No Jonathan Kay, Mark Steyn is not a “thoughtful, mainstream thinker”
Today’s NatPo column by Jonathan Kay shows how he is as guilty as any right wing journalist in exploiting the current climate of fear and hate against the left. He…
Today’s NatPo column by Jonathan Kay shows how he is as guilty as any right wing journalist in exploiting the current climate of fear and hate against the left. He…
There is no form of life lower than Glenn Beck."...the rightwing US broadcaster and Tea Party favourite, has compared those who were massacred on the Norwegian island of Utøya to…
As Norway mourns its dead. And sorrow turns to anger.The right-wing monsters of this world continue to try to turn tragedy into triumph, by blaming Muslims for the massacre.Or condemning…
It appears that Bell is expecting rough regulatory waters ahead. Following their faltering, and rather unpopular proposal for aggregated volume pricing (AVP) at this month’s UBB hearings, Bell has recruited…
On behalf of Progressive Bloggers, I’d like to wish Jack Layton a speedy and successful recovery in his newest battle with cancer. Canadian politics is a duller place without you.
So the Republicans have screwed the pooch on raising the debt ceiling and Obama is speaking to the nation tonight.With any luck, he'll tell the Republicans to sit on it…
I've re-started reading Moby Duck. I don't know if this ever happens to you, but sometimes if I pick up a book at a particularly busy time when I don't…
It would be nice to be able to say that my moral leanings followed a consistent system of moral belief and didn't leave central questions such as the source of…
Today's NatPo column by Jonathan Kay shows how he is as guilty as any right wing journalist in exploiting the current climate of fear and hate against the left. He…
Jack Layton's father Robert was a Progressive Conservative cabinet minister. His grandfather Gilbert was a cabinet minister in the Unione Nationale government of Maurice Duplessis. Finally, Layton is related to…
If you don't like Jack, you don't know shit
Mr. Day objects to my speculation, and offers some of his own:Ive been perplexed about this all day due to how serious the nature of being linked to a political…
Since Dammit Janet! helped vault Hudak’s position on abortion into the internet stratosphere, I’ve been reading the various blogs and MSM articles on same and I was struck by a…
From one old folkie to another ...
The following comments were screen captured before the Toronto SUN closed comments on its Jack Layton story earlier today:(Click to enlarge)H/t to Youstayclassy blog ...
Each other’s evil twin. Nothing gladdens the heart of the exterminationist Right more, after all, than an island full of dead progressive kids. ...
I wish a speedy and complete recovery for Mr. Layton. That said, I wonder if it is only me who immediately wondered whether the NDP, looking for an interim leader…
We all know now about Mike Coren's blast of ignorant hate spiel, blaming the victims of the Norwegian slaughter by a right wing Christian extremist. As is Glenn Beck's particular…
I commented here last week upon Premier Clark’s silence on all the great issues she faces and questioned what her policies will be. I expect no answer because she wants…
SomeSubsidiesAreMoreEqualThanOthersVilleAs we predicted some time ago, the other four billion penny-filled boot just dropped to help subsidize....errrr....facilitate Seaspan's bid to get a shank of Steve-O's shipbuilding pork:"The B.C. government is…