Our regular Politics blogger, Alison@Creekside, is under the weather. While we eagerly await her return, we offer you posts from some of our other favourite Canadian political bloggers, beginning with: Montreal Simon Gawd. What an awful day. Work was hell. It was rainy and slushy. The brand new rink is melting. And then when I […]
Libs go AWOL on own war resisters bill
By Alison@Creekside For want of just eight more votes, Bill C-440 — the war resisters bill to give protection to US Iraq war deserters — went down to defeat on Wednesday 136 to 143. The following 18 Libs expedited that defeat by going awol on the vote: Michael Ignatieff, Jean-Claude D’Amours, Ruby Dhalla, Kirsty Duncan, […]
If we stand on the shoulders of the dead, we can make millions!
By Rachel Krueger If 2009 was The Year When All Those Famous People Died, 2010 is shaping up to be The Year of Chronic Grave-Robbing (where the “grave” is metaphorical and the “robbing” is more like “exploiting”). Mind-bogglingly unsubtle fame-whore and living manga doll Tila Tequila (who is famous solely for throwing herself repeatedly and […]
Part II: On being disappeared by The National Post
By Frank Moher In our last episode, I said I’d tell you what I found out about why my review of What the Furies Bring disappeared from The National Post website a day after being put up. My little investigation provides a tonic insight into what happens when journalists find themselves on the receiving end […]
“Everybody does it,” and other reasons to prorogue democracy
By Alison@Creekside Top Ten Reasons to Prorogue Democracy . . . so far: ~ Recalibratin’ Economic Action Plan Pt 2 — but not making any changes ~ We got nearly everything we wanted passed anyway ~ Busy busy busy back home on winter barbie circuit ~ Everybody does it, albeit mostly in the 19th century […]
Democracy is so last year
By Alison@Creekside This is what democracy looks like. It’s 1.2 million people marching on Mexico City in 2006 to denounce the abrogation of their right to fair democratic representation by their government. You know why I’m posting this picture. For the second time in a year, Steve the Despot and Her Excellency of the Rubber […]
Tiger beat
By Rachel Krueger Alright, to save time we’re going to go ahead and take a head-count. If you have slept with Tiger Woods, I’m going to need you to go ahead and raise your hand. Yes, the young lady in the pink, I see that hand. Yes, ma’am, you and your daughter, check. Yes, in […]
Any ideas to declare?
By Frank Moher We’ve now seen, for the second time in recent memory, a journalist being harassed by Canadian border guards while trying to enter the country. Three years ago, American talk-radio host and filmmaker Alex Jones was detained for four hours, in the middle of the night, by Citizenship and Immigration Canada agents in […]
Leaping Flames
By Jodi A. Shaw From the very beginning of the H1N1/Swine Flu drama, I’ve had zero intention of getting a flu shot. Nevertheless, even I am infuriated by the preferential treatment given to the Calgary Flames players and their families. I don’t blame the Flames’ medical team for requesting special treatment (it doesn’t hurt to […]
Too funny too soon?
By Rachel Krueger Last Thursday night, David Letterman admitted to having doinked some of his female staff, and hearts could be heard breaking all over the country. And not like they did the night previous when Nigel Barker’s wife showed her sleek, feline face on “America’s Next Top Model,” but like they do when you […]
