Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Robin Sears offers his theory that the upcoming federal election could represent a meaningful referendum on competing visions for Canada – and Paul…
2015
Jan. 3: Pope Francis is an environmental-terrorist threat to New Brunswick
The Irving press seems to be ignoring the story; but the pope has announced at a recent environmental council that he is declaring climate change his issue of the year.…
After Chávez: The Maduro Government And The ‘Economic War’ in Venezuela
Photo by Valter Campanato Nearly two years after the death of Hugo Chávez, the key question that many on the left are debating, in Venezuela and elsewhere, is whether his…
47 Ronin Reviewed
This week, after watching the 2013 film, 47 Ronin, starring Keanu Reeves, I had to wonder why Hollywood felt it necessary to take a powerful story, a great historical drama,…
Determining a direction for the Dauphin.
If you are assuming that sometime in the next eight to ten months, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau will leave off the platitudes and say something substantive, you could be disillusioned.…
And Now, A Word From PropCan
About two weeks ago, the Toronto Star carried a story about the Harper regime’s engagement of the serves of a publicity agency called News Canada Ltd.. The organization provides copyright-free…
Short Story
I woke up this morning and what happened next will blow your mind. I put on the pot for hot water and something extraordinary happened. Then I went to the…
Ezra Tells Scottish Police To Fuck Off on Twitter, Deletes Tweet In "Shit Flying Out Pant-Leg" Panic
And so 2015 begins as 2014 ended, with Ezra in the shit.
Stephen Harper and the Impending Collapse of the Porky Cons
The signs are unmistakable. All you have to do is turn on a TV, and see all those porky Con ads masquerading as government announcements, to know the 2014 election…
10 years later #nlpoli
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the first Sir Robert Bond Papers post. In July 2004, I wrote and released a paper that tried to “examine offshore oil revenues and…
When the call screener makes life difficult
January 2, an unidentified caller chatted with CKNW Legislative reporter and talkshow host Sean Leslie, a man who happens to be spouse of a BC Liberal Government Communications Director, appointed…
The Con Stooge John Baird Goes After the Palestinians. Again.
He has always been his master's voice, Stephen Harper's most faithful stooge.A yapping Con pitbull, the absurd Minister of Religious Freedom, a gay Thatcherite in a government full of filthy…
A Whale Kisses the Bottom of YOUR Boat!
I haven’t been able to get this image out of my head for days. It keeps coming back. It keeps asking me why we all feel so disconnected from nature…
Canadians still demand female representation on banknotes
The call for more female representation in Canada remains loud and clear as an online petition demanding that the Bank of Canada include women on Canadian banknotes opens 2015 with…
Musical interlude
Adam Szabo & Willem De Roo – Medusa
Cushion or cat?
Filed under: art
Brigette DePape, Michael Harris, and the Stop Harper Movement
When I think about how we might create a mighty movement to help the progressive parties bring down the Con regime.And I am assailed by the usual doubts about whether…
Pope Francis Is On The Right Track, But Not With The Right Wing
You know that when Fox News starts howling, someone is doing something right. The reactionary network is issuing dire warnings: Fox News reported on Pope Francis’ upcoming action on climate…
New Solar in Ontario
Ontario isn’t as GD senseless as Saskatchewan’s government. They actually have somewhat of a Feed In Tariff program underway. The Ontario Power Authority has just extended its solar feed-in tariff…