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Rusty Idols: Afraid to call a Liar a Liar
The Montreal Gazette headline is ‘NDP accuses Tony Clement of doctoring Hansard’. Wow, thinks the reader, that’s a pretty serious allegation, accusing someone of deliberately distorting the public record of Parliament is a big deal. But look, the headline just says he’s just accused of it, so if its just
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Bogus Job Numbers Used To Sell Keystone XL Pipeline
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As thousands of protestors gather at The White House today to voice opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline plan, one of the major selling points from the pipeline proponents…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Walking Out is not Right
The new Auditor-General is not bilingual. Yet, that is one of the conditions of the job of Auditor-General. No doubt then that the Conservatives are telling the truth when saying that he is the only qualified individual for the job. Out of the pe…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Middle East Peace the True story
My co-blogger Doggy and Owner has put a video on the website. This video is the one below. Now this video is filled with things that are completely not true. So let’s go at it
1) The first minute or so was relatively objective, but when they started…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Meet Marlo Lewis: The Dirty Energy Industry’s Best Friend
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When polluters needs someone to write an industry-friendly article, or make an appearance in the media to argue against the science of climate change, they often turn to a man nam…
Continue readingHarper Valley: Christy van der Clark
There’s certain rules a B.C. Liberal/Socred must adhere to; cruelty is at the top of the list. While Bill van der Zalm was busy plucking the wings off flies during his tenure as premier, Christy Clark has begun working on disecting the fly itself (sans anaesthetic). Christy, you give here, then take there….all in what […]
@marcusbgee calls Ford on his bullshit, but who helped put him there? | #TOpoli
So a few people – Thor and Nancy for starters – are linking to this piece from the Globe’s ideologically reliable urban affairs curmudgeon, who’s arguing, not without reason, that Mayor Stupid should have known all along that he couldn’t guara…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Mysterious Fracking Memo Encourages Employees To Deceive Landowners
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The Associated Press is reporting some new details about the mysterious memo that surfaced earlier this year which encourages buyers of oil and gas leases to lie to landowners abou…
Continue reading@cityslikr on Team Ford’s bullshit, and our complicity therein | #TOpoli
Which Lie Do You Buy? « All Fired Up In The Big SmokeA lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.– Winston ChurchillSo over at his place, @cityslikr’s on about the fact that politicians have an uneasy relati…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Paul Ryan Lies About Ending Oil Subsidies To Protect His Family’s Cash Bonanza
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Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been all over the place when it comes to ending the multi-billion dollar subsidies that the oil industry receives every year. While he…
Continue readingApril Reign: Lies, Lies and Damnable Lies
April Reign The Star has picked up and ran with the ball of shit containing the lie that Jack Layton and Olivia Chow lived in subsidized housing From time to time [Jack Layton] has been criticized for saying one thing and doing another, including being caught red-handed in 1985 living
Continue readingRight of Center Ice: Attn Peter McKay: It’s too late to hype your "morals"
From the CBC — “Libyan mission a ‘moral duty,’ McKay says.” Well, that’s a relief. Just when I thought the Harper Government was devoid of morals, they put a mic in front of Progressive Conservative turncoat, Peter McKay, to talk about the morality of Canada’s decision to help enforce the
Continue readingApril Reign: “We’re in safe hands with Stephen Harper” and other Conservative lies
Since Canada’s Conservative Government took power in 2006, significant budget cuts have been made to Canadian gender equality, political justice, social policy and research programs including the virtual elimination of a Canadian government department devoted to Women’s equality and women’s issues. 2011 Federal Conservative Government Cuts (to date) Canadian Teachers’ Federation’s International Programs – FUNDING […]
April Reign – In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Continue readingJacked Up: Harper Spreading Democracy… ?!
So the Harper government is creating an agency that will help spread democracy abroad. Good for them, fledgling democracies do need all the help they can get in getting established. My problem though is that this is coming from Harper, a man who doesn’t even know the definition of democracy.
Continue readingJacked Up: The Arts
So according to the 2001 census as reported today by CBC radio one, the average earnings for someone who made their living from the arts was $22,000 dollars annually. Not only that, but since then it has decreased by a third, to $14,000 dollars per year. These figures are even
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