Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Tim Harper discusses Stephen Harper’s current list of distractions – with Rob Ford and his Senate appointees naturally topping the list. But sadly,…
2013
False Populists
Stephen Harper posed as a populist last weekend, claiming that he and Laureen didn’t go to Ottawa to join an elite. That line, Lawrence Martin writes, doesn’t ring true: The…
A Soap Company That Fights For a Better America
Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps are known for their cleaning power, but are increasingly getting known for their political power. The CEO of the company is a good example of a…
Fracking Victim Steve Lipsky’s Flaming Water is No Joke
Weatherford, Texas, homeowner Steve Lipsky has nothing to hide. He is not trying to take down Range Resources, a large oil and gas company with a reputation for bullying its…
Time For A Break
Recently, as I watched Peter Mansbridge’s One on One interview with former Prime Minister Joe Clark, I was reminded of a time when Canadian politics had more texture, depth, structure…
Health Links attract huge audience at HealthAchieve
There was a kind of sliding sound and then a rattle as a woman fell to the floor during Tuesday afternoon’s session of the Ontario Hospital Association’s HealthAchieve. When someone…
Alert to possibilities
Friendship can come in the most unexpected ways. (So do snacks.) Alltop is one big snack of humor!
More On The Rob Ford Tapes
Team Ford hired a hacker to try and destroy the first one and, yeah, the second one may actually be a sex-tape. Oh yuk.
Talking down to people #nlpoli
A very smart guy scolded someone in a Twitter exchange recently with the observation that people don’t like it when others – especially politicians – talk down to them. Well,…
Stephen Harper, Rob Ford, and the Hoser Nation
It couldn't have been a more disgusting sight, or a more depressing day for Canadian democracy. Three Canadian Senators sacrificed, along with due process, on the altar of political expediency.The…
The crux of the matter
The problems in the world have nothing to do with a lack of intelligence. They have everything to do with denial: and in particular, not just a denial of certain…
Deja Harper
With much more of a whimper than a bang, Harper’s three ‘disgraced’ Senators have been suspended from the Senate. No doubt, Conservative insiders are patting each other on the back…
Deja Harper
With much more of a whimper than a bang, Harper's three 'disgraced' Senators have been suspended from the Senate. No doubt, Conservative insiders are patting each other on the back…
A tale from the political crypt: a tip o’ Broadway Bob’s Top Hat to Hizzoner Rob Ford
Bob McClelland spotted walking down a staircase in Victoria, circa November 1985. (Ancient Vancouver Sun photo.) Mr. McClelland didn’t know it yet, but forgiveness for his sins was at hand.…
Deja Harper
With much more of a whimper than a bang, Harper’s three ‘disgraced’ Senators have been suspended from the Senate. No doubt, Conservative insiders are patting each other on the back…
Conservative MPs defend Edward Snowden, attack security establishment
No, not Canadian Conservative MPs—British Conservative MPs. Former shadow home secretary and Conservative Party leadership candidate David Davis has come out strongly in support of American whistleblower Edward Snowden. “The…
BC approves the Alberta pipeline to China
TweetPremier Alison Redford can celebrate a victory today as a significant political hurdle in her quest for a Canadian Energy Strategy earned the support of British Columbia Premier Christy Clark.…
Message to Ford Nation enablers: It’s time to give your own children some crack cocaine!
What a day! I was supposed to get some creative writing work done, but instead the circus that is Toronto Mayor Rob Ford overwhelmed me. Ford’s lunch hour confession that…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats claiming territory.
The Senate: Where due process went to die today…
Senate votes to suspend Brazeau, Duffy, Wallin This is a dark, dark day for Canadian democracy and justice. The unelected senate took it upon itself to create a new system…