And I’ve got just the cattle prod for the job. No seriously… after beclowning himself to the point where he’s become an Internet Meme, (no, really) he’s calling for A Probe: Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is calling for an investigation into the source of a Twitter account that is being used
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RossK nails it
…on the question of how we should be dealing with Harper and his caucus on the question of state intervention into the most private personal aspects of womens’ lives. Our CPC Government has taken to playfully allowing certain MPs to mouth off about their desire to roll back womens’ rights
Continue readingRusty Idols: Delivering a Message
Explain to me the how the interests of public safety are served by a gang of black clad thugs showing up swaggering about and shoving people for a while, sucker punching one person and throwing another to the ground and then getting back in their cars and driving away? Are
Continue readingRusty Idols: Sun Media’s Jihad against the CBC so blatant even a Conservative Minister can see it
Initially, Heritage Minister James Moore said he would like to see more warning on the website regarding the show’s content while stressing that Sun is “in the business of going after the CBC.” Wow. Somebody went off message. sdnxry5z7g
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Say “NO!” to C-11 now!
The Harper government re-introduced the Copyright Modernization Act, Bill C-11 in September 2011. Wonder about where the coverage is on Bill C-11? Me, too. SOPA + PIPA may be dead — or shelved — but Bill C-11 is alive and well and set to pass ASAP in 2012. The Harper
Continue readingHarpie’s Bad Move and the Wrath of Elders
It was a little like finding out your spouse is running around on you from someone in the cashout lineup at the grocery store. Indeed, it was absolutely doubleplus-awesome of Harpie to save for a hectoring speech he delivered in luxo-lux Davos last week the fact that Canadian Seniors are
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: 240 Days of Rae
It seems the Liberal Party of Canada is better with Bob Rae than without him… After all, it has been approximately 240 days since Bob Rae became the interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada… and the Liberals are up in the polls. Coincidence?
Continue readingIn which a good case is made for the aerial spraying of Prozac® over the Progressive Blogosphere
With all due respect, please… get a grip. Does anyone seriously believe this is part of Harper’s legendary Hidden Agenda®©™ to Destroy Gay Marriage? As opposed to maybe, err um you know, a goofy screwup of lawyerly semantics over some uncrossed “T”s and undotted “I”s in our relatively-new equal marriage
Continue readingGive it up, Woodworth
When you’ve lost the National Post, it’s Game Over: Anyone paying attention over the past few weeks would have spotted the most unlikely of Canadian events: a debate over abortion. […] Mr. Woodworth’s quixotic campaign — and the P.E.I. activists’ failed attempts — prove that a broad debate in Canada
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Rainbow Pipeline Leak — Eight Months Later…
It has been 8 months since Plains Midstream Canada reported that there had been a Rainbow Pipeline leak, 100 km NE of Peace River, Alberta. As of December 2, 2011, there have been no updates made to the Plains Midstream Canada web site. [ Web Updates ] The largest Alberta
Continue readingRusty 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 readingRusty Idols: Alison Redford owes me an apology
Me and the millions of other Canadians and Albertans who care about the environment for suggesting that she has the right to go to Washington and lobby for the Keystone Pipeline but those who oppose the project shouldn’t have the same right. OTTAWA — Premier Alison Redford found herself Thursday
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Rainbow Pipeline Leak — Six Months Later…
It has been 6 months since Plains Midstream Canada reported that there had been a Rainbow Pipeline leak, 100 km NE of Peace River, Alberta. Initially, the Alberta media were told by Plains Midstream Canada that only a few hundred barrels of oil had leaked from the Rainbow Pipeline… There
Continue readingNatPo issues lame & wrong apology for insulting ad, fixes it, well done NatPo
Religious right crackpot Charles McVety has been a busy little bible-banger lately, and as usual it’s all about S E X , raising the question: Does this guy EVER get any? (Whoops, sorry if that conjured up any unpleasant visuals. Next time I’ll use a trigger warning.) Chuck’s latest Adventure in Sexland was an ad […]
Harper’s Trost Trouble No Trouble
And what are we to think of mouthy little Brad Trost, the CPC backbencher from Saskatchewan who’s gotten into the habit of losing control of his yap and going rogue on the topic of abortion lately, even on nationwide TV? Speaking to CBC’s Evan Solomon, host of Power & Politics, Trost said the government should […]
Harper “ensconced” in power for next 8 years??
“Ensconced” — I love that word. But in this case… As much as I might roll my eyes at the feverish fear and loathing Harper provokes in some of the more doctrinaire corners of Left Blogistan, even I have trouble with the idea of him being ensconced — or even sconced – in power for […]
somecanuckchick dot com: Lubicon Cree First Nation not consulted before Plains Midstream Canada given OK to restart
Plains Midstream Canada no longer provides web updates regarding the percentage of oil that has been recovered from the Rainbow Pipeline leak site. [ Article ] Plains Midstream Canada has only recovered 49% of the 4.5 million litres of oil from the Rainbow Pipeline leak site; however, Plains Midstream Canada
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Plains Midstream Canada given final OK to restart Rainbow Pipeline
Plains Midstream Canada has been given the final OK to restart the Rainbow Pipeline. Almost 4 months after the largest Alberta pipeline discharge in 36 years, and less than 30 days after the Energy Resources Conservation Board says it received a formal request from Plains Midstream Canada to restart Rainbow
Continue readingCanada’s government has experienced shrinkage?
At least according to the Wall Street Journal. “Why Canada is beating America” is a concept I imagine is rarely pondered south of the border, primarily because in that neck of the woods the prevailing opinion is that nobody beats them at anything, ever. But the Wall Street Journal boldly goes there, and I […]
somecanuckchick dot com: Rainbow Pipeline Leak — Three Months Later…
It has been 3 months since Plains Midstream Canada reported that there had been a Rainbow Pipeline leak, 100 km NE of Peace River, Alberta. Initially, the Alberta media were told by Plains Midstream Canada that only a few hundred barrels of oil had leaked from the Rainbow Pipeline… There
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