Was Robert Pickton merely a lone, crazed killer who capitalized on regrettable police errors, or are there wider issues that the Pickton Inquiry should properly explore—the flaccid police response, not…
(Ottawa, August 10) DawgNews has learned that Stephen Harper, on his state visit to Greece earlier this year, threatened to “hold my breath until I turn blue” unless his host,…
Your morning smile, courtesy of my favourite magazine. Far be it from me to suggest additional comments in the style of certain regular commenters here. :)...
Brother Balbulican did a fine job in the last post of exposing the provoked incidents, confirmation bias and bigotry practised by the Usual Suspects. But I’d like to add a…
She calls herself a “third-wave feminist,” but Naomi Wolf wants memorial services for fetuses. Now she tells us that Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin are feminists, too. Nothing like setting…
Ah, summers in Ottawa, so much to see and do these days. There are times I love this place—in fact most times, except for the five-month winter. Last night my…
Hard on the heels of a Con campaign against “war criminals” at least two of whom are unknown to authorities in their own countries, comes a strategic leak about Abousfian…
Readers might remember that some time ago blogger Canadian Cynic, who had been grossly libelled by perennial fratboi Patrick Ross, obtained a whopping default judgement against the aforesaid Patrick Ross,…
While Vic Toews is bemoaning the CBC state broadcaster’s refusal to act like, well, a state broadcaster, the home country of one of these “war criminals” is wondering who the…
Once again, boys and girls, time to juxtapose: “I think Canadians expect that any political party that wants to govern the country be unequivocally committed to this country,” Harper said…
Personally I prefer blogging and other hobbies that don’t get you that Knock On The Door. Cooking, too, I would have thought, was safe enough. But perhaps there are forms…
First, a disclaimer: I have known Nycole Turmel since 1985, and worked with her closely as an executive vice-president of the PSAC from 1994-2003. Over the years we had many…
…but a diagnosis. I’d missed this one: it appeared last week. But you should read every word of it, not merely my excerpt. Anyone who thinks we can sit down…
Now you see it, now you don’t. Alert reader beluga2 notes that the scrofulous owner of Atlas Shrugged has been doing a little further self-editing since her excision of a…
The other day Rod MacLean (“croghan27”), a beloved participant on the Bread and Roses board, and a frequent commenter at my place, was found dead in his Centretown Ottawa apartment.…
…but a diagnosis. Here is conservative stalwart Debbie Schlussel, channeling Michael Coren: the victims of neo-Nazi ally Anders Breivik, she avers, were “hateful, privileged brats.” And despite her earlier attempted…
Videos of Roxanne Carr’s treatment in the infamous Ottawa police cellblock. And here, courtesy of blogger Zoom, is the Ottawa Police Service’s latest public victim’s description of what she endured…
That would be anti-Semitic. Insert your own term here. Meanwhile, in Israel proper, Bedouin are being charged for the cost of demolishing their own homes. Attempts to dispossess the Bedouin…
The pre-Enlightenment government of Stephen Harper fires another salvo against scientists. Man walked, after all, with dinosaurs. In fact we appear to be doing so to this day. ...
No, I mean literally. This Birther rag, for which Islamophobe Kathy Shaidle writes, and which frequent commenter “knygathin_zhaum” cites uncritically, claims the kids on the island were murdered by—why, the…
