A Tale Of Two Parliamentary Secretaries*
What do Paul Calandra and Dean Del Mastro have in common? Well, let’s answer that question by first stating the obvious. Both are of Italian heritage; both have served as…
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My CBC Letter Of Complaint
Although probably a futile effort, here is the letter of complaint that I have sent to the CBC ombudsman, The National, and CBC Audience Feedback regarding the Corporation’s absolute failure…
It’s Why I Subscribe
To borrow a line from one of my favourite Shakespearean plays, Macbeth, “So fair and foul a day I have not seen.” It is fair because the newspaper I subscribe…
Cheap Rhetoric Versus Practical Questions
With regard to the ISIS threat, here is what Prime Minister Harper had to say in the House: “These are necessary actions, they are noble actions” …. “When we think…
This Is Not The Time For Absolutism
In the absolutist world of Stephen Harper, there are those who wear white hats and those who wear black. No berets (especially berets!) of middling colours are recognized. So when…
When Is An Apology Not Really An Apology?
When it is delivered, not by the offending party, but rather by an unseen narrator instead. Recommend this Post
A Clear And Present Danger?
Only for some, I’m happy to report. Recommend this Post
A Possible Soution To Health Canada’s Willful Impotence
Yesterday I wrote about the fact that Health Canada has ‘convinced’ (not ordered) Apotex to stop importing drugs from one of its suspect plants in Bangalore, India. The agency’s (and…
Health Canada’s Willful Impotence on Tainted Pharmaceuticals
As I have written previously, the scandal of tainted pharmaceuticals continues, and that which should provoke outrage and demands for accountability seems to elicit for the most part only shrugs…
Offered For Your Consideration
While King Stephen has grown positively garrulous with the American media, there’s one little detail he seems to have forgotten: H/t Graeme Mackay Recommend this Post
Another Pundit Supports Trudeau’s Rejection Of Sun News
Reaction continues to be mixed on Justin Trudeau’s decision to boycott Sun News following resident madman Ezra Levant’s tirade against his entire family. Pollster Bruce Anderson is now the second…
Paul Calandra Apologizes
After his disgraceful behaviour the other day in the House during Question Period, Parliamentary Secretary and ardent Harper loyalist Paul Callandra issued a ‘tearful’ apology this morning. For me, his…
A Bit Of Anti-Union Hysteria From John Ivison
It’s funny, isn’t it, that the Harper regime can use our tax dollars to monitor us, manipulate us, and promulgate all kinds of propaganda, but somehow it’s not right, indeed…
On Trudeau’s Sun ‘News’ Boycott
When I wrote a brief post the other day on Ezra Levant’s disgusting and puerile tirade against the Trudeaus the other day, I had no intention of revisiting the issue,…
Warning! Pay No Attention To This Seditious Suggestion
A CRA Audit-Free Zone Okay boys and girls. Please resist the impulse to manipulate the Fraser Institute’s data. Really, don’t do it. I mean it. There will be consequences. 😉…
The Big Mac VS The Whopper
Clearly, based upon the shameful falsehoods she uttered at yesterday’s U.N. climate summit about Canada being a “global clean energy leader” doing “its part” to cut carbon emissions that warm…
Some Nightmares Are Real
Sleep tight, Prime Minister Harper. Recommend this Post
On The Further Debasement Of Parliamentary Debates
In which Parliamentary Secretary Paul Calandra, a loyal Harper soldier, does his utmost to discourage Canadians from watching the misnamed debates. Recommend this Post
Do People Really Watch This Crap?
Five minutes was my limit for this video. And apparently Justin Trudeau has reached him limit with Sun News. His decision to boycott the network, I’m sure, will send the…
Tory Hot Air Worsens Climate Change
Watch this video and you’ll know what I mean: Recommend this Post