Through the Window Glass
Throughout North America builders construct homes with no regard with how the sun beams down on the, causing many homes to overcompensate with excessively large air conditioning units. This means…
Parliament In Review: June 22, 2011
The second-last day of debates in this spring's session dealt mostly with Bruce Hyer's motion on small business. But lest anybody think there would be agreement on the details of…
3954…It All Comes Down To Beer
According to the front page of this day's Ottawa Sun.71 per cent of the folks in Eastern Ontario are in fave of having beer and wine at the corner store.The…
3954…It All Comes Down To Beer
According to the front page of this day's Ottawa Sun.71 per cent of the folks in Eastern Ontario are in fave of having beer and wine at the corner store.The…
Wishing Jack Layton A Speedy Recovery
NDP Leader Jack Layton announced Monday he’s is taking a temporary leave of absence to receive treatment for a new cancer. The Canadian Progressive World wishes Layton a speedy recovery.…
Ottawa police brutality: Roxanne Carr’s story
Videos of Roxanne Carr’s treatment in the infamous Ottawa police cellblock. And here, courtesy of blogger Zoom, is the Ottawa Police Service’s latest public victim’s description of what she endured…
‘With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility’: Bloomberg gives fight to Big Coal
Not content to have merely taken on the gun lobby, the tobacco industry, and the anti-gay marriage crowd, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has set his sights on picking…
Ethical Oil? Tory Scum Polishes Turd
There really is no lie too big, no corporate filth too odious that there isn't some Tory bagman who isn't willing to try and sell it to us as a…
Why Religion Has No Place in Politics
An excellent op-ed in today's New York Times.What is striking on the current American scene ...is the extent to which people see certain political and economic positions as required by…
Carr videos – prisoner abuse?
The most recent prisoner abuse case from Ottawa involves Roxanne Carr. Two clips from the cell block video are available online at http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Click+here+watch+video/5172638/story.html. The first clip shows four police (three…
Chris Matthews interviews Bruce Bartlett – Reagan Policy Advisor
Mr. Bartlett thinks that Repugs are on a disastrous path especially on the issue of taxes. According to Bartlett, many economic problems of America today resulted from Bush policies. He…
Ford Puppet Shows His Contempt For Constituents
As many Torontonians would know, today is the day City Council is having a meeting with constituents to discuss cutting ‘gravy’. Poor long suffering Giorgio Mammoliti, he apparently is longing…
Roxanne Carr cell block footage released
The videos of Roxanne Carr being checked into the Ottawa Police cell block are now public. You can see them here. Roxanne Carr left the following comment on my blog,…
"Saturated Fat Is Bad": The Lie That Never Dies
Go ahead & eat it: you know you want to I came across this article in Health & Fitness section of today's Globe & Mail. A reader asks Leslie Beck,…
No, the Talibs Aren’t Finished.
As Canada's combat mission in Kandahar ended, Canadian commanders were busy patting themselves on the back and proclaiming the Taliban insurgency in that province "flattened" due to their efforts. Of…
On non-news
No, it isn't news that the Cons tried unsuccessfully to recruit Thomas Mulcair around the time when he decided instead to run for the NDP. But for those looking for…
Today’s Climate Change Quirk
It's another of those never-ending "once in a century" stories. The heaviest rainfall in a century has triggered devastating floods and landslides in the Seoul area of South Korea. The…
Conservative “war criminal” round-up a made for TV spectacle
Some groups are only comfortable if they have enemies to fight, real or imagined. If you were wondering how the Conservative government would adjust to having a majority government and…
Thursday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
Yes, it's taken a few days to refresh my memory as to how to discuss a Saskatchewan Roughrider win. But as great as it is for the 'Riders to have…