Will Québec save Canada?
A recent article published in La Presse states that the Harper Government acknowledges the strategy the PQ has been using for the upcoming provincial election. In essence, Pauline Marois has…
March 2012
Will Québec save Canada?
A recent article published in La Presse states that the Harper Government acknowledges the strategy the PQ has been using for the upcoming provincial election. In essence, Pauline Marois has…
Confessions of a RoboCaller
My name is Jennifer Smith, and I'm a robocaller. No, not that robocaller. Compared to Mr. Poutine I'm small potatoes, really. I just called a few hundred of my supporters…
Confessions of a RoboCaller
My name is Jennifer Smith, and I’m a robocaller. No, not that robocaller. Compared to Mr. Poutine I’m small potatoes, really. I just called a few hundred of my supporters…
Confessions of a RoboCaller
My name is Jennifer Smith, and I'm a robocaller.No, not that robocaller. Compared to Mr. Poutine I'm small potatoes, really. I just called a few hundred of my supporters in…
Confessions of a RoboCaller
My name is Jennifer Smith, and I’m a robocaller. No, not that robocaller. Compared to Mr. Poutine I’m small potatoes, really. I just called a few hundred of my supporters…
Official Complaints: Nothing Happened
“…Nothing happened” Elizabeth May’s passionate speech imploring our “tough on crime government to get tough on electoral crime!” The video is a week old, but is as relevant at my…
Three Part Series: What progressive groups must do to defeat, or stymie, the Harper regime
Canada’s progressive community needs to make some significant changes if it hopes to slow down the assault being carried out on the country by Stephen Harper’s Conservatives and their right-wing…
Alberta Poll Soup
The expectation in Alberta is that Alison Redford’s first budget will pass by March 21, with the writ dropped March 26 for an April 23 vote. As for the expected…
Must see TV: "Game Change" on HBO
I was a little resistant going into this. I’ve grown weary of Sarah Palin and the inordinate amount of coverage she receives just because she’s an idiot. The director of…
A Lesson in Spin: Minimizing the Issue
I’ve been thinking on doing a few brief posts on seeing through spin, considering the growing escalation of techniques in Canada, which mirror an epidemic of it in the U.S.…
An Epochal Moment in Toryland
While there has been a long and sustained objection to Canada’s planned purchase of F-35 jets, today marks the first time that the Harper regime has, even for a moment,…
Catholic League pres Bill Donohue’s war on rape victims. He wants to fight them "one by one".
Well, isn’t this special! Ah, those poor child-abusing priests. Their victims are so mean to them. Catholic League president Bill Donohue is sick and tired of coddling rape victims. That’s…
QP: It’s all a massive cover-up
The excesses of Monday’s Question Period nonsense were curtailed in light of adult supervision – the presence of Harper – and we got a few slightly different talking points from…
Spiders, dead things, the dentist and grocery shopping.
What do all of these items have in common? I detest them all. All the items in that list, I would rather avoid. But since we have kids, and really…
Bruce Carson Slipping Away?
Oil Man Bruce Carson is possibly getting a free pass from a government who came to power claiming to be tough on lobbyist stains. After being caught red handed with…
Beware the Troll Under the Bridge
So, I spend a fair amount of time reading various news sites, both well known and otherwise, and am generally greatful to Our Glorious Ruler the Internet for all that…
NDP Fisheries Critic Takes Harper Government to Task Over Leaked Changes to Fisheries Act
Federal NDP Fisheries Critic Fin Donnelly took the Harper Government to task in Question Period earlier today over its plan to slip significant changes to the Fisheries Act into its…
Unraveling the mystery of MLA pay.
Ever since the news emerged that a number of MLAs were paid a grand a month to sit on a committee that never met, the subject of MLA pay has…
Saskatchewan Has No Idea What Harper’s Omnibus Crime Bill Will Cost
Saskatchewan’s Justice Minister, Don Morgan told the Legislature that he has absolutely no idea what the cost to the province will be to implement Ottawa’s Bill C10 – The Omnibus…