A Young Person Responds To Kevin O’Leary
It is young people like Rachel Parent who give me some reason to hope for the future: Recommend this Post
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Canada’s Complicity In Torture
Thanks to alternative media, Canada’s recent denigration of all things U.N. begins to make sense. Just another instance of how we have become a renegade nation under the Harper cabal.…
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Shelley)
I see that Shelley Glover, the Conservative M.P. for St. Boniface riding, is in a spot of trouble. It seems that the lady who practically levitates out of her House…
A Word From The Mound Of Sound
The Mound of Sound (a.k.a. The Disaffected Lib) is back from his hiatus, and he left a comment on my earlier post suggesting how newspapers should deal with weather-related disasters.…
David Letterman On Fracking
This was most gratifying to see, although I was puzzled by the laughter that periodically erupted from the audience: Recommend this Post
A Modest Proposal
Kyle Farmer takes issue with The Star’s failure to ‘connect the dots’ between increasingly destructive weather and climate change: At a global warming tipping point What will it take before…
A Boorish Boar
The other day I posted a video in which Don Martin denounces the disgraced Senator Mike Duffy. He makes a reference to the exact point at which Mike Duffy ceased…
Big Wheel Keeps On Turning
Don’t know why, but the editorial cartoon in this morning’s Star rather caught my fancy: Recommend this Post
A Damning Indictment Of Mike Duffy
Watch as Don Martin uses words like fake and Conservative shill in his withering assessment of The Puffster: H/t Enough Harper Recommend this Post
Political Activism that Bears Fruit
Probably one of the biggest challenges politically aware and active people face is the fear that even after giving it their best, little, if anything, will change. The powers that…
Stephen Harper – Then and Now
“I have looked at the numbers. Her travel costs are comparable to any parliamentarian travelling from that particular area of the country over that period of time”– Stephen Harper, February…
Guest Commentary On The Temporary Foreign Workers Program
We just returned from a visit to our son out West, where the use of temporary foreign workers appears to be ubiquitous. It seemed that every Tim Hortons, every Subway…
A Master of the Universe Speaks
ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson: ‘What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers? Chilling, vile, and depraved words. H/t Nathan Cullen Recommend this Post
Two Pitiable Figures
Dickens’ Artful Dodger Ottawa’s Artless Dodger Recommend this Post
But Can It Be Mixed With Kool-Aid?
Is it possible that at the start of their political careers, Stephen Harper and Rob Ford consulted with Cornelius Grouppe for campaign advice and recruitment methodology? Recommend this Post
Citizenship on the Sidelines
Being on holiday has induced in me a certain mental torpor, so please forgive me if this post states the obvious. Those of us who write politically-oriented blogs are, of…
A Word From The West
We are still in Alberta, having just returned to Edmonton from a trip to Banff and Lake Louise conducted by our son. I suspect that even if we weren’t here,…