You just can’t fool all of the people all of the time
Poor Park Commissioner Aaron Jasper. It seems he just can’t get a break. In the Vancouver Courier, columnist Sandra Thomas writes that one of his liaison responsibilities wants to jettison…
2012
Putting the Progressive back in the Conservatives?
It’s September, the big back to school month, and Parliament resumes sitting this coming week. Interesting then to note some moves being made by the Harper government, perhaps designed to…
Republican Rick Santorum says that “smart people” would never side with conservatives
While speaking Saturday at the Values Voters Summit, Rick Santorum said that “smart people” would never side with conservatives. Santorum also claimed “the media” and “colleges and universities” would not…
Putin prepares for a fistfight with the EU over Gazprom gas policies: Who will win?
In this corner, we have the former head of the infamous KGB, President Vladimir Putin, he of the rugged outdoor, macho activities. And in the other corner, we have the…
Growing up in the muck-stream of America – The poetics of defiance in Rodney DeCroo’s "Allegheny, BC"
“Factories By the River” by Aaron Henry Gorson, Pittsburgh, PA “Allegheny, BC” is Rodney DeCroo’s first published book of poetry. It follows a body of musical work that has received…
Down we go, and the hiatus explained
So I took almost a month of hiatus from well, pretty much everything. Personal circumstances on top of daily perpetual stupidity is quite likely the cause – I don’t really…
Extremists Baiting Extremists Who Further Bait Extremists
We didn't write about the folks with Canadian Hindu Advocacy (all two or three of them) or their plan to harass Muslim worshippers outside a Toronto mosque by parading dogs…
Leadership 2013 Reference Page
A one-stop source for general links on the 2013 Saskatchewan NDP leadership campaign, to be updated as the race progresses. Please feel free to add additional suggestions in comments. General…
Harper Skulks Behind Cluster Bomb Ban
In 2008, countries around the world signed on to a global ban on cluster bomb munitions. Apparently the sheer humanity of it was too much for the Prince of Darkness…
CVRD Bylaws Will Not Protect the Shawnigan Watershed! So Bring In A New One!
The CVRD has the authority over land use. Will they draw up a bylaw that protects the Shawnigan Watershed, or not? The Assistand Deputy Minister of Environment Jim Standiford has…
Republicans: The Great Defenders of Freedom of Speech
Here is a great example. Thanks to Politics and its Discontents who first posted this story.
Harper’s Weird War Fetish
Salaberry Leads Voltigeurs at Chateauguay What is with Steve Harper’s bizarre obsession with the War of 1812? Canada, at that point, was British territory, more than a half century away…
Gaffe Seekers
How does the Daily Show or Fox News uncover hypocrisy of the political right or left? Do they have employees watching every news channel, every hour, of every day? No,…
The U.S.—India’s favourite major power
With the unwitting collaboration of an idiot “film-maker” in Los Angeles, irresponsible imams in the Middle East and Islamic extremists leading to the besieging of American embassies, the United States…
Empty chair Obama betrays America!
Romney said this week that Obama sympathized with the embassy rioters and everybody else said “Whaaa?”What we didn’t understand was that John Bolton and Dan Senor and the rest of…
I tell my kids that “hate” is not a nice word…
… but I am finding it increasingly difficult to avoid that word when thinking Harper’s ReformCons. Hey, I knew and we all knew that Stevie positively DESPISES the Public Service,…
Canada’s Imperial Premiership
You don’t have to convince many British Columbians that Ottawa no longer functions as a democracy. Consent, in the twisted mind of Stephen Harper, is something that is extracted at…
Weaver Slams Harper – Again
It wasn’t a large protest rally, just 200 people in the crowd, but the message was loud and clear – Harper must stop gagging Canadian scientists. On hand at the…
Sept. 15: Big gaps in the TandT….
The Moncton Times and Transcript which vowed to keep us fully and accurately informed on the shale gas issue has still not mentioned that medical staff at the Moncton Hospital…
‘Winners’ And Losers In Quebec Asbestos Mess
Photo: Vsmith/Wikipedia Support for Canadian chrysotile asbestos is dead. First point, this: Canada should have gotten out of the asbestos game a long time ago.All asbestos causes cancer. We won’t…