Feminist blogger: Hudak will kill LHINs to kill abortion counselling
For the right-wingers who claim that Tim Hudak can’t halt access to abortion: you’re wrong. By killing LHINs, he kills Planned Parenthood. He’s doing through the back door what he can’t do through the front door.
Here are the facts, from GritChik and others:
FACT: Planned Parenthood is funded, in part, through LHINs and the Government of Ontario.
FACT: Tim Hudak is pro-life and has signed a pledge to defund abortion.
FACT: Tim Hudak believes that it’s the government’s role to promote “the choice of life.”
FACT: Tim Hudak will scrap LHINs if elected premier.
Where I’m headed
It’s so hot
…but, at least, McGuinty’s approach is working:
Ontario will set temperature records today but won’t break any power use records (Heat-Wave)
Source: The Canadian Press
Jul 21, 2011 9:35
TORONTO – Ontario may be set to break some temperature records today, but it won’t be breaking any power demand records, despite all the air conditioners being cranked up.
The Independent Electricity System Operator predicts peak demand will hit 26,651 megawatts today, which won’t even be enough to crack the top ten peak demand days.
The all-time high was Aug. 1, 2006, when Ontario needed 27,005 megawatts of electricity.
IESO spokesman Terry Young says lower industrial demand is one of the reasons we won’t set any power records today despite the soaring heat and humidity.
And Young says conservation efforts are paying off, along with time-of-use pricing which does have people trying to move some of their electricity use to off-peak hours after 7 o’clock each evening.
The agency recommends people set their air conditioners to 26 degrees during the day today to conserve energy and save money.
INDEX: UTILITIES WEATHER ENVIRONMENT NATIONAL POLITICS
Suzuki: Hudak plan “absolute insanity”
Meanwhile, here’s what he says about my guy:
Right-wing media?
Citizen columnist: Hudak is “tough on logic, tough on your wallet”
…and he’s still a gutless, misleading, waffler:
Stop spending our tax money on unnecessary measures.
Citizen: Hudak now admits he did promise to defund abortion
Talk about burying the lede:
“It was a petition that came from my church in my riding back in 1998 that I brought forward as an individual member,” Hudak said.”
This is actually news. The PC’s leader has been repeatedly saying only that he “may have” pledged defund abortion. Oh, but only as a private citizen, don’t you know.
Well, he isn’t a private citizen. He’s someone who has a shot at becoming the most powerful lawmaker in the province. So, when he says he’ll stop funding abortion, it now means something.
Not “may have” meant something.
Weaselus Conservatus
I was on my pal Jim Richards’ show on Newstalk 1010 earlier today. It was a lot of fun, as always. At one point, I told Jim that Tim Hudak’s slithery, slippery performance on HST (“stop it in its tracks,” now for it), FDK (a “shiny toy,” now for it), human rights tribunals (scrap them, now for ’em), health taxes (kill them, now hug them), and now abortion (“defund,” now “nothing to see here, move along,”etc.) reminds me of something. A living thing. “What is it?” said Jim.
So I said it.
Below, a visual rendering, sent along by an appreciative listener who wishes to remain anonymous. It’s rather accurate, wouldn’t you say? Also, cute.
The one on the left, that is.
Hudak weasels out again, a continuing series
Voters deserve clarity from Hudak, party leaders on abortion: McGuinty (Hudak-Abortion)
Source: The Canadian Press
Jul 19, 2011 14:56
OAKVILLE, Ont. – Premier Dalton McGuinty is urging Opposition Leader Tim Hudak to come clean about his stance on abortion.
In Oakville today, the Liberal premier said voters are looking for clarity on the important issue ahead of the fall election.
McGuinty says he supports a woman’s right to choose and all party leaders owe it to voters to be clear about their position on the issue.
Hudak appears to be shying away from his previous anti-abortion stance, saying he doesn’t plan to re-open the issue if he wins the Oct. 6 vote.
But he has refused to say if he still opposes abortion, walking away from the microphone Monday when reporters asked repeatedly if he still considered himself pro-life.