Stephen Harper’s Fantasy
Steve has been lonley since his ‘top’, George W. Bush, has been out of power. Oh sure, sure, there’s the occasional liason at the ranch, but it’s not enough.…
2011
Cut Defense!!!!!!!!!
The Defense budget in the U.S is 20% of the U.S budget. That is of course double than what it was in 2001. If the U.S wants to get back…
Parliament In Review: June 16, 2011
While June 16 was a shortened day due to the NDP's weekend convention, it wasn't lacking for a few notes of interest.Issue of the DayWhile the Cons took the opportunity…
Trade talks with Europeans = “doing a back-room deal with a group of serial rapists”
What your humble e-scribbler said: this guy could be an accident waiting to happen. Wait no longer. After musing about breaking his major campaign promise to the people of his…
Our Foreign Affairs Minister Doesn’t Keep Up With World Events
Recently, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said: "Canada is emerging as a destination of choice for Chinese investment and Chinese investors and we welcome that". He didn't go into specifics…
As useless as it is, the monarchy is still better than Stephen Harper
Just ask Stephanie and Kimberly Tepper. They have been forced to write the Queen to take action to help free their father Henk Tepper, the New Brunswick farmer stuck in…
library books on U.S. side, checked out Canadian
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House on the Canada-U.S. Border http://ow.ly/5vrsV Filed under: Miscellany
The Dawgly Carte Opera Company
Things have been awfully serious in here the last few days. So it’s time to stoop once again to outright theft from the late W.S. Gilbert. One half of one…
Rationalizing Corporate Canada’s Cash Stash
Statistics Canada figures indicate that private non-financial corporations held $471 billion of cash in the first quarter of 2011 ($322 billion of Canadian currency plus $149 billion worth of foreign…
Greek bailout?
http://bit.ly/lxY4DS The Indignati are not stupid, and are well aware of two salient points. First, the 'bailouts', as they are always called, are no such thing. Taxpayer-funded capital injections into…
Because they are horrible people
People are scratching their heads over why presidential candidate Herman Cain's Iowa staff resigned. Most are a little less perplexed by the defection of Newt Gingrich's staff. Michele Bachmann and…
Letter from Bomani Shakur of the Lucasville 5
The Lucasville 5 are five prisoners who were framed for the murder of snitches and guards in the 1993 Lucasville prison riot. The 1993 riot and hostage taking was one…
Here will be an old abusing of God’s patience and the King’s English
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene iv
Like It or Not, DSK Reveals a Lot About Ourselves
‘Don’t worry, this guy has a lot of money. I know what I’m doing.’There has been no shortage of supposedly progressive bloggers who were more than ready to assume Dominique…
Leaving the rat race behind
We decided to get out of town for few days – traffic was brutal yesterday but side roads helped – for some R & R. And we must’ve needed it,…
B.C. man launches suit over wrongful convictions
There is a common thread in wrongful convictions -- a lack of disclosure. If we want to avoid sending the innocent to jail (here for nearly three decades) we cannot…
report on war resisters fundraising dinner from u.s. peace activist bruce beyer
This past week, the Toronto chapter of the War Resisters Support Campaign hosted a fundraising dinner at the United Steelworkers Hall. These dinners, which we hold four times a year,…
Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading.- Janice Kennedy highlights the consequences of turning back the clock 80 years when it comes to collective bargaining rights:In the world of Stephen Harper…
While Marc Emery rots in jail, people wring hands over Conrad Black
Many progressives have been harsh towards Conrad Black, the fraud who has been convicted of multiple charges despite a phalanx of lawyers and friends in high places. He really is…