Michelle Bachmann Now Says Slavery is "Horrible"
Gaping maw Repugnican Michelle Bachmann is racing to distance herself from a statement that said American blacks were better off back when they were in slavery. Last week Bachmann was…
2011
Scotland Yard Says Murdoch & Co. Subverting Investigation Into Police Corruption
Scotland Yard claims Murdoch's News International is undermining the investigation into police corruption by Murdoch's own journalists.NI has orchestrated a "deliberate campaign to undermine the investigation into alleged payments by…
Bursaries for Atlantic Eco-Warrior Training Camp!
Atlantic Eco-Warrior Training-August 11-14 2011 at the Harold T. Barrett Fun Forest Camp Sierra Youth Coalition’s Youth Action Gathering + Canadian Youth Climate Coalition’s PowerSummer When? August 11-14 2011, 4…
This is the Face of Climate Change And, For Some, It’s Death
There is no way around this sort of completely turning our backs on it. Climate change is consuming lives and it's becoming voracious. At the moment, Somalia is taking a…
Rafe on Shark Fins and the NDP
I urge everyone to get a copy of the Vancouver Province for July 10 and read, in the A section, pp 8 and 9, a story about shark fins. It’s…
Christine Lagarde – IMF Chief on US debt ceiling
Christine Lagarde supports Obama on raising the debt ceiling for the United States. If this is not done, she says the impact would be disastrous for the US and the…
3923…They Should Hire Nuns
Penguin Nuns.Front page of the Ottawa Citizen has a story from London's Daily Telegraph indicating that Brit kids are in control of the schools. Bit violent and all that.A squadron…
3922…Coppers Get Beat Down
By the St. Luke's Bulls 59/57 yesterday.The winning team got prizes from Yasir Naqvi, RBC and Hot 89.9.Sean Rodriquez was the MVP.About 500 meals were served, gratis.WFDS
California Republican Wants California to Secede – From California
The Republican clown car just never runs out of gas. The latest RepubliJester is Scientology-backed Riverside County supervisor and lawn cutter Jeff Stone who wants southern California to secede from…
Republicans on African-Americans – Better Off In Chains. Bet Harper Wished He’d Thought of That
Is there anything, anything at all too low for a Republican? It sure doesn't sound like it.The latest Christofascist Republican gambit requires presidential nomination candidates, like brainstorm Michelle Bachmann, to…
at the break
As we baseball fans say, we are "at the break". The All Star Break begins today: three days without real baseball, plus this year an extra day off for our…
Primary Colours (Are Dark And Foreboding)
On May 13, John Ibbitson wrote a column suggesting the Liberal Party adopt an American style primary system for selecting its next leader.The Liberals might want to think about going…
Expert Warns That TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline Assessments Are Misleading
money-pipeline-235x300.jpg An independent analysis performed by University of Nebraska professor Dr. John Stansbury, an environmental engineer, claims that TransCanada's safety assessments for th...
Setting aside an administrative dismissal
Aguas v. Rivard Estate, 2011 ONCA 494 deals with setting aside an administrative dismissal under Rule 48.14. The test requires four matters to be considered (1) and explanation for the…
Cozy
Feeling down about the prospects for the nation under a Harper majority? Wondering if progressive forces will be relegated to the sidelines as a new dynasty takes hold on the…
The Marvellous Meltdown Of Murdoch’s Media Machine
It couldn't, to paraphrase, happen to a nicer newspaper. After 168 years the British News of the World has closed down in the face of a momentous scandal regarding phone…
I Guess Now It’s P-I-I-G-S
Until now, the EuroUnion states teetering on insolvency were sometimes referred to as PIGS - Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. Now it appears that Italy, the EU's third largest economy, may…
Irregular Climate Episode 21: Ironic frozen deniers
On this episode: German nukes, safety nukes, underwater nukes and jelly nukes, another pseudo-scandal in a teapot, the true cost of gas, GHG emissions reach record breaking levels and the…
Netweeper Inc. – A Canadian Company That Facilitates Internet Censorship Abroad
In an age when regulation of shoddy business practices seems to be rapidly eroding, the ethos today being that anything that inhibits growth is bad, it may not come as…
Sound familiar? Murdoch’s UK empire targeted Gordon Brown. Bank account, tax info hacked.
While Murdoch defenders wallow in their claims that the phone hacking perpetrated by the News of the World is an isolated incident, news today that former UK PM Gordon Brown…