Pigheaded…
OK, so I haven’t been here a whole heck of a lot lately, but there also hasn’t been a heck of a lot to boil my blood, either – at…
May 2012
#M312 – How will your MP Vote?
What a rollercoaster ride! it has been since little old PEI screamed out into the universe that women here were no longer going to be ignored and silenced. Okay, well,…
Parliamentary impotence is nothing new
Andrew Coyne has a column where he rages over Parliament’s redundancy or seeming lack of influence – specifically over Bill C-38, the Conservatives “omnibus bill”, which basically combines several different…
Languages shmanguages
Today in Harper government infractions: “Ottawa blâmé par le commissaire aux langues officielles.” Le gouvernement Harper n’a pas respecté la Loi sur les langues officielles en nommant l’anglophone unilingue Michael…
occupy may day
Today is May Day, the International Workers’ Day, a day to celebrate our strength and our unity as working people. Although May Day is an official holiday in many countries…
I Almost Agreed With Margaret Wente
… then she reverted back to being a bitch, but almost, I almost agreed with her. The article in question is her piece in the Globe about Quebec’s student protests,…
Over To You, Christy Clark
“Under the Enbridge proposal, British Columbia would assume almost all the project’s risk, yet would see only a fraction of the benefits,” said Dix in a release. “By any measure,…
The Persistence of False Information #nlpoli
In an interview on The Current last week, Anthony Germain asked Premier Kathy Dunderdale why she wasn’t trying to sell Muskrat Falls to people in Newfoundland and Labrador as Danny…
Just a barrel of laughs
Oh, why not let Conrad Black come back to Canada? We could do worse and we need the comic relief — think of how much fun we’ll have skewering his…
About Conrad Black’s return: surely Canadians deserve honest answers
Lord Black gesticulates at Communications Energy and Paperworkers Local 115A President Andy Marshall in 1999. Below: Omar Khadr, Jason Kenney, George Galloway, Farouk Adatia. Let’s mark this international day of…
That ain’t strategic voting, Mr. Topp. That’s called campaigning.
So I just read this article by Brian Topp in the Globe and Mail. And I have to say, it is obvious to me that either Topp is being willfully…
Choosing a Speaker for Alberta: Your chance to vote … sort of
Your blogger with yet another of the candidates to be called Mr. Speaker, the dulcetly mellifluous Gene Zwozdesky, looking none too thrilled about this photo opportunity in Speakerly garb. I…
At what point does resistance become terrorism?
There was a lot of topics I wanted to write about today but in the end, I feel I really need to come back around to NATO military occupations around…
Do NOT Toy With Marc Garneau!
Marc Garneau reads aloud his outrage as Dion and Bennett muster theirbest attempt at displaying interest for the parliamentary camera.Liberal MP David McGuinty just wants to go home already. Every…
In today’s Sun: I was wrong – Harper hasn’t attempted to mess with abortion laws
Nearly one year after the election that finally saw them capture their much-desired parliamentary majority, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has become remarkable for being unremarkable. Apart from killing off the…
A Merger That’ll Never Happen
The left in the province of Alberta will never merge. There are four core reasons for this to be the case. Firstly, the NDP is directly tied, through its organization,…
Shorter
Shorter Andrew Coyne: I’m shocked SHOCKED that the Liberals and NDP are not sufficiently outraged at what the Harper Conservatives are doing now. So what are they doing now? Well,…