When will Tim Hudak fire Randy Hillier?
When it was reported that Randy Hillier had liens slapped against his property for failing to pay close to $15,000 in back taxes, Tim Hudak did nothing. When it was…
October 2011
Liberals 36.5%, PCs 34.0%, NDP 26.8%
It was Hudak's to lose; from a twenty point lead to a 2.5% lag! And the NDP coming up strong - who knows who will be the opposition? Ontario Polls…
Occupy Wall Street and the Radical Imagination
Their protest may be angry but unfocused. They have been ignored by the MSM. Brutalized by the police, and arrested in massive numbers. But slowly but surely Occupy Wall Street…
The Cons and the Ozone Layer
There comes a time when you just have to say it eh? Stephen Harper's Cons are not just crass, brutish and incompetent. They're dangerous.The hole covered two million square kilometres…
Hudak Tories distributing homophobic literature to win votes…
Thanks to Warren Kinsella who posted about this issue today. If you needed further proof that Tim Hudak's Ontario P.C. party has been taken over by the Tea Party, check…
Facts Schmacts! Paulie and Friends Continue to Play Fast and Loose With the Truth
Well, it really didn't take Paulie long to comment on the racial taunting incident in London, Ontario:We were surprised that he would take this position on the fine city of…
Conservative debating tactics
I recently entered into an online Facebook discussion over the recent Supreme Court Insite decision. This person (whom I don’t know personally - a friend of a friend) opened with…
Bloomberg blockbuster on Koch bros.: Got richer off Iran sales. And more!
Longish but must read article on the Koch brother' questionable ethics. Here's just the introductory paragraphs:In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately…
Christian Wolves
A bunch of old white jerks are using God’s name to harrass women outside health clinics. Even here in my own city. It sickens me. Dear Christians who Don’t Get…
Stupid Sex Tricks: The ultimate stupid sex trick
Just file this one under “it’s all fun and games until someone breaks his penis”: A penile facture, or “broken penis,” is an injury that occurs to the erect penis.…
Dick
Poor, poor Dick Cheney. He feels he has been grievously wronged and is waiting for an apology. How dare the uppity Keyan Muslim socialist usurper suggest that President Cheney and…
Taking action when business is slow…
"The FBI has received substantial criticism over the past decade — much of it valid — but nobody can deny its record of excellence in thwarting its own Terrorist plots.…
Meet the New Boss
... most emphatically NOT the same as the Old Boss.Alison Redford is the newly-elected Leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta. As a sitting MLA, when Redford takes the…
Ontario election: NDP Horwath blows it
With polls showing a minority government possible after this Thursday's election, Hudak has started a Harper-clone drumbeat of "the socialists are coming" by talking about a vote for the Tories…
Paul Dewar On Faith And Politics
...from Gruending:You cannot be a person of faith without being political, says Paul Dewar, the New Democratic Party MP for Ottawa Centre. In early 2009, Dewar spoke to my Faith…
Hey, CTV? We DID bail out the banks. Look it up next time.
CTV tells tales for the bosses. But the truth is Inconvenient. $75 Billion? Is that not big enough to qualify as a bailout? Ah. looks like they missed it after…
Paul Dewar’s leadership announcement
The queue went down the escalator of the Lord Elgin hotel – not that it was running – and stretched across the lobby. Inside the room, people were arranged not…
Chess, the Cold War and Musical Theatre
So... I know this blog is supposed to be about things political and historical in nature, but allow me a brief diversion into the world of theatre. If you insist,…
The moral necessity of resistance
The corporate media are at last taking notice of the swelling #OccupyWallStreet protests: 700 arrests by New York’s Finest, engaged in their age-old violent defence of capital, cannot be ignored.…
We are the 99%
Want to know the ONE thing that separates us from our U.S. brothers and sisters? The one thing that is keeping us partly solvent and off the streets? The ONE…