Election Fraud Traced to Edmonton Firm with Tory Ties
Election fraud? The Harper Conservatives? Oh, say it ain’t so, Joe. But apparently it is so, very much so. Elections Canada launched its investigation after it was inundated with complaints…
The Mound of Sound
F-35 News, This Week’s Fiasco
Barely two months ago, F-35 boosters were thumping their chests as Japan announced plans to buy about 50 of the aircraft. That “done deal”, they argued, virtually ensured other prospective…
Yeah, Right Mounty Monty
RCMP Corporal Monty Robinson, of Robert Dziekanski killing fame, says he wasn’t trying to obstruct justice when, after striking and killing a motorcyclist, he drove home and got into the…
What Shows Up in Our E-Mail
As an avid motorcyclist I get plenty of e-mail from suppliers of bike parts and accessories. Some of them throw in freebie teasers. Today I got a taser teaser. Really.…
Judge Lenient Because 11-Year Old Rape Victim Was "Willing"
When is this madness going to stop? This time it’s Britain. There Judge David Farrell sentenced two men convicted of raping an 11-year old to just 40-months imprisonment. The judge…
Well, This Is Awkward
Israeli F-16 Showing Seven Syrian Aerial Victories and the Bombing of Iraq’s Osirik Reactor. Iran has warned it may strike pre-emptively in the face of persistent threats of imminent attack…
Timeless – Sarah Palin’s Stupidity
When it comes to rank stupidity, Sarah Palin takes even Dan Quayle off the hook. In the runup to the release of the HBO docudrama “Game Change” based on John…
The Republicans’ Unlikely Champion or The Lord Blesses Obama
Judge Not that Ye Be Not Judged – Matthew 7:1. Apparently Rick Santorum somehow missed that sermon. The current Republican nomination frontrunner positively delights in judging, and invariably condemning, his…
Crime & Punishment – Schoolyard Edition
There have been several news accounts lately of a new trend in US law enforcement. Police officers arresting juveniles on criminal charges for typical childish schoolyard misbehaviour including swearing, wearing…
Harper’s Dirty Little Tar Sands Warning
Steve Harper has been warned – the Athabasca Tar Sands pose a “significant environmental and financial risk” to Alberta. That warning came in a secret report prepared for Wayne Routers,…
The Tar Sands – Environmentally Inconsequential
University of Victoria professor Andrew Weaver has supposedly dropped a bombshell – the Athabasca Tar Sands are inconsequential to the problem of global warming. Or that is at least what…
Were Woodware & Bernstein Played by a Man With An Axe To Grind?
Washington Post scribes Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have, for decades, been widely credited with taking down Richard Nixon. The popular narrative goes that they were fed their story by…
What? Grandpa Hitler?
Adolf Hitler’s son may be dead but his grandkids are alive and well and living in France. It’s all the result of a romantic interlude when Adolf was a German…
Greece a Goner But What Is the Lesson for Us?
In all likelihood the 21st century will be marked by a succession of dramatic upheavals. The rise of radical conservatism and the true warfare state followed by a decade of…
Is Vic Toews Blowing a Smoke Screen?
Vic Toews, apparently desperate to divert attention from his lurid past, is now saying that he’s been the victim of “criminal acts and threats of future criminal acts” against him.…
Scientists Attack Harper Ventriloquist Act
A convention of scientists has asked our Furious Leader to be less of an authoritarian, undemocratic asshole. There, I said it. In an open letter to His Majesty, King Steve,…
Tutu Targets Tar Sands
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and seven other Nobel laureates have written British prime minister David Cameron warning that Athabasca Tar Sands bitumen “threatens the health of the planet.” The group is…
Has American Aristocracy Created a Monarchy?
Is the American presidency being transformed into a quasi-monarchy? What else do you call it when 196 enormously rich people can use their money to elect the president of their…
But Not For Want of Trying
An integral part of America’s decline is its faltering ability to impose its will on the world, by force if necessary. Its colossal failures in both Iraq and Afghanistan are…
FOX News Mouthpiece Dismisses Rape in US Military
This FOX News correspondent has a message to US women soldiers who fall victim to rape – enough already. And, of course, she kept her job at FOX.