pinocchio.jpg Recently, I sat in on an off-the-record meeting about political fact-checking. I can’t report or quote from the event, but it spurred along some general thoughts that had already…
Last night I spoke to a Liberal Riding President from British Columbia. She said that a major failing, as she saw it, of the Liberal Party was a failure to…
Since May 2011, there has been an increase in crime. Mostly in Ottawa. Let’s see, a gubbermint, which was found in contempt of Parliament, gets far less than 50% of…
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Poor Peter Penashue. First, the federal Conservative intergovernmental affairs minister gets hammered for stupidly appointing his campaign manager to a position on the offshore regulatory board even though the guy…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thomas Walkom notes that based on the Cons’ Kyoto embarrassment, Canada is now the odd man out on the world stage when…
Last night, in high dudgeon, I wrote a somewhat intemperately-worded piece on American ‘intelligence,’ (prompted by Lowe’s dropping its sponsorship of a TLC show, All American Muslim, due to pressure…
After hearing from Alexandra Mendes and Sheila Copps last week, my tour of LPC Presidential candidates lands on Ron Hartling today. Who is Ron Hartling? Ron is the former riding…
Justin Trudeau had his fuddle duddle moment yesterday. When Environment Minister Peter Kent responded to Megan Leslie’s criticism of the Conservatives performance at Durban by saying she had no right…
Who, exactly, wants warrantless online spying? That’s one question that members of the pro-Internet community have been asking us via email, Facebook, and Twitter, since we launched the Stop Online…
Here are the leading legal headlines for Thursday, December 15, 2011 from Wise Law on Twitter: Panetta leads ceremony marking formal end war in Iraq – http://bit.ly/s6ciJN Wheat board wants…
“OTTAWA — The research firm at the centre of the controversy over calls made to Liberal MP Irwin Cotler’s constituents did extensive work in the last election for Conservative candidates…
Here, on how both the city and the province are only exacerbating the Regina rental housing crisis that’s been festering for years. For further reading, see recent stories on the…
Columnist claims FRIENDS, via their Stop the CBC Smackdown campaign, is mocking Hulk Hogan on Twitter.
It was as though everyone who was infected by the Bozo Virus (BV) had received an extensive education at the Barnum and Bailey Clown College. In fact, one of the…
We’re actively looking for a dog now. Last weekend we went to the Humane Society and scoped out their pups, as well as to a foster home with Friendly Giants…
A bit of a miscellany this morning. Firstly, stating the obvious: Vancouver-based Alan Dutton helped lobby for the 1996 creation of the B.C. Hate Crime Team that brings together law…
Terry Glavin, last True Leftist™ in Canada, finds the late, lamented Kyoto treaty (and environmentalism in general) wanting — and apparently it’s all Al Gore’s fault. No, really: Kyoto could…
