From The Salamander
Lately, I guess as a response to the rhetoric that comes pouring forth every year as Remembrance Day approaches, I have made several critical posts directed against those who find…
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When It Comes To Our Veterans
... the Canadian government knows that talk is cheap. Recommend this Post
After Cutting Through The Sanctimonious Rhetoric
...it is apparent that, like most governments, the Harper regime has been quite content to recruit, exploit and ultimately abandon those who, in good faith, joined the armed forces to…
Canadians: Dear Leader Requires Your Uncritical Attention
To absorb and spread this message. Watch, learn, and heed: Ignore the ugly rumours spread by enemies of the state that Dear Leader advocated this policy in 2008. Recommend this…
Thomas Walkom: Harper’s Strategy Behind The Foreign Workers Program
Yesterday, over at Northern Reflections, Owen Gray wrote a post entitled A Lost Generation, a reflection on the discouraging prospects our young people face in establishing themselves in gainful employment,…
In Praise of Thanksgiving
I’m especially thankful this year for turkey. H/t somecanuckchick Recommend this Post
Chopped Liver, Everyone?
Comedians like Don Rickles, whenever he felt slighted, would turn to host Johnny Carson and ask, “What am I, chopped liver?” I couldn’t help but think of that line when…
Assumptions Can Be Dangerous
Harris assumed that small Ontario towns like Walkerton would have the good sense to keep their drinking water clean. Harper assumed that profit-making companies would make sure that their consumers…
Not To State The Obvious But ….
Canada’s food safety regime failed us So goes the title of The Star’s editorial this morning as it raises some very pressing questions about how over three weeks elapsed between…
I’ll Have a Veggie Burger, Please
In light of the widespread dissemination of tainted beef by XL Foods, one has to ask the role changes made by the Harper regime in Canada’s food inspection process played.…
Tory Attacks on the Canadian Soul
To suggest that the Harper regime is working relentlessly to diminish the Canadian soul is hardly a remarkable insight. Examples abound of its flinty resolve to undermine traditional Canadian values…
Stephen Harper’s Worldview
For those seeking insight into how Stephen Harper and his regime views the world, The Star’s Tim Harper offers some interesting insights. In New York snubbing the U.N. while accepting…
Harper’s Conservatives: As Classless As Ever
Yesterday I wrote a brief post about the federal government’s decision to stop defending the export of asbestos from Quebec, not on the basis of morality, but political expediency, as…
Canada’s Export of Death to Cease
The Harper government is throwing in the towel on Quebec’s internationally-maligned asbestos industry now that the Parti Québécois is poised to take power and prohibit extraction of the cancer-causing mineral.…
More About Our Prime Paragons of ‘Virtue’
Just a few reminders about the moral thugs within our midst: Tides Canada’s charity status attacked Pro-oilsands group accuses it of illegal political activity Thomson: In the end, pipeline is…
New Crime Discovered in Edmonton
Known in legal circles as politicius pontificus interruptus, Edmonton police are doing everything within their power to prevent this terrible crime from spreading and becoming a national scourge. Recommend this…
More on The Harper Betrayal of All of Us
I wrote a recent brief post on the Trans Pacific Partnership that Canada recently signed onto, the price of admission being the surrender of much of our sovereignty over the…
Harper Refuses To Release Taxpayer-Funded Study On Pensions
The conclusion the cynic would draw (that’s me) is that the report suggests no need for the changes Harper has made in the OAS. H/t Brandon Laraby Recommend this Post
Canada Day? Really?
In my non-virtual life, I like to think that I am a reasonably pleasant fellow who enjoys the small pleasures life has to offer, has a decent sense of humour,…