Harper wastes his bully pulpit.
When U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt coined the term ‘bully pulpit,’ he was talking about the White House. He said that it was a pulpit to which people have to listen.…
2013
When Will He Turn On Them?
Some of Stephen Harper’s most perceptive critics are on the right. This week, in the Sun newspapers, John Robson called for Stephen Harper’s resignation: Unless it is OK for the…
SuperCrook: I Can Break Any Rule …
… so long as I promise to pay the right people.
The bike shed
And so here it is. The bike shed. Not quite what we were thinking of but certainly working well and put in place for much much less than contemplated.
Conservative Party Does Not Believe in Equality of Voters
This fascinating and scary post just showed up on the FairVote Canada Facebook page: The Conservative version of equality. Bigger picture below. A couple of things to notice here and…
Conservative Party Does Not Believe in Equality of Voters
This fascinating and scary post just showed up on the FairVote Canada Facebook page: The Conservative version of equality. Bigger picture below. A couple of things to notice here and…
Carnival in Calgary
I hear that the Tory convention is turning out to be a real circus: Recommend this Post
Apparently, the courts are the new enemy of Senate reform
So says the Prime Minister to his party faithful at their Calgary convention: “We were blocked by the other parties in the minority parliaments, and now we are being blocked…
Sketch: Barclays
more scribbles – – – It’s my last sip. I never drink the last sip of wine because of the sediment. I know you can’t see the sediment but it’s…
Rob Ford: The 2nd Tape
From DiManno’s column: But wait. There are two videos, Blair revealed at his shocking press conference.What’s on the other one? Are we not to know? Because a few reporters have…
Saturday At The Movies
I had the privilege of hearing several of the Council of Indigenous Grandmothers speak last weekend:
Stephen Harper’s Monstrous Convention Speech
It was without a doubt one of the worst and most disgusting political speeches I have ever heard. One so foul it left me feeling sick to my stomach. And…
Pacific Rim
I watched “Pacific Rim” after “Super 8″ and was not as impressed by either as I’d hoped to be. First, I can’t hear Pacific Rim any more without thinking Job…
On BC Ferries with Ian Jessop, CFAX1070 Nov. 1
If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Here is a list of directors that served British Columbia Ferry Services Inc. in the…
Globe & Mail FAIL. Again. Makes international news.
Falls for hoax.
Oh Canada! We Were Once Respected, But Now We Are Despised!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger PM Stephen Harper set out to change Canada so that it would not be recognizable. He has succeeded in spades and at the same time as he…
One of these things…
As I was Driving, I was Pondering. And what I was Pondering is this: if we can liken western Canada to Winterfell*, and I think we can, can we then…
I didn’t want to watch this
“Dum, dum dee dum, – yawn- kids are off to bed after watching Bringing up Baby and Casablanca with the old man, I’ve poured myself a nice gimlet. I wonder…
I didn’t want to watch this
"Dum, dum dee dum, - yawn- kids are off to bed after watching Bringing up Baby and Casablanca with the old man, I've poured myself a nice gimlet. I wonder…
I didn’t want to watch this
“Dum, dum dee dum, – yawn- kids are off to bed after watching Bringing up Baby and Casablanca with the old man, I’ve poured myself a nice gimlet. I wonder…