You Just Know Someone is Going to Do It.
Harper continues to sink into a bunker mentality of denial and delusion as the Duffy trial grinds on and the election grows nearer. It’s just a matter of time before…
The Mound of Sound
Of Alchemists and the Apparent Obstruction of Law.
Where’s Vic’s Other Hand? At this point, it wouldn’t matter if Duffy went to the gallows. Hank Paulson, Commissioner or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, has some explaining to do.…
Defrocking the Choir Boy
Sing, boys, sing. Sing like canaries. Did Harper’s current Chief of Staff lie to officers investigating the Wright-Duffy scandal? If he did then shouldn’t he also be lawyering up? Don…
Wait a Second. May Was the Hottest Month in Recorded History. What? Now July Gets the Record?
They warned us this was going to happen. The specific warning was that beginning sometime in the early 2020s and continuing until around 2047, our world, region by region, will…
Shifty’s Alternate Reality
It’s the sort of thing usually only seen in adults if they’re insane – alternate reality. Maybe that’s the answer to Shifty Harper’s make believe take on the Duffy-Wright scandal.…
Harper, You Moron, It’s the Legion Hall!
Shifty Harper has done it again. Yeah! He begins the campaign day with an event at a Legion hall in New Brunswick and then shuts out military veterans who thought…
Ibbitson Detects the Scent of Revolution in the Air
Montgomery’s Tavern, Lower Canada, 1837 Globe and Mail pundit, the ever outspoken John Ibbitson, thinks Canada may be ripe for a populist revolt. It took him long enough to figure…
A "Must Read" from Canadian Dimension. The Ugly Face of Today’s New Democratic Party.
It’s probably too late for New Democrats to reclaim their party but at least they need to grasp how degraded it has become under their leader, Tommy Angry Beard. They…
That Whiff of Watergate
The mystery that intrigues me most is who was Harper’s “DeepThroat”? Who sent the Duffy email to CTV’s Bob Fife, that one little electronic message that sent this whole scandal…
You See, I’ve Got These Friends…
Some I’ve known for several years, some I’ve known it seems like forever. These friends, well – they’re Tories. Real Tories. The kind that would sooner get ass-raped by a…
I Don’t Think Harper Can Survive This. He’s Done.
The rapidly worsening Duffy scandal is Shifty Harper’s cup of hemlock. Duffy’s lawyer, Don Bayne, may be going to town on the Crown’s key witnesses, beginning with Nigel Wright, but…
Whereby Justin Pulls Old King Steve’s Beard
Ya gotta admit he’s got a point. We all remember Shifty Harper’s feigned indignation when he supposedly found out about the Wright/Duffy affair hatched in his very own Prime Minister’s…
Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Ontario versus Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada
Full disclosure. This is crazy talk. A reader, Robert, raised the issue of whether Duffy should be allowed to retain his ill-gotten gain, the housing allowances, made good by Nigel…
The Duffy Archives
I did a search of this blog and came up with a few gems from the past about the Cavendish cottager, one going back to his early days in the…
Bayne Bares His Fangs, Nigel Winces
Mike Duffy’s defence counsel, Don Bayne, has been waiting for this moment for months. Today he began sinking his fangs into the choirboy, Nigel Wright. It seems there was an…
Let’s Cut the Crap. They’re Called the "Slave States" For a Very Good Reason
It’s disgusting the lengths to which so many southerners, rightwing hardliners and their Dixie-lovin’ Reb Flag wavin’ cohorts around the US will go to deny that the Civil War and…
Out of the Fry Pan, Into the Fire – Bad News for Debt-Ridden Southern Europe
Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal – the European’s southern member states have a lot in common, just nothing to be happy about. They have weaker, less robust economies than their northern…
They’re on the March Again. This Time Their Target is Harper.
The official name is “Anyone but Conservatives ABC – Canadian Veterans Campaign 2015.” It’s a group of veterans who used to fight foreign enemies but are now mobilized to take…
Harper Could Be In Trouble this Time Around
A recent Probit survey explored how Canadians viewed the upcoming election. One part asked respondents what they considered the most important issue in the runoff. Harper’s trump card – national…
A Bit of the Cross-Examination I’d Love to Put to Nigel Wright.
I’m not Donald Bayne. I haven’t had access to the documents or weeks to prepare for the cross examination of Nigel Wright. These are, however, some of the questions I…