Let my people go!
To the barricades! We have nothing to lose but our dog collars!
July 2015
Unfriendly Fire
One hopes and expects that veterans have long memories; if they do, the Harper regime will find their lies catching up with them. A new campaign, entitled Vote To Stop…
On teasers
Yes, this will do nicely as the trailer for the long-awaited film The Fall of the Harper Conservatives: But let’s make sure people know where to find the full screenplay.…
In Japan, Abandoned Gold Courses Become Solar Farms
Golf courses have a well deserved reputation of being absolutely horrible for the environment. Golf courses are responsible for deforestation and damaging local ecological systems all while consuming an absurd…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jim Stanford highlights how the Cons are focused on exactly the wrong priority in pushing for cuts at a time when Canada’s…
Star candidate or sacrificial lamb?
If the son of late author Mordecai Richler had been offered his choice of electoral districts for the October election, the last choice should have been Toronto-St. Paul’s. This is…
It’s All Hogwash
http://www.quotationof.com These days, Michael Harris writes, the Conservative majority in the Senate is sounding more and more like Donald Trump: If there is anyone left in the country who still…
The triumph of reason and science – a close-up look at Pluto!
(0) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
How the State of the Economy Could Kill the Harper Cons
As you know Stephen Harper is now engaged in a delicate balancing act, or caught in a compromising position.He's trying to claim that when the economy was doing well it…
It was Greek to me #nlpoli
After days of intense talks, the Europeans apparently have finally reached a final deal to help Greece out of its latest financial misery. Greece is broke. With a gross domestic…
A Soft Coup in Greece
Filed under: Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, debt, Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Syriza
Was the Senate report on ‘countering’ the threat of terrorism intended to incite hatred for political gain?
PHOTOS: Conservative members of the Senate of Canada answer questions about their “interim report” on countering terrorist threats to Canada. Actual Conservative Senators may not appear exactly as illustrated –…
If You Don’t Know What to Call It, Try "Blitzkrieg"
It’s the same old problem – once you get the panzers rolling, how in heaven do you stop them? Writing in Foreign Policy, Philippe LeGrain laments the sack of Athens…
Sure We Have to Get Rid of Harper But Why Stop There?
I haven’t heard the NDP’s shining star, Rachel Notley, say they’re wrong. I haven’t heard Trudeau the Lesser or Tommy Angry Beard say they’re wrong either. I certainly haven’t heard…
The NDP Finally Fires an Attack Ad at the Corrupt Harper Cons
About a week ago I wrote about how disappointed I was to hear both Tom Mulcair and Justin Trudeau declare that they would not attack Stephen Harper like he attacks…
My present view, presently
Who says God, in all Her beneficence and wisdom, doesn’t exist?
Martyn Brown: Christy Clark’s boon to Big Oil
Richard Hughes Martyn Brown’s excellent assessment of the BC Liberals manifest incompetence and devil may care attitude shows how they were duped into what can only be described as a…
Annual message to Calgary Stampede: real men don’t hurt animals for entertainment
PHOTOS: Stampede chuckwagon races – exciting for spectators, but deadly and cruel for horses. Real men don’t hurt animals for entertainment. There will be a safety “review” after the death…
July 13: LIARS
” Pope visits Paraguay slum, urges churches to welcome the sick, strangers, sinners.” That’a the big story of the Pope’s visit to South America? You’ll find it on B6 of…
We Are All (or Should Be) Greeks Now
Photo by Bob Dass The temple of neo-liberalism and its ideology of social suicide in the interests of the banks has been breached. The hysteria in European capitals (particularly Germany)…