3964…Julian Fantino Kisses A**
He's in the homeland, Italy, and the Postmedia people tell us that Canada's associate minister of national defence is praising the Italians for their great military yadda, yadda, yadda.Italy, of…
August 2011
Any Port In a Storm, Even the NDP
How does somebody who has been a Dipper for six months get to lead the NDP? Better yet, how does someone who was a separatist supporter just six months ago…
3963…We Got A Good Immigrant Here
Have, got, whatever.And we are trying to force him back to where he is from.His name is Matt Bonner and he is special. As in a special athlete, NBA player…
Aaaaaand they’re off!
A favourite strategy of the Conservatives is to deflect discussion of the issues and instead try to make it look as though even an opponent's participation in the conversation is…
Economic Disaster One Averted. Economic Disaster Two Unfolds.
There are two types of economists at work today. There's the A Team, guys like Krugman and Stiglitz. There's the B Team, guys like Harper and the people advising American…
The Edible is Political
Many thinkers and activists who are deeply concerned about the scope and gravity of the environmental crisis pay too little attention to how far the production of animal flesh and…
The New Kids in the Bloc
This is the real reason that an NDP/ Liberal merger is impossible. The Liberal Party of Canada, if nothing else, is the party of the "NO" vote, the party of…
The bald truth about Chavecito’s new look
Something’s missing in this picture of the president of Venezuela. But what? Oh, I know. It’s his hair! Like many a chemotherapy patient, Chavecito has opted for the quicker, tidier…
Liberal Witch Hunt
Shorter Rob Silver: Have you now,or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party Bloc Quebecois? According to Mr. Silver, once you have tasted from the well of…
Nycole Turmel, meet Jean Lapierre
Gosh, the Twitterverse is atweet today with spin and counter-spin on Daniel Leblanc's article in the Globe and Mail about interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel's very recent membership in the…
Married lesbian couple saved 40 people during Norway shooting massacre
News to you? Another example of your liberal media hard at work.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Linda McQuaig notes that the same financial actors who caused the global economic meltdown that's being used as an excuse for austerity measures…
You know NDP, you could have at least shared with us Turmel’s Bloc membership up front
Is that too much to ask?
US Debt Ceiling Fiasco
American exceptionalism and equal opportunity for all!!!!
dear u.s.: tax corporations, tax the rich, end the useless wars. there, problem solved.
Letter to the Globe and Mail, July 30:It's remarkable how in the current debate about the U.S. debt ceiling, the extravagance of American military spending is seldom even mentioned. In…
Shi(f)t Work
Wanderer over at Lost on the Floor makes a point: My manager remarked to me that night-shifters tend to, “have a bit of chip on our shoulders, almost like the…
Political harassment of Nycole Turmel
First, a disclaimer: I have known Nycole Turmel since 1985, and worked with her closely as an executive vice-president of the PSAC from 1994-2003. Over the years we had many…
Yay, more debt!
Congrats to the USA for raising the debt ceiling. Wait, is that a good thing? No, I’d say it isn’t. I think the fight over reigning in US spending is…
Debt, electricity rates and Muskrat Falls #nlvotes
The editorial board at the Telegram understands the point exactly. It’s a point your humble e-scribbler has been harping on for six years to one extent or another. And it’s…