Sixth Estate Opens Competition for New Name for BC Liberal Party
British Columbia is in the process of setting one record, and in the next few months it may set another. I can’t think of another occasion in Canadian history when…
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Yet Another Reason to Read Sun Media: Crackpot “Science”
As I trawled through the nation’s op-ed pages for my ongoing Media Bias project, I came across a true gem that’s making the rounds of its smaller community papers, a…
Sixth Estate Media Bias Project Relaunched
Last year, in the wake of the 2011 election, I ran a project to measure whose voices got amplified in the major newspapers’ op-ed pages, called the Media Bias Project.…
BC Confidential Report on Elimination of Forest Conservation Laws Available as PDF
Residents of British Columbia may have seen in the news today that the provincial government inadvertently placed a confidential draft report on the future of the forest industry on a…
Conservative Sources Admit Concealing Identity of “Pierre Poutine” Fraudster?
I take a week off from blogging, and things stay interesting in my absence anyways. The National Post reports that the Elections Canada investigation into the Guelph robocalls has spread…
The True Cost of the F-35: $48.7 Billion
Something needs to be said about this business of the government “hiding” $10 billion in costs on the F-35, suggesting the cost was only $15 billion when it was “really”…
Guelph Cons Claim They Were Targeted by Election Fraud, Too
The Guelph Conservative campaign currently under investigation for sending fraudulent calls to suspected opponents has now filed a complaint of its own, alleging that their supporters were targeted by someone…
Independent Journalist Claims to Know the Identity of Pierre Poutine
As the professional media dithers about the future of Rights & Democracy and whether or not lying to Parliament about the cost of the F-35 jet fighter actually counts as…
Two Julian Fantino Campaign Backers Exceeded Donation Limits by 60,000%
Since the election fraud story appears to be dying an entirely undeserved death at the hands of the perennially moronic professional media, I thought I’d stir the pot a little…
Dishon. Rona Ambrose Lies to Parliament, Must Resign Immediately
The following are the words of the Dishonourable Rona Ambrose, Member of Parliament for Edmonton-Spruce Grove and Minister of Public Works and Government Services, spoken in the Parliament of Canada…
Auditor-General Stops, Backs Up, Changes Doors
Well, well. I bet the Prime Minister’s Office is currently looking up what Cabinet order is required in order to sack an Auditor-General — and my apologies also to said…
Auditor-General Picks Door No. 2
By which I mean, in reference to my yesterday’s post, that Auditor-General Michael Ferguson pulled every punch he could in coming out with a report basically accusing the military of…
Major Test for the Auditor General Tomorrow
Tomorrow, one of two things will be reported by the Auditor General of Canada: that the minister is responsible for misleading Canadians about the procurement process of the F-35, or…
Minister of Adultery Decides to Waste More Taxpayer Resources
Honestly, this sort of complete and utter bullshit makes one wonder why the government bothers having press secretaries at all. I do hope that Vic Toews recovers from whatever ails…
As of May 2, 2012, Canada Elections Act is a Dead Letter
UBC’s Andrew Irvine has published a useful column in Postmedia explaining why “quick fixes” like electronic voting or proportional representation aren’t likely to improve the sorry state of Canadian democracy.…
It’s Too Bad We Live in a Nation of Incompetent Journalists…
… because if we didn’t, maybe one of them would rouse themselves long enough to ask how one person can make both of the following statements about the F-35 and…
Budget 2012 vs Sixth Estate Patronage List
After wasting millions of dollars languishing in the government equivalement of development hell, under Budget 2012 the Public Appointments Secretariat is finally being abolished. This was an office which the…
Spending Like Drunken Cons, Part 2: Conservatives Miss Their Debt Projections Yet Again
I have only two posts planned on the 2012 budget. Unlike the professional media, I am not a trained poodle, and I will not degrade myself through weeks of high-pitched…
Sixth Estate’s prediction for the 2012 budget…
… is that there will not be one single professional journalist who asks the only question worth asking: How does this government propose to create and maintain a balanced budget…