Harper Continues To Isolate Canada
With Harper and his band of geniuses running around the UN this, it’s actually been kind of interesting. As I pointed out back in May, Harper’s foreign policy has served…
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NY Times On Harper’s Abuse Of Science
Over at Huffington Post, someone noticed that the New York Times spent some significant column space raking Harper over the coals for how he has abused Canada’s science community. I…
Legalize It, Control It
One of the most devastating problems that our society faces is that of addiction. Whether that is to tobacco, alcohol or narcotics – any substance addiction can have long term…
Analyzing The Manning Centre Report "City Council Vote Tracking"
The Manning Centre released a report this week, "Growing the Democratic Toolbox: City Council Vote Tracking". The first thing about this that I find interesting is that this appears to…
Remember Harper Muzzling Scientists? He’s Doing It To Veterans Too
Under the Harper Government, we have been fed enormous amounts of propaganda pablum in the name of “Support the War in Afghanistan Troops”. The “highway of heroes” when our troops…
Let The Astroturfing Begin
It seems that the astroturfing of Calgary has begun, with the Manning Centre sitting right behind it. Common Sense Calgary has been launched using funds from the Manning Centre. Started…
Harper, The UN and Aboriginal Issues
Once again, we find The Harper Government (which, I am more and more convinced is not a Canadian government), squabbling over the UN’s initiatives to review Canada’s treatment of our…
Slates In Calgary Municipal Elections
While Calgary’s municipal elections are ostensibly “non-partisan”, in so far as we don’t have the various political parties directly involved, it is naive to think that we don’t have slates…
Corcoran Misses The Point On Income Disparity
On CBC’s “The House” this weekend, I heard an interview with the Financial Post’s Terrance Corcoran, in which he was basically poo-pooing the very real issue of the growing disparity…
Mulcair’s Beard Is Not The Point
There are days that I am positive that the “image consultants” who hover around our political leaders don’t have a clue what they are talking about. Today, we find the…
Watch As Our Prison Costs Go Up
Travis Baumgartner was sentenced today. He was sentenced to the equivalent of “40 years to life” for a bloody robbery that left three dead. Previously, the standard sentence that Baumgartner…
Think I’m Joking About Corporate Feudalism?
Perhaps you think that I’m being somewhat Pollyanna about the issue of corporate feudalism and its rise in both Canada and the US. I’m not kidding. This is possibly the…
The PQ’s "Charter of Quebec Values"
Lately, there has been much of an uproar made over the PQ’s “Charter of Quebec Values” in the news. Frankly, the entire thing strikes me as a ridiculous bit of…
Canada’s Far Right Next Attack On Nenshi
It’s no big secret that the Conservative power base in Calgary was profoundly pissed off when Naheed Nenshi won the Mayoral race in 2010. The amount of vitriol seen in…
Creating Hierarchies of Rights
Recently, we have had a series of stories where there have been arguments put forth that there should be “exemptions” in non-discrimination laws for religious beliefs. Yesterday’s column by Licia…
Ms. Corbella Argues That Atheists Are Bad People
In her column in today’s Calgary Herald, Licia Corbella gets on her high horse about atheists. The title of her column is ridiculous enough: “Will Atheism Be Held To Account…
A Case Against Invading Syria
With the UK and the United States arguing that it’s time to take action against Syria, it seems a good time to consider the consequences of such involvement from the…
RoboCalls Scandal – It’s Still Alive
For those who had lost track of the Robocalls fraud perpetrated by the Harper Conservatives during the 2011 election, it hasn’t gone away. Harper has done an enormous amount of…
On Keystone XL … Why?
I’ve generally stayed quiet on the subject of Keystone XL. Not because I don’t have opinions about the pipeline, or questions about it, but because the entire proposition has struck…
Apparently Ms. Landolt Doesn’t Read Her Own Words
Over at LifeSite News, we find REAL Women Canada’s Gwen Landolt trying to backtrack on what she said so publicly last week. The pro-family, pro-life conservative organization REAL Women of…