Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jo Snyder discusses how poverty makes everybody less healthy, and recognizes the need for higher basic wages as a result. And Laurie…
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Neil Young Calls Out Stephen Harper on Tar Sands
Stephen Harper is an international embarrassment for his unconditional hawking of the tar sands, disregarding the rights of First Nations, and ignoring the negative environmental effects. On the latter, we…
Stephen Harper and the Economic Conapocalypse
Well as you know Stephen Harper isn't just running from the Senate scandal these days. And from Neil Young.He's running from the burning wreckage of his disastrous economic record. And…
Neil Young Beats Up Stephen Harper. Again.
Uh oh. It looks as if the slugging match between Neil Young and the Con regime isn't going to last very long.Not with King Harper already lying on his back.…
Canadian Rocker Neil Young Blasts Stephen Harper, Alberta Tar Sands
Canadian rock legend Neil Young has blasted the Harper government for “trading integrity” in its single-minded appetite for Alberta tar sands dollars. The post Canadian Rocker Neil Young Blasts Stephen…
Bart’s Books: Stephen Harper, Episode II
“On any day, has a choice, he can do the big conservative thing that would be the end of his career, or he can do some of the small conservative…
Neil Young: A Canadian Legend Blasts the Con Regime
To see him standing up for a small First Nation that is fighting a giant foreign oil company is so inspiring.An example to us all.To hear him denounce Stephen Harper…
Ariel Sharon Dead
Stephen Harper is very saddened. Sharon who butchered Palestinians mercilessly. Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper, described Sharon as “one of the architects of modern-day Israel” and one of its “staunchest…
Stephen Harper and the Monstrous Con Book Burners
There was a moment during last night's excellent Fifth Estate documentary The Silence of the Labs, when I felt dizzy, almost faint.Like that other Simon, in Lord of the Flies…
Stephen Harper and the Day of Reckoning
He's still hiding from Canadians, still huddled with his closest advisers. Still inviting us to enter his sinister parallel universe. Have you seen 24 Seven yet? Watch the first one…
In four letters, Brian Jean, the Crossword King of Parliament Hill, has Q-U-I-T
How Brian Jean may have started to see himself after whiling away too many hours on Parliament Hill over the decade. Amateur psychologizing by blog authors is unlikely to resemble…
Crappy New Year 2014: Canada’s economy in the shitter Yes,…
Crappy New Year 2014: Canada’s economy in the shitter Yes, it’s the economy, stupid! As of January 2014, the Canadian economy continues to be shite, swirling down the toilet. The…
Fort McMurray MP Brian Jean resigns
TweetFort McMurray-Athabasca Conservative Member of Parliament Brian Jean announced his resignation today in a written statement to the media. Mr. Jean was first elected in 2004. He was re-elected in…
Justin Trudeau’s Culture Code for Canadians: Keeping it, with Fun
Dr. Clotiere Rapaille Within 18 months of so Canadians will elect a new prime minister and a new government. Of the three contenders for the top job – Stephen Harper,…
Stephen Harper’s Ghastly New Propaganda Movie
Well he's somewhere in the far north, hiding from the media, so he doesn't have to answer any embarrassing questions.Like how many jobs DOES Chuck Strahl need?Or how is that…
Why the Economy Will Cost the Cons the Next Election
The other night I wrote that if the Stephen Harper and his hapless stooge Jimbo Flaherty wanted to run on their economic record, they should be my guests or be…
Stephen Harper and the Insane Con Clown Posse
OMG. Can you believe Lord Harper and his monstrous Con clowns? What will they say or do next?Who will save us ??? And is there no JUSTICE ??!!!! I mean…
NDP-Grit coalition to defeat Rob Anders? Unlikely! This is a Tory civil war
Alberta Premier Alison Redford, left, glares at Rob Anders, far right (as it were), Canada’s Worst MP, as challenger Ron Liepert, centre, with an unidentified vole who is not authorized…