Canada at the breaking point? Justin Trudeau, Le Devoir and Me
Just a quick post this weekend to link to a story in Le Devoir today by Guillaume Bourgault-Côté, occasioned by Justin Trudeau’s recent remarks about how the possibility of living…
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Tory Terrorists More Dangerous Than Child Pornographers
The Tories’ “Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act” has more to do with suppressing dissent than with stopping child pornographers. I mean, where is the evidence that child pornography is…
The Curse Of The Rented Pandas
A “strong mandate” to bankrupt Canadian zoos. For a species that is world-renowned for their lack of sexual appetite, Canada is going to find out what other nations have discovered…
Together, we make a difference
Thank you, dear Readers, for the rapid response to yesterday’s call. Aaron Wherry’s coverage of the excellent elocutions by NDP Member of Parliament, Charlie Angus, in the House of Commons…
This is my SOS to the world
A tiny community called out to world. And the world answered. Foreign aid arrived in Canada courtesy environmental organizations which, if you’ll remember, dear Reader, are “radical groups” with “radical…
Stephen Harper and the Creepy Valentine
You should have seen him during Question Period today, staring down the helpless opposition with his cold dead eyes, like a hawk staring at a mouse, before it rips it…
Conservative MP Brent Rathgeber on the long-gun registry: welfare state social engineering, or what?
Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber, in naval costume, gets off some potshots with a Glock, or something. Below: Another shot Brent in a military getup. Note the flag, I swear…
A political poetry break
the regina mom participated in the Saskatchewan Council for International Co-operation (SCIC) Global Justice Poetry Slam last week. This poem got her into the second round where a false start…
Little Green Lies: Prime Minister Harper and Canada’s Environment
438px-Stephen_Harper_by_Remy_Steinegger.jpg This is a guest post by Dr. David R. Boyd, an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University and author of The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions,…
RossK nails it
…on the question of how we should be dealing with Harper and his caucus on the question of state intervention into the most private personal aspects of womens’ lives. Our…
Another Northern Gateway Pipeline Update
Sometimes, the regina mom wonders why she bothers to write her long blogposts, when others do it excellently with a short quote and video or are capable of piecing together…
It’s Time to Rise Up Against the Cons
In the last few days I’ve been urging Canadians to start showing their opposition to Stephen Harper and his Cons, by taking to the streets, like people in other western…
Today in history
Today: Gerry Nicholls wins Twitter. We’ll never top that.
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Mind you, some of the stories are a couple of days old precisely because there’s been an embarrassment of riches in the…
Pipelines: Which side are you on, planet or profit?
Since the Northern Gateway pipeline hit the news, the regina mom has read more posts about science than ever before. And it’s not because science claims a place in her…
Obama, the Drones, and Canada’s Secret War
The other day Obama, in his favourite role as Commander in Chief of The Great War on Terror, claimed that his Darth Vader fleet of deadly drones was on a…
Is Stephen Harper displaying fascist-like tendencies?
The stepped-up authoritarian, anti-democratic manner in which Stephen Harper has conducted himself since obtaining his Parliamentary majority nine months ago raises serious concerns about how far right he is planning…
China to quiz Stephen Harper on human rights?
As Prime Minister Stephen Harper leads a high-powered Team Corporate Canada to China, there’s justifiable speculation that the PM will not question China’s appalling human rights record. At least…
China to quiz Stephen Harper on human rights?
As Prime Minister Stephen Harper leads a high-powered Team Corporate Canada to China, there’s justifiable speculation that the PM will not question China’s appalling human rights record. At least not…
Stephen Harper and the Hockey Doctrine
As we all know Great Nerd Leader likes to pose as a hockey fan, a hockey book writer, and a road hockey warrior. And wherever he goes a shiny set…