Stephen Harper and the Con Planet Burners
You couldn't ask for a scarier example of what Stephen Harper is doing to Canada, and what he is planning to do to the planet, than seeing how him and…
2013
Management of Economy is Achilles Heel of Liberals and Dippers
Three stewards a-waiting … The latest IPSOS-Reid poll shows that the Harper new Tories maintain their lead amongst voters when it comes to the critical issue of who is the…
Arab Spring: uprisings, protests… not much to do with revolution
A recent Tariq Ali article in Guernica – What is a Revolution – challenges misconceptions about the popular uprisings in the Middle East that some pundits characterise as the Arab…
Liberal Strategist Finally Admits That Creation Of The Gun Registry Was Intended As A Wedge Issue By The Liberals To Split Eastern / Western Canada
An amazing admission by Liberal strategist David Herle at the 8:03 mark of this CBC panel discussion … the Gun Registry was introduced as a calculated wedge issue … (Apologies…
Musical interlude
Bran Van 3000 – Astounded
Friday night: Covers
This is Davy Knowles at a music festival in Colorado a couple of years back covering Cream’s version of Outside Woman Blues. The Delta Saints began playing together as college…
Adverse inference from failure to call witness
R. v. Jolivet, 1 S.C.R. 751 holds: 28 One must also be precise about the exact nature of the “adverse inference” sought to be drawn. In J. Sopinka, S. N.…
UN Security Council wants Canada to adopt important UN gun crime treaty
At least that’s how we interpret paragraph 17 of the small arms resolution introduced by Australia’s new conservative government and passed without a single no vote.
Video: OpenMedia’s Steve Anderson speaks out against Internet censorship
OpenMedia’s Executive Director Steve Anderson has been home sick this week – but when Global TV News called to see if he would speak out on behalf of Canadians and…
Climate change proven beyond a reasonable doubt
Friday, September 27, 2013 The Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the first of 4 reports that make up its 5th Assessment Report. This first…
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My view, a ce moment. Wish you were all here. We’d play Ramones stuff on my little acoustic and drink beer by the fire.
Come Get Some, Bituman Cowboy
If Harper says that he will not take no for an answer from the U.S. on Keystone — a project over its future he ultimately has no real control —…
Coal Hard Facts #cdnpoli
It’s super embarrassing to have these sorts of puppet, lying people in office, when it’s so critically important for Canada to be making REAL, FACTUAL efforts against climate change. .@leonaaglukkaq…
The Week God’s Had
From The Tweet of God: America, you were settled by the extermination of one race and the enslavement of another. But please, lecture us more about freedom. Hot flashes. Increased…
IPCC: Time for a Global Carbon Budget
Political commitments on climate action, to the extent they exist, are usually pitched in terms of targets and timelines. BC, for example, has a legislated target of 33% below 2007…
Doesn’t this mean the terrorists are winning?
Government defends security certificate process in high court submission The federal government says suspected terrorists and spies detained under national security certificates do not have a right to full disclosure…
Americans support Keystone
Prime Minister Harper was talking tough about the Keystone XL pipeline this week. On a visit to New York, he told the Canadian American Business Council that he wouldn’t take…
Nova Scotia Liberals Hit 56%
If you followed the election debate in Nova Scotia the other day, as well as some of my comments on Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil’s performance, you may and I definitely…
Canada’s Glass House and Quebec’s Charter Debate
The worst aspect of the Quebec’s Charter debate is the smug, self-righteous, paternalist, finger wagging of English Canada and the English media in Quebec. Canadians don’t realize that they live…