Thank you Alexander Mackenzie!
Today is the 138th anniversary of the Canada’s 3rd federal election and the election of Canada’s first Liberal Prime Minister, Alexander Mackenzie. PM Mackenzie’s short tenure as PM have us…
2012
The perfect government agency
Big budget. Well-paid staff. Travel. Board meetings. Expense accounts. Outside consultants. Brand-new offices, furniture, computers. And nothing to do. Back in the day, I recall a polemical article making the…
Why? Why? Why?
Gwynne Dwyer is obviously wondering why world powers are clinging to so much military capacity. Defence Budgets and Cave Men For the first time in history, NO great power is…
Why? Why? Why?
Gwynne Dwyer is obviously wondering why world powers are clinging to so much military capacity. Defence Budgets and Cave Men For the first time in history, NO great power is…
Why? Why? Why?
Gwynne Dwyer is obviously wondering why world powers are clinging to so much military capacity. Defence Budgets and Cave Men For the first time in history, NO great power is…
Why? Why? Why?
Gwynne Dwyer is obviously wondering why world powers are clinging to so much military capacity. Defence Budgets and Cave Men For the first time in history, NO great power is…
The South Shall Rise Again
Newt Gingrich swept back to prominence in the Republican ranks by a convincing win in South Carolina. Gingrich has been openly race-baiting and it seems the good folks of America’s…
Now this is interesting
We suspect that some of our readers will be upset that the UFC has banned gun ads. Others, we suspect, just won’t care.
This can’t be good. Newt Gingrich gives shout out to Stephen Harper.
Eww. If you thought Stephen Harper was a little creepy and his methods suspect, you will think even less of our PM after last night’s South Carolina GOP primary. Newt…
Foreign influences on Harper government revealed! – Dawg’s Blawg (Blog) | #tarsands #astroturf @EthicalOil
Sometimes playing the nativist card can get you trumped. Harper ministers honking on about “foreign influences” stalling the construction of environmentally destructive pipelines (while they ignore foreign oil lobbyists and…
How Crazy Has American Politics Become?
This crazy:h/t
Parliament in Review: November 18, 2011
Friday, November 18 saw two pieces of legislation discussed. And the contrast couldn’t have been much more stark between an opposition effort to develop better legislation, and a government focused…
Long Quote: History
So long as one operates within the discourse of ‘history’ produced at the institutional site of the university, it is not possible simply to walk out of the deep collusion…
Newt Gingrich Thanks Harper for Being a Pro-American Conservative
Rick Santorum may get his fashion tips from Stephen Harper, but Newt Gingrich likes the whole package. The first truly pro-American prime minister of Canada. What’s not to love? What…
Foreign influences on Harper government revealed!
Sometimes playing the nativist card can get you trumped. Harper ministers honking on about “foreign influences” stalling the construction of environmentally destructive pipelines (while they ignore foreign oil lobbyists and…
Pinheirinho
As I write this, a violent eviction of 9,000 people is taking place in Brazil by a reported 2,000 military police. People are being shot down as they defend their…
Stop Whining and Fight Back
This is great advice but a little hollow. In fact, Warren's column essentially does the same thing it decries: Stop Whining about Political Impudence They’re doing to Rae what they…
Stop Whining and Fight Back
This is great advice but a little hollow. In fact, Warren’s column essentially does the same thing it decries: Stop Whining about Political Impudence They’re doing to Rae what they…
Stop Whining and Fight Back
This is great advice but a little hollow. In fact, Warren's column essentially does the same thing it decries: Stop Whining about Political Impudence They’re doing to Rae what they…