Everyone, meet Bocanut – Updated
You may be familiar with him already. Check here, here and here. For many months now, Bocanut has been obsessively commenting on my website, media websites and other bloggers’ websites…
February 2013
Here’s some 2009 footage of Canadian Conservative Senator…
Here’s some 2009 footage of Canadian Conservative Senator Mike Duffy on CBC Newsworld’s Power & Politics. The title given to the Youtube video is 100% accurate: “a Drunken Mike Duffy…
Violence is almost never an acceptable response. Neither is rationalizing it.
In August 2012, Floyd Lee Corkins entered the Family Research Council (FRC) headquarters and opened fire, injuring a security guard as he was tackled — fortunately, before he could cause…
Mike Duffy’s Supposed New Reason for Residence Fraud: Healthcare Freeloading
Jane Taber of the Globe & Mail has acquired from an anonymous sourcea new explanation for why Senator Mike Duffy has an Ontario health card and doesn’t pay resident taxes…
Malala Yousafzai and Drone Attacks
It is commendable the great work young Malala has done, promoting education for young girls. This makes it all the more appalling that the Taliban would shoot her, a barbaric…
The Senate is not the problem
Its not the institution, its the self serving and partisan people appointed to it…. Recent events have once again brought calls for the senate to be abolished or reformed and…
Why Is This Man Smiling?
Could it have anything to do with the fact that he has made a successful career out of masquerades? First, of course, Mike Duffy donned the mask of a political…
dyke duo dupes fox news
The wingnut media continues to redefine irony. Yesterday Fox News ran a piece called “To be happy, we must admit women and men aren’t ‘equal'”. (Sorry, no link. Linking to…
Sound and fury, signifying nothing
There’s a truly great moment in Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, when Macbeth voices his last, and perhaps most moving, soliloquy about the fleetingness of life, and the meaning of what we…
Scared As Hell
Paranoia drives the Harper government. If you don’t believe that, consider what is happening at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Michael Harris writes: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, where a…
The Snowmageddon and the Con Apocalypse
Golly. I don't know how I did it. Survived the Great Toronto Snowmageddon.Because it was brutal eh?Toronto has not seen a snowfall exceeding 15 centimetres since Dec. 19, 2008, said…
More ROTFL
A while ago, long tenured radio talker Bill Good told us he was offended by suggestions that certain callers get special treatment and easy access to CKNW air waves. He…
Summit call for ATB Financial privatization sets stage for rural Alberta banking battle
The Alberta Treasury Branch agency brings rural financial services to Czar, Alberta. You’ve got to know offices like this are doomed if ATB Financial is privatized. Below: William Aberhart in…
Job Openings – B.C. Liberal Party
The prospect of more than $100K in compensation, an extraordinary pension plan, living allowances, expenses and generous payments for special duties assigned by party leaders appear not enough to fill…
5610…Stephen Harper Is An Historical Blip
You know. An anomaly.Yesterday morning’s fish wrap told me that “If a federal election were held in Canada today and Justin Trudeau were at the helm of the Liberal Party,…
work: both paid and unpaid
One Model of How Things Work I’m thinking today about work, both productive work like building houses or caring for sick people, and less productive work like packaging bad mortgages…
Any fool who still says “better dead than red” in…
Any fool who still says “better dead than red” in this day and age should have to prove it. Try both options and get back to us.
Actual changes in NCR law – thanks to Anita Szigeti for this
Here is the actual proposed language of the changes in Bill C54 – check out the new section at the heart of Review Board law – see if you can…