Margaret Atwood on the picket line, shortly before reprimanding your blogger. Below: Toronto’s Ford Brothers.Lighten up, Doug Ford! It’s good to be given a sound public thrashing by Margaret Atwood. It’s proof that your hitherto meaningless exist…
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Paul Fromm’s Support For a Cause Makes His Friendship With Kevin Strom a Bit Awkward
Paul Fromm and Kevin Strom with other notables in the, "White
Nationalist" Movement. Would hate to be Nick Griffin. Who
Knows what Strom had been doing with that hand
earlier in the day?
Paul Fromm has known and worked with Kevin Strom, formerly of the National Alliance before he abandoned the racist group to form his own, the National Vanguard, for many years. For example, in 2004 both of
The post-Fordist era can’t come soon enough
Oh Toronto. So glad I don’t live in you right now. Not just because of the horrible summer heat, but because you have a troglodyte for mayor… Rob Ford is getting a thumbs-down on social media after a Facebook post described an unexpected encounter with the mayor Friday night at the intersection of Dundas St. […]
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Newfoundland Poll-by-Poll
Thanks to Teddy’s poll-by-poll link, I can bring to you this lovely and hard-made map of Newfoundland, poll-by-poll, at a large scale:
Continue readingWhat is This? The Most Right Wingnut Contest of Evul?
Boys ‘n’ girls, put your tinfoil hats on! It’s going to be a bumpy ride!
We all know about Michael Coren, pretty much implying that those kids at the Norwegian Labour Party Youth Camp on Utoya Island deserved their fate for being too left winged and too critical of Israel, in addition to . . . → Read More: What is This? The Most Right Wingnut Contest of Evul?
Continue readingDavid Olive (@TheGrtRecession), Team Ford, and that whole ‘deserve’ thing again
With this blog post at the Star, David Olive goes on a bit of a roll, getting in some pretty good zingers at Mayor Stupid and Brother Stupider.One can’t argue with much of his take, in particular his characterization of the last election as a vote agai…
Continue reading"I make no pretence about the stuff we used to do": Former NOTW editor Piers Morgan admits to phone hacking
Pretty damning stuff. Morgan never outright states he tapped phones but does not deny it, stating he’s not proud of what he did and let happen. Listen.
Continue readingcmkl: Crime rates and government spending
So crime rates continue to decline. Not just nuisance crimes and property crimes but also crimes where people get hurt or worse. And it’s been going this way for nigh on forty years.
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 3950…Say It Ain’t So Brett
Favre.Or say it is so.It is rumoured and denied and confirmed and alluded that the man with the faxable penis, number 4 in your program but number 1 in your heart, Brett Favre, may be coming back again. This time with the Iggles.WFDS
Continue readingFern Hill Unleashes More Online Hellfire
Way to go, Fern! As you might remember, Fern Hill, the political blogger at DAMMIT JANET! was the instigator of what Chris Selley dubbed the “online hellfire” which was unleashed on Tim Hudak last week following Fern’s post on his que…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Abuse of prisoner in Ottawa police custody
In less than a year four Ottawa criminal cases have ended badly for the prosecution. The four cases have remarkable and disturbing similarities. In each case a cell block video disclosed mistreatment of an individual in police custody by members of the…
Continue readingDougy Ford, Perhaps If You Actually Set Foot In a Library, You Might Learn Who Margaret Atwood Is
Oh, poor, long suffering Dougy Ford, city councillor, side kick to his brother Mayor Rob “Boss Hogg” Fordzilla. Always the bridesmaid, but not the mayor. He seems to be bitching about too many libraries in Etobicoke and not enough Timmy Horton’s. Oh and he hasn’t a clue as to who Margaret Atwood is.
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Continue readingHolman Hits FOI Jackpot on Christy’s Cozy Contracts…CorpMedia Listens.
AllTheNewNewsThat’sFittestFreelancerVilleHere’s Sean’s lede, not in PublicEye, but instead in the Globe:The B.C. government office running the province’s pro-HST campaign secretly doled out contracts to two Liberal-connected companies and a former ai…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Petermann iceberg visible from Labrador – and from space
The Petermann Ice Island, a Manhattan-sized iceberg that broke off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland last August, has since traveled almost 4,800 kilometres (3,000 miles) and is currently bumping off the Canadian coast of Labrador.
The glacier is so …
Housekeeping…
Yes, it does seem I’ve fallen off the blogging map, doesn’t it? No fear, though, as I’m sure once council gets back into full force, and we’re thrown into the parry and thrust of the provincial election, I’ll get back to bemusing you on a regular basis. Of course, if you’d pay attention to my […]
World Net Daily: Norwegian kids killed by the Left
No, I mean literally. This Birther rag, for which Islamophobe Kathy Shaidle writes, and which frequent commenter “knygathin_zhaum” cites uncritically, claims the kids on the island were murdered by—why, the Norwegian government, of course, to discredit the right wing. Which,…
Continue readingLet’s see… how to start… um… *ahem*… okay… It was a dark & stormy night…
…and fern hill was kicking ass all over the place! W00t! DJ has the links that tell the entire tawdry tale. And while we’re giving props to those who deserve, how about an honourary scoop of freshly-minted dogpoop to the Toronto Star, supposedly Canada’s Flaming Liberal Newspaper of Record, for refusing to publish even a Letter […]
Buckdog: Conservative Minister John Baird Has Paintings By Quebec Artist Removed And Replaced With Portraits of The Queen Of England!
I think the Conservative government sits up late into the night just thinking up ways to be idiots. Case in point …..”Foreign service staff and art lovers are grumbling about new Minister John Baird’s decorating tastes inside the lobby of his departm…
Continue readingAnother Canadian muzzled by Harper
Franke James, you are not alone. It’s not just the arts that get the Harper thug treatment. Science, the other most hated discipline of Conservatives, is also subject to censorship and the silent treatment. The following bit of horror comes from Postme…
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