Thomas Mulcair and the Road to Victory
It was the result I was hoping for, the only real choice the NDP could have made. For Thomas Mulcair is the only leader that can win back support in…
March 2012
From public to private: a subtle path
There was some nasty commentary this week in the Province because a BC teacher compared Bill 22 to Nazi germany. It was pretty ripe coming from a newspaper that had…
Everybody is overreacting
So Mulcair has been elected leader of the NDP. His supporters are saying he is the greatest thing since sliced bread, that he is the only one who had a…
Change under Mulcair
Just wanted to note this nugget in a CBC report on NDP changes now that Mulcair is leader: B.C. MP Peter Julian will be caucus chair and Anne McGrath will…
Our Buggy Stealth Buggy
Okay, the F-35 isn’t a buggy, it’s a bomb truck – a very buggy flying bomb truck. The F-35 has had more than its share of lurches, stumbles and controversy…
Ol’ JB Sings Again: They Picked Tom Mulcair
Whooee! Well, friends an' foes, I spent some time watchin' the big NDP leadership meetin' yesterday an' I got inspired to record up another catterwaulin' youtube video. I reckon some…
Ol’ JB Sings Again: They Picked Tom Mulcair
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I spent some time watchin’ the big NDP leadership meetin’ yesterday an’ I got inspired to record up another catterwaulin’ youtube video. I reckon some…
Ol’ JB Sings Again: They Picked Tom Mulcair
Whooee! Well, friends an' foes, I spent some time watchin' the big NDP leadership meetin' yesterday an' I got inspired to record up another catterwaulin' youtube video. I reckon some…
Ol’ JB Sings Again: They Picked Tom Mulcair
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I spent some time watchin’ the big NDP leadership meetin’ yesterday an’ I got inspired to record up another catterwaulin’ youtube video. I reckon some…
The Sin of Political Despair
In some people’s holy book, despair is a sin. I always figured that idea came from somebody who wasn’t quite done with you yet. Is Stephen Harper the Prime Minister…
Cancer Cured … But Not Funded
Did we find a cure for cancer and we’re doing nothing to make it happen?
More ratfucking
Looks like Pierre Poutine has been at it again.How long before we get to see Dean Del Mastro speculate about whether it was the Liberals who did this or the…
Connecting the FedCon and BC Liberal Dots Digitally…
WatchYourP’sAndQ’s AndTheirI’sAndP’sVille Dave, over at the Galloping Beaver, has a must read story connecting those dots. Go and read it. Right now. (I’ll comment and follow-up, with a little help…
Imagine the screeching outrage…
If the Nicaraguan national assembly or Honduran national assembly sent a letter to a city in the United States and asked them not to erect a statue of Ronald Reagan?hat…
Scripting Nurses is Bad for Patient Care
This might be a new low in nursing management. Instead of actually providing caring, empathy and compassion, some hospitals would like nurses to provide a simulacrum of caring, empathy and…
I can’t spell: the phonetic problem with homonyms
I can’t, and it has gotten worse. Sure I used to get my i’s and e’s backwards frequently but the difference between there and their or lose and loose almost…
"A Gift For the Muslim Couple" – Sun Media and the US far right unite in indignation
This morning the US blog/news aggregator Memeorandum featured a Toronto Sun article (no link, you can find it yourself if you must), along with links to the Islamaphobic Atlas Shrugs…
How Far, How Fast, How Hard?
We now have a new liberal NDP leader and he’s wasting no time pronouncing himself his party ready to govern Canada. Fair enough and more power to Mr. Mulcair. If…
Mulcair Triumphs
Thomas Mulcair is the second ever NDP leader of the opposition after a four ballot victory yesterday morning…and afternoon…and evening. Although Brian Topp was seen as the establishment candidate and…