Canada’s Dear Leader
The Toronto Sun’s resident dotard Peter Worthington channels KCNA: Canada’s beloved Prime Minister Stephen Harper Spiked the Koolaid a tad, did we? ...
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The achievements of the #Occupy movement
What do the #Occupy folks stand for? What are their demands? What do they hope to achieve? We’ve seen variants of these questions for the past few weeks, often wielded…
Amerika: "Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry"
This video is too good for words. So let me simply offer credits, staring with the inimitable Alison who points to the Canadian origins of the Occupy movement; and to…
#OccupyOttawa!
About 1,000 people occupied Ottawa—or Confederation Park, at least—this afternoon. A march took place later, but a couple of hours on my feet standing or walking these days is pushing…
American "pro-life" legislators: keep the fetus, throw away the mother
Anyone who continues to imagine that the USA is a civilized country isn’t paying attention. Yesterday the House of Representatives, by a wide margin, voted to condemn pregnant women to…
Collective bargaining in Canada: a reprise
I see that I am not alone in regarding Lisa Raitt’s assault on unions as a grim harbinger of the future of labour relations in Canada. Here’s the Globe&Mail’s Rod…
Harper government declares class war
We’re a mere eight years away from the 100th anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike, and it looks like we’re coming full circle. First it was a settlement imposed by…
No choice for pro-choice
You know those pickets of fresh-faced kids, the ones who gather regularly outside clinics and hospitals to bully women seeking abortions? Chances are, we’re paying for them. Bad enough we…
The Grope & Fail tackles #ows
Classic. The Globe and Mail this morning carries an article by Konrad Yakabuski, in which he frets about the “further polarization” that OccupyWallStreet is allegedly causing among the American electorate.…
Harper’s holey war on science
Another day, another muzzled scientist. This time it’s Dr. David Tarasick, a member of an international team of researchers who recently discovered a vast hole in the ozone layer over…
But we mustn’t call it apartheid
Time once again to juxtapose. This is apartheid: South Africa’s Group Areas Act of 1966 consolidated earlier acts aimed at enforcing the policy of racial segregation known as apartheid, and…
Conservative dirty tricks at Washington protest
It didn’t take long for indignant conservatives to erupt after #OccupyWallStreet #ows protesters in Washington allegedly attacked a museum. They’re quieter today. The bizarre thing is that American Spectator assistant…
New Zealand "terrorism" follies continue
A follow-up to my post on the subject last month: The Urewera 18, now down to the Urewera 4, face trial early next year on criminal conspiracy charges. Some of…
Missing women: fake BC inquiry will exonerate police
Ah, yes, the police. And the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry will find that everyone else did their best too, and isn’t it a pity that hundreds of Aboriginal women…
Nightmare cephalopods: a natural history of capitalism
Mother Jones pulls together a retrospective gallery. At some level we’ve always understood the monster. Octopi Wall Street!...
Facebook: rape funny, breastfeeding immoral
A Facebook site that trivializes rape and publishes comments promoting it is free expression, says a spokesperson, and the group will not be removed. But breastfeeding photos, again according to…
A dragon-slaying
The CBC’s Kevin O’Leary is put smartly in his place by veteran Pulitzer-prizewinning US journo Chris Hedges. Another blow struck for civility, if you’ll forgive the mixed metaphor. Covered already…
"L’argent puis des votes ethniques"
Feeling a little…blue this morning, are we, Ontaricons? Of course your rout last night was everybody else’s fault. Union money and the “foreign worker” vote. Cross-dressers for McGuinty. Cross-burners for…
Ontario election: a parody of democracy
Dalton McGuinty got a near-majority with less than 37% of the vote. But nearly two-thirds of the electorate stayed home. Do the math. McGuinty has a mandate to govern from…
Jail Tony "Gazebo" Clement!
That is all....