A missile attack on Syria will further perpetuate the civil war
According to Clare Short, Former Secretary of State for International Development, it will be a blunder to carry out a missile attack on Syria. In a column in The Huffington…
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More Lies From Harper Inc.
By now, most Canadians are probably aware that truth and the Harper regime are total strangers. Whether talking about the cost estimates of F-35 jets, knowledge about the Wright-Duffy-Wallin Senate…
Wheels up! Redford Tories hit the skies with another world tour
TweetParis, Munich, Berlin, Geneva, London, Las Vegas, Anchorage, St. Paul, Madison, Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Shanghai… where haven’t Premier Alison Redford‘s cabinet ministers been this year? Embarking on another…
Thursday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
Yes, Saturday’s Roughrider win over Edmonton represented another narrow victory over a seemingly struggling team. But otherwise it couldn’t have been much more different from the team’s previous game against…
today! right now! fast-food workers on strike throughout the united states
Today, fast-food workers all over the United States are standing up for their rights, demanding a living wage, demanding to be free from harassment and intimidation. From New York to…
Using sarin gas to show rebels who is the boss
Whenever I wonder about what has been going on in the middle east, I check Juan Cole for the definitive word, and today is no exception:Rush to Western Strike on…
Shoes, Paris airport
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Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Alan Pyke observes that instead of reflecting any particular merit, massive payouts to CEOs are all too often made despite (or because…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, August 29, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, August 29, 2013: Lawyer gives more details on Chelsea Manning’s decision to live as a woman Lawyer…
The Stunnel Reborn #nlpoli
There’s a story about Danny Williams before he became the Old Man. It was either in 2001 during the by-elections on the Great Northern Peninsula or later during the 2003…
New column day
Here, on the dangers of accepting advice from self-interested advisers – and the obvious conflict of interest of the consultants hired to push a wastewater P3 on Regina’s citizens. For…
Making Duffy An Enemy
John Ivison compares Senator Mike Duffy to Kevin Spacey’s character in the recently released film House of Cards: Frank “The Whip” Underwood was speaking from experience when he said: “Friends…
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The Hair is hawkish on war.
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Thag sleep on it!
It had finally happened. No, the Thunka Grunka Clan was not about to finally get rid of that walking meat stick, the shaman Weasel-Scratch-Face Brother. It was not nearly such…
Stay the Course, Choose Change, and the Liberal Alternative #nlpoli
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Stephen Harper Declares War on his Enemies
I suppose we should have seen it coming. The strange look in his eyes when he fired that rifle. The way he kicked off his Great Escape Tour by attacking…