Attawapiskat v. the patriarichal Prime Minister.
Today our Prime Minister is forcing Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence to pay $1300 a day for some Accountant to come into the community to take control of the local finances.…
2011
Harper shutting out auditor general from Commons committee meetings
I’ve largely refrained the past few weeks from posting about the grossly anti-democratic manner in which our government has chosen to conduct itself. Other bloggers have been documenting the atrocities…
‘Twas Just Before Christmas in the House
Our clever Grinch of a Prime Minister gets a lyrical beating here. (If Harper is the Grinch, who is the little dog?)
EPA Connects Dots Between Groundwater Contamination and Fracking in Wyoming
niobrara-shale-map1.png The tables turned on the gas industry today with the release of a new report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) connecting the dots between fracking and groundwater contamination…
Brigette DePape marches on. Shows up at Durban Climate Summit.
Proving she’s no one-hit wonder, Brigette DePape showed up in Durban to peacefully fight for the future of Canada and the world. The inspiration for countless of Canadians after her…
Things I wonder about
1. — Exactly who is the federal government representing as they try to suppress evidence that they are suppressing evidence of the ISA threat to westcoast fisheries? From Tamsyn Burgmann,…
Video: Violence is not child’s play
Making war has been a human pursuit for thousands of years. Playing at war, it would seem, is at least as old. This ancient Greek toy, a model of a…
QP: Reserving the power to change the law
There was a rather muted energy in the Chamber as Question Period got underway, for whatever the reason. Nycole Turmel started off by asking about details around the Perimeter Security…
Ethical Oil is Snake Oil
Talking about ethical oil is like saying guns don’t kill people. Well they don’t. People kill people. But sometimes they use a gun to do it. Oil isn’t ethical or…
Brigette DePape marches on. Shows up at Durban Climate Summit.
Proving she’s no one-hit wonder, Brigette DePape showed up in Durban to peacefully fight for the future of Canada and the world. The inspiration for countless of Canadians after her…
Morning after madness. Kansasanine Katherine Sebilius vetoes FDA-recommended morning-after pill
You can take the girl out of Kansas but you can’t take the Kansas out of the girl. Former governor of one of the most backward states in the nation,…
Half Eaten Sandwich Sells for $2
I did it! You can thank me later for upending a longstanding tradition of women only being correct. My wife stated that it was not possible for me to sell…
Yup…
December 8 and no snow. Love it!!!! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Will Durban Climate Talks Leave Us On the Wrong Side of History?
floods-in-kennedy-road.jpg Guest post by Heather Libby of TckTckTck.org, originally published on Huffington Post. Whatever happens, the next 48 hours will change the world. The Durban climate negotiations dance on a…
ChristianWeek covers Prairie Bible Institute but leaves out the wounded
While Canadian media was part of a blitz of coverage about abuse allegations at Prairie Bible Institute, evangelical media in Canada has been silent, until now. ChristianWeek is finally covering…
Video: Bill O’Reilly uses umbrella to strike man, walks away with broken umbrella, asks police to arrest victim
Unbelievable. This from a man who specializes in ambush interviews, broadcasting them edited without advising his audience. It’s hilarious watching media elite O’Reilly walking away with a busted weapon over…
A note on Mitt Romney’s Mormonism
GOP front runner Mitt Romney In the GOP presidential nomination contest, the long standing front-runner, Mitt Romney, has never managed to really break out of the low to mid twenties…
A talk with Murray Calder
I had a good talk today with Murray Calder, a former Member of Parliament, about the future of the Liberal Party. Murray allowed me to speak directly on the blog…
Alberta values are not Western values
Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson recently gave a talk to a standing-room only crowd of Torontonians about how a set of Western values has captured the country. Ibbitson was,…