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Elaine McCoy is one of four holding back a Conservative majority in the Senate

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 8:45pm
By: Dale Smith, Xtra News
 
Alberta Senator Elaine McCoy is something of a contradiction to the popular perception of what an Albertan is supposed to be like politically. As one of two remaining Progressive Conservatives in the Senate, she's had a career of championing rights, both as a cabinet minister in the Alberta Legislature, and today as a Senator.
 
"I was women's issues minister — the first-ever cabinet minister to openly declare that I was pro-choice," McCoy recalls of her provincial career. "That got a screaming headline in the Edmonton Journal. That would have been 1987."

Tequila tantrum adds to Tory woe

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Sat, 03/20/2010 - 7:53am
Gloria Galloway, Globe and Mail
 
Tequila? Really minister? A hissy fit over tequila?
 
According to CTV, Veterans Affairs Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn had a bit of a temper tantrum when airport security would not let him carry a bottle of the Mexican fire-water onto the plane at the Ottawa airport in February.
 
When security guards told him he could not carry the bottle on to the flight, CTV reports, he demanded they empty its contents in his presence. The network says the argument became so heated that security almost called the police.
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Marc Emery Stop-Extradition Petitions tabled by MPs from three parties

Submitted by FrankD on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 10:39pm
Members of Parliament from three parties -- Conservative, Liberal, and New Democrat -- tabled petitions with thousands of signatures seeking to stop the extradition to the U.S. of online marijuana seed seller, Marc Emery.
House of Commons - Monday, March 15, 2010

The three MP's who displayed personal integrity by presenting the petitions are:
* Conservative MP, Scott Reid (Ontario)
* NDP MP, Libby Davies (Vancouver East)
* Liberal MP, Ujjal Dosanjh (Vancouver South)

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Local politicians present petition to stop Marc Emery's extradition

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 9:52pm
Roughly 12,000 signatures
 
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - The Prince of Pot could be extradited to the U.S. any day, but it's hoped a petition will see the Federal Justice Minister reconsider.  MPs from three of Canada's major political parties present a petition in the House of Commons today which aims to keep Marc Emery in Canada.
 
Emery has pleaded guilty to a drug distribution charge in the U.S., after he was arrested in 2005 for selling marijuana seeds to American customers.  Emery faced a possible life sentence if the case went to trial.  He'll spend five years in a U.S. prison on a drug distribution charge if extradited.
 
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NDP, Liberal, Conservative politicians petition to stop Marc Emery's extradition to the US

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 12:26am
By Carlito Pablo, Georgia Straight

Members of Parliament from three parties—Conservative, Liberal, and New Democrat—are poised to present petitions with thousands of signatures seeking to stop the extradition to the U.S. of Canada’s Prince of Pot, Marc Emery.

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With Senate in his grip, PM drives crime agenda

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 5:45pm
By Gloria Galloway and Ddaniel Leblan, Globe and Mail
 
The appointment of five new Conservative senators who promise to expedite their party's “tough on crime” agenda marks a realignment of political influence that will reverberate through Canada's Parliament for years to come.
 
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has placed what could become a long-term lock on the upper house with a third straight round of Conservative appointments to a Senate that he has accused of being deliberately obstructionist – particularly on justice bills.
 
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Senate hardly the biggest obstacle to Tory crime bills

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 8:33pm
By Gloria Galloway, Globe and Mail
 
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in an interview Tuesday night with the CBC’s Peter Mansbridge that the Liberal-dominated Senate has been blocking Conservative government legislation.
 
“We obviously can’t get our legislation through,” Mr. Harper responded when asked why he has reversed his decision not to appoint Senators. “What the Senate is blocking isn't just government crime legislation, it's blocking Senate reform legislation.”
 
Well, no.
 
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Mandatory Minimums "Expected to Increase Disproportionate Incarceration of Aboriginal Peoples" says Office of the Correctional Investigator in Ottawa

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Sat, 11/14/2009 - 1:41am
On Friday Howard Sapers, correctional investigator, released a report Friday criticizing the government's lack of support programs for aboriginal prisoners.
 
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