Her Majesty’s Loyal Leader of the Opposition
Rex Murphy, His Majesty’s Loyal Conservative lapdog, commented about interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel’s status as oppositon leader. If some Canadians are upset about her status as Her Majesty’s Loyal…
2011
Another Favour For A Friend?
On May 4, 2006, Nycole Turmel as President of the Public Service Alliance of Canada endorsed anti-scab legislation introduced as a Private Members Bill by Bloc Quebecois MP Richard Nadeau.Turmel…
Even the lowest of the low have rights
http://natpo.st/nERU0x Excellent piece in today's Post
Saving A Whale, Saving Ourselves
The oceans are starting to feel the impact of human’s polluting the planet in many different ways, including ocean acidification and the huge garbage patch in the Pacific. Here is…
Domestic violence or honour killing?
http://bit.ly/nogJsJ From the standpoint of the deceased it doesn't make much difference. But from a societal standpoint it matters. Domestic violence is an attack on a spouse and is intended…
Debt Deal History
There is a lot of history on the debt ceiling in the united states. In fact for many decades the debt ceiling increased tremendously without the need of any compromise…
On That Samara and the Writer’s Trust of Canada Contest
...to anoint the best Canadian political book of the past 25 years, which wound up anointing Ezra Levant's Shakedown. Discussions of the significance of this choice, such as the one…
The 2011 Regatta Week Top 10
The continued taberization of political reporting in Canada When bullshit fails… No thought, please. We’re Danny. Debt, electricity rates and Muskrat Falls Jane Taber – Twit Blochead-Dipper Watch The medium…
Columnists gone wild
Quite a column from John Ibbitson for a lazy Saturday in August: "Will Cautious Stephen Harper let Wild Steve run free?" It's a musing on whether the thus far apparently…
Harper-Ford BBQ Footage
In case you’re interested, here’s the YouTube video featuring “Canada’s best known fishing buddies” that was described by Tim Harper in the Toronto Star the other day. Better hurry though,…
The Debt Deal and Defense Spending
Defense spending factors into the recent deal to avert the entirely political debt "crisis" in a couple of ways. Firstly, amazingly, the deal actually increases defense spending in a certain…
Gonna get along without you now
After the Berlin Wall fell, the world thought that the United States had won.So did the United States.Reagan talked about the shining city on the hill. Bush the Elder talked…
Medicare’s Orphans Trailer 1: The Hudson Family Sacrifice for their Child with Autism
This video is the first trailer for Medicare's Orphans by Medicare for Autism Now! which will examine Canada's shameful exclusion of autism treatment from Medicare coverage and the consequences for…
I Have Seen A Future Of Rock ‘N Roll….
DIYGoneWildNewMusicFridayVille....And Its Name is tUnE-yArDs.Seriously.______And she who is so inventive, Merrill Garbus, came up with the name after she dreamed of floating over fields filled with song that she decided…
Faytene presents two somwhat different agendas for The Cry in Ottawa
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. What’s the agenda for The Cry Ottawa rally later this month? Depends on when you heard Faytene Grasseschi talk about it,…
Obama and the Small Victories
The Republican Teabaggers hijacked his 50th birthday party. The bad news keeps on coming.We're watching him getting greyer by the day.He's under attack from the savage right, and the racial…
Musical interlude
Yuri Kane - Around You
Some Québécois reactions to the Turmel affair
“L’affaire Turmel” continues to make waves, and not just in English Canada. But unfortunately, the NDP has so far failed to mount a defense of its interim federal leader Nycole…
I’m downgrading the teabaggers to peebaggers
…because they piss their own bed and gleefully wallow around in it. So who’s to blame for the US government’s credit rating being downgraded by S&P for the first time…