Yesterday’s post revolved around a column by The Hamilton Spectator’s Andrew Dreschel in which he questioned whether the circumstances of Nathan Cirollo’s death qualified him as a hero. I predicted that he would likely be subject to a barrage of criticism, given that the young man’s death was so recent,
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Politics and its Discontents: Was Nathan Cirillo A Hero?
As I noted on this blog previously, it is always a tragedy when a young person loses his or her life, whether to accident, disease, or mayhem. The lost potential is incalculable. Like me, however, I suspect many found the mythologizing of Nathan Cirillo’s murder, his passage on the Highway
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Please regard this only as a rare anomaly of nature, totally unrelated to the propaganda about climate change being promulgated by enemies of your goverment.– The Harper Regime. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Cheap Rhetoric Versus Practical Questions
With regard to the ISIS threat, here is what Prime Minister Harper had to say in the House: “These are necessary actions, they are noble actions” …. “When we think that something is necessary and noble, we don’t sit back and say that only other people should do it. The
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A CRA Audit-Free Zone Okay boys and girls. Please resist the impulse to manipulate the Fraser Institute’s data. Really, don’t do it. I mean it. There will be consequences. 😉 Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Big Mac VS The Whopper
Clearly, based upon the shameful falsehoods she uttered at yesterday’s U.N. climate summit about Canada being a “global clean energy leader” doing “its part” to cut carbon emissions that warm the earth, Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq’s preference is clear. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On The Further Debasement Of Parliamentary Debates
In which Parliamentary Secretary Paul Calandra, a loyal Harper soldier, does his utmost to discourage Canadians from watching the misnamed debates. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Tory Hot Air Worsens Climate Change
Watch this video and you’ll know what I mean: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Denial And Outrage
During my teaching career, it was occasionally my unpleasant task to confront a student with evidence of his or her cheating; most situations revolved around plagiarizing essays or having skipped a test. The student’s responses when confronted were invariably the same; indeed, they tended to parallel Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Our Poisoned Political Culture
Whether true or not, Canadians can, I think, be forgiven for wondering, quite seriously, whether the Harper cabal was somehow involved in the ominous break-in at Justin Trudeau’s home while his family was asleep. A destabilizing and disturbing crime for anyone who has experienced such a violation, it is clearly
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Public Service Announcement From The Conservative Party Of Canada
Given the Harper regime’s new-found zeal for warning all of us about the dangers of marijuana, and, coincidentally, the equally dangerous potential of a Justin Trudeau-led government, perhaps the following will help them to bring home the dangers of both: H/t Patrick Clarke Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: For The Naive, This Sounds Impressive
For the seasoned political observer, it is Harper propaganda of the the worst kind. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Setting The Record Straight
Is the oleaginous Pierre Poilivre really the best the Harper regime can do in its propaganda efforts? h/t Press Progress Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Right Wing Instructs Us On Our Errors In Thinking
Benighted soul that I am, I did not realize the myriad errors of thinking I have fallen prey to. Happily, University of Toronto geography professor Pierre Desrochers has set me straight on a few things: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: New Enemies, New Misdirections
Last week I wrote a post about the fraught fund-raising later sent out by Conservative Party director of political operations Fred DeLorey. The letter stressed the need to build a substantial war chest because a cabal of leftist media (essentially all of them – media concentration at its worst, eh?)
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Reveling In Ignorance
It is perhaps the supreme irony of our age; for the first time in history we have access to a world of information and data literally at our fingertips; it is an era when profound ignorance should be quickly receding into the status of historical artifact; yet we are led
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Barely A Parody
If you have ever watched the Stephen Harper propaganda channel, you will have a hard time distinguishing it from the following parody: H/t Canadians Rallying To Unseat Stephen Harper Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: What Stephen Harper, Tim Hudak And The Rest of The Neocons Really Think
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: We’re Not Paying You To Tell Us Something We Don’t Want To Know
That would seem to be the mentality behind the Harper regime’s chopping of $1.2 million from the federal Justice Department’s research budget. As reported by the CBC, the cut, which represents 20% of the department’s research budget and will result in the termination of eight very experienced legal researchers, seems
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: And Now, A Brief Message From PROPCON
Regurgitation warning: if you have just finished eating, wait at least 30 minutes before watching this latest episode of 24/seven, brought to you by PROPCON, the Harper regime’s official channel of indoctrination. I have to admit this is the first episode I have watched; it made me nostalgic for the
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