Was Nathan Cirillo A Hero?
As I noted on this blog previously, it is always a tragedy when a young person loses his or her life, whether to accident, disease, or mayhem. The lost potential…
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Pay No Attention To This Video
Please regard this only as a rare anomaly of nature, totally unrelated to the propaganda about climate change being promulgated by enemies of your goverment.– The Harper Regime. Recommend this…
Cheap Rhetoric Versus Practical Questions
With regard to the ISIS threat, here is what Prime Minister Harper had to say in the House: “These are necessary actions, they are noble actions” …. “When we think…
Warning! Pay No Attention To This Seditious Suggestion
A CRA Audit-Free Zone Okay boys and girls. Please resist the impulse to manipulate the Fraser Institute’s data. Really, don’t do it. I mean it. There will be consequences. 😉…
The Big Mac VS The Whopper
Clearly, based upon the shameful falsehoods she uttered at yesterday’s U.N. climate summit about Canada being a “global clean energy leader” doing “its part” to cut carbon emissions that warm…
On The Further Debasement Of Parliamentary Debates
In which Parliamentary Secretary Paul Calandra, a loyal Harper soldier, does his utmost to discourage Canadians from watching the misnamed debates. Recommend this Post
Tory Hot Air Worsens Climate Change
Watch this video and you’ll know what I mean: Recommend this Post
Denial And Outrage
During my teaching career, it was occasionally my unpleasant task to confront a student with evidence of his or her cheating; most situations revolved around plagiarizing essays or having skipped…
Our Poisoned Political Culture
Whether true or not, Canadians can, I think, be forgiven for wondering, quite seriously, whether the Harper cabal was somehow involved in the ominous break-in at Justin Trudeau’s home while…
A Public Service Announcement From The Conservative Party Of Canada
Given the Harper regime’s new-found zeal for warning all of us about the dangers of marijuana, and, coincidentally, the equally dangerous potential of a Justin Trudeau-led government, perhaps the following…
For The Naive, This Sounds Impressive
For the seasoned political observer, it is Harper propaganda of the the worst kind. Recommend this Post
Setting The Record Straight
Is the oleaginous Pierre Poilivre really the best the Harper regime can do in its propaganda efforts? h/t Press Progress Recommend this Post
The Right Wing Instructs Us On Our Errors In Thinking
Benighted soul that I am, I did not realize the myriad errors of thinking I have fallen prey to. Happily, University of Toronto geography professor Pierre Desrochers has set me…
New Enemies, New Misdirections
Last week I wrote a post about the fraught fund-raising later sent out by Conservative Party director of political operations Fred DeLorey. The letter stressed the need to build a…
Reveling In Ignorance
It is perhaps the supreme irony of our age; for the first time in history we have access to a world of information and data literally at our fingertips; it…
Barely A Parody
If you have ever watched the Stephen Harper propaganda channel, you will have a hard time distinguishing it from the following parody: H/t Canadians Rallying To Unseat Stephen Harper Recommend…
What Stephen Harper, Tim Hudak And The Rest of The Neocons Really Think
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We’re Not Paying You To Tell Us Something We Don’t Want To Know
That would seem to be the mentality behind the Harper regime’s chopping of $1.2 million from the federal Justice Department’s research budget. As reported by the CBC, the cut, which…
And Now, A Brief Message From PROPCON
Regurgitation warning: if you have just finished eating, wait at least 30 minutes before watching this latest episode of 24/seven, brought to you by PROPCON, the Harper regime’s official channel…
Was Nathan Cirillo A Hero? – Part 2
Yesterday’s post revolved around a column by The Hamilton Spectator’s Andrew Dreschel in which he questioned whether the circumstances of Nathan Cirollo’s death qualified him as a hero. I predicted…