Canada’s New Climate Buddy: Russia
Canada has been under fire internationally for the Harper government’s recent announcement of its intention to pull out of the only international treaty that attempts to address the climate crisis,…
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‘A pervasive culture of discriminatory bias’ – the justice model for Canada’s loony right
One of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies leads a prisoner, arrested for his shaky command of the English language, toward the chain gang. Racist and abusive Arizona police may not be…
Stephen Harper and Our Broken Parliament
I see that Parliament has adjourned with the Cons gnashing their teeth flapping their wings over what Justin Trudeau said yesterday. “Bullshit!” he cried, his fury dramatically framed by flowing…
Quebec to sue Ottawa over access to gun registry data
Quebec's Public Security Minister Robert Dutil After tabling legislation in late October that would abolish the long gun registry, Prime Minister Stephen Harper let the other shoe drop: that in…
Backing Out Of the Kyoto Accord: Part Of Canada’s Shame-Based Heritage
Once again, Rick Mercer doesn’t pull any punches:
Don’t Confuse me with the Facts I’m Trying to Run a Country
What does the Conservative Party of Canada have against facts? What is so wrong with empirical data? Are questions I would love to ask our Prime Minister. It started last…
Kyoto and the Shame of the Cons
I could run this old video of Peter Kent introducing a documentary where he calls global warming “the greatest threat to life on the planet” and warns that the devastating…
The Cons Go After Our Medicare System
They promised they wouldn’t go after medicare. But that was then and this is now. The Conservative government is putting the provinces on notice that Ottawa plans to shrink the…
First impressions: Brian Topp comes to Alberta
Federal NDP leadership candidate Brian Topp focuses on a questioner during his stopover in Edmonton last night. Oddly enough, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Brian Topp on TV. Not…
Barely Five Minutes After He Was Announced Leader of The Bloc Quebecois, Daniel Paille is Out of The Starting Gate
It’s official, Daniel Paille has won the Bloc Quebecois leadership with a little over 61% on the second ballot (they used a preferential voting system). Ahuntsic MP, Maria Mourani came…
Stephen Harper and the Great Silence
Sometimes it’s the small things that can tell you a lot about the country we are becoming under the sinister Harper regime. And how The Great Darkness is becoming The…
On manual adjustments
For all the failings of a Con government that combines extreme centralization with an utter lack of vision, let’s give Stephen Harper credit for successfully bludgeoning satire to death. Just…
Canadian Government Reminded To Stop Their “Fuelish” Ways
Talented Canadian artist and environmentalist (and friend of 350orbust) Franke James has recently come out with a video about her experience of being blacklisted by the Harper government. In it,…
‘Taking back the media’, effective campaigning required to empower Progressive Movement
Progressive groups in Canada need to become even more determined, better organized and prepared to develop new effective strategies if they are to stop the Harper Conservatives and their corporate…
Stephen Harper’s Scary Christmas Party
OMG. I don’t know whether I should tell you, because you’ll NEVER believe me. But I went to Stephen Harper’s Con Christmas party last night. And boy was it SCARY.…
The True Horror of the Harper Cons
For more than five years, in my humble way, I tried to illustrate what the horror of a HarperCon majority would mean for Canada. I made this photoshop three years…
Harper stands by McKay amid calls for his resignation
Canada's Defence Minister Peter McKay Some things have become clear in the past week with regards to the helicopter flight Defence Minister Peter McKay took in July 2010. McKay was…
Globe columnist John Ibbitson talks politics and how the West has won
Globe columnist and author John Ibbitson. A standing room only crowd assembled last night at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto to hear Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson speak on…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephen Maher points out the type of government that we’ve come to count on under the ultra-controlling Harper political model: This presidentialization…
Environment Minister Peter Kent tells Durban that Canada will not renew Kyoto
An environmental protester at the Durban Conference mocks Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. According to CJOB in Manitoba, Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent has informed delegates at the Durban climate…