April 2012
It All Depends On Who Keeps The Books
Yesterday, Peter Mackay admitted that the Auditor General was right. Mackay and his cabinet colleagues had known that each F-35 would cost $25 billion. The difference between the $14.7 billion…
4455…More On The CBC
Sell ads. Lots of them. Put on programming people like. You, the CBC, have figured out radio; you are number one in most markets with monster shares like a 20…
u.s. continues to target its own citizens at the border… which is 100 miles wide
This story — A Montreal university student was detained at the U.S. border, held for several hours, interrogated, had his personal belongings searched and saw his computer confiscated for more…
Cuts to National Film Board
Jse-Che Lam and Michelle Solomon prepared and email and letter sent to educators and NFB supporters. I strongly support their actions — the NFB is a national treasure (and candidly…
Proud 50 Year Conservative Tradition: Fighter Jets
Bungling Canadian fighter jet development: A proud Conservative PM tradition for over 50 years. #AvroArrow #F35 #Dief #Harper Canadian Military Journal (Vol. 10, Num. 4) (2010) (with bold added): Debate…
More Fabrications from MacKay
The Indefensible Defense Minister, Peter MacKay, continues to insult the intelligence of all thinking Canadians. As one who has followed the F-35 jet issue somewhat closely for the past year,…
On the recent abortion dust up
Well said.
Don Cherry: More Disgusting Than his Normal Self
Only Don Cherry can take an easy Vimy Ridge tribute and make it disgustingly political. Never mind his shots at Crosby. How about saying “and I know the lefties don’t…
Pierre Poutine identified?
I see some places are re-broadcasting a site and the site researcher who claims he has been able to identify who Pierre Poutine is – the famous handle in the…
Alberta Party Pushes For Anti-Gay “Conscience Rights”
The Wildrose Party, a socially-conservative provincial party hoping to wrestle power away from Alberta’s current conservative government, is defending its election platform against some pretty serious criticism this month. The…
A fresh smear of lipstick #nlpoli
CBC’s online version got the story right from the most recent episode of On Point with David Cochrane: Natural Resources Minister Jerome Kennedy says the Newfoundland and Labrador government is…
Mike Wallace and The Homosexuals
I see that Mike Wallace is being given a grand send off and is being called a journalistic hero. The newspapers are full of glowing obituaries, and TV stations have…
Go away, we have something to hide
Benjamin Alldritt, North Shore News reporter invited by the North Vancouver-Lonsdale Liberal Association to “A North Shore Evening with Premier Christy Clark”, gets disinvited by one of Clark’s minions: “I’m…
Just for the record
So the good people at Dammit Janet! are having an argument with certain other bloggers who apparently also belong to “Progressive Bloggers”, and with the site administrators of “Progressive Bloggers”,…
Easter Weekend Campaign Update: Apparently 41 years in power makes you stupid!
Alberta’s listless governing Conservatives are getting creamed in the sign battle by the Wildrose Party, and even by the impoverished NDP. Above and below: NDP signs in Edmonton. Below: Yogi…
My daughter died while being delivered on Friday afternoon
Evangeline, my daughter, died while being delivered on Friday. My girlfriend’s water broke last Tuesday, while Evangeline was in her 22nd-week. The doctors and nurses at the Ottawa General did…
Never attribute (wholly) to (F35) incompetence that which can be adequately explained by malice
The AG has shown the Harper Regime to be a pack of liars. The Galloping Beaver has, along with lots of other bloggers, done a great job of unraveling the…