Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Wishing all a wonderful Solstice. Here comes the light!
2014
Even Capitalists Are Starting to See the Zombies in the Tarsands!
What kind of oil investments become zombies with cheap oil? Extracting and burning oil, gas and coal is a bad move. Capitalists, zombies themselves seeking to maximize shareholder wealth at…
The War on Christmas is Over Somebody Tell Nina Grewal
Well I know it may be hard to believe, but it seems like that old Con favourite, the imaginary War on Christmas, is finally over.The Fox News nutbar Bill O'Reilly…
Blogger Brian Mason explains why Jim Prentice, ‘Alberta’s first Wildrose premier,’ is preparing to call a snap election
Former NDP leader Brian Mason in a couple of typical poses, above and below. I’ll bet you didn’t know he was a terrific political blogger too! Jim Prentice is Alberta’s…
Accused in Home Invasion and Attempted Murder of WWII Veteran Not What Boneheads Expected
Yesterday our newest friend Jonathan Kotyk posted the following on Stormfront: Thankfully, the victim Ernest Côté is still tough as nails and was able to free himself from his bonds…
Dec. 20: child soldiers and other memorabilia….
####Since over half of the readers of this blog are from outside Canada, and so surely cannot be interested in New Brunwick’s local affairs, I’m experimenting with a new format.…
Conservative MP’s Stay Home Comments Insult Women, New Immigrants
Conservative MP Bob Dechert insulted Canadian women, immigrant women and new Canadians’ cultures when he said “moms can stay at home, which they’re used to.” The post Conservative MP’s Stay…
Historic dam latest line of defence against invasive Asian carp
Carp over Barge. (Photo: Dan O’Keefe, Michigan Sea Grant) THE NEXT LINE OF DEFENCE against keeping invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes will come at an 81-year-old lock…
Harper leads by example
Harper hides his innate cowardice behind his bullying tactics. Like all bullies, Harper is, not so deep down, a coward. Just as his “I can take a punch” line in…
Saturday At The Movies
What a way to go! The Colbert Report says goodbye in style: * You will be missed.
Badass Book Review: Raising Expectations & Raising Hell, by Jane McAlevey
Book Review: Raising expectations (and Raising hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, by Jane McAlevey It's been a tough couple of decades to be a trade unionist. Since…
Badass Book Review: Raising Expectations & Raising Hell, by Jane McAlevey
Book Review: Raising expectations (and Raising hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, by Jane McAlevey It’s been a tough couple of decades to be a trade unionist. Since…
Badass Book Review: Raising Expectations & Raising Hell, by Jane McAlevey
Book Review: Raising expectations (and Raising hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, by Jane McAleveyIt's been a tough couple of decades to be a trade unionist. Since the…
Badass Book Review: Raising Expectations & Raising Hell, by Jane McAlevey
Book Review: Raising expectations (and Raising hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, by Jane McAlevey It’s been a tough couple of decades to be a trade unionist. Since…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Thomas Walkom discusses why politicians have thus far failed to take any meaningful action on climate change. But it’s also worth noting that…
A Little Heresy – Alberta Style
So, according to Premier Prentice, the downturn in oil prices is going to create an $11 Billion hole in provincial revenues, and is now talking about putting the brakes on…
What’s The Conventional Wisdom?
http://www.slideshare.net/ Parliamentary government is rooted in a series of conventions. The problem, Andrew Coyne writes, is that our political parties are no longer paying attention to those conventions. And if
The New Canadian Militarism
From the Conversion of Highway 401 entering Toronto into the “Highway of Heroes” as a macabre celebration of Canadian soldiers killed in combat, to the renaming of the Canadian armed…
Stephen Harper: Merry Christmas And Bah, Humbug!
My fellow Canadians, If the above doesn’t not warm the cockles of your Christmas hearts, please check out these, a small portion of this year’s ‘gifts’: Something for your digestive…