Real life
Real life intrudes this week. Next week: something on governance. Been thinking about what might guide Senate reform and all that good stuff.
TIME Names DeSmogBlog In Top 25 Best Blogs of 2011
TIME Best Blogs 2011.png DeSmogBlog is honored to be recognized by TIME magazine in the Top 25 list of The Best Blogs of 2011. TIME reporter Bryan Walsh calls DeSmogBlog…
Harper Still Giving A $6 Billion Tax Cut To Banks And Big Corps – Yet Won’t Tell Us Where He Will Cut Billions From The Rest Of Us
I had hoped that Stephen Harper would nix his mega billion dollar tax cut to the banks and large corporations. But oh no ... Right wing Voodoo is still in…
It Won’t Last
Verdict: Civility is boring. We want blood. I give it a week until John Baird drops his pants and tells the opposition to witness his foreign policy. Also, The Sun…
Conrad Black is such a good guy: lazy, demeaning, treating fellow inmates ‘like servants’
Since his conviction for fraud and obstruction of justice, Conrad Black has portrayed himself the victim of liberal, over-zealous courts. He is really innocent and a good guy all around,…
3830…Michael Moore Meet Russell Barth
Great minds think a like.In today's Suns Michael Moore lauds Brigette DePape, the protesting page.Fools seldom differ.WFDS
Hack Pundit Of The Week: Michael Coren
Michael Coren is absolutely disgusted!He's outraged that the arrest of Ratko Mladic is due to a sense of Western guilt to "show the Islamic world that they care for the…
3829…Russell Barth Is Back
After taking a sabbatical during the election campaign, yes his insight was missed, Russell Barth is back.For those of you umfamilliar with Mr. Barth, he is a prolific letter writer…
Federal Budget Refried
Was it worth the wait? Hardly. Today’s federal budget is about as appetizing as two month-old pizza warmed up in the microwave. I guess they deserve high marks for consistency,…
Rerun Season
For the first time in a long time, we have a budget that can be judged on its content, rather than its electoral implications.So while the opportunity now exists to…
Question period: a scattershot first day
Dear MPs: If you’re going to institute a ban on heckling during question period, could you at least engage in some witty repartee to replace it? Thanks! Me. And that…
Cuba changing; US stuck
President Obama and his advisers share with most of the mass media the same visual weakness when it comes to Cuba: they don’t see the obvious, the crucial facts and…
Peggy Nash Meet Jack Layton
I haven't perused Hansard yet, but according to Brian Topp, in praising Peggy Nash:She went directly to the heart of the government's economic strategy, asking the Conservatives why their sole…
LPC Keeps Focus on Jobs, Economy
This is good to see. Team Red isn't being distracted by vote subsidies and other issues nobody cares about. ----------------- Budget Shows Profound Complacency: No Plan for Jobs, No Plan…
The Federal Budget
Source: CTV News: Highlights of the Federal BudgetSource: CBC News: Flaherty Sticks to Deficit Pledge, But Adds No DetailsAgain, I'm still on the mend, so getting here to post isn't…
D-Day — a day to remember
The operation was the largest amphibious invasion in world history, with over 160,000 troops landing on 6 June 1944. 195,700 Allied naval and merchant navy personnel in over 5,000ships were…
PM Inspects Quebec Flood Zone
Inspired by these stories: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Harper+miss+historic+moment/4900101/story.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/06/06/harper-quebec-flooding.htmlhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/06/05/mic...
Hassan Diab: Canada allows bomb suspect’s extradition
A Canadian judge has approved the extradition to France of a man charged in a deadly 1980 bombing outside a Paris synagogue.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13671315Mr Diab, who was arrested in 2008, says he…
Palin makes history
No, Paul! Ride the other way! Next: “General Benedict Arnold, our revolutionary hero who captured Fort Ticonderoga, who won the Battle of Ridgefield, who relieved Fort Stanwix and was wounded…