By Alisom@Creekside Welcome Vic Toews to Stephen Harper’s Perps with Perks for “giving patronage a bad name,” as Dan Lett wrote in the Winnipeg Free Press. Appointed to the Queens Court by Justice Minister Peter MacKay in March last year, eight months after leaving the Cons cabinet, Toews — a former Justice Minister, Public Safety Minister, and […]
Watch out, Stratford and Shaw: Ibsen Fest is here
By Mark Leiren-Young Happy World Theatre Day (March 27, 2015) . . . Ibsen-mania has come to Canada. The city of Oslo, Manitoba has announced plans to create a new festival dedicated entirely to the works of Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, and his lesser-known Scandinavian contemporaries. Oslo Mayor, Hedy Gabler, says she feels the creation […]
Idle No More: The overnight YouTube roundup
The Idle No More movement approached critical mass yesterday, as tens of thousands of First Nations people and their supporters rallied across Canada, and as far afield as New Mexico and Ukraine. Many of the peaceful protests, featuring round dances and drumming, struck at the very heart of the dominant culture — shopping malls. Others […]
Elections Canada casts a wider net, finally
By David@Sixthestate.net The Council of Canadians has posted a new series of documents in relation to their robocall litigation. As you can see, they are attempting to get an affidavit from an Elections Canada investigator, and Elections Canada is attempting to avoid this. More intriguingly, though, another couple of warrants have been released in the […]
Bear cub returned to wild amid protests
A BoB short: Makoon, a five month old bear cub has been released into the wild despite critics’ fears that he will not survive. The cub was rescued in March by a Manitoba family who kept him in their house until the young bruin was seized by conservation officers. He was rehabilitated by staff at […]
Robocalls: The seven deadly ridings
By Allison@Creekside As a follow up to my earlier chart showing Steve’s Margin of Victory in ridings with the closest vote margins, I’ve adjusted it to include only the seven being contested in court for voter fraud and added two columns of polling data from an EKOS research paper based on a recent phone survey […]
Booking Granny
By Alison@Creekside There’s just so much wrong with this news story about the Canada Border Services Agency arresting and jailing a 66-year old woman for 12 days, for trafficking, possessing, and importing heroin, because their swab-test of a jar of motor oil in her vehicle incorrectly identified it as heroin. Why wasn’t Janet Goodin allowed a phone […]
Stephen Harper, conspiracist
By Alison@Creekside Once upon a time the NAFTA Superhighway/Trade Corridor was just a conspiracy theory. Then it was a gleam in Manitoba Premier Gary Doer’s eye. From his 2007 Speech from the Throne : “Manitoba is also taking a major role in the development of a Mid-Continent Trade Corridor, connecting our northern Port of Churchill […]
