When Obama Courted Ho Chi Minh
It’s creepy how America’s radical right New Think breezes straight past history to mislead the public. Case in point. The man who struggled against the Japanese, the French and ultimately…
The Mound of Sound
What God Wants You to Know This Week
More Tweets of God: I get too much credit for Friday and not enough for Saturday. If women didn’t want to be sexually harassed they shouldn’t have been born with…
Stephen Fry’s Excellent Take on Being Gay
There really is nothing to add to this wonderful statement by English actor Stephen Fry on being proud to be gay. How can anyone listen to this and not be…
Weiner’s Campaign Falls Limp
Face it, nobody wants a mayor they know won’t be able to keep it in his pants. Anthony Weiner, your weiner has had its last hurrah. It’s time for you…
Premier’s Pan Harper’s Make-Believe "Canada Job Grant" Scheme
If you’ve seen any of the seemingly endless TV ads (paid for out of your pocket) you would assume that the Harper regime has instituted something called the Canada Job…
Lake North Pole – Don’t Forget Your Water Skis
Summer time is boating time. This year you might want to try something a bit different. How about a spin on Lake North Pole. Yeah, that’s right. A lake now…
NASA Presents Two Scenarios for Global Warming of North America This Century. This Should Be an Eye Opener for Canadians.
Check out this animation. Notice that the heating our continent will experience is by far greatest in and from the north. (sorry for the horrible embedded ad) Researchers at NASA’s…
You See, Justin? It’s Really Not That Hard.
Justin Trudeau has taken a policy stand, one calculated to trigger condemnation from the Harper regime. Pushing on an open door, Trudeau has come out in favour of not just…
What’s That Behind Our Boat? A Cougar?
The local waters out here teem with life. That includes several species of whales, including newly returned populations of humpback; dolphins and porpoise; seals and sea lions; sharks and rays;…
You’ll Like This – Chris Hayes Lays Bare Bill O’Reilly’s Racism
Chris Hayes makes the point that FOX is crack for fearful old white Republicans and O’Reilly is their dealer:
Bombs & Bitumen – a Lethal Cocktail
There’s a stretch of territory straddling the Alberta-Saskatchewan border where Canadian and allied fighter jocks go to play. The strafe the place and they bomb it and even fire rockets…
Why Not Make Your Own Enemies List?
It began in Stephen Harper’s boy band PMO. The call went out for Tory nobs to compile enemies lists to help ministerial newbies distinguish between their real enemies from all…
More Prisons, More Prisons, Must Build More Prisons
Stephen Harper’s faith-based crime wave took another hammering from the latest report showing that crime rates in Canada continue on their steady decline, reaching the lowest levels since the early…
What, Setting Aside Money for A Rainy Day? This Is Harperland After All!
One of the first thing Sideshow Steve Harper did upon seizing the reins of power was to powerfully defund the federal government. Clinging to the neo-con ideology that taxation is…
Not In Front of the Children
“We don’t speak of these things, not in front of the children.” That, according to Gwynne Dyer, is the approach being taken by our political and military leadership when it…
Oh Yes We Do
Leave it to the head of Canada’s most disliked cellular provider, Rogers CEO Nadir Mohamed, to whine that Canada doesn’t need a fourth major cellphone company. Okay, Nadir, how bout…
Europe’s New Climate – Deluge
Ah, southern Germany in May. When I heard a buddy was going back to his parents’ homeland for an aunt’s 80th birthday, I told him of the glories of the…
Ever Heard of a "Methane Pulse"? Get Ready, It Could be Just Two Years Away.
It’s sort of like walking along a cliff edge blindfolded. Most of us, given the choice, would say no. There’s a worst case scenario and a best case scenario and…
Now, Let’s Put it In Harper’s Language: Climate Change Catastrophe is Insanely Costly
Sixty trillion dollars, how’s that Steve? That’s an estimate of the costs of Arctic thawing from climate change. That’s 60,000,000,000,000.00 and that’s a lotta zeroes. Rapid thawing of the Arctic…
When a Railroad Goes Deadbeat
You guessed it, we’re talking Montreal, Maine & Atlantic, the railroad company that incinerated the luckless villagers of Lac Megantic, Quebec. MM&A has stopped paying contractors working on the clean-up…