What is Harper Afraid Of?
By Franke James read more
May 2012
iPads and a new Job
Just a couple of pieces of great news for now. First, last week my wife won an iPad through The Peak’s iPad a Day in May contest, and then I…
Epic Hitler Emergency Department Charge Nurse Rant
I never thought I’d use the words “Epic” and “Hitler” and “Emergency Department” and “Charge Nurse” and “Rant” as a blog title, but what the hell. I was bored one…
Alexandra Morton: Farm Disease Secrecy Act Quietly Withdrawn by Minister
In the face of enormous public outcry, agriculture Minister Don McRae quietly withdrew his Bill 37 that would have made disease reporting in animals an offence punishable by two years…
This world
Don’t open the links, like I did. But most of you will, I expect. This and this have reminded me that of my conviction that the world is, essentially, evil…
May 31: The little newpaper that wasn’t there
I was a year and a half ago that there was a protest by parents at Edith Cavell School. It was so small as to be irrelevant. But the Moncton…
ConCalls: Robo-Out-of-Con-trol Delay #RoboCon
CEO Marc Mayrand tells MPs, who swept to government on a wave of fraudulent phone calls, to police themselves better. How’s that worked out so far? Well, there are now…
Implications of Inequality
I, Jason Clemens from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and David Macdonald from the CCPA discussed the social and economic implications of growing income inequality on an ipolitics panel yesterday. Jason was…
Clark Skips Western Premiers’ Conference to Avoid Pipeline, Tanker Talk
The refusal of Premier Clark to represent BC at the annual Western Premiers’ Conference is a disgrace! This is a very important conference. It allows Premiers to discuss many important…
Withdrawals (and peace bonds) are irrelevant as a consideration on bail
R. v. Krasniqi, O.J. No. 5815 holds that withdrawals (and peace bonds) are irrelevant as a consideration on bail because they are simply unproven allegations and absent an admission about…
Charest is screwed…
And here’s an apt cartoon to depict his sad situation: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
casseroles: they’re not just for montreal anymore
Last night in Toronto: And everywhere: And onward:
How Canada Could / Should Disentangle Itself From Its Idiotic Attachment To The British Monarch
(The future Canadian Monarch – King Charles III – ….. no thanks ….) “A three-step process should be considered. First, Ottawa should hold a national referendum on a Yes-or-No question:…
Oh Please Let It Be True
Ezra Levant urged to run in newly vacant Calgary Centre There would be an endless amount of muck to fling that would stick to Ezra and any Tory stupid enough…
Fire and Flames, Black Blocs, and Militant Resistance
On KPFA’s Letters and Politics show featured an interview with Gabriel Kuhn, on the subject of the West German Autonomen, and the book Fire and Flames (which Kuhn translated into…
Canada’s Age of Glum
Suddenly, Stephen Harper doesn’t seem all that out of place. The latest from pollster Nik Nanos is that many Canadians are pessimistic about the future that awaits our youth. “…the…
After you, Joe. As if that will ever happen.
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver says oilsands tailing ponds are being cleaned up to the point “you’ll be able to drink from them”… I’m going to disagree with my blogging…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thomas Walkom makes the point that the hysterical response from Brad Wall and others can’t mask the fact that Thomas Mulcair is…
There’s one reason why Rob Ford is mayor of Toronto
And it’s because my friend John Tory didn’t run. That’s it. Per Alberta, I’m skeptical of all polls, these days. But there’s a simple reality, here: if John had run…
Energy McCarthyism 2: Hoback Attack
Saskatchewan conservatives are getting cranky. At last night’s Finance Committee meeting on the omnibus bill, MP Randy Hoback exposed me as being a New Democrat who writes “garbage” (as this…