Jim Flaherty Joins the GOP in Bid to Stick it to Workers
I can understand now why Stephen Harper claims to only watch American news. How else can his government follow the trends, though the GOP are lagging? Jim Flaherty announced an…
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Reform Party Has Come Full Circle With Attacks on Quebec and First Nations
More than two decades ago, when the Reform Party was organizing, several protest groups formed to try to keep this group from gaining influence in Canada. It was well known…
I Love Time Magazine’s Choice For Person of the Year. Us
Time magazine has chosen “The Protester” as Person of the Year. From the Arab Springs to the “Occupy” movement, those who literally stand up for democracy are being honoured. Time…
Beautiful Attawapiskat Christmas Carol
The song is Jesus Ahatonia, written by St. Jean de Brebeuf in 1643. Absolutely beautiful.
Well the S.O.B. Did it. Canada Officially Out of Kyoto
The US announced their energy strategy in 2001 which was largely developed by Vice-President Dick Cheney and the large fossil fuel and nuclear industry companies. Capitalizing on the California energy…
I Think I Can Answer the Question on This Week’s Cover of Time
“In Gallup’s poll of the Republican faithful at the start of 1966, Nixon was ahead by twenty-three points. Michigan governor George Romney sat fourth. But Romney was the one all…
The Problem With the Media May Not be Lack of Balance
In her book The Right is Wrong, Arianna Huffington devotes a chapter to the media’s search for truth, or abandonment of it, depending on how you look at it. Huffington…
Are First Nation Complaints All Part of a Commie Plot?
At the root of the Conservative movement on both sides of the border, is the fear of Communism. In the U.S. they rallied around Joseph McCarthy, and Ronald Reagan became…
Attawapiskat Sheds Light on Canada’s Ghetto System
There was a joke floating around several years ago, with an American and Canadian arguing the benefits of their respective countries. The Canadian lashed out at the American “At least…
Even Canadian Bankers are Hoping that the "Occupy" Movement is a Success
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a report yesterday, showing that Canada’s income disparity is growing faster even than that of the U.S. Low paying jobs and…
MacKay’s Joy Ride Not a One Of, But Part of Conservative Culture of Entitlement
I love the above cartoon from the Montreal Gazette. Brilliant. Did he or didn’t he? Only the prime minister knows for sure. Give me a break. Do they honestly expect…
Durban Climate Conference Tells Peter Kent to Stay Home. I Wish He Would Just go Away!
Lesley Hughes was a popular CBC radio host and respected journalist, who had always been an advocate for the less fortunate members of society. In 2008, she was urged to…
A Half a Century Later and We are Losing Half a Century
The Canadian Manifesto: How the American Neoconservatives Stole My Country In researching the conservative movement on both sides of the border, one thing becomes clear. In the U.S. they don’t…
Ezra Levant’s Rant Has a Ring of Truth, But His Din is Deafening
One of my right-wing friends asked me to watch Ezra Levant’s take on the Attawapiskat crisis, feeling, I suppose, that he presented a compelling argument. Levant is right when he…
The Conservatives Did What? Please, Not While I’m Eating!
John Kenneth Galbraith, once said of Richard Nixon: “Our nation stands at a fork in the political road. In one direction lies a land of slander and scare; the land…
Not So Much Reform as Special Interest Groups
Jeffrey Simpson has an interesting column this week: Remember the Reformers? They’re still here In it he suggests that the Conservatives are now putting policies in place written for the…
Another "Occupy" Movement That Should Inspire
Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940), was at the time of his death, the most decorated marine in the United States. However, the final years of his life were spent in publicly…
A Guest Blogger With an Important Message About the Treatment of Some Military Personnel
On Remembrance Day we do our duty by wearing our poppy, attending a special service and paying homage to all veterans and those serving in the Armed Forces. Little else…
Proof That Abolishing the Gun Registry Was Always For the NRA
Unless hunters and farmers are snipers, the Conservative abolishment of the gun registry was always, as suspected, for the NRA. ALWAYS! ALWAYS! ALWAYS! Not one single farmer or hunter ever…
Hooligans and How the Cultural Left Can Beat the Political Right
This week in the Winnipeg Sun, a column by Tom Brodbeck; Hooligan Harper haters: Crime bill protestors partisan hypocrites, irked me on many levels. From the eye rolling “Harper haters”…