Now Here’s A Budget That Makes Sense
Although largely shut out of the public discussion on government budgets, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released its alternative to the upcoming federal budget. While the Harper government…
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Leadership 2012 Roundup
A couple more days’ worth of developments in the NDP’s leadership campaign… – Niki Ashton argued that Canada’s grain supply should be considered a strategic resource in evaluating takeover bids…
Postmedia: The decision on the cell phone squeeze has come
It looks like Canadians—especially those who added their names to the petition at http://StopTheSqueeze.ca/ or sent our report to their MP—have had an effect in forcing the Big Three to…
On Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 Campaign
If there was a prize for the NGO who best commodifies white man’s burden on the African continent, and more specifically in Uganda, Invisible Children would win.They recently struck again…
Take a moment to feel sorry for Michael Sona
Yes, I remember Michael Sona and his actions from last May. At the time I was thinking about how strong a kool-aid dependency he must have. In my opinion, to…
Poutine Getting Stale – Facts Stay Fresh
Ezra Levant fans are taking the position that there is no scandal. Some go so far as to say there is no evidence, and the Conservative Party wasn’t the obvious…
Solar storms spur huge aurora borealis
Here’s some time-lapse video taken in Norway of the auroras caused by the solar flares. Gorgeous. And here’s a pic from of the Aurora Australis … from space! Taken by…
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Dang it – anyone at the scene of that fire, I dropped my keys fumbling with my lenses…
Looking forward to covering the NDP Leadership Convention
The NDP is holding their leadership convention on March 23-24 in Toronto, and they put out the word a month or so back that they would be accrediting bloggers to…
National Post column argues for the death penalty
One name: Guy Paul Morin. If the death penalty existed he would surely have been put to death for a crime he did not commit. (Guy Paul Morin was wrongly…
Real Women In The Senate
Senator Terry M. Mercer gives government Senate Leader Marjory LeBreton the gears over anti-Gay hate group Real Women’s being invited to help hand out Diamond Jubilee Medals in honour of…
It’s all about export, eh #nlpoli
On Tuesday, natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy told the House of Assembly: Essentially, what Muskrat Falls does, it allows 40 per cent of the power for the Island to meet…
Heartless Canada Does It Again – Rejecting Another Immigrant Family Because of Son with Autism
Image by Kaz Novak, The Hamilton Spectator An immigrant South Korean family, Sungsoo Kim, wife Sunmi Kim, daughter Lisa and son Taehoon, have been living in Canada for the past…
Digital locks still intact
For those of you keeping score, the copyright bill is headed back to the Commons after being amended in committee, but it only took amendments from Conservatives, not from the…
Legitimizing myths and superstitions…
…And I have a Loblaws bag with the remains of a Leprechaun contained therein. Really! I do! An Israeli antiquities dealer has been acquitted of forging relics, including the contentious…
Inside the Conservative Voter Information Database (CIMS)
CIMS rocks. You can’t win without it. — Prescient Conservative campaigner in 2004 The centrepiece of whatever group perpetrated the robocall hoaxes, and is so far known to the public…
4346…March Madness In Hours
This is a good day. Go Orange. WFDS
4345…Mea Culpa Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, the smarty pants of smarty pantses, had a birthday yesterday. He is still dead so no candles. Interesting fact: he was a big Soupy Sales fan. Soupy Sales…
Media focus on senior dumped at Emergency Ward signals more trouble for Redford Tories
Journalists focus on Beth Podgurny at yesterday morning’s news conference in Edmonton. Below: Grace Denver, her daughter Beth with husband Jackie Podgurny. As shocking as it is an ambulance crew…