Your move, Vic.
Omar Khadr formally requests transfer home from Guantanamo Ottawa has received an application from convicted war criminal Omar Khadr to transfer from Guantanamo Bay to Canada. A spokeswoman for Public…
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Guest post: New progressive narrative
This is a guest post contributed by frequent commenter Jared Milne. In the last couple of years, various Canadian commentators have remarked on the new conservative narrative of Canada that…
Friday night
Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign Sitting there by the left turn line Flag on the wheelchair flapping in the breeze One leg missing, both hands free No one’s paying…
A little Friday morning Robocon blogging
This will be a short post for the simple reason that there hasn’t been a lot of movement on this story in the last week. The most dramatic development was…
Friday night
This evening I think we’ll do them in chronological order. This is The Fabulous Thunderbirds performing on Austin City Limits in 1986. Look At That, Look At That. Rebecca was…
Friday night
This evening I think we’ll do them in chronological order. This is The Fabulous Thunderbirds performing on Austin City Limits in 1986. Look At That, Look At That. Rebecca was…
Friday Robocon program related activities blogging
Since the dramatic revelations in last week’s committee testimony by Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand, there has been very little additional movement in the main robocon story. For the moment,…
QOTD: On the F-35
Michael Harris writing at iPolitics in the aftermath of the Auditor General’s report on the F-35 fiasco: Since the finding that the Harper government was in contempt of parliament, it…
Light blogging ahead
Sorry for the lack of content for the last few days. And the next few. Have to take care of business. I’m sure you’ve all noticed that people who send…
Friday night
Good evening. Try to think of this as music to forget budgets by. Maybe it’ll work. This is John Campbell’s version of When the Levee Breaks. This is a long,…
Friday morning Robocon blogging
Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand appeared before the Procedure and House Affairs Committee yesterday and gave us a whole new set of numbers to talk about. Elections Canada has…
Looters in suits and ties
I once referred to the Conservatives as looters in suits and ties. I was thinking more of the economy at the time. It was a reference to the way the…
QOTD: On budget day
Mike McNair writing at The Mark: It is an entirely legitimate neo-conservative policy position to reduce tax revenues rather than maintaining a balanced budget. It is also an entirely legitimate…
Responsibility to Deflect
Perfection may remain a distant dream for most of us but according to Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO has achieved it. The secretary general of the Alliance continues to claim that…
Friday night
Delbert McClinton’s going to start things off with some help from Bekka Bramlett on She’s Livin’ It Up (And I’m Tryin’ To Live It Down). If you’re wondering… yes, Bekka…
Friday morning Robocon blogging
I was off the grid for a couple of days and have spent this morning trying to pick up the threads of this story. I’m relying primarily on other bloggers…
"The Department will not speculate…" But it will leak.
A reporter at Bloomberg tried to get confirmation from Canada’s finance department about the contents of the upcoming federal budget and got the stock reply. “The Department will not speculate…
Focused like a laser on… anything but this
O.E.C.D. Warns of Ever-Higher Greenhouse Gas Emissions LONDON — Global greenhouse gas emissions could rise 50 percent by 2050 without more ambitious climate policies, as fossil fuels continue to dominate…
It no longer has a mandate?
Why doesn’t the moral imperative that drove us to intervene in Libya extend to investigating the deaths of innocent civilians we may have caused or compensating the families of the…
Friday night
Tonight’s offering is a traditional blues blogging set. We begin by watching Roy Rogers get his audience dancing with an instrumental called Avalanche. This is Lurrie Bell (son of Carey…