Normalizing secrecy
I haven’t commented yet on the story surrounding Tom Mulcair’s request for basic investigation into back-channel information between the Trudeau government and the Supreme Court of Canada – which seems…
May 2013
Over 70 Community Groups Demand Cancellation of “Border Security” Reality TV Show
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Over 70 community groups have signed a letter demanding the immediate cancellation of anti-immigrant reality TV show, Border Security. The letter is addressed…
Politicians Fiddling While Planet Burns: Scientists Warn 400 PPM Milestone Ahead
From Citizens Climate Lobby Canada: MAY 1, 2013 – “For the first time in 3 million years , the average daily concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as recorded…
Ontario Saves Experimental Lakes Area
The federal government of Canada is so anti-environment that it hurts everyone on the planet. Their unwavering support for the world-destroying tar sands, refusal to work with other countries to…
The Revolt of the Con Porn Peddlers
Uh oh. It looks as if Stephen "Raincoat" Harper is not only having trouble controlling his base impulses.Controlling his depraved desire to portray Justin Trudeau as a girly man.*Pant* *Pant."He's…
While Exxon Spins on Mayflower Tar Sands Spill Cleanup, Oil Threatens Fishing Lake and Arkansas River
ExxonMobil would sure like you to think that everything is just fine down in Mayflower, Arkansas. That the roughly 5,000 barrel tar sands crude spill was regrettable, but the town…
While Exxon Spins on Mayflower Tar Sands Spill Cleanup, Oil Threatens Fishing Lake and Arkansas River
ExxonMobil would sure like you to think that everything is just fine down in Mayflower, Arkansas. That the roughly 5,000 barrel tar sands crude spill was regrettable, but the town…
NDP resolutions on “Building a clean and sustainable Canada”
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Canada’s Official Opposition, the New Democrats, passed all of the following resolutions during the second day of the party’s recent biennial Convention in…
May Day 2013
Stock markets around the world have made up the losses they incurred during the 2008–09 financial crisis and the workers of the world are paying the price for this recovery.…
Conor Is Safe Now But We Almost Lost Our Buddy: THANK YOU To ALL Who Saved Him!
In mid-April, pursuant to a neurologist’s advice, we started Conor on Lamotrogine, an anti-eleptic drug which is reputed to have benefited many people suffering from seizure activity. Hours after receiving…
Squeaky Wheels: Are more Ontario hospital CEOs likely to publicly air their grievances?
It makes us wonder why so few hospital CEOs are willing to publicly go to bat for their institutions. It’s true that in the past public advocacy was not always…
May 1: Let’s start by being nice….
Yesterday, there was a gatehering of people who represented 50,000 New Brunswickers opposed to shale gas exploration. The story in the Times and Transcript (A4) was unbiased, well-written, and included…
Big Telecom thinks they should get spectrum that was set aside for new entrants to create choice for Canadians
Big Telecom is trying to tell us everything is fine in Canada’s cell phone market. Canadians know different. Big Telecom wants to take scarce wireless assets meant for independent mobile…
Big Telecom thinks they should get spectrum that was set aside for new entrants to create choice for Canadians
Big Telecom is trying to tell us everything is fine in Canada’s cell phone market. Canadians know different. Big Telecom wants to take scarce wireless assets meant for independent mobile…
The Smoke and Mirrors of Environmental Destruction. . .
It has always been obvious to anyone who pays attention to such matters that the Harper Party has, from its inceptions, orchestrated an all out attack on environmental regulations in…
Shocker
Nobody could have foreseen that the much-ballyhooed Backbench Spring would give way to the Toadying Summer Olympics. But sure enough, the first question from a Con MP nominally challenging his…
5935…The #1 Resto In The World Is Not In Ottawa
You have no idea how amazed/surprised I was when last week it was revealed that your capital has the seventh best street eats on the planet. I was not surprised…
Stephen Harper and the Conservatives lost $3.1 billion
Stephen Harper and the Conservatives, who have put tremendous effort over the years to paint themselves as “sound fiscal managers” (despite turning the largest surplus ever into the largest deficit…
Cat Stickland-ized
Throw together more drawing, some Popsicolor textures… Seriously this isn’t done yet. I’ve taken a few days to think about the character, the expression… Something is coming to complete this.…