Author: CathiefromCanada

Today’s Duffy news about the personal trainer and the makeup artist etc is just a gift to Twitter. Here’s my contribution: I guess Duffy needed a fitness instructor because he wasn’t fit to be in office! #duffyrimshot #cdnpoli— Cathie from Canada (@CathieCanada) July 22, 2014 Being Duffy’s fitness instructor is

Digby wants Elizabeth Warren to run against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president because she wants to see: two intelligent, accomplished women stand for president and debate the issues Unfortunately, I think the rest of the Washington pundits want Warren to run just to so they can create

Yesterday Josh Marshall called the Malaysia Airlines disaster a game changer for Vladimir Putin: For months Putin has been playing with fire, making trouble and having it work mainly to his advantage. Certainly in the context of Russian history and nationalist aspiration reclaiming the Crimea is a vast accomplishment. But

What’s the point of being in power if you can’t use government agencies to target and harass your enemies?It’s a time-honoured political tradition around the world, and now it’s come to Canada. The NDP is calling for an independent probe into the Canada Revenue Agency’s targeting of some Canadian charities

Bill Maher SLAMS Republican & Fox News Zombie Lies About Obama – YouTube: Via

she has a point pic.twitter.com/NKVAcIoxFo — (@Dory) July 12, 2014

Two cheap shots noted today:The Harper Cons wouldn’t approve a helicopter tour of the Manitoba flood zones by the Leader of the Opposition: Brig. Gen. Christian Juneau, commander of the third Canadian Division, had agreed to the tour, subject to approval by Defence Minister Rob Nicholson.But late Tuesday, Mulcair said

CTV has a story titled Best Twitter reaction to Germany’s 5 goals against Brazil but they missed this one: This won’t be the first time that thousands of Germans will have to lie low in Brazil for a while for their own safety. — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) July 8, 2014

I think this is rather neat.  Its from — Defining moments in Canadian history at a corporate blog for American Appraisal: here’s a fun infographic with little-known facts about Canada, events that made headlines, and uniquely Canadian milestones. I found it at Cool Infographics

 Christie Blatchford sums it up: The government brought in a cruel and inhumane program aimed squarely at the most vulnerable people in the country, sold it in the basest way imaginable by appealing to the least generous impulses in us all and hasn’t proved it will save one red cent of

I think the anti-Obama Republicans who think the Hobby Lobby decision is a triumph are going to regret they ever heard of it.Because this legal decision and the others that will follow are not going to be seen by the general American public as some kind of victory against Obama-care.

I love watching tennis now that we have a big screen TV, and its been great to see Milos Raonic and Eugenie Bouchard advance to the semi-finals at Wimbledon. Two players who have been labouring at Wimbleton all week, under the media radar, are Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil, who

I’ve been easing toward retirement for the past several months, but I have finally got everything completed and so I’m outta there! One of the things I hope I will be able to do now is to blog and tweet more often, though I hope not to the extent that

Even Margaret Wente can’t quite figure out how to support Peter MacKay: I’m feeling kind of sorry for Peter MacKay. Nothing has been going right. He tried to appoint a guy to the Supreme Court and it turned into a massive screw-up. The Supremes have been messing with his laws.

Well, it appears that the Harper Cons may have actually fixed the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in many of the ways suggested by its critics.I know, I can’t believe it either.But I just wonder if Canadian employers can adjust their thinking? Right now, they’re absolutely pissed!Jason Kenny is absolutely correct

If you sensed a certain lack of enthusiasm from the Harper Cons about their own decision to approve the Northern Gateway pipeline, you were right. A day after accepting a review panel’s recommendation to impose more than 200 conditions on the Northern Gateway project, a government spokesman is now insisting

The War Nerd explains what is happening in Iraq — basically, the country is being violently partitioned into Sunni, Shiite and Kurd countries and there’s just about nothing anyone can realistically do, or perhaps should do, to stop this from happening: ISIS is a sectarian Sunni militia — that’s all. A

I haven’t written any posts about the Ontario election campaign because I haven’t been following it very closely, but now that the results are in, here are some random observations.First, I am just so glad to see the Liberals win in Ontario, and the Conservatives lose. I sincerely hope this

There’s nothing like a happy dog.  If you’re ever feeling a little down, just watch these videos: And of course the story of little Fiona:

June 7, 2014—the Greatest Comment in the History of the Internet has been posted. pic.twitter.com/rxkzXdq01c — Cosmo%20Catalano (@cosmocatalano) June 7, 2014 Here is a larger version of the comment, in case you can’t read it: