“I worked for (Mulroney-era environment minister) Tom McMillan, who was a very red Tory. I wrote speeches for him. We never checked his speeches with the PMO. He’d get up to answer in Question Period. He didn’t have a script for how to answer. Brian Mulroney was not telling his
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Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – It’s undoubtedly an embarrassment for John Baird to have leapt at a thoroughly implausible bit of anti-UN spin. But I’d think there’s more reason for hope than concern in the long run: if a year into their majority mandate the Cons are still
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Duncan Cameron discusses how the Cons have already taken Canada and the world in exactly the wrong direction. But Murray Dobbin points out that we should be working on how to change things for the better once they’re finally removed from office,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brian Topp weighs in on Canada’s history of raw resource exploitation that should offer a lesson for anybody interested in learning. And pogge points out why Thomas Mulcair is right to dig his heels in, while Frances Russell observes that Mulcair is just
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Song: "You’re Walkin’ on the Fightin’ Side of JB"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I posted up another song an’ video on YouTube. It pretty much speaks for itself. Have a look-see:
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Song: "You’re Walkin’ on the Fightin’ Side of JB"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I posted up another song an’ video on YouTube. It pretty much speaks for itself. Have a look-see:
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Song: "You’re Walkin’ on the Fightin’ Side of JB"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I posted up another song an’ video on YouTube. It pretty much speaks for itself. Have a look-see:
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: New Disgrace For Both Harper And Kent
Environment minister’s office urged bureaucrats to blame media for recycling controversy Nope, no surprises here in the depth of contempt both the P.M. And Peter Kent feel for the people they ‘serve’. Recommend this Post
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: New Song: "The Ballad of Steve Harper"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I done it again. Here’s a new song all about Steve Harper set to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song. The Ballad of Steve Harper Come and listen to my story ’bout a man named SteveSneaky politician, dirty tricks up his sleeveThe oil
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: New Song: "The Ballad of Steve Harper"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I done it again. Here’s a new song all about Steve Harper set to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song. The Ballad of Steve HarperCome and listen to my story ’bout a man named SteveSneaky politician, dirty…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: New Song: "The Ballad of Steve Harper"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I done it again. Here’s a new song all about Steve Harper set to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song. The Ballad of Steve Harper Come and listen to my story ’bout a man named SteveSneaky politician, dirty tricks up his sleeveThe oil
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jared Bernstein discusses the effect of raising taxes on the highest-income households, featuring this in particular: Growth and jobs. History shows that higher taxes are compatible with economic growth and job creation: job creation and GDP growth were significantly stronger following the Clinton
Continue readingObama addresses Rex Murphy, Ezra Levant, Stephen Harper
Rex and Ezra look for Stephen. “I know he’s around here somewhere.” Not by name of course; Obama has no idea who the first two are and merely a begrudging acknowledgement of the third. But by speaking about climate change denialists, equating them with flat earthers, Obama could have been
Continue readingImpolitical: Late night
Who knew a video of an Arctic research station, the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) in Eureka, Nunavut, could be so oddly compelling. Maybe it’s the music. Maybe it’s the circumstances where a key Canadian scientific research asset in the Arctic is denied the $1.5 million it needs to
Continue readingHitler reacts to Bill C-30 backlash
“Vic Toews and his ridiculous moustache fucked me. He makes Peter Kent look like Einstein.” H/T: @TabithaSouthey
Continue reading350 or bust: P-Harmony Ad: Oil Execs Looking For Someone To Share Their Dirty Values
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, it’s time to revisit this great Greenpeace video from 2011. Check out these “tar”-crossed lovers: Janet, an oil executive and Peter, an Environment Minister who was able to show Janet “her true market value”. * Peter Kent, Canada’s Environment Minister has made it clear
Continue reading350 or bust: The Peter Kent Mystifier: Helping Canadians Sleep Smug As A Bug In A Rug
Thank you, Rick Mercer, for more of your refreshing reality checks on the nonstop nonsense coming out of Ottawa these days (LOL “…pleasant fog of platitude and flummery…”). * Thanks to The Regina Mom for the heads up on this one.
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Canada’s Environment Minister Warns of Danger of Climate Change
Peter Kent in 1984, before he got sucked into the bubble, that facts can’t penetrate.
Continue readingWillful Ignorance
As the HarperCon delegation of Ministers and big biz boyz prepared to take off for China, the wise Yinka Dene Nation through whose lands the Northern Gateway pipeline is proposed to go, were busy writing letters. They sent one to the Government of China loaded with examples describing how Aboriginal
Continue readingWhat will the neighbours think?
One part of the brain can work something out while another part is doing something else, or so it seems. the regina mom stayed up all night. When that happens, it’s usually because she’s been engaged in a good read or a good write. This time it was neither. And
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