Brad Butt and the Day of Shame
It could only happen in Harperland, a place where decency goes to die, and the Big Lie rules. Where a Con MP can lie outrageously about personally witnessing election fraud.And…
March 2014
Solar Power Had A Huge Year In 2013
A new report out from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) shows that solar power came an incredibly long way toward asserting itself as a key part…
A Cold War of Washington’s Own Making
It’s refreshing to see that, this time, we’re not all falling for the official line, the Washington line that lays the blame for the Ukrainian fiasco at Moscow’s feet. Washington…
Council of Canadians Seek to Protect Shawnigan Watershed From Toxic Dumps
The Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) has been appearing before the BC Environmental Board in Victoria looking for relief from the entity that might provide their best chance of overturning…
Airplane scandal takes off as Tory support, fundraising effort nose dives
TweetYesterday’s Speech from the Throne was old news as scandal erupted today over Premier Alison Redford’s alleged inappropriate use of government-owned airplanes. After facing criticism over her $45,000 trip to…
Flights of fancy: 11 days to the Ides of March and the knives are already out for premier
Alison Redford’s party awaits the Alberta Premier’s arrival before boarding their Government of Alberta aircraft. Actual Alberta big shots may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Pompeia, the wife of…
Online Alert! Convicted Rapist Using Social Media Dating Sites
You may be wondering why a blog dedicated to politics and philosophy is posting an online alert and I would like to set your mind at ease.Recently, it was brought…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Napping cats.
Salt of The Earth
Lets drink to the hard working people Lets think of the lowly of birth Spare a thought for the rag taggy people Lets drink to the salt of the earth…
Online Alert! Convicted Rapist Using Social Media Dating Sites
You may be wondering why a blog dedicated to politics and philosophy is posting an online alert and I would like to set your mind at ease. Recently, it was…
Ezra Levant and the Fine Art of Astroturfing….
…. allegedly. We've written posts about Ezra Levant sporadically throughout the history of this blog, most recently concerning his racist stereotyping of the Roma people for which he eventually apologized…
Is This How the Senate Whitewash Begins?
Duffy, Wallin and Brazeau turfed out in disgrace by a gaggle of Tory senators who had expense skeletons in their own closets to conceal. Word from Ottawa is that there…
Errh, what about Iraq?
"It is not appropriate to invade a country, and at the end of a barrel of a gun dictate what you are trying to achieve," Kerry said. "That is not…
Harper’s “Dictatorship for Democracy” Coming to an End?
This is a guest post by journalist and filmmaker Michael Harris. A longer version of this article originally appeared on iPolitics. Don’t be surprised if something big happens inside the…
Justin Stark and the Con War On Our Veterans
This is the story of two cheques.This big fat one… The one Nigel Wright sent to Mike Duffy. To cover up a sordid scandal.And this one, in the miserable amount…
Roberto Luogno Traded To The Florida Panthers
We will miss Roberto Luongo. I wish him the best. He will home with his family at last. The Vancouver Canucks have traded goalie Roberto Luongo back to the Florida…
March : apologies
I have been feeling very rough for a week – with today especially awful. I am extremely weak, tired,, wheezy, high temperature, coughing, dreadfully runny nose. Medical experts are divided…
Why we had to create a users guide for the CRTC’s flawed online consultation
The CRTC, the body that makes the rules for the media and telecom industry, is asking Canadians about the future of digital services in Canada. As part of their ‘TalkTV’…
Apparently I’m not the only one who doesn’t like the idea of $10,000 TFSAs…
…neither does the economist who came up with the idea of TFSAs. And for pretty much the same reasons I spelled out a few years ago when it was first…