Our Hands Are Not Entirely Clean Either
Last evening I wrote a very brief post with a link to pictures depicting the violence that ensued in St. Petersburg, Russia recently at a small gay pride gathering. I…
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Contemplating A Trip To Russia?
You might want to consider these pictures before you make your decision. H/t Antonia Zerbisias Recommend this Post
The Ad the CBC Refuses To Air
Are they right or wrong? You decide. You can read the full story here. Recommend this Post
Privacy Concerns Or Just Plain Secrecy?
I started working on a post the other day about government and institutions’ penchant for claiming ‘privacy concerns’ as an excuse for withholding the kind of information that true democracies…
Coffee Workers Unionizing
Many of us are abundantly aware, as both parents and citizens, of how hard it is for young people to establish meaningful career paths these days. Part-time and contract work…
Government Suspends Whistleblower For Revealing E.I. Wichhunt
Ordinary Canadians are assumed to be criminals while the Harper government turns a blind eye to Senate corruption. Sylvie Therrien, a federal fraud investigator, has been suspended without pay after…
Score Another One For The Star
I rather like this, don’t you? Recommend this Post
How Much Do We Really Pay For Those Bargains?
There is a segment in the documentary, The Corporation, where Michael Walker of The Fraser Institute extols how corporations help developing nations by using their labour to make their products.…
Tim Speaketh Yet Again
I doubt that Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak has ever met a neoconservative nostrum that he doesn’t like. The latest pontification from the lad who would be Premier comes…
The NDP – Just Another Political Machine
Although I will likely vote NDP federally in the next election, I am under no illusion that the party is much different from its two major competitors. Indeed, I see…
He Said, She Said ….
Yesterday I wrote a post detailing a CTV report on the obstruction from the PMO over its refusal to hand over an email pertaining to the the Wright-Duffy Senate payoff…
A Politician To Respect
Although she is not one of ours, Democratic Senator Elizabethan Warren is one of those rare politicans who commands respect. Calm, even unflappable, and eminently logical, she handles herself with…
Sometimes Mockery Is The Only Fitting Rebuke
H/t The ChronicleHerald Recommend this Post
If the Prime Minister Obstructs Justice, Isn’t It Still A Criminal Offence?
CTV reports the following: The Prime Minister’s Office has been withholding from the RCMP an email about the $90,000 cheque Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff wrote to Sen. Mike…
Pat Robertson Offers His ‘Expert’ Opinion On Trayvon Martin
There seem to be no limits to Pat Robertson’s prodigious intellect. One wonders when God will ‘call him home‘ for the rest he so richly deserves. Recommend this Post
Paranoia, Inc.
Read all about it here. Recommend this Post
Separated At Birth?
Both Richard Nixon and Stephen Harper certainly seem to have been raised with the same bedtime story, and to have taken it at face value. Recommend this Post
It’s All One Big Coincidence
Glad that Ontario Premiere Kathleen Wynne has put to rest that ugly speculation that the province’s change in attitude toward a subway for Scarborough has nothing to do with the…
The Harper Loyalty Rewards Program
While I await with less than bated breath for the announcement today of Dear Leader’s cabinet shuffle, the press has been all agog about it, offering rampant specualtion as to…
Sunday Sermon
Just got back from my bike ride, so this will have to suffice for the time being: Recommend this Post