As you know, we have been very clear. We told them we wouldn’t accept our MP pensions (back when we were called the Reform Party). We promised them honest, open and accountable government. We promised we would create jobs. We just neglected to say that those jobs wouldn’t be for
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The Ranting Canadian: This is a video by the ShitHarperDid crew that criticizes…
This is a video by the ShitHarperDid crew that criticizes Stephen Harper for hypocritically butchering John Lennon’s song “Imagine” (and exploiting a young girl for partisan political purposes) in a crass publicity stunt a few years ago. He is a terrible leader and a horrible human being. R.I.P. John Lennon, October
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Imagine there’s no Harper … That day cannot come…
Imagine there’s no Harper … That day cannot come soon enough. It’s an unjust world in which people like John Lennon, George Harrison, Jack Layton and millions of others die before their time, but malicious scumbags like Stephen Harper are still healthy enough to carry on ruining people’s lives. R.I.P.
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Jewish human rights group condemns Harper government’s UN vote on Palestine
by Independent Jewish Voices | December 3, 2012 A Canadian Jewish human rights group is condemning the Harper government’s opposition to giving Palestine non-member observer state status at the United Nations. In a vote taken this week by the General Assembly, 138 countries voted to grant Palestine this status. “Once again the Harper government has embarrassed […]
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Palestine UN ‘observer state’ vote: Harper government lines up with Palau and Nauru
Bottom: Palestinians in Ramallah protest Harper’s remarks
about the Palestinian UN bid
This week the UN resolution A/67/L28 granting Palestine non-member observer state status passed in resounding style – 138 “yes” votes to 9 “no” with …
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Parody of the Conservative Economic Ad Scam, by This Hour Has 22…
Parody of the Conservative Economic Ad Scam, by This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
The real Economic Action Plan ads and website are pure partisan (and pro-oilsands industry) propaganda, under a thin guise of providing relevant information to the public.
The go…
Canadian ProgressiveCanadian Progressive: Canada’s PBO Kevin Page Takes Harper Conservative Government To Court
Canada’s Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page has had enough of the Harper government’s lack of accountability and transparency, highlighted by it’s refusal to comply with his repeated requests for information on the $5.2 billion in fiscal…
Continue readingNorthern Insight: There’s fish in the lake
Two unions are in court to overturn Temporary Foreign Worker Program permits that allow 200 Chinese coal miners to work in northern BC. The labour organizations claim the permits were based on improper and invalid Labour Market Opinions. LMOs are suppo…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: This Just In
I’ve got a bit of a busy morning ahead, so just a brief post for now. In a study reported in this morning’s Star, geneticist Dr. Gerald Crabtree offers his view … that human intelligence peaked at the time of hunter-gatherers and has since declin…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Glimmer of Hope?
Perhaps the Canadian electorate is salvageable, after all.Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: There are three concepts to describe the positions of…
There are three concepts to describe the positions of individuals in Stephen Harper’s Canada: intelligence, decency and Harper-Conservatism.
If a Canadian is intelligent and a Harper-Conservative, that person is not decent.
If a Canadian is decent…
The Ranting Canadian: Remembrance Day 2012 at Queen’s Park,…
Remembrance Day 2012 at Queen’s Park, Toronto
This year, since November 11 fell on a Sunday, I managed to attend two Remembrance Day ceremonies at Queen’s Park in Toronto.
First I obse…
Politics and its Discontents: One of Nature’s Hidden Affronts
I assume this requires no commentary from me: H/t janfromthebruce Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: When It Comes To Our Veterans
… the Canadian government knows that talk is cheap. Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: This is your last chance to submit your comment against the…
This is your last chance to submit your comment against the treasonous, anti-worker, anti-environment Canada-China Foreign Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement to the Canada Trade Agreements Secretariat.
The deadline is November 11, 2012.
http…
The Ranting Canadian: The Harper Conservatives must really hate Canadian military…
The Harper Conservatives must really hate Canadian military veterans.
The HarperCons seem to prefer that our armed forces members either die in action or commit suicide due to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder than live to require healthcare and other b…
The Ranting Canadian: Fuck you, Stephen Harper
Fuck you, Stephen Harper : The linked article is a well researched, passionate summary of specific bad deeds that Stephen Harper, Canada’s disgraced prime minister, has committed against his own country.
http://www.torontocitylife.com/2012/02/14/fuck…
The Ranting Canadian: The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy is a…
The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy is a book by Yves Engler that was released in September 2012.
Here is the official description:
“Stephen Harper’s foreign policy documents the sordid story of the Canadian government’s sabotage…
The Ranting Canadian: "The misuse of November 11: How the Harper government exploits Remembrance Day" – by Peter Goffin, November 9, 2012
“The misuse of November 11: How the Harper government exploits Remembrance Day” – by Peter Goffin, November 9, 2012: Excerpts:
The greatest trouble with Harper’s Conservatives using Remembrance Day to construct an image of Canada as one of history’…