The Funeral of Shelagh Gordon
For anyone who believes that it is the size of your wallet, the house you live in, or the title of your job that gives your life worth and meaning,…
2012
Harper’s Nixon moment
Well played, you baby-noshing election-stealing dead-eyed bastard, well played indeed. I’m sometimes accused of being cynical about politics or seeing conspiracies where none exist and, up to a point, I…
Conservative Insiders Admit Their Database Used for Election Fraud
The National Post has received a politically convenient leak of “Pierre Poutine’s” telephone records, presumably from a Conservative sounce given that John Ivison’s story on the subject is backed up…
On saintly proclamations
Ed Broadbent’s recent foray into the NDP’s leadership campaign has certainly attracted plenty of media attention. But it’s worth taking a skeptical look as to why the story has been…
Harper Won’t Let BC Salmon Stand In His Way
With BC salmon stocks showing signs in recent years of serious troubles Steve Harper seems intent on making their plight much worse yet. If the name Enbridge comes to mind,…
Credibility of Police Officers
R v Favorite, O.J. No. 1184 holds: 11 That having been said, it is my intention to include in my final charge to the jury in this case the following instructions…
In Defence of Thomas Mulcair
I wasn’t planning to write anything about the NDP leadership race today, but after yesterday’s attack on Thomas Mulcair by Ed Broadbent, I feel I have no choice. For that…
What Jedras Said
Jeff Jedras (aka A BCer in Toronto) has a brilliant post up just now about the follies of merger activists who propose the merger on the grounds of wanting a…
wmtc survey: social bookmarking websites
For a paper I am writing, I am researching tagging as used in social bookmarking websites, like Delicious (said to be the first successful social bookmarking site), Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon,…
Robocon: Was there a conspiracy and who conspired? The wide net of the law
So far we have 700 clear cases of complaints to Elections Canada about voter suppression acts in the May 2011 election. And we have 77 ridings identified where voter suppression…
Right’s war on women, er girls, reaches new lows with this lovely cartoon
The closer it gets to November, the more emboldened they come. But this poster from far-right blog Protein Wisdom is OK because a woman drew it and it’s satire. Yeah…
Wonder If The Birdman Wants To Send The Judges To…
. …His Highly-Concentrated Northern Relocation Camps. Why? Well, it would appear that, based on the reporting of The Globe’s S.Dhillon and J.Hunter, dem judges, dey gettin’ uppity: Asserting that the…
Emotionally devastating documentary explores Israeli bombing of Gaza – Friday Film Pick: Tears of Gaza
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed or wounded in Israel’s latest bombing campaign of Gaza, while the Israeli military stubbornly insists the child-killing attacks are necessary to stop “terrorism”. Such…
Our raison d’être can’t be opposing
The always bubbling in the background chatter about thedream of a few to see the Liberals and NDP to merge or form some sort ofcoalition came to the surface again…
Dud Subs, Dud Torpedoes
Those four second-hand subs the Defence Department duped the Canadian government into buying? 18-years after we got stuck with them, one of them, HMCS Victoria, actually managed to fire a…
Harper’s F-35 Joint Strike Farce
Here’s a brand new video from the LPC regarding the Harper government’s constantly shifting position with respect to the purchase of an unconfirmed number of F-35 stealth fighter jets that…
Encyclopedia Britannica: RIP
There was a sad death this week that you may have missed. The Encyclopedia Britannica — or, if you really want to get huffy about it, the Encyclopædia Britannica —…
Lessons from the US – when unions don’t strike to contest unjust laws
In my previous blog post, I listed the numerous times that both legal and illegal strike action was taken by Canadian unions and by BC teachers. Illegal strike action has…