ConCalls: Week of Hell #RoboCon
The Conservatives have had a (deservedly) rough week, and it’s about to get more rough next week. The Council of Canadians’ court challenge is Monday. The Prime Minister closed out…
John Klein
F-35 Surprising comments from MPs in 2011
The following are rough notes from a TV clip between Liberal Marc Garneau and Conservative Laurie Hawn regarding the now newly cancelled F-35 project due to skyrocketing costs and American…
SaskPower: At Least 13 Years Out of Touch
I’m sorry Canada, and the world. I’ve tried to convince my province’s public utility that there are huge benefits from dialing down the reliance on coal burned electricity, but they…
Australian Political Hypocrisy Mirrors Ours
Australian politics is like Canada looking into a mirror. Here’s the current Prime Minister describing the deception of an earlier government she opposed. “For far too long public debate in…
The Spirit of Christmas
@saskboy I think the news story is the PERFECT example of why helping the homeless is generally a waste of good will and effort.— Adrian MacNair (@unambig) December 03, 2012…
ConCalls: Kinsella in 2011 guessed #RoboCon
I don’t normally link to Sun, or Kinsella, but it’s worth taking a look this time, I promise. While researching the cut brake lines that Elections Canada never found a…
ConCalls: This is Elections Canada
A Conservative on Twitter months ago claimed to have made phone calls on behalf of Elections Canada. @MrAnthonyDewar That was me and 1,000s of others hired by EC to update…
ConCalls: CBC vs. Postmedia vs. Elections Canada #RoboCon
There’ve been several Canadian media organizations investigating the RoboCon election fraud scandal linked to the Conservative Party. In February, Postmedia broke the story by tying the many localized reports of…
ConCalls: Rex and Terry and CBC
My guess is that Rex Murphy and Terry Milewski don’t agree very often, but they were both right about the legitimacy of the Conservative Harper Government, nine months ago. Rex…
Concalls: What’s At Stake? #RoboCon
Page 70 “the Court has acknowledged the utmost public importance of these proceedings, and has held that: “…. the applications raise serious issues about the integrity of the democratic process…
ConCalls: Last December in Kitchener #RoboCon
Since you can’t remember last December’s news from Kitchener-Conestoga (who can?), here’s a refresher. It’s not refreshing, it’s more like hair pulling agony to watch our country’s democracy die so…
Financial Post = Zombie Host
The Financial Post is the stupid-wing of the National Post. The NatPo manages to publish some actual news, while the Financial Post publishes misinformation that is there simply to anger…
Democracy Reruns
When you’ve blogged for as long as I have, I have the luxury of being able to reference my own writing for most subjects I’m interested in. So right now…
Liar, Liar, Head’s On Fire
There’s an excellent animation of this sad situation regarding toxic fire retardants, in the video called “Story of Stuff”, which also explores the messed-up nature of our whole global economic…
ConCalls: Waiting til December #RoboCon
Since Canadians are massively under-informed about the status of the legitimacy of their federal government, it seems unlikely to me that millions of them would take to the streets prior…
Honesty In Politics: Punished, With Good Reason?
If politicians don’t start being a little more brutally honest about some well established facts, and how they endanger life, then expect them to support laws that endanger us all.…
By-election Monday; Plan to Fix Democracy
Well, the polls are closed in Victoria, Calgary, and Durham, ON so it’s time for some results. Since the voters of Durham were foolish enough to stick with Oda after…
Justin Bieber and Chris Brown
Justin Bieber at the Grey Cup wasn’t the only ‘interesting’ pop music story of yesterday. I’m not a Bieber expert (Belieber), but I did watch his biopic a few months…
#YYCCentre By-election Pie Debate
The latest candidate debate in Calgary Centre riding had a twist, it was also a meat-pie contest. The winning pie, provided by the NDP candidate, was bison-tourtiere. The silliness didn’t…
Conservatives Abandon Community Pasture Protection
If the Conservatives removed protection on all fish in the ocean, do you think there’d be an outcry of concern? What if they allowed every old tree to be cut…