Harper’s Canada™: a fitting symbol
How perfectly appropriate. We should replace the maple leaf on our flag with it.
Dr.Dawg
What Harper’s "apology" to First Nations is worth, Ch. 763
Let the pesky redskins die.
Happy Easter
Shamelessly stolen from Mattt Bastard’s place:
Capital punishment
The City of Ottawa—my home—could use a good Spring cleaning. Not only are we blessed with one of the most uncontrolled and brutal police forces in the country, we also…
The Derbyshire debacle
Ah, the pleasing sound of another mask dropping. In fairness, John Derbyshire is not new at this, but he’s never been quite so…unvarnished before. Derbyshire is the man who in…
The Pantsafire Chronicles: special edition
“There is no moving on from a lie this big.” So concludes a magnificent article by Postmedia journo Michael Den Tandt about the F-35 scandal, although the word “scandal” in…
Hassan Diab: the next stop on the railroad
Unsurprisingly, Hassan Diab has been ordered deported by Justice Minister Rob Nicholson. He’s the Carleton University sociology professor accused by a crusading French magistrate of involvement in a horrific synagogue…
That ol’ Nazi label
It’s just never appropriate, is it? Let’s take the two Canadian “free speech advocates” pictured above, Marc Lemire and Paul Fromm, as a case in point. I may have spoken…
Attawapiskat students hammered by Harper
While Harper’s Indian agent is vacationing in Hawaii, students studying off-reserve have had their funding abruptly cut off, leaving them without money for food, rent and expenses. And so the…
Rights and Democracy: you can’t kill a corpse
The Harper government, contrary to recent media coverage, did not kill the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, aka Rights and Democracy. It died two years ago, after…
American racism: not in one town, not in one state
The killing of Trayvon Martin went viral a few weeks ago. It took a national furor, in fact, to kick-start Florida’s dormant justice system. After mounting public outrage, a special…
The Handmaid’s Tale: not an instruction manual…
…but tell that to the gender fascists in various US jurisdictions busy jailing women who can’t fight back. Read this article to learn what these male supremacist sado-politicians are up…
The flaky F-35
No, I mean literally. Now it seems that the Harper government decision to buy these fabulously costly pieces of junk has run into strong headwinds. Unsurprisingly, ordinary, sane Canadians want…
More US extraterritorial craziness
The all-pervasive grip of American paranoia is seeping across its own borders once again. Are you a Brit planning a vacation in Canada or the Caribbean? Even though you’d be…
The spirit of capitalism
All of the essential elements of unrestrained capitalism are brought together in an excellent, un-put-downable read from Mother Jones’ Ted Genoways. It’s a few months old, but nothing has changed…
War on words
The New York City Department of Education wants to avoid the user of certain words or phrases on standardized tests if “the topic is controversial among the adult population and…
Trayvon Martin: pro-Zimmerman case evaporates
The racist Right, scrambling to defend the killer of unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, has just taken a knockout blow. It’s all over for George Zimmerman, or…
Pro-bullying Xians (and a Sikh) invade Queen’s Park
Hatemongers defending the bullying of GLBT high school students assembled at Queen’s Park yesterday to tell the Ontario government and the world how creeped out they are by faggots. They…
Budget 2012
The strategy was simple: prepare us for an attack by chainsaw-wielding maniacs—then just slap us around a little and break a few fingers. Folks will still sigh in relief, or…
Budget Day
…and blogging here will be light: I’ll be in the journo lockup shortly, and will remain there incommunicado until Finance Minister Jim Flaherty rises to begin his speech in the…