The Alaskan Fox Goes Rogue
By Rachel Krueger
I love me some bias and hyperbole, which is why I’m such a fan of Fox News. JUST jokes! I like my nonsensical news sources to be a little more upfront about their nonsensicalness (all of whom are, I’m sure, rubbing their hands in unfettered glee at this newsy tidbit). But I may [...]
The end of Oprah? Not likely.
By Rachel Krueger
Oprah Winfrey has announced that she is quitting while she’s ahead, and putting her immensely popular talk show to rest. For real this time. Not like in 1997, when she said she was done, but was just psyching us out. Or like in 2004, when she did it again. [...]
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 Ottawa [...]
Rumours of its death . . .
By Alison@Creekside
Just three months shy of 2010 — the date by which the Canadian Council of Chief Executives originally projected the goals of the SPP would be completed — some people have been mourning and others celebrating for years already.
The SPP is dead (a short history):
Oct. 10, 2007 “The Security and Prosperity Partnership is dead,” [...]
The occupation of Afghanistan: “Useless.”
By Alison@Creekside
“A bit useless” is how 23-year-old Private Jonathan Couturier, the 131st Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan, described the Afghan “mission” that took his life.
If we are to have standing armies, the very least we can do, the absolute minimum responsibility we have to them, is not send them off to die in the [...]
Fun and games in Afghanistan
By Alison@Creekside
ArmorGroup mercenaries in charge of security at the US embassy in Kabul:
“. . . dancing naked around a fire, licking each others nipples and grabbing each others testicles, sex acts, peeing on each other, vodka shots from butt cracks, eating potato chips from clenched buttocks . . .”
Well, boyz will be boyz, stress of [...]
Canada sides with the Generals
By Alison@Creekside
On June 28th, 200 soldiers of the Honduran military kidnapped the president, Manuel “Mel” Zelaya, and flew him to Costa Rica. His attempted return five days ago was unsuccessful.
The coup d’etat was roundly condemned by the UN, the EU, the Organization of American States, and rather more tepidly by the USA. The EU pulled [...]
Abdelrazik: Let the questions begin
By Alison@Creekside
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced in Question Period Friday that the government will comply with, rather than appeal, the Federal Court decision ordering it to repatriate Abousfian Abdelrazik, stranded in Sudan since 2003.
Good.
As Chris Selley writes: “It’s all over but the thousands of unanswered questions”Here’s one.
How much did this July 2006 US Embassy memo [...]