A Little Perspective Please
An interesting thing about The Jewish Tribune’s story about the death of Doug Christie, lawyer to Canada’s far right, is that it isn’t really about the death of Doug Christie.…
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Sutter Strikes Out
Keeps tongue ‘tween teeth re Keystone XL during White House meeting. President Obama overheard: “We got drones, son. And Viking Alta. is not so far away.”
Farber On Cdn Human Rights
With little fanfare, Canada was scolded earlier this year by both the United Nations and Amnesty International over its human rights record. Yes you read this correctly — Canada. The…
Ezra Facing 2nd Hate Speech Charge?
Dawg has the details. But, as to the reason given by the AG’s rep for NOT going forward the first time, that he “was afraid Levant would make a big…
Reading The Tea-Leaves: Obama Signalling Keystone Rejection?
From the National Republican Congressional Committee: Organizing For Action, the former Obama campaign apparatus made up of many senior officials, blasted the Keystone proposal in a fundraising email. “In an…
Sun Media Still Shrinking
Starting next week, the Portage Daily Graphic will continue to be a daily newspaper at portagedailygraphic.com. Its print edition, which will come out on Tuesdays, will be named The Graphic,…
Free the Canadian Archivist!
From a statement by the Canadian Library Association: (Ottawa, March 22, 2013) – The Canadian Library Association urges Library and Archives Canada to revisit its Code of Conduct in order…
Lighthouses In Peril…Again!
Looks like the feds are moving to get rid of some of Canada’s old lighthouses. Whenever they try that I wheel out this old post, and the lighthouses are safe…
Oppose Keystone XL and You Can Screw Both Alberta And Communist China
HONG KONG – State-owned CNOOC, which made China’s biggest-ever overseas energy acquisition last year, said Friday that annual profit fell 9.3 per cent because of higher costs for exploration and…
Dying News Industry Continues To Die
The Portage Daily Graphic, Portage La Prairie’s local newspaper, was altered from a daily publication to a weekly on Mar. 11. The decision was announced by Sun Media and came…
Ezra Off Hook For Hate Speech Charge?
Dr Dawg, and Haroon Siddiqui in the piece Dawg references, think that the Ontario Attorney General, John Gerretson, will not file hate speech charges against Ezra Levant for his anti-Roma…
Enbridge Leaks
There’s holes in its Norman Wells pipeline. And Kalamazoo clean-up costs are exceeding estimates, so the company is also leaking money.
Sun News Regrets, Part Bazillion
Insiders (the Sun News Network mole) are telling me that the station’s legal staff committed mass suicide the other night. They couldn’t hack the long hours. And, if you look…
The New LAC Code, or: Why Is That Librarian Staring At My Chest?
The new Library and Archives Canada code of behavior …says morals and ethics are part of a continuum with “self-regulation” at one end and “heterogulation” at the other. But at…
In Which Zach Paiken Makes Some Sense
A little bit. Obviously calling for Liberals to rally around a leader that hasn’t been elected yet is putting cart before horse. But this paragraph is OK: Liberals know full…
The Germans Think We Are Bad For Their Rep
EXCLUSIVE / Germany’s largest and most prestigious research institute has pulled out of a Canadian government-funded CAN$25 million research project into sustainable solutions to tar sands pollution, citing fears for…
I, Ezra
You can read the official document here, but The Sun News Network mole has slipped me a copy of Ezra’s first draft. As you can see, it’s been changed quite…
Olivia Is Dead
We should all put aside partisanship for one moment and mourn’s Olivia’s passing. I know Rob Ford weeps whenever he remembers Olivia taking food from his fingertips. Let us respect…
Gruending On The New Pope
How deep was he in with the Argentine generals? Actually, its kind of hard to say. But he hates communists, that’s for damn sure.
Your Daily Nazi: Ontario Anti-Wind Groups Go There
…with this lovely little advert: Wayne Brauch traces the pic back to the Smithville Turbines Opposition Party, but it is being shared at the twitter site of Ontario Wind Resistance,…