By Montreal Simon As I’m sure you know by now, I never believed what Cons like James Moore and Greg Rickford had to say about that oil spill in Vancouver’s English Bay. Especially when they and the Harper Coast Guard said that only about 3,000 litres of toxic bunker had leaked out of that freighter, […]
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World class assness
By Alison@Creekside Say, remember last year when Rachel Maddow was absolutely gob-smacked to learn that Kinder Morgan had included the economic benefits of oil spills in its National Energy Board application to triple the size of the Trans Mountain pipeline? Well, funny story there . . . Kinder Morgan-owned company called in to clean up oil […]
Think the Quebec student strikes aren’t about you?
By Alison@Creekside A one minute time lapse of the start, last week, of the student strike against austerity in Montreal: Austerity — that’s when your government impoverishes its citizens by decimating public services like education and health in order to balance its lining of corporate pockets with tax breaks. “Our services are worth more than your profits” is the slogan […]
Duffy trial: Harper is the tie that binds
By Montreal Simon If Stephen Harper thought he could run away from the trial of Mike Duffy, as he was trying to do on Tuesday at a photo-op in Vancouver . . . Which is about as far away as you can get from Ottawa, and Ol’ Duff’s even more massive photo-op . . . The look […]
Harper’s Perps with Perks #14 & 15
By Alisom@Creekside Welcome Vic Toews to Stephen Harper’s Perps with Perks for “giving patronage a bad name,” as Dan Lett wrote in the Winnipeg Free Press. Appointed to the Queens Court by Justice Minister Peter MacKay in March last year, eight months after leaving the Cons cabinet, Toews — a former Justice Minister, Public Safety Minister, and […]
International law? We don’t care about no stinking international law.
By Alison@Creekside The Con bench seals laugh and clap at Steve’s joke blowing off the UN and international law because grade six. Harper went on to explain that Canada will be bombing Syria as part of an international coalition, although the US is the only NATO member currently bombing Syria. The other coalition countries bombing […]
The coming summer of protest
By Montreal Simon As you know I was so happy to see thousands of Canadians taking to the streets to let Stephen Harper and his foul Cons exactly what we think of them. Because I will never understand why we have remained so passive and so quiet for so many years, while Harper and his Cons raped […]
“I am more afraid of Harper than the terrorists”
Photos from protests against Bill C-51 across Canada on Saturday, March 14th, from leadnow.ca. Bill C-51 protest on steps of Vancouver Art Gallery, March 14th, 2015
Trudeau stands up
By Montreal Simon The other day I wrote a post where I asked, or begged our progressive leaders to elevate their game. To go big or go home. And make the struggle to defeat the Harper Cons a larger struggle to save Canada and its values. And I have to say that last night in […]
Peter MacKay’s judicial handoffs
By Alison@Creekside Press Progress recently asked why lawyers and party donors prominently featured in Justice Minister Peter MacKay’s 2012 wedding photos wound up being appointed as judges. MacKay’s best man Josh Arnold, red-arrowed here, was appointed to the bench the year after this photo and his wife Cindy Cormier the year after that. Another appointment is a […]
