It is, I think everyone now realizes, conclusively proven that Peter MacKay is a lying sack of shit. He lied inside and outside Parliament about the nature of the military…
This is part 1 of a series of posts reflecting on current trends in Canadian politics. The transformation of the Reform movement in Canadian politics is nowhere more evident than…
As you may have heard by now, the Auditor-General is not happy about the fact that the Harper Regime gave over $280 million in subsidies to the Ontario Flue-Cured Tobacco…
Earlier this week, David Climenhaga seized on the ludicrously suggestive “freedom of information” campaign being waged by conservative forces in this country (CBC and unions should have to open their…
As you may have heard by now, a polling company has been phoning around Montreal, claiming that Liberal MP Irwin Cotler is about to resign and asking who they plan…
Conservative paranoia in this country is beginning to reach such absurd heights that I’m beginning to suspect the next government crime bill initiative will be to add wrecking charges to…
A few days ago, I suggested that the main achievement of the Harper regime was something few people had noticed yet: a new style of democracy, à la George Bush…
Today the Globe & Mail opened its commentary on the American 2012 election with a column by Pittsburgh journalist David Shribman. Shribman presents a bizarre description of the American election…
On Friday, Chantal Hebert published a provocative column in the Toronto Star arguing that Canadian politicians are populists who lack “political courage” and, in the wake of the last courageous…
You can understand my surprise upon reading of your attempt to silence an elderly widow of an asbestos-linked cancer victim, Michaela Keyerslingk, using trademark law. The idea that a political…
It’s been a while since I updated the Sixth Estate Pork Barrel, which I have now done. For those not familiar with the Pork Barrel, this is a list of…
Prior to the last election, Sixth Estate began tracking government appointments to Conservative Party insiders and donors on the Patronage List, which now stands at 750 names. The Patronage List…
It’s impressive how much traffic drops off when you stop writing a political blog for a couple of weeks — and understandable, of course. I must apologize to the steadily…
This week America’s last space shuttle landed for the last time. There will be no genuine replacement. NASA hoped to replace the shuttle with Orion, capable of traveling to the…
So far only Postmedia seems to have noticed that Conservative York-Simcoe MP and Cabinet minister Peter Van Loan was caught by Elections Canada overspending his campaign finance limit in 2008.…
If you haven’t seen it yet, there is no reason to read about the media’s self-created ridiculous prefab controversy over whether corrupt Treasury Board president Tony Clement should or shouldn’t…
The declaration by former Harper regime Cabinet minister Chuck Strahl that he agrees the government should list asbestos as a carcinogen is a welcome one, but it’s also a highly…
Appallingly, all but CTV appears to have missed this week’s tabling of the annual report of the Information Commissioner, which makes for disturbing if characteristically dry reading. I’ll admit, I…
