National Post column argues for the death penalty
One name: Guy Paul Morin. If the death penalty existed he would surely have been put to death for a crime he did not commit. (Guy Paul Morin was wrongly…
March 2012
Real Women In The Senate
Senator Terry M. Mercer gives government Senate Leader Marjory LeBreton the gears over anti-Gay hate group Real Women’s being invited to help hand out Diamond Jubilee Medals in honour of…
It’s all about export, eh #nlpoli
On Tuesday, natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy told the House of Assembly: Essentially, what Muskrat Falls does, it allows 40 per cent of the power for the Island to meet…
Heartless Canada Does It Again – Rejecting Another Immigrant Family Because of Son with Autism
Image by Kaz Novak, The Hamilton Spectator An immigrant South Korean family, Sungsoo Kim, wife Sunmi Kim, daughter Lisa and son Taehoon, have been living in Canada for the past…
Digital locks still intact
For those of you keeping score, the copyright bill is headed back to the Commons after being amended in committee, but it only took amendments from Conservatives, not from the…
Legitimizing myths and superstitions…
…And I have a Loblaws bag with the remains of a Leprechaun contained therein. Really! I do! An Israeli antiquities dealer has been acquitted of forging relics, including the contentious…
Inside the Conservative Voter Information Database (CIMS)
CIMS rocks. You can’t win without it. — Prescient Conservative campaigner in 2004 The centrepiece of whatever group perpetrated the robocall hoaxes, and is so far known to the public…
4346…March Madness In Hours
This is a good day. Go Orange. WFDS
4345…Mea Culpa Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, the smarty pants of smarty pantses, had a birthday yesterday. He is still dead so no candles. Interesting fact: he was a big Soupy Sales fan. Soupy Sales…
Media focus on senior dumped at Emergency Ward signals more trouble for Redford Tories
Journalists focus on Beth Podgurny at yesterday morning’s news conference in Edmonton. Below: Grace Denver, her daughter Beth with husband Jackie Podgurny. As shocking as it is an ambulance crew…
The Return Of….
. ….Coolin’ Up The Old Guy (v.XXIX) My oldest kid was out late last night. No music-making this time though. Instead, she went to a student rally with both her…
3.14
Happy Pi Day (3.14) Domino Spiral:
Rob Ford’s Pattern of Knowingly Disobeying Conflict of Interest Rules
Ford’s pattern of disobeying conflict of interest rules at City Hall goes back to 2005. This list further proves that there is no way Ford can claim ignorance in the…
2015: The generational shift election
We are seeing the changing of the guard in Canadian politics, when the old warriors are showing their age, and fighting battles that no longer fit the contours of our…
Special Relationships
Unbeknownst to most Americans, Canada is the United States’ largest trading partner (more than five times that of the U.K., for example), foremost supplier of energy, closest ally and supposedly…
A gift…
Sometimes i just wander around, no particular direction, but often these days to the New York Times…and I just found the most exquisite thing there This is a slideshow of…
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Happy Pi Day!
The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Anti-Canadian Activities Committee
TheSenatorFromLowerCharlatanHasTheFloor PuffmasterFlashingVille HUACeeeeeee! I, for one, am sure glad that has been cleared up…. **** What the heckfire am I talking about this time? Well…. It would appear that Mr.…
House of Commons to hold abortion debate in April
http://bit.ly/AqDMVo OTTAWA — A controversial proposal from a Conservative backbencher to legally define fetuses as human beings — and reopen the abortion debate — will have its day in the…