Sins of the great-great-great-great-great-grandfathers
Richard Dawkins, the British evolutionary thinker and militant atheist, was recently subject to an attack in the pages of The Telegraph, a right-wing English newspaper. On one level it seems…
Dr.Dawg
Conservatives to send blank bill to Committee
(Ottawa, February 18) DawgNews has learned that new omnibus legislation, provisionally entitled “The No More Hidden Agenda Act” is being sent directly to Committee before second reading. C-1A consists of…
Shorter Jason Kenney on Roma: "None is too many"
Our intrepid Immigration Minister Jason Kenney wants to stem the tsunami of “bogus refugees” applying for status in Canada. And he singles out “gypsies” in particular. (Why does the National…
On hypocrisy, politicians and the media
Vic Toews is mad as hell. He wants a House of Commons probe into who “leaked” publicly-available documents about his messy divorce and his spending habits. If he had gotten…
I want names
Universal surveillance. Torture. Jail, jail, jail. Guns. Death penalty. Criminalizing abortion. Bigotry on rollerskates. Who the @!#$@! got us into this mess? 6,201 Canadians did. In not one of these…
State sexual harassment
The terrorists have won. And won again. But we knew that. Can’t happen here. Right?
Tough week for the Cons
And it’s only Wednesday. Chris Selley’s mid-week round-up.
The cares of a family man
So Vic Toews wants to know all about us? Let’s have a little counter-surveillance. It’s impossible to stop reading about the private life of this Christian gentleman. Turnabout is fair…
Angus Reid’s abortion push-poll
Shameful and unprofessional. What is AR playing at—and for whom? False dichotomies are all the rage these days, of course. But still.
The Pantsafire Chronicles: Vic Toews
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews (rhymes with “raves”), just the latest Harpocrat to publicly burn his britches:
More bigotry from Jason Kenney
From the charming fellow who keeps a picture of a Nazi collaborator on his desk, another flick of xenophobic contempt, the latest of his attacks on the Arab-Canadian community: Palestine…
Journalistic negligence
…there oughta be a law. Those Canadians — me included — who favoured the get-tough law when it passed, never imagined it would be implemented so ridiculously. A gun crime…
Conservative sado-politics takes a hit
Just the beginning, I suspect. The torturecons will be upset. Watch them move to amend their omnibus crime law by adding a notwithstanding clause.
The heartless Sally Ann
I haven’t given a nickel to the Salvation Army since they last forced their grossly mistreated workers out on strike here in Ottawa many years ago. Now they’re at it…
Transparency, surveillance, and the vile Vic Toews
The “transparent” Harper government wants to keep the work of parliamentary committee meetings a secret from Canadians. A filibuster is presently under way in the Official Languages Committee to prevent…
Globe and Mail double standards
A Globe and Mail editorial headed “Tragic Impunity” (print edition) caught my eye this morning. I thought at first it might have something to do with George W. Bush, his…
Canada’s new national animal?
May as well be. Any moment now they’ll be dragging Nicole Eaton out of her Senatorial mothballs to offer a new suggestion.
Blogger faces beheading
In Saudi Arabia, it’s only 1433. Hamza Kashgari, a young blogger and poet who until recently worked for the Saudi newspaper al-Bilad, could be executed shortly, if a doddering sheikh…
Debating torture
Andrew Coyne weighs in on the torture debate—I rub my eyes using the phrase “torture debate” in Canada in 2012, but we seem to have one—and criminologist Craig Forcese takes…
Calgary Herald peddles abortion lies
Abortion connected to breast cancer? No way, except in the tiny febrile minds of “pro-life” propagandists—like the Calgary Herald’s Susan Martinuk. It’s time to put this lie—for lie it is—to…