The Draft Again? The New York Times Suggests It Might Be a Good Thing
In an op ed piece in The New York Times today, Thomas E. Ricks says: Let’s Draft Our Kids. He writes; “In late June, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the former…
2012
Speaking of fluff: Too good not to share
By Sandra Thomas, Staff Writer July 9, 2012 Duck walkFormer Courier writer Pat Johnson sent us a YouTube video to enjoy and we thought it was too great not to…
Environment: Death of Evidence
Death of Evidence OTTAWA — Scientists will gather in Ottawa today to stage what’s billed as a funeral procession to mourn the death of evidence. The protest sponsored by the…
Oil Sands Fact Check: New API Front Group
shutterstock_48011344.jpg How do you sell a rotten bag of goods? Rule number one of effective propaganda: repackage it into something seemingly less grotesque. In that spirit, the Houston Chronicle recently…
NDP leadership election campaign debt
The NDP leadership campaign sparked considerable interest among Canadians and saw NDP membership soar, rising over 50% in six months to 128,351 on election day. Many of these first time…
Jason Kenny asks Canadians to thank him!!!
A petition on the immigration minister’s website asks Canadians to thank Kenney for his work to “streamline benefits afforded to refugee claimants under the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) and…
Bev Oda is smoking hot!!
And she stinks too.
What Falls was that, again? #nlpoli
Tim Powers is a local boy who has done good for himself as a lobbyist in Ottawa. Powers is a sharp guy who is very well-connected in Tory circles. The…
Unlike Sarah Palin, I Really Can See Russia From My Backyard
Well I can see something of Russia anyway. I can see smoke from Russian wildfires creating a haze over local mountains. At first I thought it was just water vapour…
4862…Racism In Gatineau Victimizes 9 Yr Old Girl
The Ottawa Citizen reports this morning that a poor little Gatineau girl had to miss her team’s championship soccer game coz the adults running the tournament told her to take…
Context is everything
Greater Essex County District School Board v. United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada, Local 552, 2012 ONCA 482…
A Step Beyond Positive Thinking
Positive thinking gets a lot of praise because people think that just changing one’s thoughts their lives would improve. This is not entirely true. It turns out to really make…
More fluff than substance at Park Board meetings
Last night the Commissioners of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation passed two more fluff resolutions that could have been left to staff directions. The first, concerning a review…
Wear This, Enbridge
“Trust Us.” That’s the theme behind Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline PR campaign. The company is desperate to get the public convinced they’re trustworthy. They’re pros, they know what they’re doing,…
The Other Side of Justin Trudeau’s Political Lineage
Until Justin Trudeau makes his final decision as to whether he’ll be running for the Liberal leadership or not, we’ll no doubt be treated to endless journalistic wheel spinning from…
A small village about to be demolished
The small village of Susiya in the Israeli Occupied Territories is about to be demolished yet again. But most Canadians have never even heard about the first, second, third and…
July10: lesson one: the headline
The headline should reflect the theme of the news story. That’s important because the headline is what people remember. In fact, it will often be the only part of the…
The Muse of Deepest Annex: Tabatha Southey, who thought the Manson murders were a hoot, too
Ms. Southey objects to my column, below. She thinks I’m a “dick,” etc. for having effrontery to criticize her friend. Yawn. She also thinks her tweet below, about Luka Magnotta’s…
In Ottawa, scientists to mourn the death of Canadian evidence
Canadian scientists gather in Ottawa today to stage a funeral procession to protest the Harper government’s draconian cuts to federal scientific programs and systematic muzzling of Canadian scientists. The protest…
Summer of 2012: North Americans Begin to Harvest Climate Chaos They’ve Sown
A friend and newly graduated family physician told us a story about a young man who came to his clinic for medical advice. The young man was having a hard…