In the fine George W. Bush tradition of never really thinking things through all that clearly it seems that little things like food after the invasion never played a significant role in the US-led war planning discussions - or maybe they figured that’s just one more thing that would be taken care of by the […]

An Aboriginal community in Minnesota is devastated by a multi-death shooting/suicide: presidential response time = days
One white woman dies in a Flordia healthcare facility: presidential response time = hours
You decide

According to this article
Pope John Paul II turned Catholic teaching on its head when he declared that it was a moral obligation to provide food and water indefinitely, even to patients in a vegetative state with no hope of recovery. “The administration of water and food, even when provided by artificial means, always represents a […]

Via a CBC news article regarding prostitution laws in Canada
Prostitution is legal in Canada, but communicating for the purpose of prostitution is not.
Huh?
(PS: I do not have any real difficulities at all with the legalization of prostitution in Canada, or with setting up brothels for that matter)

I spoke to Charlotte an hour or so ago, after completing their walk across Vancouver Island they are on the ferry headed for the mainland and the long haul from there to Ottawa. At this point they’re tired and have some pretty stiff leg muscles (it takes a while to get the kinks worked out […]

Ottawa, or at least that segment of Ottawa that has bought into the “War on Terror knows no bounds” philosophy, still has their knickers in tight little knots over an essay that reportedly glorified violence against Jews written in by a student in a private Islamic school that reportedly received praise of some kind from […]

Good for him
Frank McKenna, Canada’s new ambassador to the U.S., has challenged the New York Times for saying in a recent editorial that terrorists often travel south across the Canadian border.
Could it be that we’ve got someone will an actual, physical, pair of decent sized, political gonads in that position now? The Editor of the […]

– with secret trials and secret evidence. Three military officers, whose names are also a secret, concluded that Murat Kurnaz
… was a member of al Qaeda and an enemy combatant whom the government could detain indefinitely at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Recently declassified information shows that
…U.S. military intelligence and German law […]

Y’all know that I’m a Canadian blogger - right? Y’all know that the official stageleft basement bunker is situated fairly close to downtown Ottawa and within really easy biking distance of Parliament Hill - right? Ya also know, even if you’ve only been here once, that we do take an interest in affairs south […]

A while back we commented on how there should be a way for the Canadian & American governments to come to some sort of arrangement on shared medical care in the Arctic so people in communities in Alaska had reasonable access to healthcare in the Yukon - now, according to this piece of news found […]

Usually we hear of what the media and the right like to call anarchists being publicly vilified for either threatening violence or doing violence, or maybe organizations like PETA and the radical wing of the pro-life groups, but not so much them because they are furthering the “proper” agenda — but that’s not the […]

The call came in a few hours ago from the ferry somewhere between mainland British Columbia and Vancouver Island. We were told that the weather was beautiful, the water was perfect, and the scenery and the mountains were awesome… all combining for what Charlotte described as a “call your parents and tell them you love […]

The question was
Same Sex Marriage
The response was
47% For It
39% A non-issue designed to take focus off real issues
13% Against It
The new poll is up, Mr Martins email is on the way, and we expect the government of Canada to guide itself accordingly.

Systemic: (adj) Relating to or affecting the entire body or an entire organism
A US Army investigation has found systematic abuse and possible torture of Iraqi prisoners at a base near the city of Mosul
An officer found that detainees “were being systematically and intentionally mistreated” at the holding facility in December 2003. The 311th Military […]

Commonly: (adj)
a. Occurring frequently or habitually; usual.
b. Most widely known; ordinary
You may, or may not as the whole subject (like so many other things these days) isn’t discussed much in the media or on blogs anymore, remember that one of the statements out of the Bush administration regarding accusations of torture of prisoners by the […]