One of the world’s leading scientific journals has criticized the federal government for policies that limit its scientists from speaking publicly about their research. The journal, Nature, says in an editorial in this week’s issue that it is time for the Canadian government to set its scientists free. Despite this
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Politics and its Discontents: Today’s Star Editorial Cartoon
Works on more than one level, doesn’t it? Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Rick Mercer Has Harper’s Number
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Sound of Subversion – A Robocall Recorded
So this is what subversion sounds like. The Star has obtained a voice recording of one of the fake calls in Guelph, giving instructions to the recipient to go to the wrong polling station. What is that old saying about the banality of evil? Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Harper Conservatives: A Scapegoat For Every Occasion
I just finished reading a thoughtful piece by Michael Ignatief’s former chief speechwriter, Adam Goldenberg, suggesting that those Tory functionaries who are scapegoated for the government’s crimes often good on to their reward – reinstatement within the party hierarchy. A reposting of a reader’s comment following the article speaks volumes:
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: From A Repentant Ex-Conservative
This sobering reminder from Victor Pocaterra of the price we pay for a corrupt government should give everyone pause: A few months ago I was a card carrying Conservative, serving as a director on both the Guelph and Kitchener-Center Conservative electoral district association boards. I succeeded Michael Sona as president
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: For Anyone Inclined to Give Harper The Benefit Of The Doubt…
I urge you to read Lawrence Martin’s damning assessment of his dirty operations. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
The face of unrepentant smarm: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Is The Channel About To Be Changed?
Always adept at averting attention from their criminal acts, look for a Harper push to change the channel with this information. In my humble opinion, neither Towes nor any other member of his ‘rat-pack’ deserves any gesture of contrition, only contempt. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Is That Pungent Odor Coming From A Smoking Gun?
If the Canadian media and the Oppositions parties do their jobs, perhaps we’ll soon have an answer. The following is reported in today’s Star: Callers on behalf of the federal Conservative Party were instructed in the days before last year’s election to read scripts telling voters that Elections Canada had
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harper’s War On Democracy
Whether or not one believes that Stephen Harper had a direct hand in the robocall efforts to subvert the last election, one thing is perfectly clear: given his well-known contempt for our democratic traditions, he needs to recognize his responsibility in setting a tone that is odious to most Canadians,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Peter Has Some ‘Splainin’ To Do
Peter “The Prevaricator’ MacKay apparently has some ‘splainin’ to do to Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk regarding his misuse of military resources for political purposes. However, don’t expect MacKay, an emblem of the amorality that pervades the Harper regime, to be offering his resignation anytime soon. That kind
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Dark Master Speaks
Regarding the robo-call criminal acts, did Stephen Harper actually deny any involvement with a straight face? Meanwhile, a young Tory staffer has apparently been chosen to take the fall. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harper’s Continued Debasement of Democracy
For those with a naive trust in the ‘integrity’ of the Harper regime, I heartily recommend that you start educating yourselves about the machinations being orchestrated in Ottawa by our dark lord. Here and here would be two good places to start. Otherwise, continue to bury your head in the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Conservatives Insult Canadians’ Intelligence Once Again
While the Harper government has repeatedly shown its contempt for facts and statistics as it treads its demagogic path with abandon, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has achieved a new low. In language almost identical to that of George Bush after the terrorist attacks in New York, the Harper minion
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Conservative Ethos: Caviar for Corporations, Cake For Canadian Masses
Stephen Harper and his wrecking crew continue their agenda of altering the fundamental nature of Canadian society. By engineering an ever-dwindling supply of government revenue through corporate tax cuts that neither attract nor keep jobs in Canada, making huge expenditures on jet fighters we don’t need, and building super-prisons during
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Is Werner Herzog Really Talking About Chickens Here?
Given Canadians’ apparently prodigious tolerance for the abuses being perpetrated by the Harper regime, it seems Werner Herzog’s comments in this video could apply equally to our credulous/disengaged/apathetic domestic populace: Werner Herzog on Chickens from Tom Streithorst on Vimeo. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Protection, Patriotism and Punishment – the Harper Credo
By now, most have heard about Sun TV’s faux citizenship ceremony orchestrated by the Harper regime to help promote its brand of Canadian patriotism. Putting aside questions of the ethics of a Canadian broadcaster allowing itself to be a propaganda arm of a government increasingly hostile to the traditional values
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Educate, Educate, Resist
I have to admit that nowadays I am feeling the pessimism of old strongly reemerging, not to the point of giving up my blog and whatever value it might serve in the fight against the extremists who now control the Canadian government, but to the point where I realize that
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I’m Back – Nothing’s Changed, Just Getting Worse
After a week out of the country with limited access to the Internet and Canadian news, I see things keep getting worse. First thing I read this morning was how the Harper regime faked a Citizenship ceremony staged on Sun TV, the ever-faithful tool (and I mean that in the
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