My early rankings #ndpldr
First note that the vote for the leader of the NDP is still 3 weeks away, and through the magic of the internet, there is no need to actually vote…
March 2012
Six advertisers drop Rush Limbaugh after Sandra Fluke slander
I’ve made it a rule at LFR to no longer blog about Rush Limbaugh. His modus operandi is to piss off the left. Every time we write about him, we…
The Star Exposes Another Harper Lie
More and more, people are seeing the bald mendacity of the Harper regime. Despite their claims of electoral probity and refusal to use U.S. firms in their campaigning, it turns…
RoboCon: Connecting the Bots
Who is Pierre Poutine? The RCMP want to be all over Poutine like gravy. Are they already, and just firming up their evidence? They can probably obtain information on the…
celebrate international women’s day 2012
Today is International Women’s Day. We’ve come a long way. And we’ve still got a long way to go. Globally, the picture looks much worse. See the current issue of…
RoboKhan And Other Images
I hope you can make use of some of these cheeky images that could help depict the RoboCon Robocalls scandal that is sweeping the nation. Hey, our democracy is a…
THIS is what the Toronto transit fight is all about? REALLY?! #TOpoli – It’s a Remarkk-able life
As a resident of St Clair West, I really resent the presentation of the St Clair streetscape as some kind of second coming of Darfur. Yes, the construction was bungled…
Saturday At The Movies
This ad is for a newly launched cell phone of NTT Docomo, the largest cell phone service provider in Japan. The shell of the new phone is wood from domestic…
But So What?
Dalton McGuinty is right about the oil sands and its effect on Canadian manufacturers, says Andrew Coyne, but there’s nothing anyone can do about it so we all might as…
New Conservative Spin: Blame Elections Canada
I’ve heard it from enough sources over the last few days that I’m beginning to suspect this will be the message du jour by next week: okay, maybe some people…
New Job
The place I’ve been working since September – Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation – is great. It’s a private non-profit housing organization, and I was a tenant of theirs for years.…
Environment Canada Lends A High Ranking Bureaucrat To The Oil Companies For One Year
As a concession to having its environmental policies dictated to by the oil companies, Environment Canada’s logo remained larger. Imagine if Peter Kent assigned a high ranking bureaucrat of Environment…
Our plastic history, utter contempt version #nlpoli
On Friday, the Telegram’s Brian Jones takes issue with fisheries minister Darin King: Fisheries Minister Darin King’s tantrum this week against the Fish, Food and Allied Workers’ (FFAW) union is…
The utter hypocrisy of…
… conservative supporters of corporate welfare astounds me sometimes! And what astounds me even more is that regular middle-class Joes and Joettes side with the zillionaires! Incredible! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
The deluge of complaints
On the Robocon front today, Elections Canada has confirmed that they have received over 31,000 contacts regarding these kinds of calls in the last election. Expect this investigation to start…
First They Sever Our Connection With OUR Public Service, Now They Want To Stifle Opposition Queries
An Alberta MP, Tory naturally, thinks it’s high time the Harper tyranny put an end to opposition questions. A supposed million dollar cost of responding to a few hundred written…
CPC: Deceivers, deluders, dissimulators
“Losers lose, winners win, cheaters cheat, and sinners sin; Dreamers dream, cryers cry, fools believe, and Liars Lie.” Conservative MPs used U.S.-based telemarketers, Greg Weston, CBC News The prime minister…
Late night
Have a good one!
"Mistakes were made"
Ken Mehlman’s apology for going along with the Bush campaign’s anti-gay ballot initiatives in 2004 isn’t quite to the scale of McNamara’s apology for lying about Vietnam, but in terms…
4304…Maybe He Was Hungover
People are so quick to judge. It is galling. Take the current case of Rob Anders. Mr. Anders, the hard working MP for Calgary West, a Tory he is, is…