Conservative crust
Under the gun for massive, organized electoral fraud, the Harper Conservatives are fighting back. And if there were a Nobel Prize for chutzpah, I can think of a couple of…
Dr.Dawg
Department of Duh
Scoop! 🙂 The photo, above, is of a popular restaurant in Guelph. Meanwhile, even Homer nods. McMaher on “Pierre Poutine,” owner of the throwaway cellphone in Guelph: The obviously fabricated…
Conservative majority: old data, new reality
…and a mea culpa. In a previous post I referred to a “14-seat” Conservative majority. In fact it is a 12-seat majority. On election night, May 2, 2011, the Conservatives…
Harper’s banana Canada
…is not mine. Perhaps a harbinger of what is to come for Canadians across the country as the Harper government prepares to slash thousands of public service jobs: A woman…
Harper: "I’m not a crook"
Robogate: Harper denies, denies, but the stain is spreading further in this banana monarchy of ours. 18 27 34 ridings now appear to have been affected by fraudulent electoral practices.*…
All the news that fits
I couldn’t believe this—saw it on Twitter somewhere, can’t find it for the H/t—so I checked for myself. Sure enough, Canada’s National Newspaper, the Globe & Mail, did not deign…
2012: Two panic narratives
The centre cannot hold. A four-year-old schoolgirl draws a picture of a man holding a gun. She says it’s a picture of her Daddy, driving away bad guys and monsters.…
Robocons go live
Robofraud was not the only voter suppression technique linked to the Conservatives during the last election campaign. Investigative journalists Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor have just reported on a bank…
The Cons lighten the troika
A young Conservative imbecile is tossed off the sled to the wolves. One kid, responsible for a robofraud program that stretched over 27 ridings? Stay hungry, wolves. Please.
If I wanted a Liberal to lead my party
…I’d have stayed with Bob Rae. Now Thomas Mulcair, a former Liberal with skin-deep ties to the NDP, is one of the front-runners in our leadership race. I don’t like…
Harper’s Canada: military/government
Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay used Canada’s military to try to help him out of a jam during the fishing camp air-taxi scandal. The attempt to defuse the Opposition…
Michael Coren takes a breather
…from his usual anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-Black shtick, to tell us who’s really running Hollywood. As if we didn’t know. About Coren, I mean.
Did electoral fraud win Harper his majority?
Some time ago, blogger Alison at Creekside noted that Stephen Harper’s majority was won by a mere 6,201 voters in 14 ridings. Here’s the list, with the margins of victory:…
Stupid Con tricks: voter suppression
Don’t the Harpercons ever have an original thought rattling around in their empty heads, even when it comes to dirty tricks? From giving their infamous Internet snoop bill the all-but-same…
The metaphysics of IVF
The Globe and Mail ventures into metaphysics this morning, with predictably disastrous results. Children who are conceived with an egg or sperm donor should have the right to know their…
Why do the Conservatives hate our troops?
The wounded ones, that is. Truly sick-making: our veterans arbitrarily cut off benefits with no explanation. They’re stiffed, denied information about benefits they are entitled to, put though a cumbersome…
Black History month in Ottawa
Ottawa Fashion Week, complete with blackface. Here’s hoping the organizers shortly appear in redface.
OK, which side won the Battle of Britain again?
David Cameron’s Conservative government adopts a less-than-novel approach to the country’s “useless eaters”. The policy could mean that those on employment and support allowance who have been placed in the…
Heartlandgate
The documents. The threat. My response: Go forth in fornicating fashion, you denialist quacks.
Copyright follies: Western and Toronto combine against access
This is an outrageous story, which has not yet drawn the public attention it deserves. Two major Canadian universities have entered into an agreement to stifle access to sources and…