"Those" people, Premier Wall?
Premier Wall gets called out by NDP leader Cam Broten for incoherent blather about gay people — but of course Wall is not homophobic because some of his staff are…
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Cats and dogs
From a commenter on Daily Kos
Great line of the day
A reader at Carolyn Hax provides one of the best summaries I have ever read about the vulnerability of poverty: On feeling like the bad-luck fairy has moved in with…
This Might Be The Best 35 Seconds Of Your Day
This will be the newest Youtube meme: This Might Be The Best 35 Seconds Of Your Day! – YouTube I have no idea who, where or why, but its delightful.
Harper uses Chinese pandas to avoid Canadian people
Bob Rae on the TV last week, with a throwaway line to the press who asked him about the group of dissident Con MPs: If they wore panda suits, maybe…
Hello darkness — the powerful anti-pipeline commercial
From the Coastal First Nations: The Sound of Silence: CFN release commercial reminding British Columbians of Dangers of Oil tankers. Paul Simon let them use his song for this cause.…
Great line of the day
d r i f t g l a s s writes about the buildup in the United States to the Iraq War, and flags one aspect I had not understood…
Our national Harper headache
How often do the Harper Cons send out a press release that uses the phrase “Harper Government”? About eight times a day. Yes, its true — every four hours, just…
Government of the Blue Meanies
This is so amazingly mean-spirited and petty, its actually embarrassing to read.In October, 2011, the Harper Youth in the Privy Council Office worked all weekend just to disappear Parks Canada’s…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
We saw Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers perform, and later attended a Liam Clancey concert when the group had broken up — a memorable evening because afterwards we were…
Good luck, Mike MacDonald
Mike MacDonald has had a liver transplant. He has always been one of our favorite commedians — hope he returns to good health and good form:
They have no shame
The Harper Cons spent $21 million on those boring Action Plan ads last year. Rick Mercer was ranting about this last fall. And back then, it was a mere $16…
Here Comes The Sun
Here Comes The Sun — Live At Prince’s Trust Concert 1987 – YouTube: ““ From 1987 George Harrison and Ringo Starr with Elton John, Jeff Lynne, Ray Cooper and Phil…
Stompin’ Tom
Stompin’ Tom Connors will always be remembered for this: Isn’t it odd to see them playing without helmets?
Off with their heads!
The NDP are proposing to abolish the Senate. Good for them, and wouldn’t it be good for us.What a useless, pointless, parasitical, insipid and boring organization.Not only that, but we…
Being stupid about porn
Heather Mallick explains why Tom Flanagan is saying stupid things about child pornography, and why it matters “It’s a real issue of personal liberty,” said, amid cries of “That’s disgusting”…
Blame the staff
We’re just about reached the “blame the staff” phase of the Senate expenses scandal. Harper is laying the groundwork for finger-pointing: “They are reviewing all of their expenses to ensure…
Looking under every rock
They tried to deny it, but now the Harper Conservatives have been forced to admit it — their EI investigators are each expected to ferret out almost half a million…
Great line of the day
POGGE describes why basing our real Canadian ‘economic action plan’ on part-time, temporary, contract, non-union precarious jobs is just ducky with big business and big government: People who feel their…
Hey big spender
Introducing the Top 10 spenders in Canada’s Senate: Gerry St. Germain, a Conservative who retired in November, was the top spender ($378,292), while Liberal Robert Peterson, who retired in October,…