New lows?
Keith Kloor is claiming that the Gleick/Heartland stolen documents incident is a new low in the climate wars. But is it? Is tricking Heartland into sending some documents really any…
February 2012
First-Past-The-Post Analysis Of The Snook’s First (not)Budget…
NotFromJersey ButStillIrrelevantVille It reads like a scatterbrained teenager’s Twitter Feed. Disjointed, disconnected, and hop-scotching all over the place. Which can be charming when the topics are chipotle, gym-socks, and ‘what-if’…
C-10 Omnibus Crime Bill Illustrated
A whiteboard re-cap of Bill C-10, the Harper Government® omnibus anti-crime legislation that is currently being reviewed by Senate… The video urges viewers to contact the Senate to voice objections…
Connecticut, Serbia and the North Pole
Three places Mallory suggested this evening for our summer vacaction.
Diane Finley On OAS Changes: Kids, You’re Fucked
Your Grandma and Grampa get to dodder about forever in their gold-plated, diamond encrusted walkers. You get to work until you drop and we sell you off as Soylent Green.…
Newt Will Destroy Alberta’s Economy
Desperate Republican no-hoper Newt Gingrich is currently promising that, if elected, he will reduce the price of gasoline to $2 per gallon. Maybe a terrific prospect for gas-guzzling American consumers…
VeterAnts minister vows to improve information on benefits
My first cartoon of the year. Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/02/21/pol-veterans-blaney.html
Will Greater Sudbury Be Forced to Hike Taxes to Pay for Legal Challenges Made by Taxpayers Association?
The Greater Sudbury Taxpayers Association (GSTA) is at it again, practicing the politics of fear and division within our City. At first, the GSTA’s smear campaign against our locally-elected officials…
Ford Gets His Way
The blowt king, aided and abetted by his minions, has gotten his way. Toronto is the poorer for it. Recommend this Post
The Orange Trickle
According to Postmedia, NDP membership numbers have “skyrocketed“: NDP memberships skyrocket heading into leadership vote OTTAWA — The number of NDP members has increased by about 50 per cent in…
The NDP Only Sign up 45,000 New Members for their Leadership Race.
The Federal NDP signed up 45,000 new members to bring their national membership to 128,000 members. NDP Leadership Candidates (Clement Allard/Canadian Press) That sounds like a lot. But to put…
Canada’s sub fleet
Our defense minister claims the sub fleet we bought from the British 14 years ago, which has been in dry-dock for most of that time, and won’t hope to be…
Christopher Hume’s Withering Assessment of Rob Ford and His Enablers
That Ford can still find five members of council willing to do his bidding, no matter how transparently shabby it may be, also speaks volumes about the sorry state of…
Bill C-30 and the Big Red Button
One of the most outrageous aspects of Bill C-30 is that not only would it strip us of our civil liberties, it would also require us to pay for that…
Rick Santorum—an Antichrist?
Rick Santorum is a disturbing man. The candidate for Republican nominee for president has said things that if I were an American, I would find offensive if not frightening. For…
"Ross not right for Abortion Debate" – Abortion on PEI
Another response to the article (Climate not right for Abortion Debate) written Feb. 15th, by Shane Ross a new columnist for The Guardian here in PEI. This reply is from…
Why do the Conservatives hate our troops?
The wounded ones, that is. Truly sick-making: our veterans arbitrarily cut off benefits with no explanation. They’re stiffed, denied information about benefits they are entitled to, put though a cumbersome…
Angry Cons…
I know my buds Greg, Mike & Terry will think this is clever… or at least original… right guys? Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario