The Sgt Schultz defense
We’re supposed to believe that not only did Harper know nothing about Wright’s $90,000 cheque to Duffy, he also knew nothing about the previous plan to get the Conservative Party…
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I feel like Charlie Brown’s football
Every time I start to think that maybe the Harper Cons aren’t so bad, I find out that actually, they’re worse.When disaster strikes somewhere in the world, like now with…
Just shut up
Production costs? Oh, give me a break.Big City Lib suggests a secret statement and Montreal Simon says The Ford Nation is Dead !!!! Mound of Sound suspects that Ottawa has…
Now there’s something you don’t see everyday
I hate to link to the Toronto Sun, but here’s the cartoon which Warren Kinsella tweets is the best editorial cartoon of the year:
Rider Pride
Roughriders rout Stampeders; heading home to play in Grey Cup
Krusty and his brother will now be appearing on Sun News
Sun News thinks they’re going to cash in big by giving the Ford brothers a weekly TV show?They just destroyed their credibility as a news network. Here’s the twitter reaction:…
Beautiful
I saw this on twitter — a migrating pod of Beluga whales in Nunavut Inlet:
Lest we forget? The Harper Cons have forgotten
Before any other kids sign up for the Canadian forces, I hope they (and their parents) realize that their service is no longer honoured by the Harper Cons. If they…
Proof positive
Well there’s one thing that the Rob Ford administration proves beyond a shadow of a doubt: any idiot can run the city of Toronto. Mayor Rob Ford’s own deputy mayor…
The least of these
Why is it so startling to see true Christianity in action?Pope Francis Kisses Severely Disfigured Man And Prays With Him Francis saw the man from his car, stopped the motorcade,…
A thing of beauty
Watch this expert driver back a 50′ trailer into a space that I might have trouble backing into with my car:
A question for Toronto
I have a question for the 380,000 people in Toronto who thought two years ago that Rob Ford would be a good mayor. What possessed you to think that he…
Ain’t we havin’ some fun now
Two cheques: Duffy says Conservative lawyer covered his $13,500 legal expenses: Duffy tabled a document with the Senate that shows Arthur Hamilton, the Conservative party lawyer, signed off on a…
Integrity is more than fear of looking bad
Finding myself agreeing with Andrew Coyne is an odd position to be in, and makes me doubt myself. But anyway, I do find this part of his column interesting: At…
Harper told Duffy to do the right thing
In spite of all the tut-tutting in the press about how Harper is now directly involved in the Duffy scandal, what we’ve seen so far isn’t going to stick.Today’s story…
Is anybody actually in favour of fracking?
So the meme was building yesterday was about what a huge mistake it was for the #elsipogtog protesters to have seized media cars and equipment and thus turned the media…
As it happened on Thursday morning
A Twitter pic of the #Elsipogtog protest: And here are photos by Media Coop reporter Miles Howe: Howe, who was arrested at the protest, writes an astounding account of what…
This is very bad and its going to get worse
photo The Mi’kmaw protest against hydro-fracking in New Brunswick has been going on for months. So why was it this morning that RCMP moved in?Rabble says: It is more than…
No matter how cynical I get, I just can’t keep up
So Emily Yoffe wrote an article warning young women that if they get falling-down drunk at a party they are risking being raped. In one awful high-profile case after another—the…