The Stupid Senate
“I felt like it is kind of an insult to be a denier for a long time,” said Sen. Bert Brown, last month at a parliamentary committee studying energy policies.…
February 2012
On close competition
Alice has taken a thorough look at the 2011 Q4 fund-raising totals in the NDP’s leadership race and mused that fund-raising may serve as a proxy for first-ballot support. But…
About that death penalty issue that wasn’t reopened yesterday…
…by the Conservative Senator who mused about giving prisoners a rope in their cells to hang themselves. He later apologized. The death penalty issue actually was reopened by the Conservatives,…
Vic Danger – Toews doesn’t know ‘statistics’. But he sure knows fear.
Vic Toews doesn’t let reality get in the way of a good ideology (emphasis mine). “I don’t know if the statistics demonstrate that crime is down,” he said. “I’m focused…
Public backlash forces Harper to back down a bit on OAS cuts
Conservative MP’s are often described as parrots for doing nothing but repeating scripted phrases over and over again in defense of their government, or being not the brightest bunch in…
Pipelines To Drive Up Gas Prices
Reading about Northern Gateway this morning: Enbridge forecast a $2 to $3 annual increase in the price per barrel of crude in its pipeline application to the joint National Energy…
Sun News Network + Jason Kenney = frothy mixture
If you ever wanted to combine the worst of Conservatism – that frothy mixture of deceit, barely-veiled racism and amoral opportunism – look no further than the perfect marriage of…
"Let’s do it. We can fake the Oath" Sun News
Sun News Oath of Citizenship Ceremony There’s nothing quite as inspiring and patriotic as watching Canadian bureaucrats fake the Oath of Citizenship for a Sun News photo op and propaganda…
The trap of fossil fuels #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Muskrat Falls green. Right? Get rid of Holyrood. Holyrood bad. No more oil burning. Must be true. After all, natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy tweeted a couple of weeks ago…
Resignations and the death of internal dissent
The joke going around the Twitter Machine last night was that at the pace things are going, the Harper government won’t have to lay off a lot of civil servants…
Alberta tidbits: Can market-fundamentalist Wildrose Party be trusted to pull plug on high electricity costs?
Contemplating Alberta electricity prices, consumers are usually not as cheerful looking as illustrated. Below: Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith; Edmonton-Mill Woods MLA Carl Benito, former premier Ed Stelmach. Now that the…
Web Gallery
Sarah Jaffe City/Town: Ottawa Idea We’re Watching Categories: Better Canadian content 0 promote visual artists and encourage multimedia collaboration Idea Body: Feature some Canadian visual artists and help promote their…
Queer Liberal Caucus Coffee House A Huge Success
On Sunday, January 29th a group of 45+ Queer Liberals, Liberally Curious Canadians and allies of the LGBTQ community (myself included) met at the Church Street Community Centre to talk,…
Conservative Senator: “Every murderer should have a rope in his cell”
The Conservative government’s universally-condemned omnibus crime Bill C-10has a confirmed YES vote in the Senate. The name behind the vote: tough-on-crime Conservative Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu. Earlier today, Boisvenu said a…
Conservative Senator: “Every murderer should have a rope in his cell”
The Conservative government’s universally-condemned omnibus crime Bill C-10 has a confirmed YES vote in the Senate. The name behind the vote: tough-on-crime Conservative Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu. Earlier today, Boisvenu said…
The truth about Afshin Javid
When the ghost writer of a book goes public with steps he has taken to warn Christians about the conduct of the named author of the book, and provides a…
No more fucking Pink Things
I am the daughter of a breast cancer survivor. And I have just sworn never again to buy another “Pink for the Cure” (or whatever they call it) thing. Not…
Questions about oily business aims
Good thing we have the Tyee and other independent media. If we did not, politicians and industrialists would have an unrestricted pass to conduct business in ways that best line…
CBC Discusses Nazi Hack
We alluded to this in the previous post. This evening an investigative report by the CBC has helped to expose the views of the boneheads we cover here. The focus…