Various: Memory Lane-Investigations, Stock Hackers, Toronto Sun Editorial

Memory Lane

Job grant scandal needs full RCMP probe By Leo Knight (This column was published in the North Shore News on Mar. 15, 2000)

AND then there were 19.

At least that's how many police investigations we have been told about relating to the job grant scandal . . .

Even at that it's been like pulling teeth trying to get accurate information . . . the minister responsible, Jane "Dough" Stewart.

[. . . . ] Add to all of this 14 investigations relating to federal funding under the umbrella of Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA). On Monday, Mounties announced charges of fraud and forgery . . .

One of the files under investigation . . . ACOA and . . . Jane "Dough's" generous staff.

Despite the police investigations, despite the forensic audits, despite the findings of the internal audit, Jean Chretien . . .

[. . . . ] The money taps at HRDC . . . Likewise for the Department for Indian Affairs and Northern Development and all the other tools of corruption used by those intoxicated with power in Ottawa.

Finally, the RCMP needs to shed its political yoke and re-assume the arm's length relationship with this government, step in and conduct a thorough and far-reaching investigation.

Enough is enough.

New Media

Pajama-Clad Revolutionaries -- Bloggers get organized. By Andrew Leigh, National Review Online, Nov. 15, 05

[. . . . ] Here's the difference: alongside each news headline, Pajamas Media will link related blog posts that their editors consider to be the most interesting or insightful out there. And as the story evolves, so will the blog links. Pajamas Media's coverage and commentary will be worldwide and around-the-clock. They already have blogger editors lined up in Europe and Australia.

If all proceeds according to plan, the eventual goal is to [. . . . ]

Much more to read. This goes along with a post on OSM or OpenSourceMedia / Open Source Media yesterday.



Invasion of the stock hackers

Might be worth reading.



Best advice--straightforward

TorSun editorial: Liberals, your time is done -- on PM's $39-Billion offering Nov. 15, 05

If Harper, Duceppe and especially Layton need inspiration on how to throw out Martin and the Liberals, we would advise them to read the famous words of Oliver Cromwell, as he dismissed the Rump Parliament of 1653.

To wit: "You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"