Goodbye, Jim
The other day I wrote a post on Jim Flaherty and his ‘legacy,’ inspired by two columns published in The Star. On this day of his state funeral, it seems…
April 2014
Making The World Safe For Capital
Complaints about the Temporary Foreign Workers Program keep piling up. This morning the Vancouver Sun reports: B.C. workers ranging from seasoned professionals to teenage fast-food employees are complaining about being…
Justin Trudeau is at his Rubicon.
When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River with a single legion, he and his soldiers became outlaws under Roman law of the time. It was the Roman mob that saved…
Tonight! For student journalism!
Also, it’s Bjorn’s birthday. I may therefore acknowledge his presence onstage, but that’s a big if. .
Muppet Fact
Most Muppets are left-handed. The reason for this is that most puppeteers are right-handed and operate the Muppet’s head with their favoured hand, leaving the left one to control the…
Pierre Poilievre and the Great Turkey Senate Scam
Oh. My. Gobble. I see that Pierre Poilievre is still trying to pretend that his foul Unfair Elections Act is perfect.But that if the Cons in the House of Turkeys…
How not to bolster public confidence: the umpteenth Nalcor edition #nlpoli
The folks at Nalcor held a media briefing at 11:00 AM on Tuesday. it was supposed to be about the release of the independent engineer’s review of Muskrat Falls done…
My top 6 sources for reliable news and analysis
Here are my top six sources for reliable news and analysis at present. Any one of them puts the mainstream media completely and utterly to shame. If you want to…
Why the Senate Scandal Can Still Bring Down Stephen Harper
For a brief moment today I wondered whether I should remove Nigel Wright from the poster for my new and exciting season of Senategate.After the RCMP announced that he was…
Flimflam sham
When conducting hearings on Northern Gateway, the National Energy Board Joint Review Panel denied participation to many and held sessions behind closed doors to limit opposition voices. Its decision favoured…
R.I.P. Michael C. Ruppert – You will be missed
On Sunday April 13th 2014 Michael Ruppert committed suicide following his airing of the Lifeboat Hour. Readers of this blog will know I had a great love and respect for…
Redford-Hancock Government moves ahead with plan to gut public sector pensions
Alberta Environment Minister Robin Campbell, right, in one of the rather undistinguished jackets that are causing such a brouhaha in the provincial Legislature this week. Meanwhile, Finance Minister Doug Horner,…
The Vanishing Kinder Morgan Hearings
A lawyer representing the City of Burnaby says the National Energy Board (NEB) has turned its review of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline into a “mere paperwork exercise” by cutting…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Bumpy cats.
Is it time for a real war on cars?
Gridlock in China forces drivers out of their cars In railing against everything from bike lanes to transit spending, pundits and politicians often raise the spectre of a “war on…