"You cain’t pray a lie" – H. Finn
Canadian Press, April 7, 2013: Clark told a Vancouver Island economic summit her government’s highly touted September 2011 jobs plan — with its focus on increased trade with China and…
May 2015
Time for some big changes at the top, LPC
Check this out. Was pinging around Twitter last night: If it’s true – and I don’t know who the pollster is, perhaps Ekos – it means Team Trudeau needs to…
Stephen Harper’s Orwellian Move to Protect the RCMP
Sometime today Canada's Information Commissioner is expected to recommend that charges be laid against the RCMP, for withholding and destroying gun registry documents, before Parliament had finished debating whether they…
And it’s only Wednesday #nlpoli
Imagine, if you can, what it must be like to be Sandy Collins. Sandy is a very young man who is - right now - living the first line of…
Margaret Wente’s Hypocritical Attack on Elizabeth May
Oh boy. I knew it was just a matter of time before Margaret Wente, our Marie Antoinette, would look down from her high throne.Or her high horse in the Con…
Whither Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives? Nowhere, probably …
PHOTOS: Potential supporters eye all that’s left of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party, metaphorically speaking, after Jim Prentice got finished driving it off the tracks. Below: Mr. Prentice and Premier…
Photos of shredded documents in Legislature Building prompt fears of PC document destruction spree
Were shredders like this at work in the Alberta Legislative Building this week? Actually modern document destruction equipment may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Alberta Freedom of Information Commissioner…
The quest for good goo: Clif savoury gels – Margherita pizza in a tube
I have been struggling with in-saddle nutrition of late. Whatever other goals you may have for weight maintenance, loss or gain, “eating while biking” after you get past a certain…
How to build a cabinet using mismatched pieces: pointers for Rachel Notley
Now that the euphoria of the election has worn off, I wonder if Rachel Notley is waking up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, wondering, “What…
On democratic blockages
I’ve previously pointed out a few of the worrisome ways in which the Cons might try to cling to power after the next federal election even if they’d stand to…
If I May But Touch His Garment
I went to see Chris Hedges speak last night. His words brought forth a mix of devastation and elation, with some in the congregation compelled to applaud after every few…
Never Feel Alone Again
GUEST POST My parents turned 70 a few years ago. It was a wonderful celebration full of friends, laughter, food, and dancing the night away. I must admit even I,…
The New Fascist Britain, the Scottish Resistance, and the Lesson for Canada
It couldn't be a worse nightmare. David Cameron's Conservatives have a majority and are preparing to carve up what's left of Britain's welfare state.They are planning to make massive cuts…
Elizabeth May’s Speech to the Ottawa Press Club Will Be Tough To Beat In The Future!
A few of the conservative uptight MSM types reacted with dismay over Elizabeth May’s ‘tell it like it is’ speech at the Ottawa Press Gallery dinner. I had mentioned in…
Autism and Epilepsy from Facebook to Reality: Conor Experiences Another Seizure
Earlier today I posted to my Facebook page and to the Autism Society New Brunswick FB page the link to Tonic-clonic seizures at Epilepsy.com. I included the note that it…
Can democracy be salvaged?
The Extreme Centre: A Warning Tariq Ali Verso Books, 2015 In the late 1970s, several years before Margaret Thatcher would become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the remaking of…
Shaping a new democracy of consensus
The Extreme Centre: A Warning Tariq Ali Verso Books, 2015 In 1977, two years before Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, political theorist Tom Nairn’s The Break-Up…
May 13: Let’s skip most of today’s Irving press.
There really isn’t much there. A full half of A8, for example, is a story about a Moncton man who will be cheering for Mexico (because he was born there)…