The Globe & Mail’s discourtesy
“The vindictive discourtesy of three Air Canada baggage handlers on Thursday toward Lisa Raitt, the federal Minister of Labour” is how an editorial in the Globe & Mail began this…
Dr.Dawg
Conservatism: not a politics…
…a diagnosis. The killing of Trayvon Martin, a seventeen-year-old Black armed with a bag of Skittles, is presently gripping the Excited States. Lies about the past of the victim, including…
Dziekanski killer convicted
One of Robert Dziekanski’s killers finally ran out of luck this week. He now has a criminal conviction—even if it’s for a different matter entirely, one that I first blogged…
Ottawa police: the beat goes on (but at a cost)
Another tale about the out-of-control Ottawa police: three of these uniformed hoods set upon a gathering of friends and neighbours roasting marshmallows, and put one of them in hospital after…
F-35: gross Conservative incompetence revealed
From Treasury Board President Tony Clement’s $50 million diversion of national security funds to his own riding, to the on-going election-rigging outrage, to the louche behaviour of Minister Christian Paradis,…
The Mulcair perplexity
Reading the punditz yesterday and today, it dawned on me that they literally don’t have a clue what has just happened to our party. But, to be honest, neither do…
#ndpldr: Thomas Mulcair
I was going to conclude my account of today’s tragicomedy with my previous no doubt overly-poetic allusion to a trapped pigeon—until my new leader opened his mouth. What kind of…
NDP leadership convention: trapped pigeon
A pigeon was trapped in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre today. That is all.
NDP Convention flashbang
First ballot, and the floor is aflame with speculation. Paul Dewar did not do well—7.4% of the ballots cast. He dropped, but will not endorse anyone. Martin Singh managed to…
NDP leadership Convention 2012: Snotty, pandering CBC
Watching the supremely self-satisfied, snickering commentators on CBC tonight should cement the impressions of the media by those of us who are actually interested in politics in Canada. The CBC…
Spring quiz
Links at the end. No peeking. DawgPoints for commenters who are brave enough to post guesses without. Who wrote these descriptions and about whom?* He did every telephone call in…
Poll blues
Robocalls, schmobocalls, said Ipsos Reid a mere 10 days ago—Harper’s still the man: Tom Clark, Global’s chief political correspondent and host of the network’s weekly political affairs program, The West…
Leaders, leadership and the NDP
My piece in iPolitics: At some point this coming Saturday, all the debates will be over, and the NDP will have a new leader. Disclosure: I’m rooting for Paul Dewar.…
The deepening shadows of Canadian politics
Canadian Conservatives work best under cover of darkness. In government, committees are now routinely forced into in camera sessions. Documents and records are withheld to the point that the Harper…
The War on Women, English style
The teeth of patriarchy are bared in the Mother Country. Civilized West vs. backward Third World countries where victims of rape are the ones punished. Oh, wait… Meanwhile, someone impersonating…
Ontario: Unsure closes in on McGuinty
(Ottawa, March 15) DawgNews has learned that two radical groups may be preparing to unseat the Ontario Liberals. A new poll indicates that Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak is…
A well-deserved slap in the chops
…to the greasy, deceitful Con man Dean Del Mastro. There will be no McCarthyite replay anytime soon at the amusingly-named House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy…
G20: Another thug in blue identified
Toronto police officer Oliver Simpson is the fellow kicking protesters in the well-known photograph, above. Sounds like he was having a good day all around. Could Ontario’s relatively new Office…
The PQ’s nasty streak
Once again, the hérouxvilliste wing of the Parti Québécois has come to the fore, and disgraced what is left of that party’s reputation as a mildly progressive political formation. Now…
Canadian media hit bottom
There are no links in this post. There are no photographs. There is only my sincere hope that I am not the only person in Canada disgusted to the point…