We’ve probably all run into people who don’t get what Wright-Duffy is all about or why it’s a big deal or a deal at all. Andrew Coyne might have been…
You’ve got 20 people huddled in a lifeboat designed to hold 25. There are 60 people in the water, swimming toward you, each of them intent on getting aboard. The…
Humanity lives in a Petri jar. The vessel is called Earth. It has a diameter of just under 8,000 miles, pole to pole; just under 25,000 miles in circumference at…
Christie Blatchford doesn’t like covering the Mike Duffy trial. She finds it a burden. To Christie, Duffy’s defence counsel, Donald Bayne, is wasting everyone’s time, or at least hers, demolishing…
It snowed yesterday in Alberta, just to the west of Calgary. Canada’s rainforest has turned tinder dry. The east has experienced a curious summer that seemed unable to make up…
Let’s be blunt. John Ibbitson is probably the most prominent journalist in Canada totally in the bag for Stephen Harper. Note that I used the word “journalist,” a noun that…
Captain LayLow is already far over the horizon and he ain’t coming back. Shifty Steve has undergone his last debate – certainly of this election campaign and, with any luck,…
There’s a critical aspect to the Duffy trial that we’re not going to get out of Harper’s PMO staff or his “loyal unto death” shills in the Senate or the…
To Shifty Harper’s former special counsel, when he received Nigel Wright’s “good to go” email it meant only one thing – Stephen Harper had cleared Wright’s payment to Mike Duffy.…
Some Americans are warming to a dark horse, independent candidate, Deez Nuts. He’s only just come to the public’s attention and already, in a 3-way contest with Hillary and Trump,…
Okay, it’s not the mystery of the Sphinx but… yesterday’s testimony by former Harper special counsel Ben Perrin goes a long way to explaining why Duffy stands alone charged with…
The Vancouver National Observer’s Warren Bell dissects the dark and rotten soul of the worst prime minister in Canadian history, a diabolically-inclined despot. We all need to read this to…
Nemesis Prime minister Shifty is infamous as seeing himself as the “smartest man in the room” in his dealings with others, especially his staff. Somehow this numbskull convinced himself and…
Even the National Post gets it. The Duffy trial doesn’t mean much to Stephen Harper in terms of New Democrat and Liberal supporters. They weren’t about to vote Conservative this…
Muslim clerics don’t like what’s unfolding before their eyes. Then again, the Muslim world from North Africa to the Middle East, South Asia and out to Indonesia is in the…
One out, second batter at the plate. This time it’s former Harper Special Counsel Benjamin Perrin facing the fastball of Donald Bayne. The first gem to fall from Perrin’s lips…
This shit has to stop. People are starting to notice. This is one of the exhibits featured at a new, dystopian theme park in England, named Dismaland. The orca leaping…
Are you yearning for just a touch of payback for a decade of Harper rule? Reader Ben Burd has thrown down the gauntlet with a link to “Caption Generator, Create…
It might not be a perfect answer but it could be a big partial answer. Greece is a major gateway country for migrants trying to sneak into the European Union…
Randy White is a full-blooded ReformaTory. As an MP from 1993 to 2006 he’s been a standard bearer for the Reform Party, the Alliance Party and, finally, the Conservatives. Now,…
