Harper’s hippies for trucks plan

By Alison@Creekside In this week’s episode, Steve lays a cunning trap for Barry. In exchange for agreeing to pass travel and “informal” info about Canadians on to Homeland Security, Steve gets Barry to promise to maybe match $1-billion in Canadian taxpayer dollars to fund some pilot projects sometime in the future that will principally benefit the 40% of Canada-US [...]

Wikileaked: The “incremental approach” to CanAmerica

By Alison@Creekside I guess everyone has their favorite US Ambassador to Canada. Mine has always been Paul Cellucci, who once suggested building huge aqueducts to carry Canadian water to the US and worried in 2008 that the election of Obama would “imperil the future economic integration of the continent.” Last month WikiLeaks released one of Cellucci’s [...]

The security perimeter: It’s Aliiiiiive!

By Alison@Creekside Well, it’s back. The “one security perimeter” deep integration SPP/FTAA zombie, now with new and improved emphasis on security. You’re shocked, I’m sure. Like it ever really died. The re-animators just learned not to dig it up and parade it around in parliament too often. “Beyond the Border: A Shared Vision for Perimeter [...]

Ass-raping for freedom and prosperity

By Alison@Creekside When Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan complained about young boys being kidnapped and sodomized by Afghan soldiers and interpreters inside Canadian Forward Operating Base Wilson in Kandahar, they were informed by their superiors to look the other way because it was a “cultural difference.” One reported incident of “cultural difference” left a young boy [...]