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June 2012
With Good Hair Comes Responsibility
For those of you who scoff at the importance of good hair in politics, witness Stephen Harper who began his political career extremely hair challenged and much has been writ…
Prepare For The Revolution, A.K.A. Spin, Spin, And More Spin
What is the priority of organizations that are mired in embarrassing public revelations about fraudulent spending of taxpayers money? The development of a good PR plan. At least that is…
Weekend Bonus
Teddy here, the first in a series I am starting as part of my contribution to Blunt Objects, the Weekend Bonus. On Saturdays and Sundays I will make posts that…
4775…Worst College Roomie Ever
It has to be Morgan State’s Alexander Kinyua. He is 21 and he has admitted to murdering his roommate Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie. The Baltimore Sun reports that the malfeasance was…
Power and Stupidity
Yesterday, Dan Gardiner repeated Lord Acton’s famous maxim: Power corrupts. But power does more than that, he wrote. It encourages stupidity. The Harper government’s omnibus budget bill is a case…
4774…Jack Layton’s Legacy Enhanced Today
The Montreal Gazette reports that today is the day that former NDP leader Jack Layton’s memory is going to be honoured today in his toney hometown of Hudson. Today is…
A sign of desperation?
Or is the Head Robot just being pragmatic? I’m not sure which, and I’m also not sure that mending fences with an ex-PM who has been treated like shite by…
4773…NDP Are Number One In Canada
That is what “The national survey commissioned by Postmedia News and Global TV…” 38 per cent.The Liberals, they be sh*tting the bed bigtime.WFDS
4772…This Should Be A Holiday For Police
Len Berman’s That’s Sports informs me that on this day in 1847 a Dutch sea captain invented the doughnut. WFDS
New poll shows the challenge for the new Liberal leader
The National Post released an Ipsos-Reid poll yesterday, and it shows that a lot of the anti-Harper vote has and continues to coalesce around the NDP: According to the poll,…
Life Under Canada’s Small Government Dystopia
The following post is deliberately alarmist. Orwellian, you might say. I’m not trying to paint a picture of what things are like in Canada right now, or even what I…
Canadian Climate Survey: Port aux Basques, Nfld Warms 0.9˚C Since 1961-1990
The Canadian Climate Survey is tracking historical and average temperatures in cities and towns across the country, as part of an effort to put something of a local face on…
Quebec protests June 22: crisis far from over
There were large rallies in Montreal and Quebec City June 22. Students and supporters demonstrated against fee hikes, against Bill-78 and held the banners of social and political activism high.…
Remember
Six years after the Harper Cons moved into government and they still don’t seem to realize that governments are judged not on what they say but on what they do.Apparently…
Reinventing the wheel, timidly
British Columbia has established significant domestic production of natural gas and there are enormous reserves of recoverable gas newly discovered. Western Europe has identified major new gas fields and North…
Canadian Political Satire: Obert Report Episode 1: Harper’s NDP Hitler Comment
Welcome to Episode 1 of the Obert Report, a future online talk show program in the making. The episode is a satirical commentary on a recent outrageous comment made by…