The Chaplain, the Con MP, and the Betrayal of the Legion
She's the latest victim of the Con regime's war on Canadian veterans. A Royal Canadian Legion chaplain who lost her position for having committed the ultimate crime in Stephen Harper's…
November 2014
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Crashing cats.
Gulf-Bound Tar Sands for Export? Follow the Oiltanking Trail
The U.S. Senate failed to get the necessary 60 votes to approve the northern leg of TransCanada‘s Keystone XL pipeline, but incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) already promised…
Forget Mount Rushmore: Richard Nixon’s last laugh
Richard Nixon laid back Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace, after his Watergate tapes had shown the public just what kind of a man he was. Despite his claim that I…
Why didn’t the NDP’s Craig Scott, a lawyer, report a crime?
Quote: “Craig Scott, a New Democrat MP and former law professor, said to the Liberals that what he was told happened to one of his female colleagues could be defined…
With omnibus Bill C-43, Conservative government going after most vulnerable yet again
The Conservative government’s omnibus budget Bill C-43 seeks to deny refugee claimants access to health care and social assistance, says the Council of Canadians. The post With omnibus Bill C-43,…
Stop Big Telecom’s Power Grab
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Multiplication of Western Walls
Photo by Edward Valachovic Introduction On November 9, 2014, Germany and its Western Allies, celebrated the ‘Fall of the Berlin Wall’ and the subsequent ‘reunification’ of the ‘two Germanys’. Prime…
Keystone XL bill narrowly fails in Senate
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (right) failed to get the Keystone XL passed Read this Nov. 18 Reuters story on the Keystone XL bill’s narrow defeat by the US…
Burnaby will stop Kinder Morgan pipeline in court, re-elected Burnaby Mayor Corrigan vows
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan continues his tough stand against Kinder Morgan (Photo: Vimeo) Read this Nov. 18 story from The Vancouver Sun on newly re-elected Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan’s vow…
Kangaroo Court Justice for Hassan Diab
Drawing by W.S. Gilbert (d. 1911) On November 13, 2008, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) unjustly arrested Diab. In connection with a 1980 Paris synagogue bombing. A crime he had…
Shell Knew Of Pipeline Problems Years Before 2008 Oil Spill In Nigeria
Oil giant Shell was warned by its own staff that the Trans Niger Pipeline had a “risk and likelihood of rupture” years before two spills in 2008 spewed as much…
The Latest Addition To The Harper Enemies List
… apparently are army chaplains who speak truth to power. Although technically she wasn’t fired, (she offered her resignation, which was accepted), Rev. Sandra Tankard incurred the displeasure of both…
The Canadian Way of Drinking
Do you drink a glass of wine with dinner every night? That puts you in the top 30 percent of American adults in terms of per-capita alcohol consumption. If you…
ConCalls: “Clean and Ethical Campaign” #RoboCon #elxnfraud
Because the Guelph Liberal campaign was fined for not self-identifying in a robocall about their opponent’s position on abortion, the Conservatives ran a “clean and ethical campaign”. The crime of…
Energy East—another reason why we need Quebec
Among the arguments that might be made to keep Quebec in Canada is simply that it’s our most progressive province. One can cite ample of evidence for this: it showed…
What does the word Polytechnique mean to you? – a review of The Anorak
The Anorak, written and performed by Adam Kelly Morton, goes beyond the pat answers and media sensationalism around the Polytechnique massacre and examines what made Marc Lépine a killer. Exceptionally…
Some reflections on the election
After a frantic couple of months I am starting to catch my breathe and come to a bit of understanding of what the results of last Saturday mean. I am…
Review: Entre Nous: Thinking-of-the-Other
For reasons explained in the first couple of paragraphs of this post, one broad category of books I’m reading at the moment is those that enact or analyze ways of…