Government press releases have probably never been, shall we say, the go-to source for reasoned and well-informed commentary on the issues of the today. They are, rather, propaganda, pure and…
The Conservative denial machine is in full swing this afternoon, as I predicted it would be yesterday. Now that Stephen Harper has deliberately made himself complicit in the lie, we…
It is, I think everyone now realizes, conclusively proven that Peter MacKay is a lying sack of shit. He lied inside and outside Parliament about the nature of the military…
This is part 1 of a series of posts reflecting on current trends in Canadian politics. The transformation of the Reform movement in Canadian politics is nowhere more evident than…
Among all the secretive and secretly funded think tanks in Canadian politics, surely the most preposterous rationalization is provided by the Montreal Economic Institute: Although the MEI discloses the amount…
Pushed Left has been doing the research I said the media wouldn’t do by looking into the election hoax phone calls which occurred in several ridings. She suggests that an…
As you may have heard by now, the Auditor-General is not happy about the fact that the Harper Regime gave over $280 million in subsidies to the Ontario Flue-Cured Tobacco…
Picking up where I left off last week, I want to explore what we know about the “objective” process by which an “independent” think tank like the Fraser Institute goes…
Earlier this week, David Climenhaga seized on the ludicrously suggestive “freedom of information” campaign being waged by conservative forces in this country (CBC and unions should have to open their…
After the May 2011 election, I began keeping the Patronage List: a list of Harper government political appointees who appear to be Conservative Party ex-politicos, donors, and insiders. I’ve made…
It’s hardly surprising, but I thought it was worth mentioning. November 23, 2011, is the day that Fraser Institute director Michael Walker officially and publicly announced that he opposes democracy.…
No sooner was the metaphorical ink drying on my attack on National Post faux-environmentalist Lawrence Solomon’s paranoid conspiracy theory that climate change is being perpetrated by insurance companies as an…
Lawrence Solomon, the anti-democratic oaf employed by the National Post to make spurious claims about the falsehoods of climate change, has a new and even more bizarre conspiracy theory about…
One of the long-running themes of this blog are the unstated corporate conflicts of interest which the major newspapers cheerfully allow to proliferate on their editorial pages. Monday’s strange promotional…
As you may have heard by now, a polling company has been phoning around Montreal, claiming that Liberal MP Irwin Cotler is about to resign and asking who they plan…
Getting called a racist European missionary the last time I took on the smoke-and-mirrors world of alternative “medicine” stung personally, but it didn’t bother me nearly as much as the…
If the Conservative Party is serious about cutting down on government spending in favour of private donations from individuals, perhaps they should look to their own ridings first. According to…
Conservative paranoia in this country is beginning to reach such absurd heights that I’m beginning to suspect the next government crime bill initiative will be to add wrecking charges to…
A few days ago, I suggested that the main achievement of the Harper regime was something few people had noticed yet: a new style of democracy, à la George Bush…
It’s interesting the sort of blind spots you come across when writing for the public. 90% of the time, all I’m doing is preaching to the converted. As a decidedly…
