Sideshow Steve Harper, his hairdo blessedly intact following yesterday’s shooting in Ottawa, has vowed that the Canadian people will not be intimidated by the killings of two Canadian soldiers this…
To our prime minister’s perverted mind, environmentalists are closet terrorists laying in wait to attack his pipelines if and when those ever get built. We’re only three days into the…
You might want to post this. Anyone with daughters can appreciate this Lesley Gore classic from the Department of Peace: This is American, obviously. Yet, in the illiberal democracy that…
By Canadian standards it was pretty exciting, enough to get the thickened blood of wintertime coursing through our veins. With apologies in advance to Sally Fields – They HATE Us!!…
To quote Sverker Göransson, Sweden’s top military commander, “it’s fucked up.” Referring to Sweden’s so far fruitless search for a suspected Russian sub lurking somewhere around the islands off its…
The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue has issued a heads up to world Hindus for Diwali, the Hindu Autumn festival of lights. In the message, released October 20 and entitled…
How can a nation with a lunatic gun culture ever find itself at the mercy of pigs? The United States, or at least 39 States so far, is being overrun…
In what appears to be “Shame on You, Canada” Day, the Guardian has a damning piece on how the Harper regime is intent on severing Canada’s First Nations from their…
It’s an American publication so you’ll have to excuse the hyperbole. The New Republic, in an article entitled, “These Two World Leaders are Laughing While the World Burns Up,” obviously…
Back in the days when General Motors ruled the world it was said that the business of America was business. That’s what came to mind on reading an item today…
I’m with Chris Hedges. We are sorely in need of revolutionary change. It’s come to the point where we have to kick over the traces if we’re to have any…
Climate change can be cool. It can also be damned cold, icy and frigid. You know, you easterners, the Polar Vortex you endured last year. Well, guess what? You’re getting…
The Tyee’s Murray Dobbins laments the success Stephen Harper has had, with the powerful support of a shamelessly collaborative media, at manipulating the Canadian public. Harper’s amoral political calculations about…
I’ve been looking for a way out, an alternative. I truly have. Yet I’m becoming resigned to the idea that the future of our grandchildren cannot be entrusted to the…
The floudering of the Russian bulk carrier, Simushir, is bound to become some sort of benchmark for the debate over tanker safety off the British Columbia coast. It shouldn’t. Here’s…
Sweden’s armed forces are hunting for a mystery (i.e. Russian) submarine in waters off Stockholm. “We have begun an intelligence operation … involving ships, helicopters and several ground units,” Commander…
“our society seems to have lost its way“ With that poignant observation, Florida judge Ross Healy, sentenced 47-year old Michael Dunn to life imprisonment without parole, for the “loud music”…
The Canadian Coast Guard coastal patrol vessel, Gordon Reid, has the crippled Russian cargo ship, Simushir, under tow and is slowly taking the ship away from Moresby Island in Haida…
A Russian container ship, said to be laden with oil, is adrift in gale force winds approximately 15 kms. off Haida Gwai in the vicinity of where Harper wants to…
How do you source your reality? Do you discern it out of the best facts available or do you divine it out of your beliefs? A sane person finds reality…
