Hudak celebrates Franco-Ontarien Day by appointing a Francophone Affairs critic…who doesn’t speak French
I’m not going to pretend that my French is great, but I’m also not a Francophone affairs critic for the Official Opposition.
September 2013
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Perked-up cats.
Why am I not allowed to have a personality?
Why am I not allowed to have a personality? He smiles at me, “Hey girl, where are you from?” I reply, “Vancouver… Canada.” I’m partly hopeful this will be the…
Canada Has A ‘Just’ Society …. Mostly ‘Just’ For The Rich!!!
Remember when that wayward young skier was billed $10,000 towards his rescue costs after going out on his own at a British Columbia ski resort? Well here’s the double standard…
Brian Topp Reveals How NDP Plays Cynical Partisan Games with Environmental Issues
I have been trying to get through B.C. NDP campaign manager and former federal leadership challenger Brian Topp’s August 21, 2013 “Campaign Post Mortem” (Topp’s own name for this document)…
The current state of play in Canadian poliltics
The current state of Canadian politics has been the subject of many columns emerging from Ottawa. The absence of a parliamentary sitting has led many to conjecture on the current…
A Little Common Sense Goes A Long Way!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Our friends over at the Common Sense Canadian, Rafe Mair and Damien Gillis are putting out some of the best journalism available in Canada today. Running…
From My Quotes Cupboard: European foreign policy
What then does a European foreign and security policy look like? For beginners, it’s so utterly different from anything that came before it in human history that it requires a…
Attacks on Climate Change Science Hinder Solutions
By David Suzuki. Starting in late September, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its Fifth Assessment Report in three chapters and a summary. Not to be outdone, contrarians…
Secret Ontario Poll
Nick Kouvalis and his Campaign Research did it. But it’s behind this paywall. Anyone know what it says? John Michael McGrath claims its good news for Ontario Liberals. Well no,…
Stephen Harper puppet master
Filed under: art
Iggy’s Back – Slamming Dion, Rae & Layton
Michael Ignatieff has a reputation for smearing others, even where they’ve been right and he’s been wrong, and he appears to have lost none of his appetite for that sort…
Best tweet on the Blogging Tories ever..
Stephen Taylor probably won’t be happy. The Ottawa Citizen’s Glen Megregor, said this on Twitter this AM about his collective of Conservative bloggers: “Have you seen bloggingtories.ca? Fringe cranks are…
Lapham Visits Death
For 40 years during the Cold War, the American government, both Democrat and Republican, deployed the shadow of death (i.e., the constant threat of nuclear annihilation) to limit the freedoms…
Why have the Irish not revolted?
Reblogged from Sráid Marx: The defeat of the opposition to the property tax and the ability of the Government to impose a second Croke Park austerity deal might lead many…
Stephen Harper missing?
Not to worry! He was found somewhere in the Northwest Territories.
Virginia Is For Lovers – Provided They’re Married and It’s Missionary Position Only
If you enjoy politics, there’s no end of fascinating stuff coming out of Virginia in the runup to state elections. State Republicans are in a tizzy at the prospect of…
Scientists as certain of climate change as they are that smoking kills
by Seth Borenstein – Associated Press WASHINGTON – Top scientists from a variety of fields say they are about as certain that global warming is a real, man-made threat as…