Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ian Welsh rightly points out how our lives are shaped by social facts far beyond individual’s control: If you are homeless in America,…
2015
Now It Makes Sense. It Was Magic.
Okay, it’s not the mystery of the Sphinx but… yesterday’s testimony by former Harper special counsel Ben Perrin goes a long way to explaining why Duffy stands alone charged with…
North Korea Puts Army on ‘Quasi State of War
This sounds very scary because if there is a war between North and South Korea it will spread if countries like U.S. and Russia get involved.
The Conspiracy behind the Conspiracy. . . .
It is becoming increasingly clear and ominous that not only was the PMO involved in a bribery cover-up, and not only has the Prime Minister been consistently lying to the…
Jimmy Carter Tells World His Cancer Has Spread To His Brain- NBC
Former President Jimmy Carter is one of the great men and courageous man. Best wishes for him and his family.
Gonzo street
One of my guilty pleasures is Jim’ll Paint It — where readers request crazy scenarios and Jim makes them happen through the magic of imagination (and some kind of hallucinogen,…
Your Morning Smile
Pinocchio, Snow White and Superman are out for a stroll in town one day. As they walk, they came across a sign: “Beauty contest for the most beautiful woman in…
KCCCC Day 19: bits and pieces, this and that
Deyz Nutz: The fictional presidential candidate is the only politician I’ve heard my kids talking about. They think it’s hilarious. Having helped run a fictional candidate for Calgary’s St. Bonaventure…
Harper’s PMO Lawyer Spills The Beans At Duffy Trial – Harper Ignored Legal Advice And Named Senators Who Did Not Qualify – The Stinky Senate Scandal Started At That Moment
“Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s closest aides developed a secret plan in February 2013 to protect Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and other Conservative senators from questions about their eligibility to represent…
Harper’s PMO Lawyer Spills The Beans At Duffy Trial – Harper Ignored Legal Advice And Named Senators Who Did Not Qualify – The Stinky Senate Scandal Started At That Moment
"Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s closest aides developed a secret plan in February 2013 to protect Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and other Conservative senators from questions about their eligibility to represent…
Harper’s PMO Lawyer Spills The Beans At Duffy Trial – Harper’s Ignored Legal Advice And Named Senators Who Did Not Qualify – The Stinky Senate Scandal Started At That Moment
“Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s closest aides developed a secret plan in February 2013 to protect Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and other Conservative senators from questions about their eligibility to represent…
A Tangled Web
https://twitter.com/russellbarth That’s what you get, Shakespeare wrote, when first you practice to deceive. One lie follows another. That’s certainly what happened in the Prime Minister’s Office. Michael Harris writes: It…
The last angry Conservative.
The news media recently recorded a very angry Conservative supporter at a Stephen Harper campaign event. Since the Prime Minister was stonewalling the media anyway, they were looking for something…
Moral victory: saying yes to less #nlpoli
A couple of years after his war with one prime minister, Danny Williams was locked in another war with another federal first minister. Williams was demanding compensation for yet another…
Stephen Harper and the Great Con Adoption Scam
It's Stephen Harper's latest desperate plan to try to soften his image, and make himself more popular.By buying more votes with OUR money. But sadly for him there's something terribly…
The Soul of a Monster
The Vancouver National Observer’s Warren Bell dissects the dark and rotten soul of the worst prime minister in Canadian history, a diabolically-inclined despot. We all need to read this to…
Code Crossover: How long before the Edmonton Journal and the Edmonton Sun are merged?
ILLUSTRATIONS: Sun Journal, or Journal Sun? Hyphen or no hyphen? Broadsheet or tabloid? Now that Journal subscribers are being pitched the Sunday Sun, and the two papers’ staffs will soon…
NDP can’t afford to be slow to respond to Wildrose attacks
‘Risky,’ ‘ideological,’ ‘experimental,’ and ‘uncertain’ are all words that the conservative Wildrose Party opposition is using to describe Alberta’s New Democratic Party government.
Standing there tongue tied
I have never voted for a Conservative candidate in my entire life. Sometimes it’s because I don’t like the candidate themselves or what they stand for (looking at you, Maurice…
Changing sows ears into silk purses
Although blue signs are now starting to once again litter many of the front lawns of purple Mississauga, there are not as many as there were last time around. The…