Harper Regime Budget Cuts Should Begin at Home
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been spending my few free moments putting together a master list of the Conservative Party’s political appointees. This is separate from my Patronage List…
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Sixth Estate Flack Awards Recognize Militarization of Santa, Government Subsidies to Naval Targets
The only reason the preposterous announcement that Santa’s sleigh will be receiving an armed escort by CF-18 fighters doesn’t win the Flack Award this week is because the same announcement…
Harper Regime Doles Out Jobs to Former Candidates, Minister: Sixth Estate Patronage List Expanded to 785 Names
I’ve completed some more updates to my ongoing Patronage List, which now stands at 788 names. The Patronage List is a list of apparent Conservative insiders and donors appointed to…
Peter MacKay Takes Personal Control of Canada’s Most Secret Spy Agency
You may or may not have heard of the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s most secretive and (for most of its history) non-legal spy agency. You also may or may not…
Cutting Off Our Heads to Spite Our Faces
I offer this parody of a post, which is no way intended to be taken seriously (kids, arson is illegal) in the spirit of the inane juvenile babbling now being…
Is Jason Kenney still Roman Catholic, or does he actually accept women as equals now?
Right? I mean, that is the standard he’s claiming to set, isn’t it? The reason burkhas and niqabs have to be banned from Canada isn’t because they make women too…
Fraser Institute’s New Report on Healthcare — More of the Same
The Fraser Institute has released its regular survey of healthcare wait lists in Canada, and it says the results aren’t good: wait lists are too long, an average of 19…
Ten Reasons Why Richard Gwyn is an Idiot
This sort of nihilist screed is something I’ve heard from plenty of people before, but not usually from journalists: There’s no longer any need to pretend that our emperor isn’t…
Government of Canada Wins Steel Case, Drops Fines Anyways
At least, that’s my reading of what’s going on here, and I’m open to being corrected. Several years ago, U.S. Steel acquired the Stelco plants in Ontario on the strength…
Drinking the Durban Kool-Aid: 2015 and Beyond
Five days have now passed since the dishon. Peter MacKay threatened to sue his critics for libel, and Sixth Estate has not yet received a formal request to take down…
A Modest Reply to Margaret Wente
Four days have now passed since the dishon. Peter MacKay threatened to sue his critics for libel, and Sixth Estate has not received any requests to take down posts “attacking…
National Post Letter: Feminism Caused the Montreal Massacre
Someone has to be the first to call Rob Bredin an idiot, and I guess it’ll be me: Let’s get real… The feminization of young men… is why no male…
Lobbyist Tracker Updated
Three days have now passed since the dishon. Peter MacKay threatened to sue his critics for libel, and Sixth Estate has not received any requests to take down posts “attacking…
Minister Diane Finley Launches First Harper Regime Charge of Wrecking
On November 18, intending it to be a sarcastic and over-the-top remark, I suggested that pretty soon the Conservatives would be accusing people of wrecking — a form of sedition…
The Prime Minister’s Office Buys Maria a Fridge at the Second Sixth Estate Flack Awards
One day has now passed since the dishon. Peter MacKay threatened to sue his critics for libel, and Sixth Estate has not received any requests to take down posts “attacking…
Open Letter to Sue-Happy Peter MacKay: I am Spartacus
This has got to be the most patently absurd thing I’ve read all week: Defence Minister Peter MacKay is considering legal action against MPs who suggested he lied about a…
The Iron Law of Authoritarianism and the Future of Canadian Politics
This is Part 2 of a series of posts on the future of Canadian politics. Part 1 is available here. As with many of his kind, Paul Wells of Maclean‘s…
Where They Are Now: Harper Ex-Cabinet Ministers And Their New Jobs
A few days ago I pointed out that one of Harper’s former Cabinet ministers, despite losing his seat in May, was back on the public dole anyways, as ambassador to…
Globe and Mail Has No Right to be Disappointed on Abdelrazik File
Today, the Globe and Mail is upset that the Harper regime failed to help Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik get off the UN blacklist that prevents him from travelling, holding a…
Margaret Wente and the Importance of Being Deluded
I was going to give Globe & Mail‘s resident imbecile Margaret Wente a pass, in honour of the Sabbath, but I’ve decided that her column this weekend is so horrifically…