Carleton University’s shameless president
Roseann Runte is at it again. It wasn’t enough to ban an Israeli Apartheid Week poster from the campus and threaten Palestinian and pro-Palestinian students with expulsion; or to fire…
Dr.Dawg
Canada’s national animal: the elephant?
At least one Conservative senator thinks the beaver is an unworthy animal to represent our nation: she proposes instead the “stately polar bear”—which also happens to be a fierce predator…
DiManno: #OccupyCorporateMediaInc
Is Rosie DiManno a journalistic Luddite? I don’t usually have serious differences with my comrade-in-arms mattt bastard. But he’s Twittering critically about her column this morning, and I think he’s…
Michael Coren on the CBC
No, no, not actually on the CBC: he’s been blacklisted, he says, according to sources he won’t name. Apparently that “old fraud” Peter Gzowski had something to do with it,…
SchadenFord
Man, I wish I could take credit for the term and the concept, but honour dictates that it go to commenter Christine over here. The article itself is none too…
Stop Hateoween, Conservatives say
(Ottawa, October 27) DawgNews has learned that a group of Conservative Party members are protesting the use of “hateful political costumes” on Hallowe’en. “Bad enough we have to call the…
A curious silence
I borrowed my title from a blogpost by Joanne Hill, a writer for the Jewish Tribune who blogged as “Lumpy, Grumpy and Frumpy” until earlier this year, and has been…
Conservative ethics: an oxymoron, with an assist
Several Conservative MPs. planning to vote the Canadian Wheat Board into nonexistence, have boasted that they will make money by doing so. Obviously unethical, right? Surely the parliamentary ethics watchdog…
Google says No
What Canadian politician would try to shut down a blog? From Google: Observations on Content Removal Requests We received a request from a Canadian politician to remove a blog criticizing…
Go for Plan A, Christie
Media troll Christie Blatchford has a go at the health care system. here I used to think that before I got really old I’d get me a gun so I…
David Anderson’s gaffe: a silaluk in a tiiliurut?
Saskatchewan Conservative MP David Anderson’s silly slap at the Canadian Wheat Board was an insult to the intelligence, right enough. Was it also an insult to Inuit? Mary Simon says…
Free thinkers in Ottawa
Since when does “free thinker” mean the same thing as “screechy right-winger?” In Ottawa, however, it appears to. Fred Litwin is the man behind the so-called “Free Thinking Film Festival,”…
Them lib’rul media, Ch.471
The host of a US National Public Radio programme of opera, Lisa Simeone, has been fired by NPR for involving herself in #Occupy demonstrations in Washington. That’s right, opera. Her…
Canoe-dling: Margaret Wente doesn’t get it, Ch.371
Ouch! Defensive much? Globe & Mail columnist Margaret Wente has just been called a racist—not, it must be said, for the first time. And she’s on a bit of a…
The CBC and Pierre Karl Péladeau’s thin skin
That fellow running Quebecor can dish it out, but he seems to have a serious aversion to taking it. He’s threatening legal action against the CBC for having the gall…
Hungry weekends: Texas cutbacks
Need to save money? Why not give prison inmates fewer meals? Texas will feed 23,000 prisoners only two meals a day on weekends. “Brunch” is to be served between 5…
Harper’s newest attack on democracy
Parliament (pahr-luh-muh’nt): derived from Fr. “parlement,” speaking. By that measure we no longer have much of a parliament, only a government. Closure on debate has now been invoked four times…
Sic semper tyrannis
Muammar Gaddafi, 7 June 1942-20 October 2011. ...
Text, hyperlinks and defamation
A unanimous ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada will permit hyperlinks to defamatory material. Here’s the meat: Traditionally, the form the defendant’s act takes and the manner in which…
A tale of two countries
A story out of the so-called “People’s Republic” of China has been horrifying millions over the past few days: I suppose we might salvage some hope from its evident capacity…