Linda McQuaig for prime minister
She points out, in her column on Paul Martin's deal with the NDP that what's really got the media and business in a lather is the fact that Canadians might actually like what they see.
Tag politics
Paul, talk to Jack, stuff the tax cuts
...and spare me a June election. Face it, Paul, the corporate tax cuts that NDP leader Jack Layton wants gone are only about creating jobs in your media strategy. Once you get to the -30- at the end of your press release, it's all about greed.
Just another cynical blog entry
rabble.ca's daily content is an astoundingly annoying item by a would be fiction writer, George Case, about how lefty comedy makes for bad politics.
Fear for the White River
Yesterday's announcement about 18 new private hydro dams on (mostly) wilderness rivers doesn't scare the editor of Ottertooth.
McGuinty Liberals to bung up more wilderness
CBC is reporting that the Ontario government has announced approval of 18 private hydro electric dams throughout the province, including one on Fourbass Lake in Temagami.
Dumber than a sack of gavels
Justice may yet be done, but no thanks to some Toronto trial judge who acquitted a group of neo-Nazis of hate crimes because he needed evidence that when a bigot says "Gypsy" he or she means "Roma." The Toronto Star reports that the supreme court overturned the acquittal.
When a “free vote” is actually not
The Globe and Mail makes me froth. Usually the reporting is good quality, and the writing isn't atrocious. But should I stray to the editorial pages, as I did this Saturday, the rabies symptoms begin. This time it's about Wal Mart.