Tweet The Wildrose Caucus has released a flashy new YouTube video encouraging Progressive Conservative MLAs to join the Official Opposition. The video begins with two former PC MLAs making the…
For decades Pakistan and it’s powerful military intelligence arm, the ISS, has been meddling in Afghanistan’s affairs. The ISS was instrumental in backing the Mujad’s battle against Soviet forces in…
Jody Paterson Many of us miss reading Jody Paterson’s columns and articles in the Victoria Times-Colonist. A couple of years ago she signed on with CUSO and headed down to…
Rick Mercer, in his latest rant, said what a large and growing majority of Canadians believe – Harper is lying through his teeth about the PMO scandal and he was…
In a New York Times op-ed, I’ve learned that BuzzFeed has announced the hiring of its first book editor, and will start publishing book reviews. But it will not run…
…stinking. P. A8 has yet another set of photos of our social betters holding a gala to raise money for the needy.Well, volunteer efforts like this are never going to…
But if Manitoba PC leader Brian Pallister wants to wish “infidel atheists” a happy Xmas than I’m OK with it. Remember, his bunch used to burn our bunch in pyres…
If you’ve been a bit leery about online “change” merchants like Change.org, for example, your caution might have been well grounded. The Guardian’s Oscar Rickett explains there’s little real change…
You round them up, herd them along, move them wherever it suits you and, for them, it’s always a one-way trip. That’s the rough idea Israel has in mind for…
I got caught up in a few arguments about climate change recently that just reinforced to me, that there’s still such a strong bashlash against the entire idea that we’re…
http://commonground.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Encouraging-Youth-Voter-Participation-Improving-Civic-Education/13731-25935 It’s on a Liberal website, but I think it’s a good non partisan idea that could have a positive impact on youth participation in the electoral process. Many American…
There was a bit of concern watching Wynne’s Whigs turning out to help in the federal by-election in Toronto-Centre recently. It was obvious at that stage that Liberal candidate Chrystia…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Alison chronicles how the definition of “accountability” has changed since the Cons’ own actions started to come under the microscope, while Paul Wells…
That was Stephen Harper’s message to the Conservatives Halloween convention. This week — after watching their western numbers drop, after refusing to call witnesses to testify to the Senate Committee…
…and because I haven’t commented on Ontario politics in a long time (get used to it).
Raj, who I think is one of the best political reporters around, caught the contradiction (along with a colleague): here. That is, Justin Trudeau has said he will not go…
Great story by Mike Bell about Art Bergmann in the Calgary Herald, here. I didn’t know Bergmann. He was a big wheel from Vancouver’s punk scene, all dark clothes and…
I know tomorrow is the first Sunday of Advent in the Christian calendar (as well as the first day of December), but I can’t resist posting this today. I confess…
Waiting in Line 3D! Jump up and down! Look from left to right! Punch yourself in the face to stay awake (or when you think to yourself “I could be…
OMG. I can hardly believe my furry ears. But a strange sound is coming from the Con Castle. And no, it's not the sound of Great Scandalous Leader standing in…
