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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

What’s Black and White and Dead All Over?

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Where’s the Fraud?

Like most of our readers of any political stripe, I was hoping for a conclusive victory by Mir Hussein Moussavi and the forces of reform in Iran. And my gut reaction is to side with the protesters. But I have to ask: where is the fraud?

National Aboriginal Role Models

Yesterday evening in the First Peoples Hall at the Museum of Civilization 12 Aboriginal youth from across Canada were recognized for the positive contributions they have made as role models for Aboriginal youth – my daughter was among them.

Your Infrastructure Bucks In Action

Hey, rich folks in Edmonton need infrastructure grants too! You think those squash rackets string themselves?