A Suggestion For The Wayward Woman From Wadena
A Star reader has a succinct suggestion for the errant Senator Wallin: Re: She pays up, but Wallin’s not happy about it, Sept. 14 If Pamela Wallin really wants to…
2013
You Can’t Take Him At His Word
Stephen Harper was in British Columbia over the weekend, “negotiating” with British Columbia’s native peoples on the Northern Gateway file. Michael Harris writes that Mr. Harper has a constitutional duty…
How many pirate jokes are lame?
Most of them ARRRRRR! —————– To err is human. To ARRR is pirate. ——————— How do you know if you are a Pirate? You don’t, you just AAARRRRR! —————— If…
New blog affiliate from across the pond
Please welcome to Progressive Bloggers via the UK, Parchment In The Fire, written by Dr. Geoff Kennedy, a Canadian expatriate who teaches political theory at Durham University in the UK.
A Footnote In The Annals Of Oddity
Some might remember Hillbilly Heaven, a restaurant out in Hamiliton that became famous for decorating the place with Confederate flags, and posting “English Spoken Only” signs and Help Wanted ads…
Unfairity but sadly all too true #nlpoli
Last week, municipal affairs minister Kevin “Fairity” O’Brien denied having anything to do with having a couple of New Democratic Party politicians “uninvited” from a community breakfast organized by the…
Harperland: The Horror and the Resistance
If you want to know what Stephen Harper and his monstrous Con regime have done to this country, all you had to do was look around you today to see…
Consumers targeted by BC Liberals
Governments prefer indirect taxation partly because politicians assume they’ll take less heat if hands of tax collectors slip into our pockets surreptitiously. That’s done in BC by instructing crown corporations…
John Abraham Slams Matt Ridley for Climate Denial Op-Ed in Wall Street Journal
This is a guest post by Dr. John Abraham, in response to a Wall Street Journal op-ed by British House of Lords member Matt Ridley. How many climate errors in…
"Willing to bring it … hard", "stoke[ing]…frustration and anger" – What the expect from NDP campaigns in the upcoming by-elections
That’s what Pundits’ Guide and David Akin wrote about new Mulcair candidate Linda McQuaig’s approach to politics in their (both very good) summaries of the Toronto Centre nominations. I was…
On Tuesday’s Sun: a good week for federalism
Politicians don’t get credit for very much most days. So, credit where credit’s due: Federal leaders have acquitted themselves well in the days since the Parti Quebecois unleashed its bigoted…
First Nation says CNRL up to 6 leaks in Cold Lake, Alberta
One of 6 leaks believed to be coming from CNRL’s Cold Lake operation (Chester Dawson/WSJ) COLD LAKE , Alta. – A First Nation says it is concerned about two other…
The Power Of Faith
It has been said that faith can move mountains. According to televangelist Cindy Jacobs, it can also grow cheekbones and eliminate ‘grapefruit-sized tumours’: Recommend this Post
tax·pay·er [taks-pey-er] noun 1. a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.
UPDATE: Turns out that Minister Blaney’s spokesthingy wanted Canadians to know that spending an extra $1 million to destroy long gun registry records “involved no additional costs to the taxpayers.”…
tax·pay·er [taks-pey-er] noun 1. a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.
UPDATE: Turns out that Minister Blaney's spokesthingy wanted Canadians to know that spending an extra $1 million to destroy long gun registry records "involved no additional costs to the taxpayers."…
tax·pay·er [taks-pey-er] noun 1. a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.
UPDATE: Turns out that Minister Blaney’s spokesthingy wanted Canadians to know that spending an extra $1 million to destroy long gun registry records “involved no additional costs to the taxpayers.”…
Move over Islam. The next line of attack on the right: Buddhism
Now that it’s being reported that mass murderer Alexis was heavy into Buddhism, how long before Fox News and the right wing blame that benign religion on this “terrorist attack?”
From My Quotes Cupboard: Evangelicals and the Deity
It also makes remarkably few demands on believers. On the contrary, they get to make demands on God, so that prayer … often consists of an extended series of requests…
Our ‘Scaredy Cat’ Prime Minister Won’t Convene The House Of Commons But New Democrats Are Going To Ask Question Regardless …
Stephen Harper is afraid of democratic process. He won’t recall the House of Commons. Never the less, Canada’s Official Oppostion New Democrats are going to hold a ‘Virtual’ Question Period…