What is this strike about? A moving letter from a Saanich teacher
I would like to thank you, Mr. Abbott. My wife and I have just had an excellent discussion with our daughters about power, and about the importance of checks and…
March 2012
Stephen Harper and the Con Robots
Well there he was in Question Period, looking and sounding like a robot, refusing to say why his Cons are refusing to cooperate with Elections Canada. Repeating the same answer…
Caribou, Coal Mining and the world’s First Twitter Moot Court
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Many were scratching their heads when they heard that West Coast was running the “World’s First-ever Twitter Moot.” Say what? What’s that, and how does it…
I was out, finished! and I took an arrow to the knee
I had given up on blogging and then I dabbled with it for a bit, off an on. The reasons for leaving are complicated,… various events in the blogosphere sour…
#Robocall Movies: Canadian Political Humor Par Excellence
Canadian politics in the age of Stephen Harper and the Conservative majority government are depressing, to say the least. Luckily our political satire still kicks ass. Inspired by the unraveling…
No Accidental Tyrant
Stephen Harper is despotic by design. That much is apparent in an excerpt from a letter Harper wrote in 2001 while head of the National Citizens Coalition, known as the…
The F-35’s Lowered Expectations
Now it’s not only way over-budget, way overdue but the Pentagon is having to lower its performance requirements so it won’t have to call the F-35 a complete turkey. If…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – In the latest on Robocon, John Ivison rightly notes that the scandal figures to give many Canadians a long-overdue first look at…
Stephen Harper’s Pathological Hatred
While I stand by my comments about The Globe and Mail in my last post, the paper does have one real asset in the person of Lawrence Martin. Unlike other…
Today in the Realm of Useless Ideas
A merger of the Manitoba Liberals and Greens! What? Though its been ruled out, I feel the need to comment. A merger of the Manitoba Liberal Party and the Green…
QP: Show us yours first
It’s sometimes amazing what a bit of adult supervision can do for question period – but I’m not sure that today was really that day. Harper may have been back…
He’s cheesy and he’s greasy
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"…Complaints have been filed with Saanich police, the RCMP and Elections Canada…"
omplaints? WeDon’tNeedYourStinkin’ComplaintsVille The header above, is how we ended a recent post about patient-zero in the RoboCall saga. It is a story about one riding, Saanich Gulf-Islands, where fraudulent robo-calls…
On that AR Poll of the Robocall Issues….
I have some minor issues with the questions, but overall its cool. Take a look. But, let me just point out one: How likely do you think each of the…
Viagra= Slut
Channeling the inner Stoopid from the Republicans in the US…. ARE YOU sick and tired of paying higher health care costs so these sluts can go and have as much…
Nanos, Robocalls, and Super Tuesday
Sorry for my lack of posting the past three days – but I haven’t missed much anyways. The big thing I did miss was the recent Nanos Research poll, showing…
No more reprehensible MP than this guy
Veterans called NDP hacks, Jeff Davis, Postmedia News “OTTAWA — Calgary MP Rob Anders — who embarrassed himself by falling asleep in the Veterans Affairs committee last week — offered…
Why has there been a…
… secret robotic plane orbiting in space for the past year? No one seems to know. What the robotic space plane has been doing in orbit for so long remains…
Peggy Nash or Bust
OK time to get off the fence. There are presently two visions of social democracy at play within the NDP. One that wants to drag the NDP further to the…