August 2012
Mars Rover captures shadow of Vic Toews on Mars
This is a recent photo from the Mars Rover — explanations abound but to my mind it is obviously the shadow of Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews spying on…
Nunavut man charged with threatening police during attempted suicide
Increasing the detachment in Kimmirut makes sense. That said, this new incident is atypical and merely a sad suicidal man acting out. Yes, it could have ended very badly but…
A Worthington column that must be read
Ban assault weapons: that’s one of our leading conservatives saying that, folks.
N.W.T Premier Walks It Back
He wasn’t announcing his support for the Northern Gateway pipe-line. Oh noooo, he wasn’t talking about that at all: The Northern route McLeod had been talking about for oil and…
Harper tells a good joke.
That Stephen Harper – who knew he could be a comedian at times? Just look at the funny lines he told reporters in the last couple of days: “Decisions on…
PQ Proposes New Language Law!
The PQ leader Pauline Marois is proposing new language laws and a her version of secularism. Both of which will make Quebec much worse off. The new Language laws or…
PQ Proposes New Language Law!
The PQ leader Pauline Marois is proposing new language laws and a her version of secularism. Both of which will make Quebec much worse off. The new Language laws or…
PQ Proposes New Language Law!
The PQ leader Pauline Marois is proposing new language laws and a her version of secularism. Both of which will make Quebec much worse off. The new Language laws or…
PQ Proposes New Language Law!
The PQ leader Pauline Marois is proposing new language laws and a her version of secularism. Both of which will make Quebec much worse off. The new Language laws or…
BCL On Coren’s Show
Here it is: Not bad. I’d like the last couple of minutes back. Essentially, the point is that people say fight speech with more speech, but then you spend all…
Olympian comes out as HIV positive
Australian trampoline gymnast Ji Wallace has not only come out as gay- but has also revealed that he is HIV positive. Wallace won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney…
NDP Convention Hijacking Incident: Time To Call Bullshit
The source of the cyber attack that disrupted voting at the NDP’s leadership convention in March remains a mystery, and further investigation to find out who was responsible has been…
August Muskrat Round-up #nlpoli
First up, there are lots of ways to make bad decisions. The Telegram’s Russell Wangersky did a fine job on Tuesday of pointing out that natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy…
Why White Supremacists Should Be A Concern To Everyone
Last month, two shooting incidents landed Toronto in the national news because of the links to gangs (including this in which two people, including a child, were murdered). These two…
Securitized Influence
Today I am writing two posts as a brief exchange on Twitter has inspired some thoughts. @Min_Reyes, Samara’s top #cdnpoli participant was approached by a Twitter user apparently from The…
Alberta’s Expensesgate scandal: Just saying it’s over doesn’t mean it’s over
Transparency, Alberta style, with Gloria Stuart as Alison Redford, William Harrigan as Dr. Chris Eagle and Claude Rains as Fred Horne. Below: Don Scott, yesterday’s Invisible Man. Alberta’s mainstream media…
What is art?
“The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument…