Author: Dr.Dawg

“The vindictive discourtesy of three Air Canada baggage handlers on Thursday toward Lisa Raitt, the federal Minister of Labour” is how an editorial in the Globe & Mail began this Tuesday, and that Pecksniffian intro almost made me stop reading then and there. What crass, bone-headed hypocrisy by the egregious

…a diagnosis. The killing of Trayvon Martin, a seventeen-year-old Black armed with a bag of Skittles, is presently gripping the Excited States. Lies about the past of the victim, including fake photos, have been posted by the usual suspects—creepy stalkers like Michelle Malkin, and her fellow political psychopaths Matt Drudge

One of Robert Dziekanski’s killers finally ran out of luck this week. He now has a criminal conviction—even if it’s for a different matter entirely, one that I first blogged about here, and much later here. Nevertheless, the public should probably count its blessings. Briefly, a drunken RCMP Corporal Monty

Another tale about the out-of-control Ottawa police: three of these uniformed hoods set upon a gathering of friends and neighbours roasting marshmallows, and put one of them in hospital after administering the trademark OPS beatdown. They’d apparently had a noise complaint. Needless to say, the cops charged him with assault

From Treasury Board President Tony Clement’s $50 million diversion of national security funds to his own riding, to the on-going election-rigging outrage, to the louche behaviour of Minister Christian Paradis, so unethical that even Harper-appointed Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson found fault, we head now to another DND story: massive finagling

Reading the punditz yesterday and today, it dawned on me that they literally don’t have a clue what has just happened to our party. But, to be honest, neither do I. Some, like this prominent wader in the shallows, presume to tell the future three years in advance. Most are

I was going to conclude my account of today’s tragicomedy with my previous no doubt overly-poetic allusion to a trapped pigeon—until my new leader opened his mouth. What kind of man reads his victory speech? Thomas Mulcair is a passionate individual, but the range of his passion seemed rather limited

A pigeon was trapped in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre today. That is all.

First ballot, and the floor is aflame with speculation. Paul Dewar did not do well—7.4% of the ballots cast. He dropped, but will not endorse anyone. Martin Singh managed to prevail over Niki Ashton (5.8% to 5.7%), and immediately threw his votes to Tom Mulcair. Ashton isn’t endorsing anyone either.

Watching the supremely self-satisfied, snickering commentators on CBC tonight should cement the impressions of the media by those of us who are actually interested in politics in Canada. The CBC continues to curry favour with Stephen Harper, and it arranged a commentator panel tonight to administer a deliberate hatchet job.

Links at the end. No peeking. DawgPoints for commenters who are brave enough to post guesses without. Who wrote these descriptions and about whom?* He did every telephone call in a booming Rush Limbaugh voice as if he were on the radio—even when he was just ordering pizza or complaining

Robocalls, schmobocalls, said Ipsos Reid a mere 10 days ago—Harper’s still the man: Tom Clark, Global’s chief political correspondent and host of the network’s weekly political affairs program, The West Block, says the poll exemplifies that the robocalls scandal hasn’t really hurt Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s popularity. “If they liked

My piece in iPolitics: At some point this coming Saturday, all the debates will be over, and the NDP will have a new leader. Disclosure: I’m rooting for Paul Dewar. So read the following through that lens: both on the subject of other folks in the race, and on the

Canadian Conservatives work best under cover of darkness. In government, committees are now routinely forced into in camera sessions. Documents and records are withheld to the point that the Harper government has twice been found in contempt of Parliament. Vital facts and figures are suppressed. Scientists are muzzled, to international

The teeth of patriarchy are bared in the Mother Country. Civilized West vs. backward Third World countries where victims of rape are the ones punished. Oh, wait… Meanwhile, someone impersonating Margaret Wente sends a timely dispatch from the front in the Excited States of America. More on that crazy place.

(Ottawa, March 15) DawgNews has learned that two radical groups may be preparing to unseat the Ontario Liberals. A new poll indicates that Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak is now trailing the Unsure vote in Ontario with respect to both competence and trustworthiness. But this is not necessarily good

…to the greasy, deceitful Con man Dean Del Mastro. There will be no McCarthyite replay anytime soon at the amusingly-named House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, which made the decision to summons Adam “Vickileaks” Carroll in camera. He will come when he’s good and

Toronto police officer Oliver Simpson is the fellow kicking protesters in the well-known photograph, above. Sounds like he was having a good day all around. Could Ontario’s relatively new Office of the Independent Police Review Director, which fell down miserably at the start, actually be developing a spine? [H/t]

Once again, the hérouxvilliste wing of the Parti Québécois has come to the fore, and disgraced what is left of that party’s reputation as a mildly progressive political formation. Now it’s chickens. More specifically, it’s halal chickens, birds slaughtered according to Muslim ritual. The values of les québécois pure laine—and

There are no links in this post. There are no photographs. There is only my sincere hope that I am not the only person in Canada disgusted to the point of cookie-tossing by the on-going reporting of the details of the Tori Stafford rape/murder. Has the entire mainstream media universe