Citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik
The UN Security Council’s so-called “1267 Committee” has officially removed Abousfian Abdelrazik’s name from its “no-fly” blacklist. This means that our fellow-citizen may now be legally employed in Canada, and…
Dr.Dawg
And today’s Anders Breivik Award goes to…
…British conservative broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson. His response to the one-day walkout by public employees in the UK? “I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families.”…
Political second-class citizens
The new Conservative protection racket: Live in a Liberal or NDP riding? Want an Employment Centre? How about tax-paid security for shuls and mosques in your area? As Tony Gazebo…
Conservative judges
…a whole new meaning. The Conservatives, as we all know, have deep pockets—deep enough, perhaps, to hold a judge or two? Can’t be true. A retiring federal judge says so.
Barbaric cultural practices
I leave it to readers to determine which side of the bars the savages are on. This book looks like good supplementary study material.
Conservatism: not a politics
…but a diagnosis. Naming no names, but Anders Behring Breivik isn’t the only right-winger who “lives in his own delusional universe.” His ideas, said one European cabinet minister, “are in…
Harperized government
“French release harperized and good to go.” One comment from a public employee after orders were handed down to the formerly impartial federal public service by the Privy Council Office.…
I was wrong
Some time ago I published a post that linked the identity of the far-right blogger “Sassy Wire” to a freelance reporter named Joanne Hill, who published until recently a blog…
Economics for Dummies (2)
In which David Harvey explains why we should look beyond capitalism if we want to avoid the crises and human misery that are its defining characteristics. Posting this vid may…
Ottawa: Big Charity loses its (united) way
Planned Parenthood. City for All Women. STORM, which reaches out to sex trade workers. Minwaashin Lodge. The Elizabeth Fry immigrant women program. Mothercraft. The Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre. The OCISO…
Ethical asbestos
A child’s plea to Stephen Harper obtains the expected result. Cavanagh Matmor has a message for Prime Minister Stephen Harper: The sixth-grader didn’t appreciate Harper’s “cut-and-paste reply” to her emotional…
Sunday morning Harper caption contest
Keep it clean.
Our national police farce on the job
Occasion: a Parliament Hill protest against C-10, the Con crime bill, no ambiguity intended. Crime: simply being there. As the protest was getting underway, before the crowd began marching down…
Taking the "mock" out of Canadian democracy
You can feel Globe and Mail journo Gary Mason’s relief as he turns from the amorphous #Occupy movement, which he frankly didn’t get, to more familiar ground: youth involvement in…
Economics for Dummies
‘Quantitative easing” explained, more or less in words of one syllable. Thank you! Next, with any luck, a little X-rated anime: Asian options, cliquet and pin risk, for those not…
Tony Gazebo, the Teflon Con
Fresh revelations daily about this corrupt government Minister. But he’s still walking our streets, despite the recent Harper tough-on-crime initiatives. How has he slipped through the net? Clement has been…
How many people does it take
…to raise a chandelier and remove a light fixture? This is not a joke, alas, except on us taxpayers. G8 leaders who came to Toronto for that infamous meeting last…
Screwing the pooch
C-10, the omnibus crime bill now being bulldozed through the House of Commons, offers valuable insight into the dim recesses of the Conservative psyche. It’s heavy on penalties, of course,…
Theft by conversion
IOKIYAC. Tony Gazebo diverted $50 million of our money to his own riding to secure his election, despite Parliament’s appropriation of those funds for border security. No investigation, much less…