A Cabal Of Fools
You may have missed it. But, recently, the Harper government pulled funding for the Palestinian organization, MIFTAH, which is headed by Hanan Ashrawi. Paul Adams provides some context: For more…
February 2015
Will the Hair delay death and dying?
Obviously the Prime Minister is not a fatalist. He has been low key in response to the Supreme Court giving his government a year to do something about the current…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson link inequality and climate change as massive problems which are generated by political choices (and thus amenable…
New column day
Here, condensing this post on the risks of allowing CSIS to self-assess the scope of Canadians’ Charter rights under C-51. For further reading…– Again, the go-to source for analysis of…
What’s Wrong with Municipal Bonusing?
Until the early 1970s, municipalities in Ontario were involved in a free-for-all competition to attract business and industry. They offered tax breaks, free land, free infrastructure, utilities or services, housing…
19 Year Old Non Verbal Autistic Man Evicted From Miramichi Special Care Home Because He Is An Adult
Huge gaps remain n New Brunswick’s adult autism residential care and treatment system. An autism specific residential care and treatment centre and autism specific group home system is needed to…
Stephen Harper and the Terrorist Hysteria
I have absolutely no doubt that when historians look back at this dark period in Canadian history, some will compare the reigning terrorist hysteria to the equally insane hysteria of…
Nova Scotia won’t get Muskrat Falls electricity #nlpoli
As part of its deal with Nalcor, Emera will get its electricity from Bay d’Espoir, not Muskrat Falls. The Business Post’s March 2015 edition reported that confirmation of the arrangement…
Stephen Harper and the Fatal Polar Vortex
He is using his Great War on Terror to try to scare Canadians into voting for him, even as he turns the country into a police state.He is using fear…
Thursday morning candidate nomination updates in Alberta
On February 21, Rus Matichuk celebrated his victory over former city councillor Neil Korotash and government spokesperson Kathleen Range in the Progressive Conservative nomination contest in Spruce Grove-St. Albert. But…
Will Rick Hanson run for the PCs in Calgary-Cross?
Will Calgary Police Chief Rick Hanson run for the Progressive Conservatives in the upcoming spring provincial election? His surprise resignation announcement today timed with the PCs abrupt delay of their…
Do the Ontario PCs believe The Flintstones was a documentary?
Inquiring dinosaurs want to know!
Reducing freedom and liberty hands the make-believe terrorists victory
That sound you hear is every single brave man and woman who fought to keep Canada free rolling in their graves. Stephen Harper’s “Anti-terrorism” bill is an assault on the…
Regina demands missing, murdered aboriginal women inquiry
Regina city council has added its voice to the growing call for a national inquiry into the crisis of 1,200 murdered and missing aboriginal women in Canada. The post Regina…
Note On New Poll From Ipsos Reid
BOOYAH! BOOYAH! BOOYAH!! VICTORY OR VALHALLA!!!
Oh, This Is Rich. Stephen Harper Wants Us to Listen to Scientists.
“get the facts from the …scientific community, and if you’re not a …scientist yourself, listen to the people who are. It’s that simple.” You heard it right, straight from the…
Hot Nasties reviewed, 1979
…in The Calgary Herald by the never-forgotten James Muretich. RIP, big guy.
Feb. 25: The song is over – but the melody lingers on…..
The TandT has yet another headline story – a long one – about Larry’s Gulch just packed with information we already had. Well, we know one more bit. Al Hogan…
Stop Bill C-51 #StopHarper
Introduced into Parliament on Jan. 30, 2015, Bill C-51 is an omnibus bill that will undermine constitutionally protected rights and freedoms of Canadians in the guise of combating terrorism. Prime…