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Jeeze People, Get A Grip Already

He said “F*** Canada Day” not “F*** Canada”

July 3, 2009 | 2 Comments | Permalink

And from the NOT Grumpy Side of the Bunker

The diving around Tobermory. Robert Lepage. The fact that we all dutifully pretend to like Tim Horton’s crappy coffee. The view from Pond Inlet. Leonard Cohen. The acoustics at the Four Seasons Performance Centre. Malajube. The preserved salmon in Terrace, BC. Brian Moore. Having fellow travellers relax overseas when you explain you’re not American. Fall [...]

July 1, 2009 | 8 Comments | Permalink

The Obligatory Happy Canada Day Post

 

Happy Canada Day, don’t secret wiretaps and jury checks make you feel proud to be Canadian?

July 1, 2009 | 17 Comments | Permalink

Mayor Miller is a Friggin Genius

Even in the depths of a bitter summer garbage strike in Toronto, our not beloved at all mayor David Miller has been able to give us an inadvertent gem.

June 30, 2009 | 5 Comments | Permalink

No Animals Were Harmed In The Making Of This Meat

I was up in Iqaluit last week-end and watching a bow hunting show with my grandson on Sunday morning that started out with the warning.

This show may contain scenes that are not suitable for children. Viewer discretion is advised.

Huh?

June 29, 2009 | 16 Comments | Permalink

We Ain’t The Canada We Think We Are

I wonder if we ever actually were?

Just 13.5 per cent of respondents in the Canada Day poll (or slightly more than one out of 10 Canadians) still adhere to the vision set out in principle by the Fathers of Confederation in 1867 that Canada is a union of equal provincial partners.

June 29, 2009 | 19 Comments | Permalink

When Is a Grand Jury Not a Grand Jury?

In the demon haunted world of the Blogging Tories, reality is nothing more than an intermittent inconvenience, a porous barrier between them and their certain knowledge that Obama is a Muslim communist who forged his birth certificate, Nazis are Left Wingers, the Miss America Pageant is run by a secret cabal of “homosexualists and radical feminazis”, all Muslims want to destroy us, and Sarah Palin combines the intellectual acuity of Marie Curie with the wit of Noel Coward and the political savvy of Henry Kissinger.

June 27, 2009 | 23 Comments | Permalink

Gone Fishing

There’s a family BBQ in Iqaluit tonight and depending on what time of day you read this I’m either on the plane to Iqaluit, in Iqaluit at the BBQ, or out at the river fishing.

June 26, 2009 | 2 Comments | Permalink

What’s Black and White and Dead All Over?

Pop star Michael Jackson has died in Los Angeles, aged 50.

June 25, 2009 | 25 Comments | Permalink

Milking Iranian Corpses for Fun and Propaganda

Shorter progressive coverage: The Iranian unrest challenges our assumptions about our capacity to support emergent democracies…
Shorter conservative coverage: I hate Obama! Don’t you hate Obama?? Yuck, I just, like, totally HATE him.

June 24, 2009 | 14 Comments | Permalink

A Brief Summary of the Burkha Debate, Sarkozy Position

a) We find it appalling that your religion dictates what you may and may not wear.
b) We therefore propose to dictate what you may and may not wear.

Questions?

June 24, 2009 | 15 Comments | Permalink

The Shmohawk Returneth

Most of the bloggers who boast about their writing abilities…can’t.

Here’s a writer with heart, art, and smart.

Don’t stop, Shmo. You have a great gift. And besides, I think the next round at Clocktower is yours, so write something you get paid for soon, dagnabit.

June 23, 2009 | 3 Comments | Permalink

Dear Democracy Watch

If you’re gonna dream, dream big…. because if you ain’t got your dreams you got nothing at all.

The Federal Court of Canada is to hear arguments against the election call last fall by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

 

Democracy Watch is seeking a ruling that Parliament’s dissolution and the election call were illegal in hopes that would prohibit future political manoeuvring and manipulation.

June 23, 2009 | 15 Comments | Permalink

Lowell Obviously Doesn’t Listen To Himself

I’m sitting here plugging away at the keyboard and listening to Lowell Green talk about Sarkozy’s comments on the burka and how it should be OK to impose North American values (specifically clothing) on people.

June 23, 2009 | Leave comment | Permalink

Housing and Disease

If the general Canadian population was coming down with H1N1 at the same rate as Canadians in Nunavut, we’d have 230,000 sick citizens right now.

June 23, 2009 | 7 Comments | Permalink

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  • nastyboy: I hate Canada Day, but love living in Canada. Patriotism makes you stupid.
  • nastyboy: Tim’s coffee is a cheep blnd. Anything tastes good when you add 18% cream and sugar.
  • NL_Expatriate: What we need is a body that will advocate on behalf of a vision for the federation as opposed to what...
  • Kateland: I had a hard time getting the outrage meter to rise on this one too - I mean isn’t it part of the...
  • Stageleft: life on the left side: the only person in Canada who isn’t as enthusiastic about Canada Day as some...
  • Sonja: “Anyone in jail or beaten or tortured because of either this post or the comments?” Maybe not as a...
  • stageleft: I do not pretend to like Tim Horton’s coffee, and I am not afraid to publicly state that it is among...
  • Canuckguy: Tim’s coffee sometimes can be really good as I have experienced, most times it is just OK and...
  • JJ: Great list. I would add: Bathtub Races, Nanaimo Bars, Coastal Salish art, and buying live crabs from the Native...
  • nastyboy: I’m not proud to be Canadian, only because I think it’s a base emotion and patriotism makes you...

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