RoboCon-zilla vs King In-And-Out in Ottawa: whoever wins, we lose. Just when you thought the 2011 Canadian election couldn’t be more fraudulent, the Conservatives have served up an old favourite from the year 2006: the In and Out Scandal Part Deux (Quebec edition)! Quick refresher: in the 2006 election, the
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A Different Point of View....: Multi-talented Nova Scotia writer wins ‘neo-liberal’ contest!
And the winner of my media challenge contest is… Joan Baxter, a journalist, an award-winning author and anthropologist who lived and worked in Africa for 21 years. I had felt for some time that journalists in the mainstream corporate media were being intimidated by corporate owners and the Harper government from
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: Anonymous to Canada – Get Mad
From the proposed online snooping legislation Bill C-30 to the burgeoning scandal involving over some 10 million fraudulent phone calls made during the last federal election in 2011 by a company hired by the Canadian Conservative government, and everything in between, there is much that is currently wrong with Canada.
Continue readinggay persons of color: Rick Mercer takes on Vic Toews
Gay Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist, and blogger, Rick Mercer, addresses Public Safety Minister Vic Toews’s proposed Internet-surveillance legislation, Bill C-30, in a brilliant, two-minute video rant. A must watch for a quick summary of what the fuss is all about surrounding the controversial bill.
Continue readinggay persons of color: John Baird feeling the heat over privacy concerns?
During question period in the Canadian House of Commons on Friday (February 17), Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird accused the opposition National Democratic Party (NDP) of having been caught in a “dirty, sleazy Internet game,” an allegation the NDP has denied. What Baird was referring to was an anonymous
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: When CPC MPs lie to Parliament
On Tuesday during the debate on the life saving long gun registry, Harper Tory MP Larry Miller compared gun control supporters to Hitler. Shortly after Question Period that day, Miller stood up in the House and apologized for naming the “this evil guy”. Opposition MPs were less than satisfied, but
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Canada’s government at work
It really says something when even the gun lobby thinks the Justice Minister has said something dangerous. Victoria Times-Colonist February 8, 2012 As for warning shots, he said they can be dangerous. “We do not advocate that anybody fire a firearm in any place you don’t know where bullet is
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: A letter from Canada
OTTAWA Dear Foreign Dictator: On behalf of the Government of Canada, I would like to clarify our position on the use of torture. To be clear, our Government supports the use of torture when it is practiced with a clear objective. Please accept my most heartfelt apologies if the position
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Just when you thought the #CPC could not be bigger jerks than you already believed them to be
It’s hard to imagine anything more petty that the Harper Tory government’s decision to keep Elizabeth May from giving her short tribute to Vaclav Havel in the House of Commons this afternoon. Surely the morons responsible for this ironic outrage understand that it would not have been news had they
Continue readingFor Two Saskatchewan Fetus Fetishist MPs
For Brad Trost and Maurice Vellacott, two MPs who are disgrace to Saskatchewan, Politics’n’Poetry gives you this:
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: When actions speak larger than words
Ten days ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was eagerly criticizing NDP leadership Thomas Mulcair over his French citizenship. The Prime Minister emphasized his Canada-first and always patriotism. In my case, as I say, I’m very clear. I’m a Canadian and only a Canadian.If the Prime Minister thinks that being Canadian
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Making it up as they go
In 2009, the Harper Tories had a clear plan to replace the long gun registry with something that could work: We want to return to the better system of having retailers record their sales of non-restricted weapons instead of having to register them with the long-gun registry. – Guy Lauzon,
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Harper Tories release suppressed gun control report: Report leaves more questions than answers
Five days after the Minister of Public Safety tabled the overdue 2010 report of the Commissioner of Firearms, the government finally got around to providing it to the rest of the country. Sensible Canadians should be concerned that the report took so long to be made available. Judging from it’s
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Conservatives Unveil New Jobs Plan For Quebec
You too could embark on a new lucrative career in the Canadian civil service! With little fanfare, the Conservatives announced that they are back in the race in Quebec provincial politics yet again! That’s right! Despite not having had a MNA sitting in the Quebec National Assembly since 1935, the
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: We Must Stop Stephen Harper and the 20% from Destroying Canada
There has been lots of discussion about how Stephen Harper’s majority only represents 40% of voters because of the way our electoral system works. But, in reality, his agenda has much fewer supporters. We must remember that the Conservative Party is a coalition. It is not a coalition in the
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Tories lying about gun registry bill
According to Western Canada’s gun lobby. Maybe that’s why the NFA didn’t get invited to the House of Commons Committee review of the radical bill to repeal the life saving long gun registry. Let’s hope the Tory majority lets the NFA appear when the Senate considers the Bill.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Dear fellow Reformers
OTTAWA January 6, 2011 Dear fellow Reformers, It’s been a long slog but we’ve arrived. The opposition is crippled and the media is cowed. Heck, we’ve turned the appointment of the second place candidate in an election that took place more than six years ago into a victory for “democracy”.
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Mocha in Muskoka
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, ol’ Dr. Dawg wrote hisself a parody version of ol’ Merle Haggard’s Okie from Muskokee an’ it’s all about how Tony Clement took $50 million earmarked for border security an’ spent it on fixin’ up his stompin’ grounds so’s he’d be sure an’ get hisself
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Mocha in Muskoka
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, ol’ Dr. Dawg wrote hisself a parody version of ol’ Merle Haggard’s Okie from Muskokee an’ it’s all about how Tony Clement took $50 million earmarked for border security an’ spent it on fixin’ up his stompin’ grounds so’s he’d be sure an’ get hisself
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Mocha in Muskoka
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, ol’ Dr. Dawg wrote hisself a parody version of ol’ Merle Haggard’s Okie from Muskokee an’ it’s all about how Tony Clement took $50 million earmarked for border security an’ spent it on fixin’ up his stompin’ grounds so’s…
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