Stephen Harper and Danielle Smith discuss their infernal electoral machine as the elephant in the room looks on. Loony-right-wing Alberta politicians may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Wildrose-Harpercon crossovers…
**This post is an updated time capsule/link dump from Election 41, 29 Apr 2011 I’ve decided to finally post it to get it off my unfinished drafts list** Vintage Voter…
heartland logo.jpg President Joe Bast Dodges Responsibility – for Now It’s been a month since the Heartland Institute was caught in a St. Valentine’s Day Striptease – inadvertently exposing its…
Oh joy, rapture and crapture! More excited delirium from the “Government-Small-Enough-to-Crawl-Up-Your-Vagina-and-Police-Your-Uterus” crowd: Conservative Arizona lawmakers hope Arizona will join a handful of other states in banning most abortions after 20…
Alberta MLA's are scrambling to control the monster that has become the "Pay for No Work Committee." Scrambling to balance damage control with party unity on the eve of an…
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My daughter was just telling me about the Singularity philosophy and others of the “I can’t understand it, therefore God?” ilk — and I was somehow reminded of The Philosophers’…
This is a recent mail-out from fiscal Conservative MP Ryan Leef: “Federal Funding at all time high!” Don’t let the headline fool you, in the flyer he goes on to…
Ian Urquhart for Senate Bringing some political diversity to the race, University of Alberta Political Science Professor Ian Urquhart has announced that he will run as an Independent candidate in…
Source: National Post: Robocalls: Who is Rick McKnight? An interesting story, that so far the main-stream media has left alone; I’d like to imagine that it’s to do some fact…
Okay, before I go on, let me just say that this has become commonplace under the Harper regime. Nevertheless, the rest of the media is sagely playing dumb about the…
I’ll do a more detailed post about who my actual pics for leader are, but right now I’m going to share my predictions. 1. Thomas Mulcair will win on the…
Ottawa came out number one. Our mayor Jim Watson was so happy, excited, ecstatic about the whole thing you would think he was hitting a porn star on a regular…
Geez I hope I got that correct spelling wise or else Richard Schimelfenig of Delaware will be all over my case. Nonetheless if you care about these things you know…
Guest Post: A Doctor on Transvaginal Ultrasounds – Whatever: ‘via Blog this’ It is our responsibility, as always, to protect our patients from things that would harm them. Therefore, as…
Cats bound for the floor.
Then take your stupid report and chuck it. The CCPA has published a new hunk of PDF by economist Hugh Mackenzie which slices and dices the Drummond report’s fiscal forecast…
Listen to this interview of Damien Gillis by CKNW’s Simi Sara on recent revelations that so-called run of the river projects are killing fish. The two also discuss Provincial Minister…
CANADIAN POLITICS: DEFEND OUR SOCIAL HOUSING: True to form our present federal Conservative government is quite content to see funding for “social housing” (co-op, non-profit and public housing) gradually wither…
Uh… I like BCL, a lot. Great blogger, great addition to the LPC family. But really? “A merger of parties has to be like a merger of companies. The lower-downs…
