Author: The Mound of Sound

Christy Clark must be feeling just a little crispier today.  A CBC Fifth Estate assessment of hospitals across Canada doesn’t speak well of British Columbia’s healthcare. There wasn’t even one B.C. hospital in the top ten, A+ category.   But B.C. is punching above its weight in the D category at

Sideshow Steve Harper doesn’t have much time for the plebs, especially the little ones – the dependent-types.   UNICEF has just released a report on the well-being of children in the 29 richest countries and we finish in a miserable 17th place. Canada ranked very low in the category of health

Now with that cursed Parliamentary Budget Officer safely out of the way, Lockheed Martin has opened a public relations blitz to flog the F-35 to the Canadian Armed Forces. Lockheed used to claim the F-35 could be had by Canada for $65-million a copy.   This time it’s upped the stated

Margaret Thatcher, dead of a stroke, at 87.

Steve Harper may have ruled us for many years but he hasn’t won our affection or even our trust.   Two out of three of us, in fact, still believe Harper is up to something he’s concealing from us. Two-thirds of Canadians believe Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government is too

There was something strange on U.S. weather/drought maps recently.   The northern hemisphere, or “polar” jet stream was shown plunging down into Mexico.  It was down where the sub-tropical jet stream is supposed to be. Mexico.   Not Oregon or even northern California but Mexico, a country that actually dips down into

If we don’t take steps to defend democracy in Canada we may face a huge struggle to salvage it in the future.   There’s a price to be paid for inaction. Look at the United States of America for example.   Democracy there has been supplanted by plutocracy.   Democratic power has been

“I ran home shaking like a dog. I had wee short trousers on  and the shite was running down my leg.  My mum and my auntie had to wipe me down.” As the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church met in conclave in the Vatican to select a new pope,

Special forces teams from around the world gathered in Amman, Jordan, to strut their stuff.   Thirty-five teams representing 18-countries, including the United States, Britain, France and Russia competed.   Events included hostage rescue, aircraft assault, building entry and casualty handling. Out of the 35 teams, Canada got a respectable podium finish. 

Maher, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and it is hilarious.

I’m gonna miss the New Democratic Party and, by the sounds of it, I’ll be missing it more than they will.  At least Tommy didn’t live to see it. It seems the New Dems have seen the error of their ways.  Or perhaps they’ve discovered that standing on principles, no

It seems they’ve called our bluff. “We” are the First World, the developed countries, the big producers and consumers of fossil fuels, the big emitters.  We are also the rich countries. “They” are the LDCs or Least Developed Countries.   They’re the poor countries; the places we think are really backward,

Two officials of British Columbia’s Raincoast Conservation Society have gutted Joe Oliver’s assurances and exposed Sideshow Steve Harper’s “world class” oil spill mechanisms as an utter sham. Misty MacDuffee and Chris Genovali, writing in the Toronto Star, shred Oliver and Harper’s empty promises. The reality is that human nature and

13% of Americans are sure Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ.  A similar percentage aren’t sure but think that’s definitely possible. Despite everything their country has endured over the past five years and, especially, during 2012, 37% of Americans still claim global warming is a hoax. The survey, which was conducted

Despite everything that has been visited upon them since the “Reagan Revolution” – the stagnation of their incomes; the deliberate and unearned transfer of enormous wealth from the blue and white-collar middle class to the richest of the rich; the offshoring of their manufacturing base and jobs; the waging of