4017…He Is For It; She Is Against It
It is the merger of the Dippers and the Liberals.He is Jean Chretien.She is Sheila Copps.We have seen this movie before.We know how it turns out.Been nice knowing you.See you…
Dean Del Mastro Plays the Race Card From an Incomplete Deck
When Dalton McGuinty released his party platform, one item had Federal Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro in a flap.The $10,000 incentive to employers who hire immigrants.For Del Mastro it brought…
Canada falls from competitiveness Top 10
Noted from the Globe yesterday: Canada has continued its slide in business competitiveness, falling to 12th place from 10th last year in a World Economic Forum ranking of countries around…
Gather round the radium fire
This is an illustration of what the future might have looked like, circa 1910: The artist has depicted a genteel scene: Claude and Sophie LaFlippé have invited a few friends…
Can We take Toronto-Danforth Part 3
So far in my last two post I have said that after the three elections; 2004, 2006 and 2008. The Liberals would likely win a by-election where Jack Layton would…
Title Fight at Cohen Commission: Morton vs. Industry-Government Juggernaut
On the penultimate day of the Cohen Commission's hearings on aquaculture and diseases, Alexandra Morton finally took the stand. To say the day lived up to its billing is an…
Capitalist Alienation Made Me Hang From Hooks
Ophelia by John Everett Millais, founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood In the first part, we discussed how primitivist body decor is driven by the anti-modern impulse to restore something that…
In News Unrelated To The Ontario Election
English Defense League leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (Tommy Robinson), soul-mate of JDL-Canada and their myriad of followers, is back in prison, either for breaking the conditions of his parole or for…
Danny, Gary and Steve: old inconsistencies die hard
Apparently your humble e-scribbler isn’t the only one who found it amusing that an anti-Harper former premier is campaigning in pro-Harper country for a Conservative who doesn’t share the Old…
Major threat to Canada is extravagant exaggeration
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says "draconian" anti-terrorism measures that were scrapped in 2007 are once again necessary because Canada faces a major threat from "Islamicism." Interesting fact: the Christian and…
Politicising the Crown
Yesterday’s bizarre news release was word that the government has mandated that all embassies must have a portrait of the Queen hanging in them by the middle of the month…
Rick Perry, Stephen Harper, and the Alpha Flight
I knew when fascism came to America it would be wrapped in the Confederate flag, and carrying a cross AND a gun, like the Republican candidate for President Rick Perry.But…
Dear Greenpeace, re Tzeporah Berman (RERUN)
Tzeporah Berman was at Capilano University Wednesday evening performing at the North Shore Credit Union Centre for the Performing Arts. Her act was promised to be an exploration of the…
"Ethical" Oil…?
Oprah, you never cease to amaze me, always with new, more disgusting lows. I now that you're popular among a particular progressive political set. You are not popular with me.…
She’s never seen anything quite as audacious as the campaign to rebrand the tarsands ethical oil…
"...he compared the tarsands oil to fair trade coffee and free range chickens? Do you know that they're running ads on the oprah network saying that by buying tarsands oil…
I think "urge" is too soft a word…perhaps "demand"…
from censored news...Nobel Peace Laureates Dalai Lama, Rigoberta Menchu and Desmund Tutu among nine urging: Halt tar sands His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama joined Nobel Peace Laureates Rigoberta Menchu…
WANTED: A Liberal Leader
Wanted: A Leader Must be willing to travel across the country, sleep 5 hours a night, and be willing to shake hands of more than a half a million Canadians.…
Original Song #32: Papa Got Hisself a Job
Papa Got Hisself a Job Come around kids, listen up good(Papa’s got hisself a job)I’ll take you to the movies, Christ we’ll go to the moon(Papa’s got hisself a job)So…
Original Song #32: Papa Got Hisself a Job
Papa Got Hisself a JobCome around kids, listen up good(Papa’s got hisself a job)I’ll take you to the movies, Christ we’ll go to the moon(Papa’s got hisself a job)So scuff…