According to a March 2012 Canadian Press report,
“British Columbia and five other provinces are teaming up to sue Canadian tobacco firms for health-care costs.
“B.C., New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island are ret…
Continue readingWe’re presently bombarded with slick political advertising from two senior levels of government. Add industry advertising promoting natural gas as so marvellous a fuel that we should export it to China instead of using it to fuel combustion engines on our own roads and waterways. Fifteen million taxpayer dollars promotes
Continue readingCaesar repudiates Pompeia: “You’re outta here!” Below: Danielle Smith and Alison Redford. The Wildrose Party strategy for defeating the Progressive Conservative government of Premier Alison Redford when the next election rolls around in 2016 is a variation of the right-wing party’s plan when it came close to winning earlier this
Continue readingA real head shaker of a column today from David Brooks as the U.S. campaign enters its last week: “The Upside of Opportunism.” Basically, Brooks writes that Romney is more likely to get stuff done if he’s elected President because Republicans in the House will go along with him. And
Continue readingMaybe it’s because I was, at least in the first six or seven years of my life on this planet, a “slow learner” and had to spend Grades One and Two in the remedial program (along with very intensive speech therapy). Or maybe because it’s just Ann Coulter. I am
Continue readingIn my childhood long ago, Canadians used ethnic slurs without much thought. My east Vancouver family, not hateful people, disdainfully labelled central and eastern Europe war-victim refugees as DP’s or Bohunks. In those days, a black child was a Pickaninny or a Tar Baby; the parents called Spades, Spearchuckers, Coons, Spooks,
Continue readingA few days ago, Patients exposed to harm on a staggering scale provided excerpts from Ben Goldacre’s book Bad Pharma. You can download or listen to a lengthy interview with Dr. Goldacre at The Guardian’s Science Weekly Podcast. I recommend this episode to anyone interested in knowing more about operations
Continue readingCanadian Press is reporting this: “Tory cabinet ministers contradict record on Port of Montreal controversy.” There are quotes from Industry Minister Christian Paradis and Maxime Bernier denying that the federal government took a position on promoting Robert Abdallah as its choice to head the Port of Montreal: When asked why
Continue reading“I’m not a crook.” – Richard Nixon “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” – Bill Clinton “The only charge that anyone can level against us is one of insufficient generosity to ourselves.” – Conrad Black “I’m not going to play politics on the floor of the House
Continue readingCRTC exec who spent evening in Bell box operated in ‘gray area’: Ethics expert, DANNY JONCAS, QMI AGENCY, Toronto Sun, Sept. 28, 2012: “MONTREAL – Nine months after his appointment as vice-chairman of broadcasting at the Canadian Radio-Television and telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Tom Pentefountas placed himself in an awkward situation
Continue readingWe’ll see if we can make it short and quick for today’s Disservice. God has a lot of people who claim to speak for him and his will (see the mentally ill). It’s like certain people happen to have a holy transceiver installed and others, like myself most decidedly do
Continue readingI’m not a fan of all of Jessie Ventura’s politics, but he makes a strong case against the use of torture while explaining to the designated right-wing nut on the View how and why its wrong. Let’s open up the discussion. When, if ever, is torture permissible? Leave your opinion
Continue readingReader contributions at mainstream media sites are occasionally unreadable, occasionally delightful. Here’s one of the latter type from the Globe & Mail after Margaret Wente defended herself on charges of plagiarism raised by an independent media critic: “Margaret, you would have done yourself and the Globe a favour had you
Continue readingThe Supreme Court of Canada has done the right thing by agreeing to consider the appeal regarding the prostitution laws in this country. In a 53 page decision and on behalf of a unanimous court (PDF), Associate Justice Thomas A. Cromwell said that while the women who filed the class
Continue readingAssorted content for your Friday reading. – The Cons’ latest line of talking-point addiction isn’t passing without some substantial comment from Canada’s political press. Today, Jeffrey Simpson lambastes Stephen Harper and his party for trying to wipe out their own history and promises, while Dan Gardner considers the Cons to
Continue readingWritten by Justin Elliott | ProPublica On a Saturday afternoon last February, journalist Carl Bernstein got up on stage at the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan and delivered a speech questioning the listing of an obscure Iranian group called the Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK) on the U.S. government list of officially designated foreign
Continue readingI would have thought detention centres for would-be refugees were a thing of the past. But in the last few days we’ve actually heard the Cons say that if their refugee “reforms” don’t move things fast enough they are prepared to round up the in-process Roma population and confine them
Continue readingJust when we thought VP Joe Biden Jr had shot off his mouth yet again when he said that bank deregulation like what Mitt Romney is proposing would put Americans — blacks in particular — “in chains” (which would not be my choice of words) … … comes this moron,
Continue readingChristian ‘morals’ plus the abortion issue and dudes, you know where we are headed…. I’m not sure if I like the “reader” function that wordpress offers as a part of its blogging platform. Searching the Abortion tag seems to consistently raise my blood pressure because of beastly shite that I
Continue readingLeft or Right…there is no in-between. The Toronto SunSo, when I started this blog less than half a year ago I never would have imagined linking to the Sun as often as I have. But, true to form for this space, I look to talk about the issues that are important
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