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…
January 2014
Too Close To The Sun
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…
Rob Ford: I had nothing to do with a murder
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…
Winter Olympics: Skurlington
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…
Does public participation waste time and money?: A note on the value of participatory democracies
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’
Leona Aglukkaq and the Latest Con Scandal
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…
The Hobby Garden of Meh, Whatever #nlpoli
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…
Pete Seeger tribute on CBC’s Ideas with Paul Kennedy
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…
Rate reversal hell: Canada may be left in the cold
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…
Oh to be a fly on the cabinet room wall today! Court grants stay on application against AUPE of Bill 46 until Valentine’s Day
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,…
Cheer for the athletes but don’t be naive: the Olympics are about politics
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…
This doesn’t need to be happening
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…
Harper’s words slither when they pass
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…
Transcript: President Obama’s State of the Union Remarks on Energy and Climate Change
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…
PC candidates and MPPs flee from Hudak’s leadership
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…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Joined cats.