A Multisensory St. Patrick’s Day
For your listening pleasure: the definitive version of “Arthur McBride”, sung and played by Paul Brady. Perfect song, perfect vocal, and an accompaniment that drove all of us three-chord strummers…
Balbulican
It’s Not Too Late!
Just a quick reminder that this weekend will see the greatest gathering of Conservative Canadian brain power since Bev Oda snuck out for a smoke alone behind the Parliamentary Library.…
Johnny Otis, 1921-2012
I’m not big on celebrity farewells, but Johnny Otis was one of the coolest guys in the world. He’s best knows for his Big Hit, “Willie and the Hand Jive”,…
Still Seeking the Perfect Present for that Special Someone?
Why not treat them to an expensive weekend in the company of the man Margaret Wente called “Sun TV’s populist ranter Ezra Levant, who’s even more grating than Mary Walsh”?…
Not So Good Friday?
So given that: a) Friday the 23rd is a Friday, the traditional day for the Harper Government to announce stuff it hopes we’ll all miss: b) Friday the 23rd is…
The Beast Is Born
After years of denying that their actual goal is the final and complete assimilation of native people, the elimination of their culture and the absorption of their lands, it appears…
Attawapiskat
Bloggers more informed and articulate than I are already cutting through the smoke and mirrors generated by Stephen Harper to justify his government’s seizure of control in Attawapiskat. If you…
Arctic Sovereignty, Harper Style.
The Conservative strategy for asserting Canada’s sovereignty in the North, neatly summarized in two short articles. Feds cut funding to University of the Arctic The federal government has cut three…
Congratulations, Erin!
In the midst of all this strum, drang, gloom, and doom let us pause for just moment to applaud a terrific achievement by a Friend of the Dawg. Erin Bow…
Restoring Dignity to the Office of the President
Dawg’s House is, of course, a proudly Canadian blog. Still, we must confess a certain fascination with our good neighbours to the South, whose politics always seem to involve so…
The New Conservative Feminism
One cannot help but rejoice at the newly-awakened sensitivity of *Homo Conservatus *to the plight of suffering women in Islamist countries. It’s hard not to shed a tear at the…
The Difference Between Conservative And Progressive Thought
Peter* has asked me to comment on the concept of a “grass roots think tank”. The motto of Dawg’s Blog is “Yes, We Do Requests”: I am delighted to oblige.…
Whale Stew
Since we’re taking an interesting domestic turn this week, let me contribute my salute to the successful Bowhead Whale hunters in Iqaluit, who harvested the community’s first Bowhead in over…
Royally Screwed.
The Government that has slashed millions of dollars for the protection of the environment, the regulation of air transportation, women’s programming, scientific research, food security, water monitoring, parks management, arts…
How To Get Assaulted By Evil Muslims, Win Friends, And Influence People.
It seems we have yet another shocking, completely unprovoked attacked by Muslim thugs on yet another completely innocent white bystander. Before you struggle through the toxic amalgam of aggrieved self-righteousness,…
Many Happy Returns, Plus One.
Exiled to Elba after the collapse of his Grande Armée and written off by the political elites of the day, Napoleon escaped in 1815, returned to France, and swept back…
One Perspective on Canadian Media
Over the last couple of days this post has been doing the rounds in the various journalism and media Facebook groups, and deserves a wider audience. I think we can…
The Dawgly Carte Opera Company
Things have been awfully serious in here the last few days. So it’s time to stoop once again to outright theft from the late W.S. Gilbert. One half of one…
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