2013
Focused on the economy? Finance Minister Flaherty and "Minister of Jobs" Kenney nearly "come to blows" over Toronto politics
CBC reporting, and Conservative MP’s and Kenney himself confirming. “In a voice loud enough for several of their cabinet colleagues to hear, Flaherty told Kenney to “shut the f–k up”…
Video: Human rights, yes! Quebec Charter of Values, non!
Winnipeg, Dec. 10, 2013: Winnipeggers gathered at the Manitoba Legislative Building to speak up for human rights and against Quebec’s proposed “Charter of Values” that would, among other things, prohibit…
Quid quo pro
Even the Star Phoenix finds the timing of the Canada Post announcement more than a little suspicious: The Conservatives, after all, are leaving Ottawa with their ears still burning from…
Musical interlude
Sloan – If It Feels Good Do It
Irony of Raul Castro – Obama handshake: Cuba helped defeat S.A. apartheid in battle whereas U.S. sent Stingers to UNITA
Raúl Castro at Mandela memorial service / Nelson Mandela with Fidel in Cuba At the memorial service for Nelson Mandela, the media seized on the handshake between Barack Obama and…
Friday night blues blogging
The members of the Guy Forsyth Band look like they’d already been working hard when they got to this one. It doesn’t slow them down any. The tune is Red…
Authenticity, freedom and compassion: To thine own self be true
“What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act – and an authentic life. It…
But…But…The Libruls!
Expect to hear a lot more of that refrain in the coming months now that the RCMP has decided to lay charges a decade after the Gomery Inquiry ended. I…
Jean Chretien’s Gift that Just Keeps On Giving
“Merry Christmas, Liberal Party, from Uncle Jean” The Sponsorship Scandal, it’s back. The cops have charged Jacques Corriveau with fraud, forgery and laundering the proceeds of crime in connection with…
By popular demand: OpenMedia.ca now accepts Bitcoin!
OpenMedia is thrilled to announce that we’re accepting Bitcoins! You can now donate bitcoins directly to our organization at https://OpenMedia.ca/Bitcoin What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a decentralized, peer-to-peer, electronic currency…
Gag orders
Yesterday, on the CTV True North Political Panel, we were going to be chatting about this super stupid lifetime gag rule that Parliamentarians were trying to impose upon staffers. We…
Port Metro Vancouver Hires Disgraced Edelman PR Firm, American Lobby Group to Push Coal Exports
When it comes to shipping coal, it looks like the Vancouver Port Authority is taking a page out of the U.S. coal lobby’s books. In an effort to combat negative…
Update-2: FP removes interesting piece of information from oilsands article with no explanation
So yesterday I came across an article on Cenovus and I found one paragraph particularly interesting, so I tweeted it. Interestingly, the paragraph that contained that portion is now removed…
Walk softly and carry a big, big stick for big spenders
Wynne has this incongruity I like: she smiles a lot and is friendly, but she is absolutely brutal when fat-cats start getting reckless with taxpayer-subsidized expense accounts. It’s like a…
Canada’s Sad Devolution
What was once Canada the cool, the country a 1991 Economist cover story called the “post-modern nation-state”, has now devolved into a rightwing hellhole. So says The Guardian in an…
A decade-plus investigation
My, my. You wouldn’t suppose the timing has anything to do with the ongoing Senate scandal, would you? No, of course not. The decade-plus-long delay makes this a joke. If…
Are our banks really safe?
The world banking system could come crashing down around our heads again – even worse than in 2008. Giant banks apparently learned very little from the earlier collapse. Many of…