Washington Post scribes Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have, for decades, been widely credited with taking down Richard Nixon. The popular narrative goes that they were fed their story by…
The majority of Canadians did not vote Conservative in the last election. Mr. Harper, you may have a ‘majority’ government under the British Parliamentary system. However, sir, you do not…
404 System Error, score another home run with their exposure of some questionable financing in Julian Fantino’s campaign. Seems Fantino is running two separate accounts, in a non-transparent fashion, one…
… this was not a mistake. Starting a land war in Asia is a mistake. This is akin to wearing a meat tuxedo and gravy-scented aftershave to a wolverine convention.…
Premier Kathy Dunderdale, answering media questions about the future of the province’s last paper-making machine: “ going to run their operation in consultation with the union on how they can…
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Damian Carrington reports on the Harper Cons’ sad efforts to prevent the European Union from accurately accounting for greenhouse gas emissions from the…
Devotees of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson‘s manic genius are all too aware of the title’s significance as one of the final banal observations of a shooting star burning out and…
During question period in the Canadian House of Commons on Friday (February 17), Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird accused the opposition National Democratic Party (NDP) of having been caught…
Even if you live in a sports-free universe, the name Jeremy Lin may have seeped in through osmosis. The 24-year-old Harvard grad and point guard for the New York Knicks…
Before Stephen Harper and Dalton McGunity introduce their austerity budgets next month, they would do well to read Paul Krugman’s column in this morning’s New York Times. The advocates of…
Were I given to rhetorical flourishes, which of course I am not, I might refer to the gathering tomorrow of Mayor Ford and his good soldiers as a mini-Wannsee Conference…
Well it’s a holiday of some kind in Ontario today, that Family Day thingy. Whatever you may be doing, have a good one. Here’s a bunch of reading material, for…
McCoy, Kirk and Spock are all about to die as their bodies are de-atomized over a period of several agonizing seconds. Everyone in the original Star Trek was quite condescending…
The Heartland Institute has began sending out what kind of look like legal threats to bloggers who have published/ written about their leaked documents, including Canada’s own DeSmogBlog. I haven’t…
Romney released his tax returns only to show us that he makes a lot of money and is taxed at a rate 15.4% the lowest rate is 15%! Now this…
The federal Conservative Party introduced a bill on Friday that would explicitly confirm the validity same-sex marriages granted to foreigners in Canada, and extend the right to divorce to any…
Anyone following the ongoing saga of the Goose Bay air base could hardly be surprised to find out that no one is interested in supersonic flight training in the Big…
It seems that Vic Toews couldn’t even be bothered to read his own Lawful Access bill after he expressed surprise at some of the contents pointed out to him in…
I have received a letter from a student who obtained his doctoral degree with me a few years ago, and after one postdoctoral appointment decided that their heart was really…
