By Alison@Creekside 4 a.m. A bar. Steve: Just say “I stand with Saudi Arabia” a bunch of times, wait for the press to repeat it, and there ya go. Canada! Fuck Yeah! Comin’ again to save the motherfuckin’ day, yeah … Barry, Tony, Dave: No. No. No. Barry: Look, Steve, I know that “I stand with […]
Curiously convenient: Canada’s me-too bomb plot decoded
Last week, U.S. talk show host Jack Blood offered a dissection of a recent New York Times article about the arrest of two Canadian residents charged with plotting to attack a VIA Rail train. While we haven’t been able to source everything he has to say (we’ve done our best), Mr. Blood is smarter and […]
Argo: We’ve written ourselves out of history
By Paul Mather Okay I never do this, but everybody else in the house is occupied and it’s too icy to jog (or at least that’s what I’m telling myself). So, I’ve poured a cup of coffee, and here’s a long post. I was reading today about Argo. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a […]
As the armadas mass in the Gulf . . .
By Montreal Simon The other night I accused Stephen Harper of timing his decision to sever ties with Iran in order to ratchet up tensions just as Benjamin Netanyahu was about to go ballistic. From The Atlantic: “Why is he doing this? “My guess is that he’s saying what he’s saying because he knows he can’t […]
Why was the Iran Embassy Closed?
By David@Sixthestate.net When Peter MacKay’s outspoken wife Nazanin Afshin-jam announced in July that Canada should shut down the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, on the nebulous charge that it was using cultural events to distribute propaganda (something which Canadian embassies have traditionally also done, incidentally), I almost wrote a post telling her to get realistic. Outside […]
John Baird plays Iran Got Nukes!
By Alison@Creekside Baird says Iran could build nuclear bomb within months screams the CBC headline over Evan Solomon interviewing John Baird under a giant picture of visiting Israel PM Shimon Peres. Fans of the Iran got nukes! cry-wolf sweepstakes will recall both Peres and Netanyahu predicted in 1992 that Iran would have nuclear warheads by 1999, 1992 also being […]
Oh Canada, grow up
Canada’s international reputation will sink into the slime that was once the Arctic Ocean if we don’t stop two monumental hypocrisies: refusing to cap carbon emissions unless China and India do, and, secondly, lecturing Iran on human rights violations when we routinely oppress our own citizens. In both instances, Canadians cannot point the finger at […]
Instead of threats, how about offering Iran some dignity?
At this point in the episode, the political oneupmanship almost concluded, we should take note of what the Iranian regime was looking for when they arrested 15 Royal Navy personnel and held them for 13 days. An international incident? A war? Probably not. Instead, they were likely looking to be recognized as a regime that […]
