By Kenneth Brown In the aftermath of the Paris killings, the Facebook world has been, as is only appropriate, afire with opinion, speculation, ire and sympathy. I do not have the kinds of Facebook friends (I’m happy to report) who leap to make bigoted statements about Muslims, or to publicly indulge in revenge fantasy. I […]
Narendra Modi: Harper’s kind of guy
By Montreal Simon You had to see it to believe it. Stephen Harper welcoming the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Canada. Then travelling on the plane with him to a massive rally in Toronto. Even though Modi is a Hindu extremist, and has been accused of enabling mass murder. Until a year ago, Modi […]
Unintelligence sources
By Frank Moher The Prime Minister, in his role as Chief Scarifier, performed as expected on Thursday, once again using an atrocity for political gain, and to serve his government’s agenda to reduce Canadians’ civil liberties. No surprise there. What was surprising — or, if not surprising, then wall-to-wall evident in the 24 hour news […]
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 […]
It’s enough to make you want to move to Egypt
So I’m sitting on the couch watching the goopy rain spatter against the living room window, a steaming rum-based beverage close to hand, wondering if I ought not to pack up the kids and move to Cairo. No slush. No pesky Foreign Affairs Ministers sniping at their ex-girlfriends. And no pinched-faced blond-ambition bimbos whining about […]