Never Bait A Veteran
For those of us sickened over the years by the Harper cabal’s hypocrisy of wrapping itself in the flag of patriotic support for ‘our troops’ while essentially abandoning them when…
For those of us sickened over the years by the Harper cabal’s hypocrisy of wrapping itself in the flag of patriotic support for ‘our troops’ while essentially abandoning them when…
Once again, Chris Hedges has returned to the Pequod as a metaphor for North American society. The ship and crew in Melville’s Moby Dick are doomed because they have willingly…
What’s amazing isn’t that Mayor Crackhead – he who gives little kids the finger, pisses in public parks, and drinks and drives near schoolyards – denies he killed a young…
In keeping with The Skwib Olympic motto: citius, altius, sanguius (faster, higher, bloodier) we would next like to suggest that the Winter Olympic committee combine Curling and Skeleton — the…
Francis Bula, Vancouver pundit, introduced a debate on wasting public resources to open up a debate that would have resulted in the same decision: Does public participation slow down cities’
OMG. Not another Con money scandal. Why are those Harperites so greedy?Why can't they follow the rules like the rest of us? What was Leona Aglukkaq thinking? Conservative MP Leona…
What’s so striking about the race to replace Kathy Dunderdale as leader of the provincial Conservative Party is how spectacularly unspectacular it is so far. Maybe things will change once…
As you all know, Pete Seeger died Monday night after giving us music for the past 70-odd years (he was 94). Last night CBC Radio’s Ideas with Paul Kennedy rebroadcasted…
The other night I wrote about how disgusted I was to see Chris Alexander, the Con Immigration Minister, go after Deb Matthews, the Health Minister of Ontario, like a schoolyard…
Shit. I was asleep, got up for a smoke, and what do I see? “Turkey raises rates aggressively“. Well that’s interesting, I say to myself and because I simply can’t…
Steam vents from the cabinet room at the Alberta Legislature. Actual eruptions of Tory fury may not be exactly as illustrated – and, actually, that’s the Lieutenant Governor’s office. Well,…
TweetNational leaders covet the opportunity to host the international event and multi-national corporations invest billions of dollars in advertising to its massive world-wide audience. Competing in glorious national stadiums and…
I spent several years living in this part of Ontario, and proudly served as a board member of a local women’s shelter. So, when I heard about what’s happening to…
Trudeau was asking questions today about why the Harper Cons spent $2.5 million on advertising for JobScam, the job program that never existed. Harper’s response sounded pretty spacey: ..the Liberal…
President Barack Obama’s remarks on energy and climate change during the State of the Union address: (H/T The Guardian) Now, one of the biggest factors in bringing more jobs back…
Hudak is down two candidates, with his candidates in Hamilton Mountain and Hamilton East-Stoney Creek resigning. This of course, comes hot on the heels of PC candidate Dave Brister getting…
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