Next Up, Spain
As events unfold over the next few weeks following today’s No victory in Greece there’ll be plenty of people watching in Spain. That country’s Podemos movement promotes a similar sort…
The Mound of Sound
Is It Time to Skewer Harper With the F-35 Fiasco?
Probably the question should be whether Mulcair or Trudeau have the political acumen to bloody Stephen Harper over his blunders and deceit in Canada’s F-35 saga. We know now that…
Greece – Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
Greek voters appear poised to rather narrowly reject another round of austerity measures demanded by the IMF, the European Commission and the EBC. It’s something of a “heads I win,…
FIFA – Blatter Doubles Down
When is a resignation not a resignation? When you’re the Pharaoh of FIFA, Sepp Blatter. Ol’ Sepper has announced he won’t be attending the final of the Women’s World Cup…
Burning Down the House
We were warned to prepare for severe weather events of increasing intensity, frequency and duration and that cautionary heads up has already come to pass. I went out back to…
Is the Biggest Military Procurement Programme in World History the World’s Biggest Con Job?
As I wrote in an earlier post today, Lockheed’s F-35 now stands exposed not as the multi-role fighter the manufacturer and the US Air Force touted it to be but…
The Little Bomber That Couldn’t
F-35 “Fatso” The myth of the F-35 as an all purpose, multi-role fighter imploded this past week with the leak of a report on flight tests showing that it couldn’t…
If We Can’t Pry Our Politics Free of Neoliberalism, We’re Screwed
Like it or not, neoliberalism is the prevailing economic orthodoxy in Canadian politics, the NDP included. It’s also the seed of our destruction as a nation and it’s going to…
Some Times Things Go Really Wrong. Some Times They Go Really Right.
It’s about the worst thing you’ll ever hear on a cockpit voice recorder – the pilot saying, “Wow, pulled back the wrong throttle,” seconds before the passenger plane falls out…
Maybe That’s Why It Was Buy First, Fly Later.
Lockheed’s F-35 joint strike fighter is one for the books. In fact there’ll be several books written examining how it was conceived, developed, built and sold and they’ll be studied…
It’s Time to Bury the Myth of the NDP Being the Party for Blue Collar Canadians
As the Layton-Mulcair tag team “Blairified” the NDP, it triggered some grumbling among its more devout members who briefly bemoaned the extinction of social democracy in Canada. Even that passed…
Just When I Thought the Left Had Collapsed, This. A Must Read.
Many thanks for this from Emily Dee. Read it, take it all in, remember what we Canadians used to be, what we believed in, what once made us great. There…
If Today’s Youth Care About Their Future, They Would Do Well to Keep Their Distance From Us.
We’re used to drought out here. Every summer the Rain Festival takes a break for two to three months and the place dries out. It’s great for the tourist operators…
"The Greens Could Return Harper to Power" – That’s Pretty Rich Coming from a Dipper
I’ve kept the NDP at arm’s length all my life, a convenient place from which to observe their astonishingly convenient memories and full-bore, unrepentant hypocrisy. Hell you would think they…
A Word of Caution.
How can the most powerful court in the most powerful country in the world be so intellectually corrupt? Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and especially Scalia – shameless political stooges the lot…
It’s the D-Word and It’s Arrived in Canada
Prime minister Cletis doesn’t seem to have noticed that global warming has arrived in his very own backyard. Funny how he can’t hear all those local Tories squealing like pigs…
What Does the Pope Know About Climate Change? Plenty.
We know the Holy Father has a background in science and a chemistry degree but just what does he know about climate change? Lots – lots and lots. The IPCC…
It’s the Greybar Hotel for Deano Del
Dean del Mastro won’t have to worry about buying groceries for the next month. He’s been given a month-long, an all expenses paid visit, probably to some minimum-security guest ranch…
In Defence of Justin
Justin Trudeau got sideswiped today, predictably so, by a self-identified Liberal (who, curiously, can’t seem to get the time of day from Team Justin) for saying he would stop Canada’s…
The Case for Gun Control – From Jim Jeffries
Brace yourself, Sheila. Don’t whine about the language. It’s Jim Jeffries.