The Vindication Of Thomas Mulcair
Some will remember the abuse heaped upon NDP leader Thomas Mulcair back in 2012 when he said that Canada was suffering from the same Dutch disease that afflicted the Netherlands…
2015
Legislating Ideology.
It is when you listen to the federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver that you realize what a breath of fresh air the late Finance Minister Jim Flaherty must have been…
Another Ben Stein?
http://www.tpnn.com/ Joe Oliver’s proposed balanced budget legislation is so inane it’s hilarious. Like most Harperian legislation, the proposed bill leaves lots of unanswered questions. Scott Clark and Peter DeVries
Ontario PCs oppose cap and trade!
…and warn that it will lead to the apocalypse, or worse. No word, at this writing, what they intend to say to those communists up in Ottawa who also have…
Rest In Peace, Mary Chadwick
Mary Bernice Chadwick passed away quietly in the morning of April 13, 2015 in her room in the Tony Stacey Veterans’ Care Centre. She had awakened that morning, and spoke…
More Con Lies: Vancouver Oil Spill Worse Than Estimated
As I'm sure you know by now, I never believed what Cons like James Moore and Greg Rickford had to say about that oil spill in Vancouver's English Bay.Especially when…
Freedom Of Religion vs. License To Discriminate
This op-ed appeared in The Ottawa Citizen on April 8, 2015. There’s a fundamental misunderstanding, or perhaps, a deliberate mischaracterization, of what constitutes religious freedom in a pluralistic society; of…
Why Does Stephen Harper Want to Turn Us Into Bloody Amerika?
I try not to watch too much American TV news, because what's happening in this diseased Harperland is crazy enough.And because every time I do watch it these days, it…
Politics, the police, and tragedy #nlpoli
Last October, Premier Paul Davis appointed Lynn Moore to his new advisory council on crime. Moore is in private practice these days but, as the little profile Davis’ office appended…
Filmmakers pull out of Istanbul festival in government censorship protest
Nearly two dozen filmmakers have yanked their films from the 34th Istanbul Film Festival in response to the last-minute cancellation of documentary screening about the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The…
So true
A commenter on Christie Blatchford’s latest Duffy story says: Duffy should have been put in charge of payments to veterans and thalidomide victims so efficient is he at getting the…
Where did Alberta’s party leaders spend the first week of the 2015 election?
With the first full week of Alberta’s 2015 election campaign coming to an end, I took a look at where the leaders of Alberta’s political parties have visited in the…
Rights groups demand unconditional dismissal of Bill C-51
More than 100 rights organizations and prominent individuals have signed a letter demanding the immediate and unconditional dismissal of Harper’s police state Bill C-51. The post Rights groups demand unconditional…
Truer Words…..
Can’t disagree with this: H/t The Knowledge Movement Recommend this Post
Team Operation Alienation™ will tell themselves “It’s just Ipsos.”
Good luck with that.