Design Regina – Shooting the Shit… Literally
“Don’t shit or piss in the park.” It’s not the first thing you’d expect to hear from a city Councillor in an informal chat about Occupy Regina. It’s not even…
October 2011
Unf&@king Believable!
Mayor Ford was so terrified of being attacked by the lady with the camera crew that he indeed buggered off to work before police responded to his 911 call. Release…
Cabinet swearing in at 10 AM #nlpoli
Kathy Dunderdale will be at Government House to see her second cabinet sworn in at 10:00 AM.. SRBP will will have the run-down later on Friday. - srbp -
Turmel Awaits Charest’s Seal Of Approval On Seat Redistribution
The New Democrat Leader of the Opposition is waiting to get her marching orders from the Liberal Premier of Quebec, before she'll sign off on the Conservative government's seat redistribution…
Telegraph-Herald: "Canada needs the Liberals, not ‘progressives’"
This is a lovely bit of concern trolling for the health of the Liberal party, dripping with condescension for you and me - you know, 'progressives' - courtesy of another…
In some kind of hurry
The Conservatives have once again invoked time allocation on a government bill, this time on the bill to kill the long-gun registry. That makes five bills since the fall sitting…
Wildrose leader nails the problem – but not the solution – with Calgary’s shortage of health professionals
The “Calgary South Health Campus” rises from a field in Calgary’s southeast corner. Below: Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith, Tory Health Minister Fred Horne, radio host Dave Rutherford. I just hate…
Liberals reward immorality
Without ethical foundations, leadership in government is merely random wandering among infinite possibilities. A whim of yesterday had value then but none today. No one knows what will be expedient…
Mountains and Molehills
Since the election campaign began in Saskatchewan, the election has been framed mostly around the NDP's commitment to review potash royalties to increase the return for the people of Saskatchewan.…
The Fordzilla and the Princess Warrior
I didn't really want to write anything about this surrealistic confrontation, between Rob Ford, the grotesque Mayor of Toronto, and the Princess Warrior.Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is apologizing for using…
Why more MPs isn’t such a bad thing
Amidst the talk about the bill to add new seats to the House of Commons is an old refrain that we hear time and again – why bother adding new…
Wall Street Firms Spy on Protesters in Tax-Funded Center | #OccupyWallStreet | AlterNet
via alternet.org "Wall Street’s audacity to corrupt knows no bounds and the cooptation of government by the 1 per cent knows no limits. How else to explain $150 million of…
When the Insane Slam The Insane: Santorum: “Aborted Babies” Wouldn’t Support Herman Cain, Who Would Do All to Make Abortion Illegal, But he’s just A-OK With Illegal abortions!
Oh those Crazy Rethuglicans! Gotta hand it to them, they’re nothing else, if not rip roaringly entertaining at times! It seems, they’re particularly nuttier when they fight each other in…
Press horror in Venezuela! Film at 11!
Oh. Oh. Oh my gawd. This is simply terrible! Scathing UN, OAS report gets quick results as Venezuela announces federal government will start investigating press crimes By Tania Lara/ZD A…
signed, sealed, and not delivered: the new royal alberta museum.
Hastily prepared in the final months of Premier Ed Stelmach‘s term in office, the construction of the new Royal Alberta Museum had political legacy project written all over it. This…
Newsflash. Aborted babies talk to Rick Santorum.
Santorum: I have it on good authority unborn babies think you're wrong. Cain: You're shitting me. As you know the entire junior A wrestling team sweating and grunting for the…
DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?
Confirming our collective suspicions, once and for all, that our mayor is an idiot. Second only to this guy.
Quotable: Dwight D. Eisenhower on the social safety net
Man, that Ike. What a commie-pinko socialist. How the hell did he ever become a Republican? (And speaking of which: Why is that party not deader than the friggin’ dodo…