When everybody is acting like an asshole. Canadian Parliament daycare.
This weeks hijinx in the House of commons just shows why it is hard to get anyone to take our political process seriously. Here is what I think....I may swear.…
May 2016
Developments in Applying Assisted Dying
Omar Ha-Redeye commented on Slaw on the new Alberta Court of Appeal decision on assisted dying in Canada (Attorney General) v E.F. The decision raises important constitutional issues in light…
Everyone Needs to See This.
Watch the video in slow motion. This puts paid to Angry Tom's fury and Brousseau's feigned martyrdom. It's all on the video once you get it slowed down. Dippers, you…
The Ruckus In Our Parliament Is Now Being Called ‘Elbow Gate’
It is instructive and even amusing to watch the reactions from the pundits, bloggers, columnists and political loyalists. Sunday morning in our household often includes having Michael Enright join us…
One of these things is not like the others
Canadian politics has apparently entered its silly season just before everyone takes the summer off and goes to the lake. While Canada discusses Sophie’s workload and “elbowgate” — both such…
One of these things is not like the others
Canadian politics has apparently entered its silly season just before everyone takes the summer off and goes to the lake. While Canada discusses Sophie's workload and "elbowgate" -- both such…
One of these things is not like the others
Canadian politics has apparently entered its silly season just before everyone takes the summer off and goes to the lake. While Canada discusses Sophie's workload and "elbowgate" -- both such…
Stuff Still Happens, week 20: A very Canadian ‘outrage’
Chaos in the Commons! Hell in the House! Kerfuffle in the Kommons! Parliamentary punch-up! Broohaha! Shenanigans! Other old words nobody ever uses anymore! By now, you have no doubt heard…
W.W.R.M.S?
Ah, the long weekend! Or, as they apparently now call it in Ontario, the May 2-4 weekend in tribute to the stalwart people of that province who innately understand that…
Eating up the Hill: A taste of Nova Scotia
Last Tuesday was a reception I and many other hill dwellers had circled on our calendar weeks ago: the Taste of Nova Scotia reception. And with dreams of lobster rolls…
Eating up the Hill: A taste of Nova Scotia
Last Tuesday was a reception I and many other hill dwellers had circled on our calendar weeks ago: the Taste of Nova Scotia reception. And with dreams of lobster rolls…
Eating up the Hill: A taste of Nova Scotia
Last Tuesday was a reception I and many other hill dwellers had circled on our calendar weeks ago: the Taste of Nova Scotia reception. And with dreams of lobster rolls…
My Green is greener than your Green.
You sometimes get the impression from Canada’s Green Party candidates that they want us to keep them as pets. They are too nice and they are always trying to prove…
Elbowgate and the Trudeau Hater Losers
I don't think the so-called two-four long weekend has ever come at a better time in the whole history of Canada.So we can all recover from that act of collective…
Will He Pay?
Some people are convinced that Justin Trudeau will pay a price for his less than sunny behaviour in the House last week. Tom Walkom isn't so sure. Canadians, he writes,…
We frown on smiles! The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is unhappy to learn public-sector workers are happy
PHOTOS: Canadian public sector employees like these workers are just too darned happy and must be made to stop smiling, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation believes. Actual Canadian public sector workers…
Saturday Photo: Holiday, Just When We Need It
I've run this photo before. It's of the flag used by the Patriotes in 1837, when Canada had the nearest thing to a revolution that it ever had.This weekend we're…
Saturday Photo: Holiday, Just When We Need It
I've run this photo before. It's of the flag used by the Patriotes in 1837, when Canada had the nearest thing to a revolution that it ever had.This weekend we're…