Northern Reflections: It All Depends On Who Keeps The Books
Yesterday, Peter Mackay admitted that the Auditor General was right. Mackay and his cabinet colleagues had known that each F-35 would cost $25 billion. The difference between the $14.7 billion figure, which the government touted, and the Auditor General’s number was simply a matter of accounting: The $10-billion difference is
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4455…More On The CBC
Sell ads. Lots of them. Put on programming people like. You, the CBC, have figured out radio; you are number one in most markets with monster shares like a 20 per cent share of the morning in Ottawa. Those numbers have bank. As for tele, well that Don Cherry is
Continue readingwmtc: u.s. continues to target its own citizens at the border… which is 100 miles wide
This story — A Montreal university student was detained at the U.S. border, held for several hours, interrogated, had his personal belongings searched and saw his computer confiscated for more than a week. What caught the authorities’ attention? His doctoral research on Islamic studies, he says. In a case that
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The BBC almost makes me want to watch Television again – On Satire
What are the inner workings of The Daily Show or Real Time with Bill Maher? The interviews give a small slice of insight into what the leading satirists in America believe they are doing and why they do what they do. Also, Rory Bremner, from the UK is also
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Cuts to National Film Board
Jse-Che Lam and Michelle Solomon prepared and email and letter sent to educators and NFB supporters. I strongly support their actions — the NFB is a national treasure (and candidly a very inexpensive way to get Canada good press around the world — helping business if we need a mercenary
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Proud 50 Year Conservative Tradition: Fighter Jets
Bungling Canadian fighter jet development: A proud Conservative PM tradition for over 50 years. #AvroArrow #F35 #Dief #Harper Canadian Military Journal (Vol. 10, Num. 4) (2010) (with bold added): Debate over the F-35 may make the debate over the NFA/CF-18 pale by comparison. When the dust settled on the CF-18
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More Fabrications from MacKay
The Indefensible Defense Minister, Peter MacKay, continues to insult the intelligence of all thinking Canadians. As one who has followed the F-35 jet issue somewhat closely for the past year, I am astounded by his latest contemptible ‘explanation‘ that he says proves there was no intention on the part of
Continue readingA Blog By James Curran: Don Cherry: More Disgusting Than his Normal Self
Only Don Cherry can take an easy Vimy Ridge tribute and make it disgustingly political. Never mind his shots at Crosby. How about saying “and I know the lefties don’t like that” when speaking of honouring our brave Vimy troops. What an ass. Tell me dear lefties, is it true?
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Pierre Poutine identified?
I see some places are re-broadcasting a site and the site researcher who claims he has been able to identify who Pierre Poutine is – the famous handle in the Robocon vote suppression scandal. All I’ll say at this point is, I know the site has published some reasoning as
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Alberta Party Pushes For Anti-Gay “Conscience Rights”
The Wildrose Party, a socially-conservative provincial party hoping to wrestle power away from Alberta’s current conservative government, is defending its election platform against some pretty serious criticism this month. The policy is pretty far to the right of the political spectrum, even by Alberta’s standards. One contentious point
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: A fresh smear of lipstick #nlpoli
CBC’s online version got the story right from the most recent episode of On Point with David Cochrane: Natural Resources Minister Jerome Kennedy says the Newfoundland and Labrador government is not back-pedaling in how it is handling the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project, even though the governing Tories are already planning
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: We Are Fine Enough: A Mother’s Story of Her Son and His Severe Autism Realities
We Are Fine Enough, the video embedded below, is a moving and honest account of Charlie and his severe autism and cognitive impairment. The story is told through the narrative of his mother Cynthia Bartlett, who lives with Charlie here in New Brunswick, and photos taken over an extended period
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Mike Wallace and The Homosexuals
I see that Mike Wallace is being given a grand send off and is being called a journalistic hero. The newspapers are full of glowing obituaries, and TV stations have been running clips of his most famous interviews and documentaries. But funnily enough nobody mentioned the famous documentary LGBT activist Wayne
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Go away, we have something to hide
Benjamin Alldritt, North Shore News reporter invited by the North Vancouver-Lonsdale Liberal Association to “A North Shore Evening with Premier Christy Clark”, gets disinvited by one of Clark’s minions: “I’m sure you can understand that we don’t want comments made in front of a private audience made public,” said Garfinkel,
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Just for the record
So the good people at Dammit Janet! are having an argument with certain other bloggers who apparently also belong to “Progressive Bloggers”, and with the site administrators of “Progressive Bloggers”, and have left “Progressive Bloggers” as a result. OK, I don’t have anything to add to what has already been
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Easter Weekend Campaign Update: Apparently 41 years in power makes you stupid!
Alberta’s listless governing Conservatives are getting creamed in the sign battle by the Wildrose Party, and even by the impoverished NDP. Above and below: NDP signs in Edmonton. Below: Yogi Berra, evidently as puzzled about this as the rest of us. We know that being in power for more than
Continue readingcultural sn:afu: My daughter died while being delivered on Friday afternoon
Evangeline, my daughter, died while being delivered on Friday. My girlfriend’s water broke last Tuesday, while Evangeline was in her 22nd-week. The doctors and nurses at the Ottawa General did everything they could to keep Diane healthy, and Evangeline inside. … Continue reading →
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