For your listening pleasure: the definitive version of “Arthur McBride”, sung and played by Paul Brady. Perfect song, perfect vocal, and an accompaniment that drove all of us three-chord strummers to despair for years. While you’re istening to Paul (and you’ll want to hear that more than once), begin preparing
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It’s Not Too Late!
Just a quick reminder that this weekend will see the greatest gathering of Conservative Canadian brain power since Bev Oda snuck out for a smoke alone behind the Parliamentary Library. Yes, it’s Ezra Levant’s Super Sun Freedom Weekend, an opportunity for lesser mortals to join the cream of the Conservative
Continue readingJohnny Otis, 1921-2012
I’m not big on celebrity farewells, but Johnny Otis was one of the coolest guys in the world. He’s best knows for his Big Hit, “Willie and the Hand Jive”, a cheerful rip-off of Bo Diddly that he milked for years (in the great tradition of Bo Diddly himself). But
Continue readingStill Seeking the Perfect Present for that Special Someone?
Why not treat them to an expensive weekend in the company of the man Margaret Wente called “Sun TV’s populist ranter Ezra Levant, who’s even more grating than Mary Walsh”? For only $1200 (single occupancy, book after Jan. 16), you can spend two glorious days at “the stunning” JW Marriott
Continue readingNot So Good Friday?
So given that: a) Friday the 23rd is a Friday, the traditional day for the Harper Government to announce stuff it hopes we’ll all miss: b) Friday the 23rd is the last Friday before Christmas, when we’re more than usually distracted and the media are more than usually fluffy; c)
Continue readingThe Beast Is Born
After years of denying that their actual goal is the final and complete assimilation of native people, the elimination of their culture and the absorption of their lands, it appears the tipping point of Attawapiskat has dragged Harper’s conservatives out into the open. The Beast is now officially among us.
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Bloggers more informed and articulate than I are already cutting through the smoke and mirrors generated by Stephen Harper to justify his government’s seizure of control in Attawapiskat. If you want to see just how dishonest the Conservative spin (and of course the liars who recycle their propaganda), then I
Continue readingArctic Sovereignty, Harper Style.
The Conservative strategy for asserting Canada’s sovereignty in the North, neatly summarized in two short articles. Feds cut funding to University of the Arctic The federal government has cut three quarters of the University of the Arctic’s budget, forcing the…
Continue readingCongratulations, Erin!
In the midst of all this strum, drang, gloom, and doom let us pause for just moment to applaud a terrific achievement by a Friend of the Dawg. Erin Bow (partner of James Bow) has just won the $25,000 TD…
Continue readingRestoring Dignity to the Office of the President
Dawg’s House is, of course, a proudly Canadian blog. Still, we must confess a certain fascination with our good neighbours to the South, whose politics always seem to involve so much more drama than our domestic variety. It’s hard to…
Continue readingThe New Conservative Feminism
One cannot help but rejoice at the newly-awakened sensitivity of *Homo Conservatus *to the plight of suffering women in Islamist countries. It’s hard not to shed a tear at the righteous wrath of Ezra Levant and Jason Kenney’s pal Alykhan…
Continue readingThe Difference Between Conservative And Progressive Thought
Peter* has asked me to comment on the concept of a “grass roots think tank”. The motto of Dawg’s Blog is “Yes, We Do Requests”: I am delighted to oblige. (I’m not sure what you mean by your reference to…
Continue readingWhale Stew
Since we’re taking an interesting domestic turn this week, let me contribute my salute to the successful Bowhead Whale hunters in Iqaluit, who harvested the community’s first Bowhead in over 100 years. The recipe below was given to me in…
Continue readingRoyally Screwed.
The Government that has slashed millions of dollars for the protection of the environment, the regulation of air transportation, women’s programming, scientific research, food security, water monitoring, parks management, arts and culture, regulation of health standard and products, public broadcasting,…
Continue readingHow To Get Assaulted By Evil Muslims, Win Friends, And Influence People.
It seems we have yet another shocking, completely unprovoked attacked by Muslim thugs on yet another completely innocent white bystander. Before you struggle through the toxic amalgam of aggrieved self-righteousness, bad writing and nativist smirking fermenting in the original piece,…
Continue readingMany Happy Returns, Plus One.
Exiled to Elba after the collapse of his Grande Armée and written off by the political elites of the day, Napoleon escaped in 1815, returned to France, and swept back into power. After two comebacks and retirements, George Foreman, former…
Continue readingOne Perspective on Canadian Media
Over the last couple of days this post has been doing the rounds in the various journalism and media Facebook groups, and deserves a wider audience. I think we can expect another wave of attacks on the concept of public…
Continue readingThe Dawgly Carte Opera Company
Things have been awfully serious in here the last few days. So it’s time to stoop once again to outright theft from the late W.S. Gilbert. One half of one verse of this appeared six years ago at Stageleft…
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