The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability named it’s board of reference members today. This is another step by the ECFA, after Senator Chuck Grassley (Senate Finance Committee) asked the organization…
This and that to end your Tuesday. - The Ottawa Citizen tears a strip off the Cons' G8 patronage and cover-up: The more details emerge about the way the government…
Two choice items from the Globe today: "Harper makes ‘remarkable’ gains in best-prime-minister ranking" and "Cinephile Stephen Harper drops in on Crazy, Stupid Love." "He loves movies," we're told. Meanwhile,…
LobbyLobbyEverywhereTheNewTexasVille As noted by McSushiboy21, based on publically available information provided by @lobbywatch: On July 9, Encana officials met with Prime MinisterStephen Harper, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and…
It's impossible to divine anything concrete from the flurry of interesting chatter surrounding Enbridge's embattled 1,100 km Northern Gateway Pipeline proposal. Alternate routes, Asian energy experts laughing at our stupidity,…
At this rate, Ottawa’s Finest are going to run out of citizens to attack. Yet another story of unprovoked violence against an unresisting person: a man sleeping on a sidewalk…
A couple of weeks ago, Paulie decided to promote the cause of some of his newer friends. No, not of boneheads, but some of the folks at Free Dominion: We…
Did they just get it wrong or is this the new standard of partisan journalism at the government-friendly VOCM? First of all, let us recall that Westcott is leaving the…
This is your Canadian journalism in a nutshell. And I mean nutsack. Here is a Sun Media 'journalist' lobbying Jewish groups to defund Toronto Pride. It's not just Christianist yahoos…
Over the past several decades in Canada, tuition rates and student debt levels have both increased substantially. Yet, I am not aware of much research seeking to assess either how…
Canada's top legal group, the Canadian Bar Association, was not exactly kind to Harper's approach to crime in its recent annual conference. It identified many issues from overcrowding to the…
In the midst of a rant suggesting that Rob Ford aim his cost-cutting axe at Toronto Fire Services, The Sun's Sue Ann Levy opines: As I happened by the Yorkville…
Nouriel Roubini, one of the world’s most well-known economists, discusses his take on the current market climate in the Wall Street Journal. Money quote: “Karl Marx said it right, at…
How old does someone have to be for Fox News to consider a person fair game for their media smear machine? Answer: Not even a teenager. They didn’t like these…
While not violent, per se, it's interesting to see the clash of Tory vs. Tory in Brampton today, courtesy of Warren Kinsella:The person on stage is former PC Premier Bill…
MakingBookOnPublicTaxPolicyVille ....Mr. Beer 'N Hockey? "My money is on the Yes (to extinguish) People holding very nearly one million of those (1.6 million) votes...."Mr. Beer 'N Hockey commenting on our…
Thanks to you, Globe & Mail. And Postmedia. And Sun Media. And Macleans. Thank you all for fluffing the dud who wears no clothes. You outfitted him nicely, folks. Too…
If you're unaware yet, Canada's navy and air force will soon get a new name - an old one, to be truthful. Those branches of the military are currently named…
NO WAY that the IQ-challenged Tim Hudak came up with this! It would be kind of akin to Rob Ford putting his shoes on the right feet in one try……
