By Frank Moher Lynne Yelich, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, says Canada is “very disappointed” with the guilty verdict given Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy along with two others in Egypt yesterday. In the States, meanwhile, Secretary of State John Kerry called the verdicts “chilling and draconian.” British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was “completely […]
Growth op
A BoB Short Despite new laws regulating the production of medical marijuana, including limiting grow ops to industrial areas, some jurisdictions remain unmoved in their opposition to the burgeoning industry. After six companies in Sudbury, Ontario applied for commercial licences to grow medical marijuana within the city, local police chief Paul Pedersen got a little, […]
Standing on the shoulders of Butt
By Alison@Creekside In the House on Monday, Con MP Laurie Hawn’s memory appeared to pick up where Brad Butt’s left off, as he repeated Butt’s earlier allegations — later retracted — about voter information cards being picked up from apartment building lobbies for fraudulent voting purposes. Hawn, as per the vid excerpt above: “In the 2006 […]
Fair Elections Act: Bleeding democracy
By Montreal Simon One of the most outrageous aspects of Stephen Harper’s new voter suppression scheme, a.k.a The Fair Elections Act, is how many Canadians it would disenfranchise. Canada’s chief electoral officer says eliminating a registered voter’s ability to vouch for another could impact more than 100,000 people, most of them aboriginals who live on […]
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 […]
Beaver anus, and other reasons we need more nutrition laws
By TJ Dawe But isn’t nutrition a personal choice? Yes. None of these potential laws would restrict consumption. They’d make us more aware of our choices. 1. All packaged food should list the nutritional information for the entire package, not just for a single serving size. Here are some serving sizes as listed on the […]
Break the law, go straight to Cabinet
By David@Sixthestate.net While the media was playing up the make-believe, non-ethical, non-scandal of the fact that Justin Trudeau used to charge (gosh!) speaking fees for public lectures, those of us who are actually concerned with the real-life rule of law in this country were watching a trio of Conservative MPs petulantly refuse to file corrected […]
A Modest Opinion – You’re going to jail . . . because maybe you might do something, possibly
By Nathaniel Moher In “This isn’t news” news, the Conservatives recently pushed through a bill that nobody else wanted. That’s the beauty of our system — a Prime Minister can be held in contempt of Parliament, for the first time in the history of Canada, and not only be re-elected but given a majority. Yay, […]
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 […]
Changing the channel on Justin
By Alison@Creekside On Thursday, three days after the Boston Marathon bombings, the Cons still had an opposition day scheduled for Monday — a day on which the opposition parties set the day’s agenda. But then on Friday, an hour after learning that Justin Trudeau would spend it introducing his “Backbenchers’ Spring” motion, Government House Leader […]
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