Every Man for Himself – Canadians Losing Faith in Government
We have lost confidence in government, provincial and federal, to tackle pressing issues. It seems we have finally realized the people who are at the driver’s seat are asleep at…
The Mound of Sound
Is Vic Toews Responsible for Hikes in Canada’s Homicide and Child Abuse Crimes?
To hear the Minister of Family Values and Random Diddling, Vic Toews tell it, he’s responsible for the overall drop in Canada’s crime rate even though it has been declining…
Will Israel Take Out Assad?
It sounds like a bad dream until you factor in two things. One, Assad has announced he has WMDs, chemical and biological, at his disposal and he’s prepared to use…
Afghan Cop Squad Defects to the Taliban
An Afhgan police commander and 13 of his officers have joined the Taliban. The commander apparently poisoned 7-officers who refused to defect. The party fled taking heavy weapons, radios and…
British Columbia’s Sordid Premier
There’s something really sleazy about BC premier Christie Clark. Faced with growing public opposition to the Northern Gateway and Kinder-Morgan bitumen pipeline trafficking, she sat mute for months as her…
The State of the Plate Report – Slim Pickins
Where do global warming, water scarcity and overpopulation collide? On dinner plates around the world. When everything works as we want it to, year in and year out, we can…
Shhh, Keep This to Yourself. Crime is Down – Again!
Despite Stevie Boy’s prison fetish, crime in Canada has fallen to the lowest level since 1972. Homicides, crimes against children and marijuana offences were up. Imagine what the numbers might…
A Click Away From 41,000 Rounds of Assault Rifle Ammo
The Guardian took a stroll down Ammunition Lane, the online world of American ammo sales. If you’re fixing to start a war, all it takes is a credit card and…
Sir Elton’s Eloquent Plea to Fight AIDS
It’s brief and it speaks for itself – powerfully.
The Conservative Armed Forces of Canada
Once again the Canadian Forces have been caught playing partisan politics, shilling for the Conservative government. A program to educate parliamentarians about the work being done by the Canadian military…
When We Leave Afghanistan, We Leave It to Monsters
The guys we’re leaving in charge in Afghanistan are liberally peppered with butchers and mass-murderers. An 800-page report from the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission lists some 180-mass graves and…
The 1318 That Control the World Economy
The Occupy Movement always contended it existed but now there’s proof. An analysis of 43,000 transnational companies has revealed a core group of 1,318 – mainly banks – that literally…
How Drought 2012 Swept America
Here’s an interesting animated graphic from N.O.A.A. that shows how drought swept through the United States this year.
Talking to Ottawa a Waste of Breath
Canadian environmental leaders are shifting their focus away from Ottawa and the Petro-Parliament and instead toward provincial premiers. Greenpeace is also placing its hopes in the premiers, saying Ottawa is…
The Impoverished States of America
Poverty in the United States is set to reach levels not seen since the 1960s. Poverty is spreading at record levels across many groups, from underemployed workers and suburban families…
The Mind of Steve
There was a time when conservatives considered themselves hard-headed realists and mocked liberals as dreamers and philosophers with fancy notions. Old conservatives wanted facts, they wanted science, they demanded to…
Just Sayin’
What do you think? Is Christie Blatchford Canada’s answer to Nancy Grace?
British Columbia’s Political Ambiguity
Of late British Columbians have been plagued by the endless bleating of our unelected and unelectable, outgoing premier, Christie Clark, droning on about how hers is the “free enterprise” government.…
Our Shamelessly Anti-Canadian Government
It’s pretty clear whose side the Harper government is on and it’s equally clear that’s not the side of Canadians. Senator and featherbedding former media shill, Mike Duffy, dismisses his…
Crispy Clark Turns Bitumen Basher – Too Little, Too Late
BC’s unelected and unelectable premier, Christie Clark, is throwing “free enterprise” caution to the wind in a desperate bid to reverse her political fortunes. After dummying-up for months about the…