Queeg Harper and the Sinking Con Ship
He's still the Captain of the dilapidated Con ship, the rusty tub that should have been scrapped long ago. And like the crazed Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny, he's…
June 2015
Color Justin Trudeau Liberal Blue.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau wants your vote. If you think of yourself as a Liberal, he hopes he already has your vote. And if you are what is called a…
Cuba And Private Enterprise
Since we first visited the island in 2010, my wife and I have developed a deep respect and affection for Cuba and its people. As I have indicated in previous…
Volcanos and monasteries in Puebla State
Popocatepétl as seen from Cortez Pass. Photo byJakub Hejtmánek at Czech Wikipedia. The volcano Popocatépetl, located between Mexico City and Puebla, is currently 5,426 meters (17,802 feet) in elevation; it’s…
Duff in the Hole #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Dwight Ball’s announcement last week about Liberal Party funding was a good example of how relatively simple mistakes can turn a good-news announcement into a major public relations problem. Another…
Truth, Reconciliation, and the Shame of the Con Regime
They are images that should haunt every Canadian. Native children taken away from the parents by the RCMP and sent to residential schools with more cemeteries than playgrounds.And even though…
In this week’s Hill Times: election 2015 is the NDP’s to lose (and they might)
TORONTO — Knowing the precise moment when New Democrat winners were transformed into New Democrat losers isn’t all that simple. Was it when first-place Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow —…
‘This is B.C.’s Version of the Duffy Scandal’: Government Officials Refer to Rio Tinto Alcan as ‘Client’ in Work Journal
Move over Duffy diaries. There’s a new black book in town. That’s the detailed work journal of B.C. Ministry of Environment senior official Frazer McKenzie, which recounts conversations between ministry…
Alistair MacGregor Campaign Party–Saturday June 6th at the Duncan United Church on 246 Ingram Street, Duncan BC. Doors will open at 5:30 PM.
Alistair MacGregor Campaign Party Our NDP Candidate for Cowichan-Malahat-Langford Rob Douglas-North Cowichan Councillor Hello Everyone: I am hosting a campaign party for my friend Alistair MacGregor, our new NDP candidate…
Rio Tinto skips air scrubbers to cuts costs at Kitimat smelter
Rio Tinto Alcan’s Kitimat smelter (Damien Gillis) The following story is republished with permission from Desmog Canada When the B.C. Ministry of Environment approved Rio Tinto Alcan’s application to modernize…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Paired cats.
A Couple of Thoughts About the Precariat.
We should all read Brian Stewart’s essay yesterday on “the rise of the precariat.” Everything he reports has been thoroughly analyzed and disclosed over the past few years. Most of…
A Sanctimonious Dick
People sometimes wonder why I am so hard on right-wing evangelicals. Perhaps the sanctimonious dick in the following video will clarify why: FOX Carolina 21 Recommend this Post
Mother Canada and Mother Russia
The current government plans to deface some pristine Cape Breton wilderness with a ‘Mother Canada’ monument. Here’s the proposal. Here’s some coverage of opposition. A photo below: What I find…
Best Not Ask
An autopsy report concludes that Michael Zihaf-Bibeau, the Hill gunman, received 31 bullet wounds, all sustained within the Centre Block. The all seeing, all knowing coroner also found that the…
Need a job? Saudi Arabia is hiring executioners
The beheading business is brisk in Saudi Arabia. The desert kingdom has decapitated more people so far in 2015 than in all of 2014. As a result there is a…
Alberta Getting a Climate Change Plan?
If they enact what is known to be good policy, but the previous government was afraid to do, that’d be a start anyway. I found it interesting that the newspaper…
June 2: Lord, love a duck.
Banner headline, page 1. “Events centre still in holding pattern”. Translation – “nothing has happened”. And so we get a big story on the front page, telling us that nothing…
Rafe: What Tom Mulcair must do to become Prime Minister
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger We are living in a state of political turmoil and uncertainty. Never in our history have we as Canadians looked into the face of facism, until…
Fred probably doesn’t want a dirty rotten Liberal to say this
…but, in my experience, he’s a good guy. And he’d make a fine MP.