Iggy Comes Clean, Redeems Self – a Bit
Michael Ignatieff has a warning - parliamentary democracy is in big trouble and may fall victim to today's authoritarian prime ministers.“I think something really bad has happened to parliamentary democracies…
The Mound of Sound
The Crazies Are Back
These guys are truly lining up to die. They’re a small gaggle of, let’s call them eccentrics, preparing to break the 15-year old land speed record. The current record of…
Four War Years
The sense I’m getting from the polls is that Obama is ahead but only just. Two to three points seems to be the lead, a gap that can probably be…
Is Steve at Risk in India?
Steve Harper has brought his own convoy of armoured cars to India. TorStar reports the RCMP “at least two” of the prime minister’s vehicles, including an armoured limo, to ferry…
Canada’s Bought and Paid For Government
Steve and the misses are in India now pushing Athabasca bitumen to that country’s massive energy market. He’s got to sign up customers fast to justify his Northern Gateway pipeline…
So Let’s Get this Straight
Steve Harper has $28-million to blow on 200-year old triumphalism for a war between Britain and the United States but he can’t come up with $5-million year to cover the…
Is An Election This Close Too Tempting Not to Rig?
Many American news services claim the vote on Wednesday is just too close to call between Obama and Romney. That elevates a problem that, it seems, no one wants to…
The Joy that is Vancouver Island
It’s grey and wet and windy and cold today on Vancouver Island or what we like to call “normal.” An ability to tolerate these conditions month in, month out, for…
America’s Internally Displaced Refugees
We became familiar with internally displaced populations in the wake of the American conquests of Afghanistan and Iraq and the sectarian violence that ensued. America suffered a bout of internally…
Harper Stirs the Asian Pot
“Don’t Let On You Want to Bomb His Country” To Mittsy Romney, Russia is America’s biggest geo-political foe. To Harpo, it’s China that most endangers Canada. China, really? The same…
Will Israelis Shut the Church of the Holy Sepulcher?
The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate says it might have to close Jerusalem’s Christian shrine, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, because an Israeli water company is breaking its deal with the…
Reefer Madness
This will come as a surprise to most British Columbians but criminal charges for marijuana possession in this province have soared 88 per cent over the past decade. But pot…
Just Because
It’s been one of those weeks. Chester, Chester Arthur Burnett, the legendary Howlin’ Wolf. 6’3″, 300 pounds, nicknamed “Bull Cow” as a kid. The Wolf was known as a devoted…
Terrorism on the Sky Train?
RCMP are investigating what appear to be four propane tanks lashed together and left on the Sky train commuter rail tracks in Surrey, B.C. “It certainly does appear suspicious in…
Alberta Wins Canadian Inequality Title
The top half of Alberta families receive 87% of the province’s income. That, of course, means the bottom half share just 13% of the pie. And that is said to…
Australian Climate Commission – Sandy Is the New Normal
The Australian Climate Commission has released a report concluding that man-made global warming made Hurricane Sandy bigger, fiercer and more damaging. The burning of fossil fuels had made a material…
Is Romney’s Wall of Secrecy Crumbling?
Mitt Romney may have sailed into stormy seas. A complaint is being filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics under the Ethics in Government Act demanding that Romney be…
CCCP, Meet CPC3
For years I’ve been pointing out that Stephen Joseph Harper has certain instincts reminiscent of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. The way Comrade Steve “reformed” the Prime Minister’s Office was a dead…
China’s Second Stealth Fighter Takes to the Skies
China has flown its second stealth fighter, the J-31, the smaller cousin to its previous model, the J-20. A look at either of them reveals the classic, Lockheed-Martin, F-22 Raptor…
Why Do Our Generals Suck?
Even Americans are beginning to grasp that their generals suck. The soldiers in the field and their unit commanders are first rate. The rot is at the top. And it’s…