I’ve coined a new word, Mormonstrosity, to refer to the unfit-for-prime-time, Republican presidential candidate, Mitch Romney. My creative instincts were piqued when I read of Romney’s assertion that, “Syria is…
Superman has had it with the corporate media. Faced with the takeover of the Daily Planet by a conglomerate, Clark Kent has quit and may turn to blogging instead. “Why…
Mitt Romney endorses Republican Indiana senate candidate Richard Mourdock. And Romney isn’t budging even though Mourdock contends that rape is no cause for abortion because, if the victim becomes pregnant,…
The Newfie Screech has descended on the University of British Columbia. Noneother than T-Rex Murphy has crossed the country to deliver a 3-part lecture at Regent College, UBC’s evangelical graduate…
Is Steve Harper trying to engineer the breakup of Canada? That might be just what the prime ministerial bully boy accomplishes with his closet trade deal with China. The deal,…
Read between the lines in the financing agreement between the Haida and the North Coast Credit Union and it appears the Old Massett Village council’s $2.5-million gambit was a scheme…
The Auditor General has slammed the Harper regime for spending tens of billions of dollars without cabinet, much less Parliament, knowing the long-term consequences. In his fall 2012 report released…
Hold onto your hat. The history of everything in two minutes by Zack Hemsey.
The police didn’t intervene. From the comments of Victoria’s deputy police chief, Del Manak, it actually sounded as if the cops were on side with the demonstrators. “It’s a peaceful,…
Wanna see something scary? BusinessInsider.com has a thorough rundown on how Mitt Romney would change America into a country of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. It’s an…
Two-thirds of Israeli Jews want Palestinians denied the vote if their country annexes the West Bank. Three out of four are in favour of segregated roads for Israelis and Palestinians…
I make it pretty plain that I’m a biker. I had my first serious crash in, I think, 1965. ’75, ’85, ’95, ’05, what is it now, 2012? I’ve ridden…
Only 44? That was my first reaction to the announcement that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe had agreed to send 44 observers from its human rights office…
Organizers of the Defend Our Coast protest were hoping a thousand people would turn up outside the BC legislature to say “no” to the bitumen pipelines and supertanker initiative. The…
They say it was a salmon restoration project. The banking documents suggest it was really about flogging lucrative carbon credits. “It” was the dumping of 200,000 pounds of iron sulphide…
The only thing Steve Harper can count on if he tries to ram through the Northern Gateway pipeline/supertanker project is a united British Columbia determined to stop him. Even our…
David Suzuki and the executive director of Coastal First Nations, Art Sterritt, write in today’s Globe and Mail that the upswelling of opposition among British Columbians to Harper’s Northern Gateway…
Former Canadian media mogul Conrad Black has never concealed his contempt for his Aussie contemporary, Rupert Murdoch. But now Connie has really dropped the gloves. “He’s a psychopath … like…
Last week ambitious students around the world took the SAT, or scholastic aptitude test, their ticket to a chance at a good education and a bright future. Students around the…
Sure, it’s the United States. But Canada is lashed tightly to its gunwales. And we’re taking on water. You need to watch this.
