Four MNAs Become Caquistes; New By-Election for 2012
I love that title – “caquiste.” It works, doesn’t it? So four independent MNAs have joined François Legault’s Coaltion and have become its first sitting deputies before the merger deal…
2011
Blessings of the Season
Tonight is the start of Hanakkuh, the Jewish festival of lights. We are just 4 days away from Christmas Eve (one of my favourite celebrations in the year), for the…
Kim Jong-il – Dead
North Korean mourn their ‘dear leader’s’ death and reaction of our great leader Stephen Harper.
Penashue – the third smack #nlpoli
Turns out that his campaign spending was the third smack troubled Tory cabinet Minister Peter Penashue took. First, there was the story that Penashue porked out his campaign manager with…
Statement by a Member…
Mr. Rodger Cuzner (Cape Breton—Canso, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, ’twas the week before Christmas and all over the Hill The self-absorbed Tories were imposing their will The stockings in Muskoka were…
Christmas Countdown Continues: Got to Get on the Road Today
One of the best things about living where we do is that it’s very easy to get around by foot or public transporation. And since I’ve got a million things…
NOT Even One Saskatchewan MSM Outlet Reported On The Provinces’s Reaction To Freezing Federal Health Transfer Payments
If there is any province in the nation where the main stream media has completely bought into a political party, it is Saskatchewan. Yesterday, Canada’s Health Minister’s met and were…
Politifact RIP
Krugman is justifiably outraged over Politifact’s “Pants on Fire Lie of the Year”. Of course, the ‘lie’ chosen by the southern fact-checking company is attributed to Democrats, not to any…
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Cynthia McKinney on AFRICOM…
if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find…
North Korea: Moving the doomsday clock closer to midnight
It’s been a little over thirty six hours since North Korea revealed that Kim Jong Il died from an apparent heart attack on Saturday. It was well known that Kim…
WTF? China is Driving Canada’s Purchase of the F-35?
If you have any doubt about how feeble Canada’s corporate media have become you need only read the PostMedia scribe Matthew Fisher’s article proclaiming that “Canada will buy F-35 joint…
Harper Government Cuts to transfer payments to provinces should surprise no one
Canada News: Ottawa to scale back health transfer payments – thestar.com This has been Harper’s plan all along – cut federal money spent on healthcare and social services. The premiers…
No way…
… is Ottawa getting snow before Christmas day… no way… Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
No oil for you! What could be Harper’s first sound policy on the United States
If we disregard the fetish-like obsession conservatives in Canada have for the GOP and Tea Party crackpots south of the border and if we ignore the uncharacteristic of a Canadian…
Memorable Christopher Hitchens (II) #nlpoli
“The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.” – srbp –
Leadership By Bean Counter
In his academy award winning film, Roger and Me, Michael Moore documented what happened to the world’s largest corporation after a bean counter was put in charge. After Stephen Harper…
I told you so
For years, this corner has described the growth of spending (a.k.a. Williams popularity subsidization) over the past eight years by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador as quite simply unsustainable.…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Today we’re not only providing you with the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter, we’re also providing a little video to get you in the mood for the…