The National Post has a column by self-declared former Mossad officer Michael Ross complaining that he cannot understand how we could allow someone with dubious ties to an international lobbyist…
IIf I had yesterday’s post back, I would rephrase the bit about serpent worship, which seems to be the chief magnet for complaints that I am some sort of racist…
Recently the British Columbia government ordered a B.C. physician named Gabor Maté to stop treating addicts with ayahuasca, an illegal psychotropic drug which Maté claims cures addictions. Maté had a…
Like all Canadians who respect the rule of law and the importance of firm law enforcement against reprobates, I was disgusted by yet another case of activist judges and left-wing…
… and I can’t say I’m sorry to see it. Yesterday I suggested that at least Mitt Romney would be a sort of Obama-esque President, who could at least push…
Today the Globe & Mail opened its commentary on the American 2012 election with a column by Pittsburgh journalist David Shribman. Shribman presents a bizarre description of the American election…
Today’s example of a woefully uninformed journalist spouting off on a subject of crucial national importance is John Ivison, whose Monday column in the National Post is what presently passes…
I’m probably the last person in the country to weigh in on the Harper regime’s English-only Supreme Court judges and Auditor-General. But since nobody I’ve read has yet said the…
On Friday, Chantal Hebert published a provocative column in the Toronto Star arguing that Canadian politicians are populists who lack “political courage” and, in the wake of the last courageous…
The primary reason that I’ve found it hard to return to blogging since moving during the summer is that I’ve been struggling to find something meaningful to say on a…
Some while ago, I documented the Harper regime’s attempt to privatize the leading research granting institutions in Canada to private-sector control: namely, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the…
One of the longstanding projects at this blog is the Patronage List, which lists all of the new government appointments made by Cabinet ministers apparently given to Conservative Party donors,…
Presumably only the people who have Sixth Estate in their RSS readers will be reading this little mea culpa, but it’s as good a place to start as any. After…
// Impolitical thinks a recent speech by defence minister Julian Fantino may contain a sign that the government is willing to water down a proposed law that would require ISPs…
Rumours have abounded since last year that the military is planning to planning to abolish a subsidy program called the Security and Defence Forum, which funds about a dozen university…
// Gary Mar, one of the new Conservative leadership contenders in Alberta, is arguing that we need to privatize healthcare to capitalize on the freed-up savings of “wealthy…
Occasionally I like to draw attention to a Government of Canada press release which pops up in my RSS feed and which strikes me as particularly stupid or pointless. This…
Before I go on, let me just say that this is a second-page story right now. It’s dismally predictable that this is attracting more attention that another issue which I…
The latest gambit in the National Post‘s campaign against science education in Canada (specifically, against an informed understanding of climate change in Canada) is the printing of a piece by…
Last week a commenter was highly critical of my labelling of Sun TV’s token loudmouthed brat, Ezra Levant, as a loon. Said commenter referred to Levant’s seemingly solid-gold street cred…
