Quebec May Open Safe Injection Sites A L’Insite And Compassion Club
It would be about time and why shouldn’t we? We are, after all, a province of progress or supposed to be. After all, we opened the first Compassion club, a…
Culture wars
Another step down the Conservative evolutionary scale. Sun runs homophobic McVety ad. Bonus Shaidle charm offensive.
Conservatives have a very well defined hierarchy of idiocy. The National Post is about midway down the pack, excelling at Disingenuous, Lacks Moral Clarity and Will Do Anything to Further…
Timmy Hudak Sinks To Another All Time Low And Goes All Chuckles McVety
Yes, Boys ‘n’ girls, he really has. He’s gotten really disgusting! First, he’s been distributing this hideous and grossly misleading pamphlet, seen below, while campaigning in Brampton earlier this evening.…
National Post and free speech
I find it not a little humorous that the National Post is back pedalling furiously over their publishing Charles McVety’s repulsive homophobic ad. Even more humorous is the Post’s high-minded…
Outasite! Supreme Court bludgeons Con ideology with reality.
One of the few benefits of not having any political power is that you get to sit back and watch the majority power fall all over its own ideology and…
Time for another Slutwalk, this time in Brooklyn
In Saudi Arabia, the religious police regularly patrol the country for citizens who may be flaunting the Kingdom’s version of Islam, especially when it pertains to women exposing too much…
I Guess Displaying Canadian Symbol is Exempt for Some And a Tiara With That, Mr. Baird?
Well, this latest antic from the Harpercons, specifically, pitbull Johnny Baird, could fall under a few files: austerity for thee but not for me, do as I say and not…
The Vancouver Club, Dick Cheney and pedophilia: a tale of perversion, politics and privilege
UPDATE: Anthony J. Hall, from the Comments at Let Freedom Rain: I attempt to put the whole Vancouver Club/Jack Cram/pedophilia/BC Indian title scandal in broader context in chapter 8 of…
And Now, Introducing the Witness for The Harpercon Prosecution, Fox News North!
Boys ‘n’ girls, the Harpercons want to hold a parliamentary hearing regarding the future of the CBC, basically. And guess who their star witnesses will be? Yup! You guessed it!…
What happened to What happened to Khaled Samy Abdallah Ismail??
Wikileaks has uncovered a mystery worthy of a Hitchcock film, involving a Canadian, the infamous Bagram prison, schizophrenia and the disappearance of a man into thin air. Khaled Samy Abdallah…
Killer elite. Peter MacKay took military jet to dine on lobsters.
Man, these Conservatives sure know how to lie live the high life. Tuxedos, lobsters, jets, search-and-rescue helicopter rides. I should be born again as a Conservative. Like waking up one…
BREAKING. Fox News North quotes Margaret Atwood: “Libaries (sic) cause cancer”
Well, not the real Sun News Network. But 22 Minutes’ Geri Hall does a bang-on impression of a Krista Erickson Fox News North type host ‘quizzing’ Margaret Atwood. It goes…
Harper off to UN
At which point will Harper pull out the bathroom break trick? A. Not getting what he wants out of Ban Ki-moon. B. David Cameron resists Harper’s warmondering on Libya. C:…
Two powerful Star columns on Islamophobia. The new anti-Semitism. Tactics of Islamophobes.
Haroon Siddiqui hits these columns out of the park. Much needed to be said but our media has been reluctant to shout out the obvious. ‘Islamophobia: The new anti-Semitism‘ Just…
Vancouver Sun: Canada’s economic miracle exposed
Dan Gardner goes in-depth on what is really a simple story. The Liberals established a solid economic foundation, preparing Canada in the case of hard times … or Conservatives. Both…
A useful rape analogy
From the estimable Where I Wander blog:
Compassionate conservatism XXIV: Ron Paul demonstrates his compassionate side
It always strikes me as odd when non-right wingers embrace Ron Paul, treating him like some kind of old man puppy dog. While his stand on overseas wars and drugs…
Sun News Network and the emasculation of the North American right wing
I haven’t had that much exposure to Fox News North but from what I’ve seen there’s obviously something fishy happening at that network which is symptomatic of a bigger issue…
Oil Illiteracy. University of Calgary paid to deny climate change.
When a university takes money from an oil company to build skepticism for climate change, you not only have a dishonest higher educational body but also one that goes against…
GOP debate: the ugly face of conservatism. Also, never fly on 9/11 if your skin is brown.
The horror continues. Here are two items that bring the American psyche post-9/11 into instant, ugly focus. At the GOP debate tonight, the crowd loudly cheered a suggestion that society…