Stephen Harper’s Stealth War on Gay Canadians
In just a few hours I'll be following the rainbow, or waving it, at the Toronto Pride parade.Along with about a million gay people and their straight friends and supporters.It's…
They Sell It But They Supposedly Have Nothing to Do With It.
When you buy Athabasca DilBit you’re buying two fuels – a form of synthetic oil and a type of coal. Alberta bitumen contains heavy oil and it contains petroleum coke…
Why Story of Climate Change Fails to Capture Public’s Interest
According to the Guardian’s Oliver Burkeman, “the most important issues of our era aren’t particularly interesting. Worse than that, there’s good reason to believe in an inverse relationship between interestingness…
Aurora in Wood Mountain
One of the advantages to small-town Saskatchewan, is that it’s easier to escape light pollution than it is in a city like Regina. I was fortunate to be out of…
6196…Kory Teneycke On High River Gun Thefts
I do believe you know what I am referring to; the RCMP going into empty homes in flooded out High River, Alberta and emptying them of legally obtained firearms. This…
6195…Good Time For A Tumour
Cold I may be but I am also accurate. The lucky recipient of said tumour, a lung tumour none the less, as reported by the gang at Postmedia, is Bruce…
In Sunday’s Sun: when scandal is the rule and not the exception
If we have a national memory of seven minutes, do scandals matter any more, or at all? If we have seen and heard everything before, does a new scandal register…
6194…Mayors Should Pay Hos In Cash
When using a sex worker. Allegedly, according to The Canadian Press and TVA, interim hizzoner Alexandre Duplessis of Laval rented a hooker a while back and had a dispute about…
Progressives, rejoice over recent polls showing sinking Cons at your own risk.
Hear that? That’s the sound of silence coming from the NDP and the Liberals. Just when the Cons seem to hitting the skids, Mulcair and Trudeau cocoon. As the floods…
Oh So True
H/t Canadians Rallying To Unseat Stephen Harper Recommend this Post
Time for some summer relaxation …
Will see you all on Canada Day … time for some Saskatchewan summer R & R …
Edmonton Sun Successfully Trolls National Post
Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel is too busy to know what he’s talking about The Edmonton Sun, a bottom feeding tabloid, majestically trolled National Post columnists Chris Selley and Jonathan Kay.…
my journey to palestinian solidarity and the myth of the self-hating jew, part 3 and final
Part 1 here. Part 2 here. By now it should be clear that my abandonment of my ties to Israel, and my support for the liberation of Palestine, are not…
#MacheteSomethingYEG: Edmonton’s twitchy-eyed, machete-wielding savages strike back
by: Obert Madondo | @Obiemad: Earlier this week, National Post opinion writer Chris Selley said that if the southern Alberta floods had touched Edmonton, that city would become “a smoking…
The Enbridge Tantrum, Oliver’s Deceit
When it comes to the merits of the Northern Gateway pipeline, lawyers for the bitumen traffickers almost go apoplectic complaining about the lack of existing pipeline capacity. They come across…
Saturday Photo: Let’s Hear It for Hostas
Maybe 15 years ago I bought three hosta plants for, if I remember correctly, $4 a piece. I planted them in front, where I’d begun the slow process of eliminating…
In Texas, do male fetuses masturbate?
Apparently, some think so: And a Texas congressman claimed, incorrectly, that male fetuses of 15 weeks have been observed to masturbate, thus making abortion wrong. Tabatha Southey sums up the…
How Yahoo fought against PRISM – and lost
Last week, new reports shed light on how Yahoo fought against becoming part of the U.S. National Security Agency mass spying program PRISM. We deserve to know if the Canadian…
Liberal Lies on LNG, Hydro Debt, Budget Spell Fiscal Disaster for BC
Premier Clark promised us huge LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) revenues in a few years. We would be debt free and have $100 BILLION in the to-be-created “Prosperity Fund”. That was…
Mr. Prime Minister: Promote Philanthropy – Stop Playing Politics
I just read Brett Wilson’s National Post opinion piece on the HarperCons “boys in short pants in the PMO” manufactured manipulation over Justin Trudeau charging fees for speaking at charity…