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…
September 2011
The Day Dumbo Made Harper Look Like an Idiot
Uh oh. Mayday. Mayday. It seems that Peter Dumbo MacKay is more of a frequent flyer on Air Taxpayer than even I thought.Peter MacKay has racked up nearly $3 million…
ManBearPig, Climategate and Watermelons
Nick Gillespie of Reason TV talks with British writer and journalist James Delingpole about his new book Watermelons: The Green Movement’s True Colors. A self-described conservative libertarian, Delingpole claims that…
Cornell Report Busts Myth of Keystone XL Job Creation
pipe dreams.jpg Proponents of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project would like you to believe that, if approved, its construction will put hundreds of thousands of Americans to work. Thi...
Alert! Episode 188
With another economic downturn threatening, York University Professor and author David McNally returns to explain how the decision to bail out banks at the expense of the public sector has…
Vancouver seeks Viaduct variations – re:Connect competition looks to obtain citizen input
It’s the site of what is arguably Vancouver’s most notable event, a bitter battle between the Non-Partisan Association and an alliance of Strathcona activists and Chinatown business people – the…
Convince Me: Alison Redford (part 2)
Nation, I committed to posting your messages as you try to convince me - and the millions of members of the E.S. Nation - to vote for your candidate of…
Don’t Be Calling Me for Money
As a former Liberal I'm finding the "ex" part is being overlooked these days. Whenever the Libs pass the begging bowl I can expect to get an e-mail about it.What…
Union guy stealing my cookie
From BNET, Today’s CEOs think Henry Ford was a chump. Case in point: Larry Young, the CEO of the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group. In 2009, DPS made $555 million in…
Borys Wrzesnewskyj… I propose “call me Borys” for the campaign slogan
I’m going to need to first off learn how to pronounce Borys’s last name correctly. Secondly, like a couple of other Liberal bloggers, his entry into the Liberal leadership race…
How Much Does That Cost? Part III: Cliffs, Chromite & Moose Mountain
This is the third in a series of blogposts I’ve made this past week regarding issues related to costs which I’ve been pondering. In Part I, I wrote about the…
You might read it here, but what does that mean?
So, there’s this advert that’s run in at least one, possibly more Canadian newspapers. I’m not interested in posting the advert, but I’ll link to an article that talks about…
This Would Be So AWESOME!!!!!
Okay, this has little (if anything) to do with Canadian boneheads exclusively, but they were amongst those who complained bitterly and impudently about Idris Elba (who if fanfuckingtastic, by the…
Agents Claim to Have Captured Alleged BLA Combatant George Wright
in happier times...Many of you will have heard the sad news that police are claiming they have arrested George Wright, an alleged former BLA combatant living in Portugal under the…
Meet the new NDP – sans Quebec?
So ProgBlogger Accidental Deliberations came up with this fun post based on this Globe and Mail article, which states that the new NDP is made up of "left-leaning Liberals and…
Stevie Finally Comes To Petey MacKay’s Rescue With Standard Excuse–”Support The Troops!”
Yeah, “Support the Troops!” is Stevie Spiteful’s delayed defense of Petey MacKay’s jet setting with government jets these days– to the tune of $3 million. So, boys ‘n’ girls, shame…
authors # 4 on happiest jobs list
Why were these jobs with better pay and higher social status less likely to produce happiness? Todd May writing in the New York Times argues that “A meaningful life must,…
Both suits now focusing on Andrea Horwath
Things are happening fast. Now not only are McGuinity's Liberals attacking Andrea Horwath and the NDP, but Hudak is as well. Internal party polling is obviously showing a serge in…
QP: The non-sequitur of single parenting stories
During Members’ Statements before Question Period, NDP MP Libby Davies rose to give this statement: Mr. Speaker, decorated Iraq war veteran Rodney Watson has lived in limbo for 2 years,…
*facepalm*
Word of the Day: “Satire” Look it up, Washington. Please. (P.S. to The Terrorists: You can stop now. You’ve won.)