“Our Answer To Enbridge Is NO”
Ta’Kaiya, 10, lives in North Vancouver and is from the Sliammon First Nation. She traveled on the Yinka Dene Alliance Freedom Train that recently crossed Canada to raise awareness of…
2012
The Old Wooden Mace #nlpoli
The Telegram’s James McLeod took some time during a recent Estimates committee hearing on Monday to dash off a post at his blog about the ceremonial aspects of the legislature…
Heartland Expert Exodus Update: 3 Staunch Defenders, 1 Quiet De-Listing
A number of folks I’ve emailed re the HI Institute billboard fiasco, who you’d think would probably come out in defense of the institute, have done so. Here’s a response…
Québec student protests send a powerful message
Québec education minister Line Beauchamp has resigned. In making the announcement she said “I am resigning because I have decided I am not part of the solution.” She denies that…
Evildoers prefer secrets stay secret
Sins of colonialists lay concealed for decades in secret archive, Ian Cobain and Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, Apr. 18, 2012 “In June 1957, Eric Griffiths-Jones, the attorney general of the…
Thank You John Baird, You Saved My Life
Michael Ignatieff hated Canada, he was repeatedly caught feeding off of beaver spinal cord fluid. The Gun Registry was moments away from assigning bar codes to the foreheads of farmers’…
What kind of message will Alison Redford send Stephen Harper in the next federal election?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Calgary West MP Rob Anders plot the destruction of Alberta Premier Alison Redford and her Progressive Conservative Party. Warning: neo-Con Alberta politicians may not have…
When they don’t care about the answer
Jack Knox column: Students show the way to a fair hearing, Times Colonist, May 13, 2012 “…This is what all of Canada could use right now: a listening competition. “Had…
In today’s Sun: Con war room, missing in action
Brad Lavigne looked stumped, for a moment or two. Lavigne — the brilliant Jack Layton loyalist who helped pilot the New Democratic Party to its historic gains in the election…
If I Were A…Conservative?
Today’s post deals mostly with subjective reasoning; I’ve often wondered what my life would be like if I were a Conservative. And that is going to be the subject of…
The McCarthyite Cons and the Dutch Disease
OK. So I was wrong. When Christy Clark became the latest Con stooge to denounce Thomas Mulcair, for simply pointing out that the Dutch Disease is killing our manufacturing sector,…
Eighteen degrees
That’s how cold the water was in the pool this evening. And still, Mallory and her friend C went for a brief swim, dunking their heads and all. Of course…
Sentencing For Terry Tremaine Set
Paul Fromm has been complaining about the delays. I assume then that he is happy about this. FURTHER TO the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal (2011 FCA 297)…
This is weird
Sent by reader Scott, spotted in NYT on Sunday. He and I found this weird. You?
Radio Topics
Hope everyone had a good Mother’s Day and enjoyed Bikefest. We have an exciting show lined up for you this Tuesday with three interview. At 7:30 Mike will be speaking…
Illinois Coal Association Emerges As Heartland Denial-a-Palooza Sponsor
shutterstock_71070031.jpg Following the May 4 shocking Unabomber billboard campaign and subsequent departures of more of Heartland's corporate donors, Heartland was likely heartened to add the Illinois Coal Association as a…
4639…Ashley Madison Says Jean Charest’s Ex
Hood is the most adulterous in the most adulterous city in Canada. The ‘hood is The Glebe, the city of course is Ottawa. My source, The Milky Show from BOB…
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