Fight Northern Gateway–Buy Cool T-shirt
Also a factor in the protest was the decline of oolichan in southern B.C. waters, said Roy Henry Vickers, and the general threat of oil. Vickers said the traditional oolichan…
March 2012
Saturday Night’s Alright For (Uke) Cover Fighting!
There’sNoUkeLike CoverUkeVille First, The Original…Because…Well….You know… And now the Uke Cover…Phonetically…. **** And, as a special bonus, an Uke original, just, well, because Mr. Manning himself brought up the issue…
“We are sowing into conquering Hollywood…”
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. Faytene Grasseschi continues to try to generate attention for The Cry Hollywood—the prayer event is only a few days off now,…
Liberals should use this method to select new leader in 2013
The NDP is experimenting with a novel election method to select their new leader. The Liberal Party of Canada should consider using the same method when we select our new…
Convergence
A Creative Revolution produced this video, which shows the links between religious right wing elements in Canadian politics and those in the US. In view of recent revelations about the…
4330…The Tories Keep Stepping In It
Boy oh boy oh boy oh boy. CBC News reports that the Vaughn executive of the Conservative Party, sanctimonious Julian Fantino’s riding, has a few hundred thousand extra shekels in…
The US connection: Cons caught in yet more lies
For those worried about foreign influences on Canadian processes, here’s a must-read. From the US Front Porch through our Conservative Back Door. Get on over there, stiff drink in hand.
Mallory on the day she started liking hummous
I was stunned. The three of us had gone swimming at Carleton that afternoon. We were back. Mallory was tired and hungry. Dinner was on the way. I’d gotten out…
Rob Anders should resign from the Veterans Affairs Committee
Who is Rob Anders? He was elected MP for the riding of Calgary-West in 1997. Before the 2011 election he was known as the MP who spoke the fewest words…
Beauty is disgusting and so are you.
Beauty is depthless. Looks are, quite literally, entirely superficial. How you dress, how you prepare your hair and the structure of your face and body are completely immaterial to any…
Harper-Fueled Parti Québécois In Majority Territory
Ideas that won’t die: are you ready for a third referendum? Stephen Harper is Pauline Marois’s greatest political ally. How else do you explain the Parti Québécois’s rise from political…
Rush is taking the rest of them down with him
A hundred advertisers bail on right wing radio: To all Traffic Managers: The information below applies to your Premiere Radio Networks commercial inventory…They’ve specifically asked that you schedule their commercials…
Won’t You Listen To What The Man(ning) Said (Part Trois)
ThisIsWhat(A)Democracy(Centre) LooksLikeVille Our third installment of ‘What Preston Said’ about voter suppression during yesterday’s media blizzard of all things ‘Centre For Building Democracy’ that served as the prelude for today’s…
Wankers of the Week: Stupor Tuesday and women’s blights
Crappy weekend, everyone! So, how are you liking all that Repugnicanism south of our borders? Exciting, eh? Yeah, what a horse race it’s proving to be. Pity whoever has to…
Big Oil Rakes In Billions, Still Complains Taxes Are Too High
20080810-violin.jpg The President rolled out his FY2013 budget recently, which includes eliminating $40 billion in tax breaks from Big Oil companies, such as BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell. Meanwhile,…
Public land with full access now privatized
Liberals have been bulldozing barriers and slashing red tape for more than a decade. Who can forget: “Red Tape Reduction Task Force” of 2001 to recommend priorities for the review…
Preston Manning and the Campus Crusaders
Lordy. I see that Preston Manning, the Big Daddy of the ReformCon movement, thinks that the robocall scandal is deplorable. The patriarch of the modern-day conservative movement in Canada is…
Coyne: Where did conservatism go? by Andrew Coyne
Columnist says that the governments lack of intention to reform crown corporations, such as the CBC, begs the question “Where has conservatism gone?”.
Oh please
In what deranged, demented, scum-ridden universe is this the equivalent of this? I haven’t read up on this Electoral Fraud thing that has apparently been perpetrated enough to make any…
Tony Gazebo lectures us on cost containment
More classic Conservative hypocrisy, this time from the man who stole 50 million taxpayers’ dollars—already approved by Parliament for border security—to polish up his own riding. “The take-home lesson,” said…