My response to Tom Flangan – Canadian super PACs.
Tom Flanagan, wrote a piece a while back in the Globe and Mail, in response to the Working Families Coalition in Ontario. I touched on this organization and unions involvement…
September 2012
A sobre balance sheet
It will take a few days, if not weeks, to dissect the results of the September 4 election. First off, I think the left has to be candid in its…
Watergate Journalist Carl Bernstein Spoke at Event Supporting Iranian ‘Terrorist’ Group
Written by Justin Elliott | ProPublica On a Saturday afternoon last February, journalist Carl Bernstein got up on stage at the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan and…
How to Make Money Selling Drugs – Documentary is part how-to video, part indictment of drug policy
Of the 372 film titles listed in the Toronto International Film Festival’s program this year, few are likely to raise more eyebrows than How to Make Money Selling Drugs, a…
5146…Poor Tim Hudak
This has not been a good week for the boy who grew up in suburban Buffalo. First he loses an uber safe seat in Kitchener-Waterloo. Today his hometown football team,…
REVIEW: Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry
Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation by Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard (McGIl University Press 2008).I don't have time to write a detailed review of this…
Hintonburg Handmade Hallowe’en – Volunteers needed
Miss Vicky has always wanted to see some kind of Hallowe’en event in the ‘hood. Hallowe’en is the best, isn’t it? When else do you get to dress up and…
Sunday Afternoon ‘Rider Blogging
No, the Saskatchewan Roughriders shouldn’t try to plan to win games the way they did today. But while the ‘Riders left plenty of room for improvement, they also showed some…
BC NDP Must Come Clean on its Full Energy Policy
The NDP are getting a free ride – at least they certainly are on the energy file. I must ask again: Why are they not condemning the proposed twinning of…
Understatement
As I wrote about last night, former Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day testified before a Federal Court on Thursday to explain why, in 2008, he renewed five security certificates, including…
President Vladimir Putin and Stephen Harper meet during APEC
Harper wanted to get big headlines and photo-op for meeting with Vladimir Putin. He wanted to have bragging rights that he raised the issue of Syria and Iran with Putin.…
Sept. 9: more lying?
There’s a remarkable story that is not in Saturday TandT – though it has appeared in papers around the world. Let me bore you a little bit at the start…
Blogging will be light until Equinox…
Blogging has been light non-existent for the past couple weeks, as I’ve been preoccupied with a fifteen-part chronicle of my life in fuel cells. A vacation now beckons, meaning that…
Smmmmmmmmokkinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!
Just when you thought you had heard it all… Here it comes again! Bev Oda was busted for smoking in a Washington DC hotel room, and fined $250 dollars for…
What’s More Likely, Voter Fraud Or A Bee Sting?
This video nails it, but Canadians take note as well. Voter suppression and other voter control efforts are underway by the Harperites!
Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Praises Steve Harper, Sort Of
Steve’s biggest fan, Israel’s Benny Netanyahu, has sung praises of Canada’s p.m. for severing diplomatic ties with Iran. Canada said it acted because Iran was a terrorist state supporting Assad…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Stephen Kimber makes the case for a financial transactions tax in Atlantic Business: (W)hat can supposedly sovereign nations do when individual governments…
Robot week
Hi folks, this week I’m playing a few more things from the “best of” The Skwib. My obsession with the technological singularity continues, with a focus on robots. Next week,…
Iran’s Strategic Diplomatic Victory over the Washington-Israeli Axis
Iran chaired, hosted and led the recently rejuvenated Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Teheran, attended by delegates from 120 countries, including 31 heads of state and 29 foreign secretaries of…
Gregg On Harperland
In his brilliant essay, 1984 in 2012 Allen Gregg delineates how much Stephen Harper’s Party — for that’s what it is — learned from Orwell. The Harperites, he writes, have…