Conservative attack ads already? A distraction attempt, I’d say.
Some folks in the media and elsewhere are saying the fact that the Conservatives chose to start running attack ads going after Liberal “still interim” leader Bob Rae means they…
March 2012
The Harper Government’s “Friends With Benefits”
In September 2009, at the G20 summit, Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined world leaders in committing to end government handouts to climate polluters. But the Harper government is still paying…
I was wrong — looks like the shooter was connected to al Qaeda
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I’m In!
Got my confirming email yesterday, so that makes it official. I’ll be blogging NDP leadership convention this weekend. My prep work is almost complete, and I’m down to choosing which…
Sun News Tries To Raise Funds
Apparently nobody showed up for Ezra’s Freedom Weekend. You can deduce this from the fact that when you google “Ezra Levant” and “Freedom Weekend” you get basically nothing. Not a…
Is Mark Steyn One Up On Ann Coulter AND Dick Cheney?
BigTime,He’sOnHisWayHe’sMakin’It Cheney-O-MiteVille Remember when Ann Coulter came to Canada awhile back, in March of 2010, to be more precise? And remember how a single, pointed, intelligent question from a female…
Bennett’s telephone call “gendered violence” according to PACSW prez #nlpoli
Most of you likely missed it, but a sharp exchange in Twitter on Monday showed the way politics in this province rolls these days. Dara Squires writes a blog called…
The Harper decade
Holy cripes! Yesterday marked ten years since Stephen Harper became leader of the Canadian Alliance Party, and the slow march to 24 Sussex. Over at Maclean’s, Paul Wells marks the…
Get mad, then get involved
From John Macfarlane’s Editor’s Note at The Walrus Magazine: THE SOLILOQUY Paddy Chayefsky wrote for the character Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network still resonates today: “…I want you…
Calgary Rally
We were asked if we wouldn’t mind posting an announcement regarding the anti-racist rally coming up this weekend in Calgary. Anti-Racist Action Calgary is calling on their fellow Calgarians to…
The Harper-Wildrose alliance: the elephant in Alberta’s conservative room
Stephen Harper and Danielle Smith discuss their infernal electoral machine as the elephant in the room looks on. Loony-right-wing Alberta politicians may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Wildrose-Harpercon crossovers…
Election and WikiLeaks Link Roundup
**This post is an updated time capsule/link dump from Election 41, 29 Apr 2011 I’ve decided to finally post it to get it off my unfinished drafts list** Vintage Voter…
SPINalysis: Heartland’s Echo Chamber Shifts the Target
heartland logo.jpg President Joe Bast Dodges Responsibility – for Now It’s been a month since the Heartland Institute was caught in a St. Valentine’s Day Striptease – inadvertently exposing its…
The Vagina Ideologues
Oh joy, rapture and crapture! More excited delirium from the “Government-Small-Enough-to-Crawl-Up-Your-Vagina-and-Police-Your-Uterus” crowd: Conservative Arizona lawmakers hope Arizona will join a handful of other states in banning most abortions after 20…
tories scramble into damage control mode over no-work committee pay.
Alberta MLA's are scrambling to control the monster that has become the "Pay for No Work Committee." Scrambling to balance damage control with party unity on the eve of an…
Chow Down . . . .
Now for a break from our regularly scheduled program: Hungry now ? ? ? ? Recommend this Post at Progressive Bloggers
Therefore, God?
My daughter was just telling me about the Singularity philosophy and others of the “I can’t understand it, therefore God?” ilk — and I was somehow reminded of The Philosophers’…
Conservative MP: "Federal Funding at all time high!"
This is a recent mail-out from fiscal Conservative MP Ryan Leef: “Federal Funding at all time high!” Don’t let the headline fool you, in the flyer he goes on to…
alberta election 2012: ian urquhart for senate.
Ian Urquhart for Senate Bringing some political diversity to the race, University of Alberta Political Science Professor Ian Urquhart has announced that he will run as an Independent candidate in…
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
Source: National Post: Robocalls: Who is Rick McKnight? An interesting story, that so far the main-stream media has left alone; I’d like to imagine that it’s to do some fact…