It was as fabulous as I knew it would be, just even bigger than I imagined. Downtown Toronto was given a jolt of extra colour on Sunday as more than 1 million people, some toting rainbow flags, marched the city’s streets for the 33rd annual Pride Parade. Crowds of revellers lined the parade route behind […]
Saucy Senate should learn its place
By David@Sixthestate.net I’m intrigued by the battle lines drawn over the Senate’s recent decision to reject a terrible and churlish piece of legislation which would attempt to impose an improper and hypocritical set of financial disclosure regulations onto unions — only unions — that don’t apply to charities, corporations, political parties, or even the government […]
Man of Steel: 9/11 with a chaser
By TJ Dawe In Man of Steel, Metropolis sure takes a pounding. Building after building after building gets a super-person thrown through it. Many collapse. Superman fought the same villain — General Zod (and cohort) — in Superman 2 (1981), including a battle in Times Square, but the worst property damage there was a smashed […]
The Conservatives’ invented reality
By Alison@Creekside Fakers. Fake F-35 mock up cockpit from Lockheed Martin for DefMin Peter Airshow MacKay to hold $47,000 presser in to announce purchase of 65 Lockheed Martin stealth fighters in 2010. Fake citizenship ceremony in which half of the participants were actually Citizenship and Immigration Canada staff passed off as new […]
Universal appeal, still no audience
By Rachelle Stein-Wotten When you score big financially, does anybody write you a congratulatory cheque? No? Well what’s wrong with you? Because if you’re a Canadian filmmaker and you write or direct the top-grossing Canadian film in any given year, you get a cool $20,000. Telefilm Canada says its Golden Box Office Award is intended […]
This is exactly the time to talk about climate change
By John Klein (aka Saskboy) The Prime Minister infamously implored people to not “commit sociology” when Chechen-American thugs blew people up in Boston. The PM’s point was that he didn’t want people analysing the root causes of terrorism, out of supposed respect for the distant victims. With another deadly tragedy playing out in Alberta, there […]
The Barrie Advance schools the PMO — and the Star
By Frank Moher That the Barrie Advance did the right thing in publishing a story about the PMO peddling dirt on Justin Trudeau: Check. That the PMO once again revealed itself as unethical, contemptuous of the public and, just to add to the bouillabaisse, incompetent: Check. That various publications and journalists will now explain why […]
Break the law, go straight to Cabinet
By David@Sixthestate.net While the media was playing up the make-believe, non-ethical, non-scandal of the fact that Justin Trudeau used to charge (gosh!) speaking fees for public lectures, those of us who are actually concerned with the real-life rule of law in this country were watching a trio of Conservative MPs petulantly refuse to file corrected […]
A Modest Opinion – Stephen Harper Caught On Tape Drinking Motor Oil*
By Nathaniel Moher With the CBC repeatedly reporting on an unconfirmed video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford apparently hanging out with accused drug dealers and smoking crack cocaine, they have completely missed another apparent video. The other apparent video, I’m told, contains footage of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen “Harps” Harper apparently hanging out with accused […]
Al Franken is a big fat criminal
By John Klein (aka Saskboy) Technology and civil liberty experts knew PRISM was a very real possibility. I knew, and wrote about it last August. The National Security Agency (NSA) (star bad guy org. in the Will Smith movie Enemy of the State) has been collecting domestic Americans’ phone and Internet records since at least […]
