Seeing Harper For What He Is
John Langs carved “Anybody But Harper!!” into his 46-acre field of rye near Brantford, Ont. Each letter is 100 metres tell. Star readers once more offer their trenchant assessments of…
September 2015
Does She Have Her Own Room?
http://www.cbc.ca/ Chris Alexander is only the latest Harper attack dog to be sent back to his kennel. Rick Salutin writes that there have been many of them:
Who is under the bus?
The reason political campaign buses are so big is that there have to be enough people to be used as scapegoats when things go wrong. And in all campaigns, winning…
Why Chris Alexander Should Resign Immediately
After keeping a low profile for a few days, and no doubt trying to forget the ghastly image of that poor little boy on the beach, he's out there again.Cheerfully…
Lynton Crosby: Canada, he’s not here for you
Lynton Crosby, The Wizard of Oz: Not here for you He’s only here for one man: Stephen Harper, as cloned by the Wizard of Oz
Fake news: Wildrose urges market-based breathing solutions to ease air-quality woes
PHOTO: The NDP Government refuses to fix Alberta’s air-quality problems with effective market-based solutions and instead wants to force Albertans to ride bicycles like these and be tied up in…
Finding solutions to desecration of the Women’s Monument
Remember Our Sisters EverywherePRESS RELEASE: 8 September 2015 Vancouver Park Board Commissioner Stuart Mackinnon is bringing forward a motion next Monday that will call for a long term solution to…
The Invincibility Aura of the Harper Machine has been shattered
The last Tory bigwig leaves The Machine For a decade Stephen Harper and his new Conservative Party have bestrode the political landscape of Canada like a colossus. Source of the…
Canadian rights groups demand a stronger Canadian response to the Syrian refugee crisis
Amnesty International and 11 other rights and refugee groups have released a comprehensive set of recommendations that should form the basis of Canada’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis. The…
And who says God, in Her wisdom, cannot exist?
The view for me and the wife, right now. Holy cow.
AdWeek: Brazilian Kids Learn English by Video Chatting With Lonely Elderly Americans FCB’s touching work for a language school
When the Internet works for good! Article by Tim Nudd for AdWeek It’s such a great, simple idea: Young Brazilians want to learn English. Elderly Americans living in retirement homes…
Musical interlude
Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know?
Life In Scarborough: A Lost Generation Of Scarborough Youth
Was on the bus today, and listening to a couple of young kids talk about rock music. One of them wore a Motley Crue t-shirt, out of teenage irony. Another…
17 Pages of Blather
Zero point zero zero zero three eight. That’s the percentage of the population of Collingwood who made the effort to comment on council’s much-touted, revised, 17-page code of conduct before…
Is the Con’s Australian Attack Dog Violating Our Election Laws?
When the story broke that the Australian attack dingo Lynton Crosby was working for the Cons, I was struck by how angrily the political thugs in the PMO reacted.The Con…
Sept. 11: Big news pre-shrunk for you.
It’s a small story, almost lost on B5 near the end of the grandly titled “Canada and World” section of our newspaper. Its headline seems trite and boring “Pentagon expects…
Send In the Clowns
Stephen Harper’s election campaign is in a bad way. Right now Laureen would have to tie a pork chop around Steve’s neck just to get the dog to play with…