Harper shuts students out
I've been away from this space for a while but I feel I have to speak up about the news that some people were kicked out of Conservative events on…
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Contempt!
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. We're headed for yet another election. In the last hour the House of Commons voted 156-145 to find Stephen Harper guilty of contempt of…
Final Countdown … [video]
As we approach the Final Countdown to what is almost certainly going to be a no-confidence vote based on contempt of Parliament tomorrow -- a first anywhere in the Commonwealth…
World strikes back against Libya
I've often felt that military intervention is warranted when there are gross human rights violations, but often it has not happened where it was most needed or when it was…
Tenno speaks
It must be getting really bad when Emperor Akihito of Japan goes on TV to address his subjects about the multiple disasters that have hit that country. Let's just pray…
Japan tsunami
No politics, entertainment, business or whatever, and for the obvious reasons ... Certainly this is a sad day with the news about one of the biggest earthquakes (8.9, off Honshu,…
Double contempt, cheap shot
Technical issues have kept me off this forum for a few days .. so I'm going to comment on a couple of things at once -- the double contempt finding…
Breaking Through (the bs of questionable campaigning)
Courting the "ethnic vote" is a tradition in any democracy. But there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. The Cons sending out an action plan on…
Ireland hits the polls, and the wall
In terms of politics, this is truly an earthquake.True, the top two parties in Ireland are pretty much Tweedledum and Tweedledee (they're both centre right) but after all the ballots…