmonized sales tax, a move that would give the government the votes it needs to move ahead with the ...
  1 day ago

• Fizzle on HST, government position on torture allegations shifts yet again

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 544
  A few big developments today... First, it will apparently have to be something else in the way of distraction for the strategists in the PMO: "Flaherty Wins Bloc Support to Merge Sales Taxes With Provinces." Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty won the support of the opposition Bloc Quebecois for a bill that ...
  1 day ago

• The HST Debate Goes To A Federal Showdown

  
  Unambiguously Ambidextrous — Authority: 480
  Former Premier Bill Vander Zalm speaks out against the HST at a rally besdide the Vancouver Convention Centre Saturday. Photograph by: Arlen Redekop, Canwest News Service The media have been circulating a story since last night that the Conservative Party intends to introduce legislation next week that would put ...
  1 day ago

• On shared responsibility

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 506
  Interestingly enough, while most commentators have rushed off to follow a trail that immediately turned into a dead end , there actually was one fairly significant development on the HST front today which has gone mostly unnoticed: Personal income tax cuts for Ontarians aimed at taking the sting out of ...
  1 day ago

• Strange bedfellows – H$T Division

  
  Blue Like You — Authority: 496
  OK.  Let me see if I’ve got this straight.First we have the Federal Conservatives teaming up with the Ontario and BC Liberals. But apparently the H$T was originally championed by the former Liberal government.And yet the Ontario NDP party is reaching out to the Federal Grits, in an attempt to torpedo the enabling ...
  1 day ago

• Tories throw down gauntlet on HST

  
  TheStar.com - Travel — Authority: 854
  The federal Conservatives have put the Liberals in a pickle by rushing ahead with plans to harmonize the federal sales tax with provincial taxes in British Columbia and Ontario.
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• Operation distraction underway

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 544
  So how much trouble does the Harper government think its in as a result of Richard Colvins allegations about the Afghan detainee torture situation? Perhaps one of the biggest blinking indicators came to us last night. Check out these headlines: "Tories will challenge Ignatieff with HST ultimatum," "Federal Tories ...
  1 day ago

• Cornered

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 506
  A quick reminder for the many members of the League of Pundits with the Attention Span of a Gnat who have come out of the woodwork this morning: you should know better than to take the Cons talking points at face value. Nobody with a single functioning brain synapse buys for a second that the Cons suppression of ...
  1 day ago

• What you hear not always what you get

  
  TheStar.com - Travel — Authority: 854
  Friday, 200 or so high school students will visit Queens Park as part of Local Democracy Week. If all goes well, this will be one of the most formative experiences of their young lives.
  2 days ago

• Ottawa set to introduce HST legislation

  
  TheStar.com - Travel — Authority: 854
  The federal government intends to introduce legislation next week intended to put the opposition Liberals on the spot over proposals to let provinces harmonize their sales taxes with the federal goods and services tax.
  2 days ago

• Shill baby shill

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 506
  Were probably not far from broken record territory here. But as long as Andrew Steele and his ilk want to keep repeating zombie lies , I suppose someone has to give them their due rebuttal. So for those who missed it the first time : Even leaving aside problems with his assumptions, Jack Mintz much-bandied-about ...
  3 days ago

• B.C.s HST: Singing in Harmony

  
  BCBUSINESS RSS Feed — Authority: 424
  Steve Burgess It has to be admitted: the B.C. Liberals weren’t kidding when they named the Harmonized Sales Tax. Any piece of legislation that creates ideological harmony between Bill Vander Zalm and Carole James is a miraculously effective device. read more
  3 days ago

• Hudak Conservatives wont commit to repeal HST (video)

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 544
  Link from CityTV . An awful lot of fuss over something they wont commit to repeal. Interesting. Update : Deer in the headlights is the phrase thats coming to mind.
  4 days ago

• Will Iffy take the low road or the lower road?

  
  Blue Like You — Authority: 496
  Andrew Coyne says the Michael Ignatieff has two choices in order to get back into the game  (The Road Back.) The first is to follow Peter Donolo’s plan to capitalize on Iffy’s so-called brilliance, and the other is to play the ‘politics of cheap populism’ as John Ivison fears and pull yet another flip-flop on ...
  4 days ago

• On zombie numbers

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 506
  Apparently Andrew Steele was right about one thing, as Jack Mintz inflated and misleading job number has been parroted nonstop by HST backers from the moment it was first released (even by those who should know better ). So lets quickly recap the main problems with Mintz report, as well as pointing out how its ...
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