Hockey riot
If I read one more bit of pop psychology about the Vancouver riots in the popular press, I’m going to need a psychologist myself. Everybody’s pet peeves about the younger…
Dr.Dawg
Floor-crossing is fraud
NDP MP Peter Stoffer wants to prevent members of Parliament from joining another party caucus without checking back with the electors, and he has just introduced a Private Member’s Bill…
If English was good enough for Jesus Christ
…it’s good enough for America. ...
Nuclear emergency preparedness
Time once again to juxtapose: 2008: The woman who was fired by the federal Conservatives as president of Canada’s nuclear safety watchdog said Tuesday the safety risk of resuming the…
Update on two Canadians with funny names
Hassan Diab: As many of us predicted, this citizen, facing deportation to France on highly suspect and contradictory “evidence” after a judicial process that makes me think vaguely of large…
Kulchur
For those who think that the word “culture” applies to something pure and “authentic,” I found this account of the destruction of a sweat lodge in the Cree village of…
Harper’s Canada™
An odd, perhaps revealing comment about the government’s as-yet secret position on asbestos exports: On the eve of a conference to decide whether to label the substance as a hazardous…
Women drivers
You go, girls! Driving as a political act. ...
Socialism and the new NDP
As NDP delegates gather in Vancouver, many having flown in by Westjet, compromise is in the air. Fifty years after its founding, the party finds itself the Official Opposition. So…
NDP: the kids are all right, redux
My fears were unfounded. Surprisingly good accent, too. Bravo! ...
Stephen Harper and Jean Charest: cold-blooded killers
Extreme? Consider: if I feed you poison, drop by drop, day by day, knowing full well that eventually you could die an excruciating death, what does that make me? These…
Israel opposes the unilateral creation of an ethnic state
Shorter Israel: History may repeat itself, but it ain’t going to repeat itself here....
It’s the "White House," dude
Fox News wallows in unabashed racism yet again. Business news host Eric Bolling gratuitously appropriated African American rapper slang to describe Barack Obama’s present abode and the people he meets…
Democracy, dictators and Stephen Harper
Conservatives and their allies are busy keeping Brigette DePape in the news, in a variant of the Streisand Effect. The crescendo of tsk-tsking on the Right would have done Hester…
Ottawa police avert terrorist attack
Sgt. Paul Batista: now, there’s a name to conjure with. He’s the fellow who threatened some Naked Bike Riders with arrest this past Sunday if they removed their clothes, once…
Avanti popolo!
Italy’s embattled Silvio Berlusconi has just taken four more staggering body-blows, just a few days after he lost his personal stronghold of Milan. A nation-wide referendum has just shot down…
Meanwhile…(turn to p.94)
Anyone remember Fukushima?...
Assault and its consequences
Firoz (Phil) Khan was a newspaper deliveryman in Vancouver, going about his business one evening in January, 2009, when he was set upon by three drunken off-duty cops. A city…
Conservative notions of free expression, Ch.529
To juxtapose—but not to contrast: 2004: Build new residental schools, if that’s what it takes and tell the detractors to go to hell. I changed my mind. We don’t need…
Autism and Mr. Moore
Note to the egregiously vicious Conservative Minister of Canadian Heritage & Official Languages, James Moore, who claims that autism is not a disability and its sufferers are just a special…