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“Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home.”
Winston Churchill
 
It’s no secret that I’m not a huge fan of the Conservative platform, but aside from being completely without personality, and the disturbing wardrobe choices….mostly related to his choice of vests…..I have not had huge concerns about [...]

Only God knows why….traffic to this old post from 3yrs ago is way up this week…So let me help you out and repost it in a convenient location:
It was origonally called “Here Kitty-Kitty…Feeding Time on Parliament Hill”
 

 Now, what you DON”T see in this syrupy public relations maneuver…..errrrr….I mean….candid photo of serpentine Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper…is [...]

Everyone’s talking about the jabs taken at the Canadian Military by Fox’s Red Eye “satirical news show”.
Go easy on them.
Republicans aren’t funny.
They have tried twice to recreate the Daily Show but failed because they don’t understand the nuances required to deliver good satire. The best Republican-leaning satire is The Colbert Report….brilliant…except [...]

 

 
 
 “Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home.”
Winston Churchill   

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
OK….I admit it.       

 

This is a slightly re-worked reprint of a column I wrote back in 2008.  
The original had one of my customary inflammatory titles, but I fear InformedVote.ca might not be ready to entertain [...]

I’ve been many things in this life, a bestselling author, a successful IT entrepreneur, a consultant to the government, an alcoholic, a junkie, a mother and a criminal….
(I said I’ve been many things, I didn’t say they were all good.)
But today, I sit at the lowest point in my life.
This isn’t something I normally [...]

“Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home.”
Winston Churchill
 
 
It’s no secret that I’m not a huge fan of the Conservative platform, but aside from being completely without personality, and the disturbing wardrobe choices….mostly related to his choice of vests…..I have not had huge concerns about [...]

 Now, what you DON”T see in this syrupy public relations maneuver…..errrrr….I mean….candid photo of serpentine Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper…is that moments later, he unhinged his jaw and swallowed the poor feline whole.
 I don’t usually do baseless pot shots….but, Harper’s smile is just so creepy here….and the kitten??? Augh! How painfully contrived an effort to make Harper [...]

 
Once again, the United States could benefit from looking to Canada as an example of certain policies that work effectively. I know it pains them….those who know Canada exists anyway….and generally Americans have a hard time giving credit to Canada for anything.
(I’m still annoyed that after Sept 11, when Bush was thanking countries for their [...]

Are YOU one of the enlightened Americans who, along with Congress are FURIOUS with Canada for having lax border security?
Are YOU one of the rocket scientists that think Canada’s poor border security poses an imminent danger to the United States?
Have YOU written your terse indictment and pointed condemnation of Canada yet?
Well, grab yer harmoneeca, giddy-up and [...]

T’was the Night Before Ji’had
Listen my friends, to the story I tell…
About fighting terror and doing it well.
It began in the Fall of two thousand and four
The Intelligence Service heard whispers and more…
Brash kids ran their mouths in the public domain
Sought like-minds for meetings by bus and by train.
On websites and chatrooms espousing radical ways
They [...]

5o Afghan Detainees remain unaccounted for by Afghan officials….Here’s that story. What strikes me is the comments left by fellow Candians about whose problem it is…..whether or not we should care because they are not covered by our Charter of Rights and Freedoms….invoking 9/11 blah blah blah…..
Here’s the deal…
Canada is doing a right, good and just [...]

Here’s the thing…
A Canadian radio commentator in Vancouver has sparked a little ‘outrage’ over remarks he made concerning 3 Sheik children who refused to have their passport photos taken without their turbans. Passport Canada denied them passports. Pro or Con….I’m perfectly happy to allow everyone the right to an opinion and their freedom to express [...]

…and you can tell this because not only are we dressed adorably in toques and resting comfortably on the chesterfield, drinking 6% beer with our pet beavers….but because we have a government willing to defend our civil liberties.  I would like to invite all Americans who are unhappy with their current President and the damage [...]