Guest Post – East Hastings: A Love Story
This guest post comes to us from Natalie Reed, who blogs at Freethought Blogs’ Sincerely, Natalie Reed. A Vancouverite and ex-pat from Nova Scotia, she writes on several subjects, including…
July 2012
Good riddance.
To bad trash. Gonna miss her. "NOT". Not saying I am unhappy she is gone from cabinet, but it’s always women who are punished in the party of Harper, if…
Three down. Three to go
Impolitical gets a little excited about three up-coming by-elections. And suggests that there might be 2 more to come. At a time of a well deserved drop in support.Well if…
Rant: Mount Everest
I recently read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and then spent a couple of days on the internet looking up information about Mount Everest and the people who attempt to…
Let’s Make Taxes Voluntary, too!
Further to my recent post on the Ontario PC party’s proposal for right-to-work laws in that province, here is a slightly longer version of my column in today’s Globe and…
While I am not unhappy to see the porch door…
… hit her butt on the way out the door…. Isn’t there someone more deserving of a walk off the plank? Just sayin’… (5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Bev Oda quits; Almost No-One Sheds a Tear
Except maybe Bev herself, but I don’t want to make the accusation that she cared about her job, given the amount of screw-ups she committed, plus the outright fraud, she…
Breaking News? Anderson Cooper Comes Out
Now the reason why I added a question mark after “Breaking News” is because well, Anderson Cooper coming out of the closet isn’t really shocking or surprising. It was speculated…
Earth: the planet we risk destroying
This NASA video of planet Earth is a slow glide, unlike the time lapse version that is available. Time and motion feel natural. It’s like being on the craft watching…
Bloomberg Stunner: How Chesapeake Energy Paid Less Than a 1% Tax Rate On $5.5 Billion in Profits
chesapeake-energy.jpg Chesapeake Energy, a company that is no stranger to financial scandals, has found itself on the front page of the financial papers again. This time, the subject is taxes.…
More on The Harper Betrayal of All of Us
I wrote a recent brief post on the Trans Pacific Partnership that Canada recently signed onto, the price of admission being the surrender of much of our sovereignty over the…
Churches should stay out of politics, said Tory Senator
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Nicole Eaton, the Conservative senator, is annoyed at the United Church’s politicing, On As It Happens a few weeks ago, she…
Occupy This!
It has been a painfully long time since the opinion poll was fully assimilated into Canadian political life. In the arid and austere years of the 1980s, both federal parties…
Sick People or Sick Societies?
The words “health care” and “crisis” have become inseparable in any discussion about health policy in Canada. Stories about long waiting lists for surgery, interminable delays to see specialists, spiralling…
4831…Bye Bye Bev Oda
It’s like deja vu all over again.I think I already wrote this but I am too busy/lazy to check.Sun TV is reporting that Bev Oda, the truth challenged International Co-operation…
The Birth of Medicare
Medicare was born in Saskatchewan on July 1, 1962. It would be the first government-controlled, universal, comprehensive single-payer medical insurance plan in North America. It was a difficult birth. The…
Want to Know What I Think I Do for Living? Canada Writes Asks Me Some Questions
Earlier this year I spent a slew of evenings reading entries in the Canada Writes non-fiction competition. Very interesting, with some sterling entries in the lot I was given. (There…
Pipeline to Perdition
The photo ops of the Canadian prime minister petting panda bears and cuddling kittens have all been calculated to humanize Stephen Harper and project an image of someone who gives…
Ten Days of Patriot Love: June 24 to July 1
Like to see anybody in the US of A take on “Oh Say Can You See” in the same spirit And if you’re feeling beaten by the heat, here’s the…
Harper Refuses To Release Taxpayer-Funded Study On Pensions
The conclusion the cynic would draw (that’s me) is that the report suggests no need for the changes Harper has made in the OAS. H/t Brandon Laraby Recommend this Post