Would They Have Defied Harper This Way a Year Ago?
Shifty Steve Harper has been busy lately trying to write off his former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, as a rogue. Harper has accused Wright of deception in the under…
The Mound of Sound
RCMP Finger Wallin for Fraud, Breach of Trust
Court documents prepared by RCMP investigators state that Harper Senate appointee, Pam Wallin, committed fraud and breach of trust in connection with her Senate expense claims. Senator Pamela Wallin used…
Is Stephen Harper On the Ropes? Why Has Duffy Stopped Punching?
Stephen Harper doesn’t give the impression that he’s in dire straits but then again, when you’re surrounded by jackals of your own making, it’s a bad idea to let them…
Higher Fees for Guilty Pleas
Only in Cameron Conservative Britain. There the government wants to ‘reform’ the legal aid system to set defence counsel against their clients by making it lucrative for lawyers to enter…
Happy Halloween
If Halloween grisly is your thing, check out these photos by Nick Brandt. He found the dessicated, preserved bird and bat remains at an alkaline lake in Tanzania where the…
How Can the Wealthiest Nation on Earth Have 47-Million People Dependent on Food Stamps?
When does this madness stop? When will the public rise up against it? Read these numbers and try to grasp what is going on in America today. In 2007, a…
This Is Not Good, Not At All.
Chinese researchers are catching proper hell for playing around with potentially lethal viruses, developing hybrid variations of influenza that would be easily transmissible between mammals. The Chinese claim they’re only…
Nigel, Nigel, Come In Nigel
TorStar’s Chantel Hebert ponders whether former Harper chief of staff, Nigel Wright, will turn out to be the man who takes down our prime minister. Once known around Ottawa as…
Over to You, Toronto
Looks like it’s Rob Ford Day today. I’ll say this for him. Rob Ford is the only person who has ever made me feel sorry for Toronto. What’s the difference…
Naomi Klein – Your Choice, Revolt or Die!
Pretty tough talk from Naomi Klein. She writes that science is telling us that we either revolt or destroy the planet. She writes of a presentation by UC San Diego…
A Loyal Soldier Snubs Peter MacKay’s Handout
The Harper government is reneging on a promise to Canada’s wounded veterans. That’s what happens when the shooting dies down and there’s no more political capital to be wrung from…
Of Gas and Quakes
It’s often interesting when two inter-related news stories come out on the same day. There were two such reports today. One conveyed a warning from Canada’s insurance sector that a…
The Economics of Climate Change.
This is an eye opener. From the CNBC business desk: Around one-third of the world’s economy by 2025 will be based in countries at “high” or “extreme” risk from the…
A Government All Canadians Can Be Rightly Ashamed Of
Harper’s Trained Seals Even stalwart Conservatives have every reason to consider the Harper government a genuine disgrace and a blight upon our country. Remind me, what is it now? Going…
Our Democratic Deficit Begins In Canadian Newsrooms
We have to recognize that Canada’s democratic deficit will not be made right until we tear down the corporate media cartel. Right now, government and journalism are in bed. That’s…
Closing In For The Kill
Anyone who has done much fraud litigation will be familiar with that moment, that sweet spot, where you get to close for the kill. You’ve given your target a pretty…
Michael Harris Catalogues (most of) the Crimes and Sins of Stephen J. Harper
A dandy little digest from iPolitic’s Michael Harris. Call it a trip down the soiled and sullied Memory Lane of the Harper Imperium. A quick glimpse or two to whet…
Call It "The Carbon Coast"
Oregon and Washington have now signed on to a carbon-pricing regime bringing those states into line with California and British Columbia.The B.C. tax adds a levy of about 7-cents per…
Help Please
New machine, Intel i7, Windows 8.l, Norton 360 protected. While typing a post this morning on Google Chrome the screen went grey, the sort of thing that happens when a…
A Tale of Two Cities
Berlin, 1945 Detroit, 2013 The Big Difference?The Americans didn’t need thousands of heavy bombers and most of the Red Army to do this to Detroit. Oh yeah, so what must…