Author: CathiefromCanada

So let me make sure I have this straight. Even though Nigel Wright did give Mike Duffy $90,000 to pay off his Senate debt, and even though it is illegal to bribe a senator, the RCMP did not bring charges against Wright because…well, because firstly, it wasn’t actually a bribe

When Julian Fantino was first appointed to the Veterans Affairs post — eleven months ago! — most of us progressives agreed that this was a disastrous decision by Harper.Sure ’nuff — now everybody realizes it: With his ineptitude, walking away from veterans seeking a meeting, ignoring the plaintive cries of

The Harper Cons must be wondering, what do we have to do to satisfy these guys?After revealing the inadequate jury-rigged process which lead up to the Nadon appointment, now the Globe and Mail is describing Harper’s new made-in-Quebec process as less than ideal: The provincial Justice Minister was proudly telling

Tasha Kheiridin at iPolitics knows how to fix the TFWP. The only problem is, the Harper Cons are too incompetent to do what she suggests: Solutions to the abuse of temporary foreign worker programs … should be to ensure that foreign workers don’t serve as cheap labour, but only as

The power of Twitter and of its 140-character stories is now clear to me for the first time — the #YesAllWomen hashtag  Here are some examples of why it is is the most important thing you’ll read today “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid

Towel Day – Celebrating the life and work of Douglas Adams: A towel, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across

Mel Brooks on ‘Blazing Saddles’ at 40, Richard Pryor’s Genius, and Keeping His Edge at 87 – The Moviefone Blog: All the executives at Warner Bros. had seen the movie. And their head of domestic distribution, Leo Greenfield, God rest his soul, said, “Let’s bury the movie. It’s embarrassing. It’s

So I noticed there are now more than 13,000 books on Amazon about how to make money by investing. It made me recall the singularly priceless piece of investment advice which my father gave to me, lo these many years ago: Buy low. Sell high. Follow this advice, and you are

Because when politicians get the chance, they will spend endless time passing more and more ridiculous and picayune anti-choice laws.Like this one in Missouri last week: requiring a woman to wait 72 hours from the time of her initial medical consultation to have an abortion (current law mandates a 24-hour

From io9 – This animated short is the best 10-second adventure you’ll take today:

As the season finales appear day by day, we see more and more TV shows that end by some lead character jumping the shark.Remember how pissed off everyone was when the producers ended the first season of The Killing without actually solving the killing, which was the one reason anybody

It was May 13, 1940 that Winston Churchill made his first speech to the Commons as Prime Minister, the “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat” speech: ““ You ask what is our policy. I will say, it is to wage war with all our might, with all the strength that God

But if you think an open debate about reasonable limits on abortion is the pro-life end goal, I’ve got a chocolate teapot to sell you — Lauren DH (@roseneath_rd) May 10, 2014 Via @fernhilldammit

In other parts of the continent, its called “uppity”. But I like calling it “Canadianized” — asking for an employer to treat you like a fellow human being instead of an indentured servant. Deny it all they like, but of course the advice given by a Saskatoon recruiting firm to

Stephen Harper has lost Andrew Coyne: It is one thing to savage a political opponent or beat up on a distinguished civil servant. But to accuse the nation’s highest judge of professional misconduct — for that is what was insinuated, if not quite alleged, an ethical breach serious enough to

You can see where this is heading.The Harper Cons have rid themselves of dozens of principled civil servants over the last eight years.Now they think they’ve found a way to trash the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and get her to resign too:Harper alleges Supreme Court Chief Justice broke

Here comes the sun

Throwing a banana a Barcelona soccer player has a familiar ring, doesn’t it.He ate the banana, thus disarming his attacker!

Obama is truly one of the greatests Presidents the United States has ever had.Racism is such a deep part of the American character and experience, I have sometimes despaired that it will ever be eradicated.  It has dominated America’s civic life for the last two centuries — where Americans live,