Author: Cathie from Canada

I expect Trudeau realizes that all of the people who are criticizing him for moving too fast on the Syrian refugee promise would turn on a dime and howl in betrayal if he announced he was slowing down.Damn the torpedos, sir — full speed ahead!

The Mound of Sound writes about The Moral War and our new wars of the 21st Century: All I’ve garnered out of those studies has led me to formulate a precautionary rule. Don’t get into wars that you’re not willing to win and, even then, not without knowing how you

Doctor Grumpy in the House: November 10, 1975:

The Mound of Sound writes about today’s story on how the Harper Cons “politicized” the civil service: The mandarins are running for cover. They failed to stand up to Harper. They chose not to defend the public service over which they presided. They allowed themselves to be intimidated into colluding

Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip, October 29, 2015 on GoComics.com:

I’m shocked SHOCKED that Justin Trudeau hasn’t yet developed a plan for dealing with the Senate — several ex-Liberal Senators are apparently feeling a little miffed that, in the nine days since he was elected, Justin hasn’t figured out yet exactly what their role will be in his government. With

Montreal Simon has a great column on The Battle to Liberate Canada and the Betrayal of the MSM where he notes a determined effort on the part of Canadian media to “move on” and just forget all about the Harper years: This would also be my message to Andrew Coyne,

Michael Harris at iPolitics reminds us of why Harper really lost: Harper’s downfall, and that of the party he built, had nothing to do with Harper Derangement Syndrome. Nor was it about the machinations of war rooms, whore rooms, evil gurus or a burnt-out lieutenant screaming at her own deckhands

That didn’t take long, did itBy describing one of Canada’s most prominent and well-respected first nations leaders, Phil Fontaine, as just a pipeline consultant, the Montreal Gazette is already trying to fit the Trudeau government into a “corrupt Liberal” frame.Fontaine, by the way, is the grey-haired guy applauding, at the

from the Halifax Chronicle HeraldListening to the pundits tonight, I found out that they all knew two months ago that Stephen Harper was going to lose the election. Yep, Harper was doomed from the start and everybody on our TV news shows absolutely knew it all alongToo bad they didn’t

At the end of an election campaign, a newspaper’s endorsement used to mean something. It used to be taken as considered and authoritative judgement by the newspaper’s editorial office about that particular election campaign and that particular set of candidates.Now? Its just another corporate press release.The Globe and Mail started

#THIS. Joey Bat Flip.https://t.co/CO59JyFCsa — MLB (@MLB) October 15, 2015 Wasn’t that a party?And its a side-note on the whole thing, really, but illustrative of how Americans think they own baseball.First, I was amused during yesterday’s stunning Blue Jays win by the pearl-clutching of the announcers over how the Toronto

One of the commenters on a Huffington Post about the Ford brothers showing up at a Harper Con rally: The Ford brothers were there to advise Harper on drugs and whorehouses. Who better?

Once again following along with the Harper Con agenda, the Globe and Mail is “reporting” that Trudeau’s spending promises are “under more scrutiny”: Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is coming under mounting pressure to spell out just how his campaign spending promises would add up. Yeah, sure.The Liberals announced their spending

Sorry for the lack of posts — we have been away. But I notice that news outlets are now reporting the Liberals are within reach of forming the next government. So maybe for a change my mid-September prediction that Trudeau was beginning to pull away from the crowd will turn

The election campaign is starting around the clubhouse turn, heading for the tape. Mulcair is getting bogged down by trying to out-Con the Harper Cons — to the despair of NDP supporters. And Harper has spent way too much time in his prettified, stage-managed photo ops.  The Harper Cons have drifted

It’s now clear that the Harper Cons set up our refugee system to fail.They can pretend to have compassion but they don’t have to actually admit any of those pesky refugees to Canada. Win-win.Because three years ago they changed the rules to make it all the refugee’s own fault that

From Sun Media parliamentary bureau chief David Akin, on Facebook, as quoted in a Sandy Garossino tweet

From the Mound of Sound, writing about the Duffy trial revelations: The Disaffected Lib: Now It Makes Sense. It Was Magic.: Claiming Novak didn’t open an email is about as convincing as telling the teacher the dog ate your homework.

Exclusive shot of @SSKRoughriders fan’s brains reacting to their team committing another penalty. #ArgosLive pic.twitter.com/otI9tJna0F — Toronto Argonauts (@TorontoArgos) August 9, 2015 Actually, I argue that the #Riders won the game, we just lost the officials!