Karl Rove: Sarah Palin will run
The shiny mettle that used to be Karl Rove is a bit tarnished these days, what with his grand failure of 2006. Anything he says any more is suspect. But…
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I love these Rube Goldberg contraptions. This one is from Toronto’s 2D Photography Inc.
Roger Ebert thinks this is tricked out but who cares? It's photography. It's not real. Don't forget to click in the lower right to make this HD and full screen.Here's…
To protect and serve: Police left Russell Williams victim bound and naked for five hours
I understand the the importance of preserving forensic evidence but this borders on torture - and worse. Or, is this another example of guilty until proven innocent (emphasis mine)?A woman…
Israel apologizes for Egyptian soldiers’ deaths
However, Canadian and US conservatives do not. And never will. What's wrong with you Israel, not going along with North American pundits and bloggers from the right? Who knew Israel…
No Jane Taber, Harper is NOT reinventing ‘patriotism’ in Canada
He is destroying Canada's greatest and most loved attributes that used to define us around the world - "the Charter, the flag, peacekeeping and multiculturalism". Instead Harper is hawking war,…
Is Solomon Elimimian the Cameron Wake of 2011?
Solomon Elimimian, CFL defensive rookie of 2010 is tearing it up for the BC Lions this year. He and Geroy Simon on the offensive side are almost single-handedly pulling the…
Battle of lightweights: Bush vs. Perry
Well, not Bush personally. He's too busy sitting back in his La-Z-boy or clearing brush from his porch. But Karl Rove, Bruce Bartlett et al. are waging a battle royale…
Harper planning to steal thunder from Winnipeg Jets home opener
There's much to celebrate in Winnipeg and in Canada with the rebirth of the Jets NHL franchise, beginning with the opening home game October 9. It will be a big…
Another blow for Sun News Network. Loses preferred access to more than three million Canadian TV screens.
While QMI outlets like to brag about how Fox News North (AKA Sun News Network) is ‘smoking‘ its news rivals, things aren’t looking so rosy for the right wing propaganda…
Another blow for Fox News North. Loses preferred access to more than three million Canadian TV screens.
While QMI outlets brag about Fox News North's 'walloping' of its news rivals on certain days, things aren't looking so rosy for the right wing propaganda channel in future days.…
Need a warrant to unmask Internet users? Not if Canada gets its way.
Troubling article from ars technica on Canada's second favourite PM of all time's assault on internet freedom.Even the government's own Privacy Commissioner is upset about the lawful access idea. On…
Israel-Gaza conflict by the numbers
Everett Coldwell tweeted these disheartening stats, which are about to get a whole lot more lopsided:Civilian casualties since 2005, the year Israel vacated #Gaza Strip: Gaza 3262 (including 696 children),…
Tar-sands pipeline gets support from fake Twitter accounts “to give the illusion of public support.”
I guess to the tar sands people this is what ethical stands for. Sounds about par for the course for these people.What do Astroturf and the Canadian tar sands have…
Go Alex Neve Go! "First it was Jason Kenney. Now it’s Margaret Wente."
Jane Taber clutches her pearls over Amnesty International's reproachment of just not Jason Kenney but now fellow Globe & Mail hack Margaret Wente. Going after a Conservative government official is…
Study: religion to be extinct in Canada and eight other nations
Why neither Bachmann and Perry will win in 2012 or any other year.Why Harper keeps his fundamentalism under wraps while he desperately and quietly keeps religion as an important player…
Christine O’Donnell to Piers Morgan: if you don’t ask me the questions I want you to ask, I’m walking
And indeed she did. Christine O'Donnell, failed tea party politician, walked off a CNN interview with Piers Morgan. I can understand walking out of an interview with Morgan because he…
Montreal police dragging its feet no more. ‘David Mabus’ arrested.
"believe me, the only reason the photo is available is because I WANTED IT OUT THERE.... actually it is quite a flattering photo of me: With finger cocked and pointing,…
That didn’t take long. Duceppe leaves CBC.
Not because of any controversy but because of a 'contract issue'. Too bad. I was so looking forward to the cranial detonation mess about to explode at the BT's.Two days…
Montreal police dragging its feet no more. ‘David Mabus’ arrested.
"believe me, the only reason the photo is available is because I WANTED IT OUT THERE.... actually it is quite a flattering photo of me: With finger cocked and pointing,…
Canada’s Obama bus comes under fire from the US right
Number one, it's black. Crazed Texan (aren't all right-winged Texans crazed?) Louis Gohmert calls it the "Darth Vader" bus and Obama the "evil emperor".Number two, it was built in a…