Its time for MHF to STFU
Could Martha Hall Findlay be any more ridiculous?She’s concern-trolling Justin Trudeau for being popular — does she actually think that someone as unpopular as she is would be a more…
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"The Prime Minister is calling"
The latest news is that more than one-third of Canadians say Senate should be abolished.Only a third? I’m surprised — I would have expected at least 80 per cent would…
The difference between dogs and cats
It’s the crash at the end that slays me again…
Its a pipeline, not a morality play
In The Keystone Principle: Stop making it worse environmentalist KC Golden makes the ridiculous argument that opposing the Keystone pipeline is some kind of moral test of environmental purity: Keystone…
Armageddon avoided for now
By my admittedly inexpert calculations, five hours later and the Chelyabinsk meteor would have hit north of Edinburgh. Twelve hours later, it would have been uncomfortably close to Saskatoon. You…
They’d all freeze here anyway
Our good news today: In a bizarre exchange in a place known for bizarre exchanges, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird told the House of Commons Wednesday that “Canada will never…
Newest viral
Yes, Gangnam Style had more intellectual substance, but Harlem Shakeis funny, too:“
Great line of the day
The Sixth Estate rips apart the latest Harper Con talking point — leaked to one of their most reliable courtiers Jane Taber — about how Senator Duffy isn’t really defrauding…
Media frenzy
The media frenzy around where Mike Duffy really lives just shows the truth of the saying “be nice to the people you meet on the way up because you’ll see…
Saturday morning cartoon
The Box – Simon’s Cat – YouTube: ““ Its the crash off-screen at the end that slays me.
Don’t piss on me and tell me its raining
The latest robocall scandal is going to bite the Harper Cons in the ass, to coin a phrase.They could have done a reasonably neutral poll to find out what Saskatchewan…
Hubris
More legal trouble for Mayor Rob Ford “The audit revealed more than 100 apparent contraventions of the Municipal Elections Act, including the finding that Ford spent more than $40,000 above…
Shorter
Charles Pierce describes the Republican performance at Chuck Hagel’s nomination hearing: A few great Pierce lines: …This is the equivalent of a clown taking singing lessons from a goat.… It…
#J28 photos
Ottawa: Calgary: Toronto: Sault St. Marie: Edmonton: Calgary: Winnipeg: Texas: Michigan: New Mexico: And see this video of Idle No More solidarity around the world.
Day of Action #J28
Idle No More is rallying worldwide on Monday …jingle dancers across the country have been invited by organizers to dance on Parliament Hill following a rally on Victoria Island.In Vancouver,…
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Shorter Globe and Mail: Next time I need a job, I hope Sun News remembers that I supported their “mandatory carriage” campaign.
Le Blog
Jean-Paul Sartre’s Blog at the New Yorker: Wednesday, 22 July, 1959: 10:50 A.M.This morning over breakfast S. asked me why I looked so glum.“Because,” I said, “everything that exists is…
Whine and jeez
I used to like Phil Mickelson until he started whining about how awful it is that he is going to have to pay more taxes on an income of merely…
I just looked around and he’s gone
1968 was the year I was finishing high school. Martin Luther King Jr and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. There were violent riots at the Democratic Convention, Prague Spring ended in…
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Non Sequitur