I wasn’t much of a snitch as a kid, even though my older brother tormented me. It was a pact, a point of honour not to tattle. So perhaps my enjoyment of telling on the bad guys now is a release from the strictures of childhood. Or perhaps they are just so much worse than […]
Conservatives
A load of fertilizer
By guest blogger Alison@Creekside Remember this? Sure you do. It was back in June 2006, coincidentally two weeks before the vote on whether or not to let the Canadian Anti-Terror Act expire, that the RCMP sold a load of fertilizer to two CSIS moles embedded in a Muslim outdoor club, had it delivered to a […]
They stand on guard for we
We are so obsessed with the lunatic antics of George Bush that we forget to monitor the more boring yet equally dangerous (at least, to us) actions of our own government. Last month, on Valentines Day, the Canadian and US militaries signed an agreement allowing the armed forces from one nation to support the armed […]
Harper’s one-man band
by guest blogger Alison@Creekside Gomery says Canada is on the road to “one-man government.”Ya think?! From Buckdog : Parliament isn’t working due to Liberals sitting on their hands From Hill Times : Legislation isn’t passing due to Cons filibustering committees. Con candidates and MPs are muzzled, government-employed scientists must get statements about their work vetted […]
Plumping for the SPP
By guest blogger Alison@Creekside After it became clear that the main result of the Security and Prosperity Partnership meet-up in Montebello was to alert Canadians to the fact that their country’s sovereignty was in deep shit, deep integration’s best friends were unanimous in their tough love advice to the ailing SPP’s enablers. Tom d’Aquino of […]
Harper has a good week
By Nora Abercrombie I am not a fan of Stephen Harper by any measure but we have to acknowledge that he conducted himself fairly well this week. He did not shy from telling Canadians that economic times are going to get tougher. He commended Manley’s report on Afghanistan without leaping to agree with it, asserting […]
Send the Conservatives to their room
There is an interesting comparison to be made between the last minority government (Liberal) and this one (Conservative). Under the Liberal minority, the New Democrats got a lot of governing done. Work that benefitted the public, including the least lucky among us, was passed more promptly than usual because if the Liberals did not play […]
The Feds’ green plan (speaking of noxious emissions)
The federal government’s plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions is a total lie. In fact, it is a plan to allow us to increase emissions while pretending to ourselves that we are not. How that works: the proposed regulations call for intensity-based cuts. This means that emissions will be measured against units of production. When […]
Margaret Atwood has a nightmare
By Frank Moher Some of my fellow writer-types are being particularly irritating these days, and not in a good way. It is, of course, part of an artist’s job to be irritating some of the time, as, for example, the Dixie Chicks were about George Bush’s war. By the time Americans got through being irritated […]
I should be so oppressed
I try to stay in a good mood about Quebec. I really do. I try to think fond thoughts about rural Quebec and its picturesque little roads and the charming Montreal restaurants nad bakeries. And, well, Mordecai Richler was from Quebec. But really I do not like Quebec. I find that I cannot think of […]
