Auditors? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Auditors!
In the wake of the F35 boondoggle, The Globe and Mail reports this morning that the office of the Auditor General is cutting staff: The Auditor-General’s office is cutting 10…
May 2012
on june 4: black out to speak out
On Monday, June 4, websites representing thousands of Canadian people and organizations will go dark to protest changes introduced in the Harper Government’sTM budget act (Bill C-38). To join this…
On the lighter side
This story isn’t funny: “Army struggles with shortage of Arctic parkas, tents…” But the photo accompanying it certainly is! Maybe Harp can lend his parka out to the army, he…
Mother’s Day – #FF Follow Friday – For All the Mom’s Out There
So, in case you haven’t noticed, I tend not to blog on the weekend. Usually, this doesn’t matter as most of you are out in the world having fun and…
Friday flipping
-Young Liberal Zach Paiken asserts that Canada is becoming more conservative – therefore, Liberals must follow that trend to get re-elected one day. I don’t see any polls or statistics…
Northern Gateway Pipeline: Not A Pretty Picture
Renowned Canadian artist Robert Bateman speaks out against the Northern Gateway Pipeline: * Sign the petition at: http://www.notankers.ca
Going to the Wall in Defence of Mulcair
I have the following op-ed in today’s Saskatoon Star Phoenix: Royalty hike cure for Dutch disease Premier Brad Wall calls federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair “very, very divisive” for expressing…
ConCalls: True Believers Ignore Evidence #RoboCon
@saskboy Will you ever learn that PMSH simply doesnt plan and execute Robocall-kindacrap? #notthatkindaPM @leaderpost— Carol Husband (@CarolHusband) May 11, 2012 “The Conservative Party can say absolutely definitively it has…
The Comprehension Constant #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale seems to have a chronic problem of saying things that are not correct and also saying things she does not mean. This is not just a poor…
Tim Hudak goes to Belleville
And here’s a headline he garnered as a result of a town hall he held on Thursday: “Hudak’s plans to kill FIT panned.” He promised to do away with the…
‘Tough on crime’ is becoming a farce
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/search/Tough+crime+becoming+farce/6603217/story.html?q=tough%20on%20crime How does taxing prisoners' pathetically meager earnings help victims or make streets safer? For six years now, the federal Tories have been getting "tough on crime." Many of the…
The saddest days of Peter Van Loan
As a skateboard trick, it’s pretty rudimentary. As a perspective on democracy, though, Peter Van Loan’s 180 is downright sad. It was seven years ago that the Liberals shut down…
Demonstrating empty headed desperation
Yesterday, I noticed a small gem in Rod Smelser’s informative twitter stream: “BC Govt Communications & Public Engagement has budget of $26M for spin, Environmental Assessment Office, $9M. Sierra Club:…
A quick primer: Inflation vs. Devaluation
Following a conversation I had tonight on twitter, I’d like to write a quick little guide on the difference between devaluation and inflation, as they do look quite similar. Let’s…
Incompetence, Delays at Elections Canada Compromise Investigation into Pierre Poutine
The latest Postmedia revelations, which appear to be consecutive teasers drawn from a single court record (why give us the whole story when you can drag it out over multiple…
Growing discomfort
This week, we learned that Stephen Harper, in Nixonian tradition, is using federal tax authorities to harass political opponents. From The Globe and Mail: “Tides Canada is having its charitable…
If you put all the water on Earth in one place
If you put all the water on Earth in one place it would look like this: Yes that is a lot of water, but compared with the rest of the…
From the Annals of Diplomacy: Stephen Harper fires a Cannon at the Parisians
Prime Minister Stephen Harper fires a Cannon at the Parisians. Defeated Canadian politicians on their way to cushy appointments abroad may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Lawrence Cannon, François…
Stephen Harper’s Massive Meltdown
Well so much for all those carefully staged photo-ops of Great True North Leader surveying his frozen dominion. So much for his grand plans to assert our arctic sovereignty. Six…