LIVE BLOG: Kitchener Open Mike Event
Real Canadian Politics is happy to be Live Blogging this event live from Bingemans Conference Centre in Kitchener, Ontario. Unfortunately, I have a hockey game at 2:00pm this afternoon so…
Dr. Harper and Mr. Crybaby
I often vacillate between the opinion that Harper is an evil genius bent on installing a neo-conservative dystopia on our home and native land and that he is an incompetent…
Random Reading
Excerpts from articles I have recently read – no further comment required! Elizabeth May - While Canadian political culture is not steeped in vitriol and hatred, the trend lines are…
Hey, RCMP, It’s Called Protecting and Serving, Not Punting Practice!
Have a look at this video and tell me it doesn't just piss you off:Did you catch that? That was Constable Geoff Mantler kicking a field goal off of the…
NDP Leadership Race Heats Up
When I first heard that Carol James was resigning I opened a new tab on my browser, signed into my e-mail account and "penned" a letter to the BC NDP…
Reasons Not To Become An Academic
Waaaaay back in November, I wrote an introductory post saying that I was going to write a series of posts reflecting on the doing of intellectual work outside of the…
listen to howard stern blast sarah palin: ‘you effer, you c~word, you effin crybaby!’
While I've never been a Howard Stern fan, I give him props for this. He has many followers, and if he has made even one of them reconsider their support…
BC NDP Leadership: Order of preference
Finally! More, though not all expected, contenders for leadership of the BC NDP have entered the race. Adrian Dix isn't expected to do so until next week. That is past…
BC NDP Leadership: Order of preference
Finally! More, though not all expected, contenders for leadership of the BC NDP have entered the race. Adrian Dix isn’t expected to do so until next week. That is past…
BC NDP Leadership: Order of preference
Finally! More, though not all expected, contenders for leadership of the BC NDP have entered the race. Adrian Dix isn't expected to do so until next week. That is past…
BC NDP Leadership: Order of preference
Finally! More, though not all expected, contenders for leadership of the BC NDP have entered the race. Adrian Dix isn’t expected to do so until next week. That is past…
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right…ONDP joins PC’s in party civil wars
We've heard plenty about the ongoing failure of Tim Hudak's leadership to keep a lid on party and factional leadership in his PC caucus (see: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Eastern+Ontario+feud+troubles+Tories/4028265/story.html, and http://toronto....
Strange Weekend News
Quick run down of things catching my eye this weekend:Revolution in an Arab North African country... this could be really good or well, awfulOn a lighter note, archaeologists appear to…
JDL allies with Austrian Freedom Party
“it’s always heartwarming to see a prejudice defeated by a deeper prejudice.” — Lone Star On the heels of the Jewish Defence League’s rally in support of the fascist English…
JDL allies with Austrian Freedom Party
"it's always heartwarming to see a prejudice defeated by a deeper prejudice." -- Lone StarOn the heels of the Jewish Defence League's rally in support of the fascist English Defence…
JDL allies with Austrian Freedom Party
“it’s always heartwarming to see a prejudice defeated by a deeper prejudice.” — Lone Star On the heels of the Jewish Defence League’s rally in support of the fascist English…
JDL allies with Austrian Freedom Party
“it’s always heartwarming to see a prejudice defeated by a deeper prejudice.” — Lone Star On the heels of the Jewish Defence League’s rally in support of the fascist English…
Late Friday Night Ode To … Teh Self-Righteous Stoopid
I stand against censorship - period. You don't like the nature of a show on a specific TV channel? Change the damn channel. You don't like the lyrics of a…
Revolution in Tunisia?
Zine el Abidine Ben Ali The President of Tunisia, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, has been driven from office. Following up on a previous article here at World Headlines Review…
On Mental Health
This past week, a man by the name of Steven Michael Kokotec was taken to hospital for psychiatric reasons, and after being released, he jumped off a ten story parking…