IT’S GLORIOUS LEADER’S BIRTHDAY!
Somehow I ended up on the federal Conservative party’s email list. I would consider this a massive fail of their vaunted CIMS system since I’ve been a card-carrying New Democrat…
April 2013
Former Tory strategist Allan Gregg rips Harper Cons’ ‘systematic attack’ on facts and reason
A couple of old guys born just before the last King passed on, one of them your blogger, the other the pollster and former Tory strategist Allan Gregg. Below: Mr.…
Our Twice-A-Year Celebration of "Dead Nazi Day"
We’ve written in the past that we do not celebrate the deaths of anyone, including boneheads. We do make at least two exception to this general rule. While boneheads like…
Jason Kenney and the Foreign Workers Scam
Well it was quite a spectacle. Jason Kenney in the House of Commons, trying to limit the damage of the foreign worker's scandal.Desperately trying to make it go away.But the…
Abacus BC Poll: 43% NDP, 33% BC Liberal
Abacus Data has come out with a new poll on BC’s provincial scene, perfect because, if you don’t know yet, the Left Coast is in the middle of an election.…
5930…Rich Versus Poor
The Atlantic just published a piece that explains why rich people, specifically rich kid people, do better than poor people, specifically poor kid people. It has a lot to do…
Best moment of the debate – Christy Clark shames BC Cons’ Cummins: "You are not Conservative enough."
Simply delicious.
Not Impressed with NDP Climate Motion Ploy
Today the NDP’s environment critic used an opposition day to have the House of Commons vote on this motion: “That this House: (a) agree with many Canadians and the International…
Who I had dinner with tonight
Nice guy. American, I think. There was a “John” Chrétien guy there, too, as I recall. Quite the characters.
thank you, jason collins!
It has finally happened. A professional male athlete in one of the big US team sports has come out as gay. Someone had to be first, and that person is…
Study Reveals 30 Toxic Chemicals at High Levels at Exxon Arkansas Tar Sands Pipeline Spill Site
An independent study co-published by the Faulkner County Citizens Advisory Group and Global Community Monitor reveals that, in the aftermath of ExxonMobil’s Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill of over 500,000…
Some Islamophobic new atheists as bad as Fox News on steroids
Atheist “fundamentalists” whose very existence seems predicated on their non-belief in God can be as extremist and narrow minded as the worst religious prig. They’re fixated, the way many extremists…
Former costs grid of no relevance to solicitor client assessments with proper retainers
Bales Beall LLP v. Fingrut, 2013 ONCA 266 provides: Second, the motion judge held that the assessment officer erred by treating the former costs grid as the benchmark for setting…
NOT for the people
In an 1830 speech, Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster said that government should be “Made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.” British Columbia’s present ruling…
war resister and peace activist kim rivera sentenced to 14 months in military prison
From the War Resisters Support Campaign: Iraq War Resister Kimberly Rivera sentenced to 14 months in military prison after deportation by Harper government On Monday afternoon, during a court-martial hearing…
5929…Tim Hudak Chokes Again
It is nice that there are some things in this life that one can rely upon. Thanks Tim Hudak! WFDS
Banana-oil Republic of Harperland. . . . .
We in the leftist blogging community have become something like forensic auditors of the slow debasement of democratic values under the HarperCon cabal. It seems that each week we have…