Why not just get it over with and just imitate American presidents to maximum effect. How about an edict that Canadians must now hold our hands over our hearts during…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Canada's Prime Minister is openly advocating for the use of soldiers over mere books or arguments as a means of persuasion. Which of…
I’m beginning to like Wikileaks all that much more. OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s top priority last year was to stay in power while touting his economic stewardship, looking…
One of the things that worries me the most about Stephen Harper is the way he loves to play soldier, or Great Warrior Leader. One day he's Stalin, the next…
Paul Krugman calls out the U.S.' Republican Party for holding the country hostage until its demands are met. Lucky our own right-wingers are so much more reasonable.
What kind of Canada has a prime minister who does not speak at the UN General Assembly? Stephen Harper’s Canada. But why? CBC journalist David Common tweeted yesterday about Harper…
Masses of marchers spell out “40” to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Alberta’s ruling Conservative Party in Edmonton’s Bitumen Square. Joyous Tories may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: A…
Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, Angelo Perischilli is replacing Dimitri Soudas as Stevie Spiteful’s mouthpiece. I guess all that Harpercon sucking up and Liberal derangement syndrome has paid off. No, he…
Who in the world could possibly be craven enough to fight for the tobacco lobby and against healthier food when public health is at stake? Stephen Harper's Conservative government, that's…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Adam Radwanski astutely recognizes that the outpouring of sympathy and grief following Jack Layton's death speaks to the gap between what most political…
Stephen Harper, party insiders tell us, likes to think that he is the smartest guy in the room. But Lawrence Martin makes a good case for believing that Harper's "triumph"…
Let Freedom Rain: How Israel takes its revenge on boys who throw stonesA side of the story you won't read in the Canadian media. Heartbreaking account of Israeli 'torture' of…
Assorted content to end your day. - Leftdog points out that the Wall government's regressive ideology is doing exactly what it usually does - resulting in workers losing ground as…
It’s one of those solemn Canadian moments: A casket draped in the flag of Canada. A body lying in state on Parliament Hill. Canadian flag on the Peace Tower and…
Rick Warren is considered to be one of the most important Evangelical leaders in the United States. He turned the small Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, with a congregation…
On January 26 of this year, David Kato, a gay rights activist in Uganda, was bludgeoned to death with a hammer. Often the target of hatred, there was a renewed…
Completely untrained Afghan Mujahideen troops, the same people who later became the Taliban, stand atop a Soviet helicopter they downed in 1979. Below, Leonid Brezhnev. I’ve got it! The way…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Geoffrey Stevens notes that much of the Cons' justification for utterly senseless choices is to point to an imaginary majority: We don’t…
The unthinkable happened twice this year for the federal New Democrats: their charismatic leader Jack Layton took them as close to the Holy Grail of Canadian politics as you can…
He is destroying Canada’s greatest and most loved attributes that used to define us around the world - “the Charter, the flag, peacekeeping and multiculturalism”. Instead Harper is hawking war,…
