S**t Saskatchewanians Say
From Thread Saskatoon
2012
Forum poll revealed: With an iPhone and a blog, we can now predict poll results before they’re published!
Wildrose Party Leader Danielle Smith with the voice of Forum Research Inc. She’s smiling because she likes his answers. Alberta pollsters and politicians may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below:…
I Heard My Brainstem Screaming.
PariahRevisited TheHorrorVille I was going to write about the faux-triumphalistic return of Gordon Campbell to the Vancouver Board of Cronies….errrr….’Trade’ when I got home this evening. Honest, I was. More…
This year’s embarrassing rap moment at CPAC. Play Count the N-words.
This is incredible. This white rap duo, featuring “occasional Fox News contributor Steven Crowder and rapping pal Chris Loesch, married to the conservative political analyst Dana Loesch”, performed this rap…
In Praise of the National Film Board: Part Two
A few weeks ago I brought you the short movie Wild Life, the sad story of an Englishman who wanted to be a cowboy in Alberta, courtesy of the National…
Swedish beats and archival treats – Friday Film Pick: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
One of the best documentaries to emerge from 2011 is the incredibly inspired, polished and dreamy The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975. A treasure trove of hundreds of hours of 16…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Another satellite for Venezuela
Looks like Simón Bolívar will have even more company in orbit. In addition to his Bolivian and Ecuadorian counterparts, he’s going to be joined by another Venezuelan satellite, named after…
Jimbo Flaherty and the Con Pension Scam
Well even by Jimbo Flaherty’s ghastly standards it was a bizarre and ugly sight. There he was late this afternoon, looking like he wanted to hide under a chair, or…
4201…The Police
You have seen them before. You will see them again. So why in the name of our Lord do you have to slow down on the free way when you…
Little Green Lies: Prime Minister Harper and Canada’s Environment
438px-Stephen_Harper_by_Remy_Steinegger.jpg This is a guest post by Dr. David R. Boyd, an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University and author of The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions,…
4200…Tomorrow Is Hockey Day In Canada
I feel it. Habs over Toronto. Scott Gomez gets a Gordie Howe hat trick.WFDS
When churches turn a blind eye
Spiritual abusers take the authority given to them as gospel ministers that is to be used to help people grow closer to God, and they pervert that authority into power…
What Business Does a Sitting Government Have Proclaiming Policies Another Government Would Have to Introduce?
When Harper was in Davos he was practically busting to tell the high priced nobs that he was going to trim Canada’s sails, especially our nation’s Old Age Security programme.…
Flat Earthers, here’s an event you don’t want to miss. Breakfast with Rex Murphy.
You have to wonder about these big-time charitable foundations. Last week we discovered that the much-heralded Susan G. Komen Foundation was nothing but a front for rabid right wingers and…
Friday night
Something different this week, older stuff. Happened to be listening to songs on the iPod that started with the word “Don’t” for some reason, so here we go… Best campaign…
On Rob Ford and generosity of spirit | #TOpoli #Jack
Bear with me for a second. I’ve been indulging in some rather unseemly woohooing, both here and on the Tweeter, over the results of this week’s transit debate at city…
Musical interlude
Matthew Good Band – Symbolistic White Walls
Didn’t you used to be NDP Foreign Affairs critic?
We’d really like to take NDP leadership candidate Paul Dewar seriously. Really, we would. It’s hard to imagine a candidate who struggles in unscripted French being a credible face for…
Save the ecoEnergy program
I’m a homeowner. So that puts me in a fairly privileged position, I admit. Nevertheless when the federal government came up with the notion of the ecoEngery program the environmentalist…
Federal Government Cuts: Julian Fantino Replaced By Tape Recorder
Fantino had to relinquish his Canadian pin and gave it to the tape recorder A cassette tape recorder – technology 30 years old – has made Conservative MP Julian Fantino’s…