A crayon gun picture threatens our safety!
Child draws picture of gun in school. Teacher tells principal. Principal calls police. Police arrest father and strip search him. Child taken by child services. Good thing she didn’t draw…
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Let me get this straight
We are being asked to believe that the same Harper who had our public servants roaming Canada counting and then reporting to him, on a weekly basis, the number of…
Robocalls – Guelph at the centre of the maelstrom
Well, it’s not quite how and why I’d like to see my current hometown in the news, but if it helps expose corruption from the 2011 election, I won’t complain.…
Video: Why are you protesting against Israel?
What I like about this video is the way in which it brings things down to one question, whose multiple answers are demystified, one by one. Beyond the specific subject…
Enabling Election Fraud
My favorite enabler is Andrew Coyne, because he gets quoted all the time by Progressive Bloggers and always gets a pass as a voice of non partisan conservatism. Re-read Mr.…
The Conservative Party of Canada – A Study in Contradictions
I can’t help but notice that Conservatives have been all over the board with their policies and positions arguing on one side of an issue in one circumstance and the…
Multi-talented Nova Scotia writer wins ‘neo-liberal’ contest!
And the winner of my media challenge contest is… Joan Baxter, a journalist, an award-winning author and anthropologist who lived and worked in Africa for 21 years. I had felt…
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Interesting…
Given the media feeding frenzy that is the robocall scandal, it is interesting to note the almost complete lack of Conbot commenters in the comment sections of the stories. This…
On Conservative Culture.
About a year ago back here I wrote about what appears to be the culture of lying and deceit that the Harper Conservatives seem to be embracing. Fast forward to…
One Young Staffer is Not Enough
Conservative operative Michael Sona, is taking the fall for the voter suppression scandal and has resigned as a staffer. What the conservatives would like us to believe is that he…
State Driven Conformity
Mr. Harper’s "kind of nationalism requires state-driven conformity," said Lawrence Martin this morning. Far from maintaining our freedoms and liberties, his policies are leading us in the other direction. For…
A lesson in “defeating the purpose”
I admit it: I’m a Tim Hortons junkie. (link) The spousal unit was troubled by all those paper cups going into the trash so, in a moment of environmental concern,…
Video: Anonymous to Canada – Get Mad
From the proposed online snooping legislation Bill C-30 to the burgeoning scandal involving over some 10 million fraudulent phone calls made during the last federal election in 2011 by a…
Why are we so Shocked to Learn that the Conservatives Stole the Election?
During the G20 in Toronto, when Canadian citizens were being arrested, beaten and shot with rubber bulletts, simply for engaging in their democratic right to protest, at Charles McVety’s Christian…
A Third Rate Crank Call
Blaming a young party worker for this, is a) typical of Canada’s Nixon and b) like pinning Watergate on Donald Segretti.
Harper is to Canada like a tequila binge is to you
Whither Canada?* There have been a lot of posts and editorials of people despairing of the future of Canada recently. They aren’t hard to find. Here is one. This C30…
Bill C-10: What Next?
Canadians continue to speak out against the proposed mandatory sentencing provisions of Bill C-10 (see, for example, this video, sent to me by a fellow Albertan). They do so even…
Sometimes the solution is worse than the problem.
Twenty years ago the only certainties in life were death and taxes. Now, in this new Internet age, we can add spam to the list. If you are active online…
Rob Ford word cloud
This morning The Globe and Mail published an opinion piece by Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in which he lays out his case for subways, parking taxes, families and exciting new…