Mary Cleaver posted this open letter to Stephen Harper on facebook earlier this month. This election, backofthebook.ca endorses Mary Cleaver. Dear Mr. Harper, I live in BC with my husband and two little girls. I grew up in Calgary and have many friends and family members there. I’m white and in my early 40s. One […]
MacKay jumps. Next!
By Montreal Simon I’ve watched a lot of Stephen Harper speeches over the years, but the farewell speech he gave for Peter MacKay on Friday had to be one of the most bizarre. For not only was Harper strangely agitated, and managing to look both cheerful and horribly lonely at the same time. What was […]
Get rich quick, or else
By Alison@Creekside Between September 2008 and August 2010, Scotiabank received a $25 billion bailout amounting to 100% of the bank’s value – or as Steve and Jim preferred to call it at the time: “liquidity support” ***. Last year Scotiabank made a record $6.7 billion in net profit and CEO and president Brian Porter netted a […]
Missing on the jobs
By Montreal Simon Well we all know how Stephen Harper likes to portray himself as a Great Economist Leader. The brilliant leader with the best job record in the G7, or the best growth record since Jesus took five loaves and two fish, and fed five thousand. And the ENVY of the world. But sadly for […]
Your guide to the Economic Action Scam
By Alison@Creekside I’ll bet you’ve already guessed what Step #2 is — replying to the Canadian applicants. Here’s how the rest of Steve’s Economic Action Scam works: Vastly inflate the stats for supposed job vacancies and skill shortages in Canada by basing them on a program that counts online classified ads, including one on eBay that features […]
RCMP SWAT the Elsipogtog
By Alison@Creekside What was the point of this exactly? Sending in snipers in camo with dogs to crawl through the grass towards a group of unarmed people blockading a road because they fear the wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary of a Houston, Texas exploration company is setting up to frack their land. Oddly enough, Canadian law supports the […]
A Streetcar Named Disaster
By TJ Dawe Blue Jasmine, this year’s Woody Allen movie, is a pretty blatant reworking of A Streetcar Named Desire, but with a vital difference: the Blanche character doesn’t represent Tennessee Williams and his artistic sensitivity — she’s the personification of America, before and after the financial collapse. Here’s her story, in bullet points — […]
Harper: Worst economic growth since R.B. Bennett
By Montreal Simon It’s one of the most depressing things about living in Harperland eh? The way Great Monstrous Leader commits one democratic atrocity after the other, but gets away with it by claiming he’s the best leader to manage the economy. And so many Canadians still swallow that fraudulent myth, hook, line, and SINKER. When in fact Stephen Harper has […]
Job stats baffle easily baffled media
By David@Sixthestate.net As usual, the moment StatsCan’s monthly jobs survey numbers go even slightly squirrelly, the media proves utterly unable to handle it. Last week, Canadians were variously told that the employment rate was unchanged, that the job market was in bad shape, and that the job market was doing unexpectedly well. Incidentally, we were […]
