Thomas Mulcair, by Agatha Christie.
New Democrat leader Thomas Mulcair comes across as another character created by famed Brit mystery writer Agatha Christie. Like Christie’s prolific series of books from 1920 to 1975 featuring the…
July 2014
Peter MacKay Vows to Eradicate the Penguin Population
When Captain Robert Scott visited the Antartic in the early 1900s, his crew was shocked when they witnessed the “depraved” sexual conduct of the penguin population. Scott’s medical officer, George…
The Circus May Soon Be Over.
http://www.aol.com/ Since emerging from rehab, Rob Ford has worked very hard to
Has Harper Betrayed The West? A Mound Of Sound Guest Post
Recent summer flooding across southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba seems to be bringing the reality of climate change home to the people of the prairies and it’s drawing some unwelcome…
Hey Tom, whose energy policy has been nonsense?
In the article “Unparalleled, indeed,” I quoted from an item written in 2011 by Black Press proselytizer Tom Fletcher. In it, he “lauded Gordon Campbell’s “long-term strategy to export hydroelectric…
Convergence #nlpoli
A couple of years ago, Liberal leader Dwight Ball said the Liberals would use earnings from Muskrat Falls to lower electricity prices for consumers in this province. The Conservatives dismissed…
LPC Ads On Youtube
The last couple of days I’ve been running across the following ad every time I go looking for clips of this or that on youtube. Below is what I got…
Stephen Harper, Omar Khadr, and the Con War On the Supreme Court
I wrote my first post about the case of Omar Khadr just over seven years ago. And since then I have written more than eighty others.I have always considered the…
The products that have been banned are better!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The green revolution away from fossil fuels is gaining momentum. We need time to make the crossover but it surely is coming as night follows day. Alternate…
Get a bucket and mop, clean the bottom and top
Shaw’s Global Toronto ran a MacDonald’s ad as a news story tonight. Watch the video here.Global merged a story about, newly, published, research (with no MacDonalds references), by Dr. Marc-David…
Get a bucket and mop, clean the bottom and top
Shaw's Global Toronto ran a MacDonald's ad as a news story tonight. Watch the video here.Global merged a story about, newly, published, research (with no MacDonalds references), by Dr. Marc-David…
Get a bucket and mop, clean the bottom and top
Shaw’s Global Toronto ran a MacDonald’s ad as a news story tonight. Watch the video here.Global merged a story about, newly, published, research (with no MacDonalds references), by Dr. Marc-David…
Wild Rose Country no more? What are we gonna call this place if the Alberta Party starts soaring in the polls?
Alberta Minister of Licence Plates Doug Griffiths poses with some of the versions of Alberta’s plates considered by provincial officials before they settled on the three finalists unveiled yesterday. Below:…
Michael Ignatieff Is Not A "Loser"
In his opinion piece in the Jacobin, Will Johnson claims that Michael Ignatieff is a “perennial loser” and that his new job at Harvard is “failing up”. He claims that…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Surfacing cats.
BBC Pulls The Plug On Climate Change Deniers
Corporate-controlled media outlets have figured out that debate, or more appropriately heated debate and confrontation, can generate larger audiences than a bunch of people sitting around a table agreeing with…
A View from Gaza: This Is a Brutal Attack, Not a “Military Operation”
Israel’s ongoing military offensive in Gaza, is “collective punishment” and “a brutal attack against all Palestinian people,” says physician, human rights activist and Director of Gaza Projects for the Middle…
This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Those of us fortunate enough to have had some rough patches in our lives will empathize immediately with this amazing article about the struggle back from poverty…
Addressing Global Warming is an Economic Necessity
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. Those who don’t outright deny the existence of human-caused global warming often argue we can’t or shouldn’t do anything about it because…