How the mighty have fallen. Just two years ago, Jason Kenney, flush from a convincing election win over the NDP, was the Conservatives’ golden boy. Even the national leader had to kowtow before the man who many predicted would be the next national leader himself, even prime minister. Today Kenney
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Hundreds of Kids Found Dead In Unmarked Graves
A normal country would declare several days of mourning after a mass grave of children was discovered. — Nora Loreto (@NoLore) May 29, 2021 Canada is a normal settler-colonial country with a dark history of genocide against Indigenous peoples Canada is still fighting Kamloops residential schools survivors, and their descendants,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Cons Spin The Blame Bottle — Lands On Selves
You read this PPE shame before on my blog, but it was brought up in a mailing by local Conservative MP M. Kram. “Never-Ending Blunders – Tons of PPE from National Stockpile destroyed” Now, here are the facts: “CBC News reported Wednesday that last year (2019), the government of Canada threw out
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Hockey Canary
The Quebec Remparts are among five QMJHL teams forced to suspend team activities due to positive COVID-19 tests. https://t.co/mDZhsb4hrt — CBC News (@CBCNews) April 4, 2021 The WHL is carrying on in Regina, as the UK variant COVID rages. IKEA in Toronto this morning, apparently. Gonna save the world by
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Conservatives stumble over the big issue
Hanging over our heads is one overwhelming issue. It’s not the pandemic, and it’s not the economic disruption caused by the pandemic. It’s our rape of the planet, the most immediate aspect being climate change. If a political party can’t get a grip on this issue, they aren’t of much
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Conservatives Reject Reality
Sucks to be a country where the Official Opposition party rejects longstanding science that a grade school kid can understand. For ideological and economic reasons, the Conservative Party of Canada won’t accept that air pollution is bad. They won’t even accept that it’s air pollution, instead, the veg-heads erroneously call
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Alberta MP launches petition to make House of Commons stop calling assault rifles assault rifles
It is an actual fact that Alberta MP David Yurdiga launched a petition yesterday calling on the House of Commons to stop using the term “assault rifle” to describe assault rifles. Mr. Yurdiga is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada, naturally. United Conservative Party Calgary-North MLA Muhammad Yaseen
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Twisting the Night Away …
I won’t waste much time directly addressing the attempted coup that took place in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday this past week. Others have already covered it in considerable depth, and the fallout will no doubt take months or more to sort out. However, Maclean’s decided to publish something today
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: SK Party’s Predictable Conservative Hypocrisy
One of my least favourite Sask Party cabinet ministers (for him closing STC Bus service) is in hot water after going to California during the pandemic. He’s legally required to self-isolate for 14 days upon arrival in Palm Springs. Did Minister Hargraves self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in California?
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Conservatives and the working class
During the 2019 provincial election UCP leader Jason Kenney rambled about Alberta in a big blue pickup truck for all the world like a toiler in the oil fields. The new premier likes to present himself as one of the boys. Whether he succeeds or not, it worked electorally. He
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Conservatives and the elites
New Conservative chief, Erin O’Toole, has recently been singing a popular populist tune. He is greatly concerned about the “elites.” “These elites have only one set of values centred on unchecked globalization [and] political correctness,” Mr. O’Toole argues. Opposed are middle-class Canadians whose values are “rooted in family, home and nation.” The latter have been “betrayed” by “political elites,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Sociopathy Of Contemporary Conservativism
A certainly level of sociopathy has become endemic to the conservative movements throughout North America and I think it is based on a lot of pent up anger that their individualist views conflict with the neoliberal reality. https://t.co/TjO5xiApLf — Kon Stolz (@Cdn_Dissident) November 14, 2020 Take away my pants, but
Continue readingScripturient: The day that reason died
I’m not a believer in alien visitations and UFOs, but I’ll bet if an alien did swing by, after an hour or two observing us, checking out Facebook or Twitter, they’d lock their doors, hang a detour sign around our planet, and race off. They’d tell their friends not to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Post-lockdown
Even though everything isn’t re-opened, the Saskatchewan Government very much wants people to think and act as if everything is back to normal. They’ll deny that if asked. There’s no evidence of the Premier wearing a mask though to set a good example in public. As a result, the infection
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Conservatives Struggle with Science
When conservatives talk about “the elites,” and they talk about them a lot, it isn’t always clear who they are talking about. They certainly aren’t referring to the rich, who many of us think of as the elites, because conservatives are the party of the rich, the party of privilege.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Think what we could have accomplished if we’d concentrated on climate change like we’re focusing on COVID-19!
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,” observed Samuel Johnson, a great wit of the 18th Century. If you doubt the truth of this aphorism, consider the coverage of the greatest news story of the 21st
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Papa Troll
This guy was almost PM. Stockwell Day wasn't enough of a scare to dissuade Con voters from wasting a decade with Harper. What fresh hell awaits following Scheer?#cdnpoli https://t.co/JMembtaJG6 — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) February 23, 2020 I havent watched #PawPatrol with a critical eye, but there's value in thinking
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Prime Minister Furious At Himself
Canada’s bonehead Prime Minister, in an effort to look more like Boris Johnson, has turned up in an old photo sporting a culturally inappropriate turban costume while wearing what is now, finally widely recognized as racist, blackface makeup. Fewer years ago than when the Prime Minister dressed in blackface as
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: What’s Going On?
Half of the kitty cats just walked by to sniff my hand only to keep walking as I started to pet them, so they wouldn’t be mistaken as being too interested in more petting. Charlie just came up to me again, and left when I tried to pet him. In
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Conservatives Make Asthma Great Again
Canadian Cons desperately want to have MAGA as a campaign slogan because it worked so well for the President. That’s why they want to Make Asthma Great Again, and remove fuel standards. Put lead back into the gas, we need more stupid people from brain damage. If you know anyone
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