All Along The Watchtower
“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief,“There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief.Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,None…
November 2014
What’s Your Take on This Mess?
It’s a curious old world, a festering global predicament you might say, that we find ourselves in today. The rich get richer, the poor get screwed, those in the middle…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Will Hutton rightly slams David Cameron for his antisocial view of taxes and public institutions – which should of course sound all…
An apology on behalf of “social media” Christians to Nicolas Cage
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Ted Baehr’s Movieguide has felt burdened to apologize to Bicolas Cage about the occasionally visceral reaction to the new Left Behind…
Israel- Palestine in One Paragraph
Yesterday we discussed the modern trend of policy divorced from reality. One ugly example of that is the policy of Canada’s government, and Trudeau’s Conservative-Lites, lavishing absolute support on Israel…
More On The Walking Dead
My friend Dave in Winnipeg is always urging me to subscribe to Frank magazine for its unforgiving political assessments, the kind of commentary that rarely, if ever, finds its way…
Harper’s War: Will the Fear Factor Trigger an Early Election?
Well there he was at the funeral of Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, the humble soldier who served his country so long and so well.And where his sister tried to rescue…
The Wars At Home: What State Surveillance of an Indigenous Rights Campaigner Tells Us About Real Risk in Canada
This is a guest post by Shiri Pasternak. Recent revelations that the RCMP spied on Indigenous environmental rights activist Clayton Thomas-Muller should not be dismissed as routine monitoring. They reveal…
The Wars At Home: What State Surveillance of an Indigenous Rights Campaigner Tells Us About Real Risk in Canada
This is a guest post by Shiri Pasternak. Recent revelations that the RCMP spied on Indigenous environmental rights activist Clayton Thomas-Muller should not be dismissed as routine monitoring. They reveal…
The Wars At Home: What State Surveillance of an Indigenous Rights Campaigner Tells Us About Real Risk in Canada
This is a guest post by Shiri Pasternak. Recent revelations that the RCMP spied on Indigenous environmental rights activist Clayton Thomas-Muller should not be dismissed as routine monitoring. They reveal…
Comforting The Rich
morningstaronline.co.uk Stephen Harper revealed his income splitting plan last week. It’s classical Conservative policy. Comfort the rich, they say, and everyone else will benefit. Scott Clark and Peter
Billions bet on bitumen battle.
It must be a time of more honesty. TransCanada Pipelines is now estimating that its Energy East pipeline proposal could cost as much as $12 billion. And the pipeline company…
Casualty of War?
This week has seen a multitude of individuals expressing concern that the Harper Regime will use the so called “terrorist attack” upon parliament to further increase the ability of the…
Questions for CBC about personalities other than Ghomeshi
Sent from a former senior CBC person I know and respect. It wasn’t just Jian, seems. Warren, I just read your piece about who knew what and when at the…
W@AL on the Beach
So great is my dedication to you, the viewing audience, I risked it all to file this incredible report. You’re welcome. Watch, and marvel.
Sunday Morning Breakfast By Eat
From Sell Me A God, the greatest album you never heard of:And another one from the same album:Heroin is the only thing that kept these guys from becoming God.