Not long ago, Jymn covered the CBC, coming armed with certain facts about Quebecor.  A few things Quebecor won’t tell us. Let’s refresh our memories, here. Quebecor has received more than half a billion dollars in direct and indirect subsidies and benefits from Canadian taxpayers over the past three years, yet it is not accountable to them. Quebecor uses this public subsidy and its dominant position in protected industries to make record profits yet complains that its TVA television network “competes” against Radio-Canada. Quebecor boss Pierre Karl Péladeau has sent over …
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Poor BC Blue’s Dean Skoreyko, the resident McCarthyist of the Blogging SupposiTories. He’s having, yet, another bad day. He simply, well, turns, blue whenever someone figures out his beloved Harpercon end games. Today is no different, and his Harpercon killjoy du jour is Lizzie May. From the CBC, taken from Today’s question period: May: Mr. Speaker, earlier today I shared with the Minister of State (Democratic Reform) the newsletter of the Saanich Gulf Islands Conservative Party.  I am so proud to represent the people of Saanich–Gulf Islands, and I am sure he will be …
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Vintage Peggy Wente. She does prove that she is, indeed, Chrissie Blatchford’s sob sister, along with Tash Kheiriddin.  Peggy, of course, misses the point of the #occupy movement.  What a bitter woman she is! “Why should artists have to work instead of just making art?” Peg asks one occupier. Who knew Kathy Shaidle was participating at Occupy Toronto? I don’t really have time right now to dissect Tash or Peg’s abysmal columns, riddled with myths and stereotypes that are in desperate need of debunking, and many bloggers have been doing a good job of doing just that. …
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Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, Tea-baggin’ Tommy is on another rant, once again, getting it all wrong, on his show on CJAD this fine morning.  This morning’s topic is how the Quebec government is enforcing a law regarding religion of any kind being taught in government subsidized day cares.  Naturally, dear ol’ Tommy, who appears to have discovered religion late in his life, is just hysterical, hysterical! I tell you, going on about how the government is now too intrusive.  Oh dear! Imagine! The government setting guide lines about what shouldn’t be taught in a day …
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In some cases, horrific, gory deaths at that.  Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, with every fetus fetish bill Rethuglicans, with the help of some ‘friendly’ Democrats,  they pass or attempt to pass in a feverish attempt to circumvent Roe v Wade, it just never seems enough for them, nor for their fetus fetish lobbyists. The Rethuglican dominated House of Representatives just passed what is probably the most hideous bill to date. Today the GOP-led House of Representatives, with the blessings and encouragement of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops and extremist religious …
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Boys ‘n’ girls, let’s give this college senior a big hand here! No, really! They’re making it on their own without any help from anyone on very little! Or so it would appear… Oh, college senior, but you are very much part of the 99% ! Say it loud! Say it proud, now! First off, you’re not getting any help? Not even from family or friends? Do you share this small apartment with roommates? Nothing wrong with that, mind you. Most college/university students do (as well as getting family help and/or government help)  and there is no shame in it. However, what …
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It appears that Chinese state-owned companies is investing billions into Alberta tar sands these days. The Financial Post reported Chinese companies are poised to make even more significant investments in the weeks and months ahead. Who knew that China was so well known for their human rights record?  I would love to see how Ezzy Levant continues to spin the ‘ethical’ oil now that the Chinese appear to be taking over more and more of it. …
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Yeah, I know, cheesy title. Save it. Lisa Raitt’s a aging tart, I can’t do anything to change that. Something about her will perhaps turn me into a female center-left version of Don Cherry, with a better taste in clothes–they’re all black. Something about her just brings out the vulgar language out of me. I wil try to restrain as much as possible. And one has to wonder how she managed to bamboozle the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to find some kind of shaky loophole in the Canada Labour Code to stave off the Air Canada flight Attendant’s Strike so …
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Is there nothing the Batshit crazy won’t stop at in the name of austerity? Here’s something that could warm the heart of Super Vic Toews.  According to a report from Daily Kos, it appears that Topeka Kansas, nor Shawnee County, can “afford” to prosecute perpetrators of domestic abuse. The Topeka City Council on Tuesday voted to repeal the city’s law against misdemeanor domestic battery, the latest in a budget battle that has freed about 30 abuse suspects from charges. One of the offenders was even arrested and released twice since the brouhaha broke out Sept. 8. Talk …
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Yep, Dear Lisa is busy sharpening her claws and no doubt finding ‘sexy’ ways to stamp on workers, yet again, boys ‘n’ girls, and this time, it’s Air Canada Flight attendants. Flight attendants, who are represented by CUPE, have voted to reject the latest deal negotiated between CUPE and management. Interesting twist. What went wrong? Before I go on, I should disclose that I am a CUPE member, though, I am not an Air Canada employee. Those who have followed my blog or who are friends with me on Facebook know that I am employed by a social services agency under the …
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Part 2 doesn’t really have anything to do with Janie Taber’s little apparent attempt at fiction regarding Candy getcherguns Hoeppner’s little ego trip, but it did raise questions in mind like how does stripping away at gun control square with a tough on crime agenda? How does the meme of not wanting to “make criminals out of law abiding farmers and hunters” as a justification for scrapping the long gun registry, but much the latest dumb on crime omnibus bill, along with more of the upcoming dumb on crime agenda will surely do just that–criminalize law …
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Yes, Jane Taber is all ga ga giddy, again, for her precious Harpercons and this time it’s over her new girlfriend, Candy getchergun Hoeppner.  Boys ‘n’ girls, Janie is all ga ga giddy this time because she is of the belief that Candy getcherguns Hoeppner, and she alone, is responsible for collapsing the Liberal vote last May.  Candy seems to believe this fiction herself! Sure Candy and Jane, Candy did this all by her lonesome–just like Tom Mulcair the mouth spiked the NDP vote in La Belle province. Indeed, it would appear that Jane has gone from gossip columnist to …
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Oh dear! Poor Timmy never learned to be a good sport, did he? Poor young Miller, what a poor example she has for a parent!   Poor loser speeches from Cons is nothing new, but Timmy has gone beyond outrageous here: Tory Leader Tim Hudak says the Liberal minority government is too Toronto centric at the expense of the rest of the province. “It is not healthy for our province to have government that is overwhelmingly concentrated in the City of Toronto and its nearest suburbs,” an exhausted and somewhat chastened Hudak told a post election news conference Friday. Hoo Ha! Stop the presses! …
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I did see this pic of the orange stiletto on some of my facebook friends’ profile pics and wondered what it was. For them, I thought it was amusing; they were celebrating fall; the advent of Halloween; stuff like that.  After all, I’m in Quebec and not privy to all symbols pertaining to the Ontario election campaign. Now, thanks to Fern Hill over at Dammit Janet, now,  I know. Ouf! I dunno, Andrea, isn’t the NDP supposed to be a forward thinking party? The party that brags running many woman candidates and chides other parties for not running enough, both provincially and …
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It would be about time and why shouldn’t we? We are, after all, a province of progress or supposed to be. After all, we opened the first Compassion club, a place, highly supervised, where sick people with the prescription from a medical professional can obtain medicinal marijuana, albeit, on the fringes of the law.  We also have a needle exchange site in Downtown Montreal right on Ste-Catherine E. and Sanguinet St where addicts can exchange their used needles and receive clean ones. The Cactus Needle Exchange is likely where one of the safe injection sites would be located, as they had …
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Yes, Boys ‘n’ girls, he really has. He’s gotten really disgusting!  First, it appears he’s been distributing this hideous and grossly misleading pamphlet, seen below. I’m getting a nasty sense of deja-vu when I look at this monstrosity, much like that ad ol’ Chuckles McVety had in the Nasty Post not long ago.   Before I go on, I just feel a need to ask, what the hell is going on these days in Ontario with some of these right wingnuts? What do they have against schools promoting tolerance, diversity and taking a stand against bullying of any kind? More …
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It seems that Timmy Hudak is pulling a Stevie Spiteful. When in doubt, bring out the evul coalition bogey man! Speaking at a Toronto hockey arena, Mr. Hudak repeatedly lumped the other two parties together and suggested any alliance would inevitably lead to higher taxes in the province. He said such a coalition would increase the HST, introduce a carbon tax and raise corporate taxes. Yeah Timmy! And don’t forget they will indoctrinate your kiddies into “soshalism” and steal your cars from you! Very good Timmy! Can’t come up with your own designer original campaign so …
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Well, this latest antic from the Harpercons, specifically, pitbull Johnny Baird, could fall under a few files: austerity for thee but not for me, do as I say and not as I do, Liberal Derangement Syndrome and removing all signs of Canadian identity. Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, Pitbull Johnny has ordered up the rolls royce of business cards for hisself. gold inked and embossed, complete with coat of arms, with, get this, no mandatory “Canada” watermark and…it gets better…the “Lester B Pearson Building” has been removed from the address. I’m not …
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Well, boys ‘n’ girls, it is the Birth Anniversary of your humble scribe. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! I gave away my age. Move on. Before I go on, I have noticed some  of the fools from Nexus have stopped by today. The least you coulda done was left a Birth Anniversary wish! Yeesh! You’re soo cheap! Anyway, on with the festivities! Why am I doing this kind of a post? Well, my mom mailed me a card which was in the form of a mini-1967 yearbook, the year, your humble scribe came roaring into the world. It was the cutest thing! Complete with retro graphics and old cheesy print ads! I love …
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Yeah, “Support the Troops!” is Stevie Spiteful’s delayed defense of Petey MacKay’s jet setting with government jets these days– to the tune of $3 million.  So, boys ‘n’ girls, shame on you if you’re questioning Petey MacKay’s  (and I guess this would also go for questioning ol’ Walt Natynczyk’s Caribbean vacation as well) use of government aircraft for his own personal recreational jet setting, it’s because you don’t support the troops! Shame on you! Don’t believe me? Here it is! Mr. Harper, however, said all …
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Harpercon MP for Saskatoon-Humboldt and Fetus Fetishist extraordinaire, Brad Trost is having a temper tantrum as of late: Late in the afternoon of Thursday, September 22nd, I received a phone call from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) about a news story on the CBC that had run earlier in the day. The CBC reported that the federal government had approved funding for the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). A PMO staffer explained to me that the story had not been accurate when it ran, but due to the day’s events, the CBC story was mostly accurate now. Apparently, …
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Boys ‘n’ girls, the Harpercons want to hold a parliamentary hearing regarding the future of the CBC, basically. And  guess who their star witnesses will be? Yup! You guessed it! Pierre-Karl Peladeau, Ezzy Levant, and of course, king McCarthyist of the CBC watch, Brian Lilley-white.  Oh yeah! Like they’re going to reliable, impartial witnesses! Even though Sun TV’s Luc Lavoie doesn’t think their “journalists” should partake, guess who will have their way? After all, watch Ezzy and Brian put dust the mothballs of their Sunday best funeral suits. I …
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Man, what a bitter woman she is!! Is there no nasty she’ll stop at to suck up to a man in uniform?  This time, she’s after Lori Massicotte. You remember Ms Masicotte, that poor surviving victim of  ex-Col. Russell Williams who was left bound and naked for five hours by police?  Yep, ol’ Chrissie appears to even have rules for how victims of rape should behave, in addition to rules on how one should die and be mourned.   What’s next? We find out she has been writing love letters to ex-Col Russell Williams in secret? He was, after all, a man in uniform–the type …
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Or does anyone else notice the timing of this story regarding former GG Adrienne Clarkson’s taxpayer paid secretarial help?  Not that I condone this kind of thing, but I have noticed the tea-party shriekers in full force on Twitter all looking for fainting couches on Twitter this morning after this story broke. However, I’m not hearing these same buffoons making as big a fuss as they should regarding the ol’ Walt Natynczyk’s jet setting on the Government plane for his little sun vacation in the Caribbean, Petey MacKay’s being, ahem, “rescued” from his …
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Especially, not from Harpercons and their cheerleaders. Here’s more from the Harpercons entitled to their entitlements files. The majority of flights on the government-owned Challenger jets in the month of June were taken by defence officials who could have used commercial aircraft, according to documents obtained by CBC News. The six Challenger jets logged 165 hours in June at a cost to taxpayers of almost $2 million, according to flight logs obtained by CBC News. Yep, it seems that while Stevie Spiteful and GG David “man in the Grey Flannel Suit Relic” Johnston must use …
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Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, put this one under the file of if this weren’t so sad and dire for Canadians, it might actually be rip roaringly hilarious. Stevie Spiteful and Deficit Jimbo are actually going to pay the firm, Deloitte, 19.8 million smackers or 90,000$ per day until about March 31 to help these clowns find more ingenious ways to put the screws to Canadians, kinda like the way the KPMG did for Mayor Boss Hogg in Toronto, but on a much larger scale.  There is, apparently, an option to extend this contract by an extra year. Translation: Deloitte’s hatchet people will …
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That Ubercon wet dream of Stevie Spiteful’s that he went all ga ga giddy over at Mayor Boss Hogg’s hootenanny last summer that was videotaped. Yanno, that video that the Cons seem to  feverishly keep chasing their tails,  trying to keep it off the intertoobz without much success. Well, boys ‘n’ girls, here it is again. Mayor Boss Hogg’s guest, Stevie Spiteful ain’t just a very special guest. He’s a very VERY VERY special guest. Remember that. Very special indeed. Another very, and he’d qualify as ol’ Robbie’s man crush.  In more …
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Well, boys ‘n’ girls, we all knew there were two types of justice: one for the poor and one for the rich. The screenshots below are two perfect illustrations of each. Yes, indeedy!  About Stevie and tough on crime Vic ‘lock ‘em up Toews? Well, be sure they won’t be too harsh on their Bernie Madoffesque-ish friends. After all, if one recalls the leaders’ debates before the last election, Gilles Duceppe said that the real criminals worked in the PMO and Jack Layton said that they (criminals) were/are in the senate! No reason that shouldn’t continue! …
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Or 229 Euros for that matter? Just when you think you’ve seen everything. Special 9/11 anniversary blessing? Nah, it’s for some visit the Pope Ratzy is planning to make to his home country. I guess that will be his welcome wagon. It is ghastly! Sorry, turning Pope Ratzy into a teddy bear wearing gold lame just don’t make him give us that warm, cuddly feeling. What a rip off! It doesn’t even come with a mini popemobile! Thanks, DeBeauxOs for a Friday afternoon laugh!   …
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In another move back in time, Stevie Spiteful plans to reintroduce two anti-terror clauses that were originally introduced in 2001, but expired in 2007.   Here they are! One allowed police to arrest suspects without a warrant and detain them for three days without charges if police believed a terrorist act may have been committed. The other allowed a judge to compel a witness to testify in secret about past associations or perhaps pending acts under penalty of going to jail if the witness didn’t comply. Indeed, this is not only another move backwards, but during the five years those …
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Well, the regressive hits just keep on coming from Stevie Harper, don’t they?  What is foremost on Stevie’s mind today is something earth shattering in his world–every Canadian Foreign mission must have a pic of her highness, Queen Elizabeth II  hanging on their walls by week’s end. Rick Roth, a spokesperson for Foreign Minister John Baird, refused to provide any reasons for the edict, which caught some people off guard. Roth said the instructions are intended to ensure that Canada’s head of state is properly displayed and recognized at embassies, consulates and …
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Boys ‘n’ girls, I bet you’re all waiting for the punchline now.  Stevie Spiteful has decided to throw Quebec a bone, so to speak, to kind of distract us from the hiring of Angie Perischilli, the non-French speaking Quebec basher as his new mouthpiece to replace Dimitri Soudas.  Enter former Progressive-Conservative MP from Richmond-Arthabaska and soon to be former Ambassador to UNESCO,  the sort of  ‘nationalist’ Andre Bachand.  M. Bachand appears to have been appointed to Stevie Spiteful’s inner sanctum as a senior advisor of some stripe with a …
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Well, Boys ‘n’ girls, you had to know that was coming.  The editors don’t like unions or the working class for that matter.  In fact, they sooo despise them, that they appear to want to rename Labour Day–after–get for it–George Brown, a union buster hisself. Only Sun Media and the rest of the right wingnut looney tune element can make unions seem so represive: It was their union bosses who were calling the shots. It was put up, and shut up. Oh yeah! It’s soo much more liberating working for slave wages, knowing one can get canned on the whim of an …
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Well, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck… Oh Timmy! If  you don’t want to be referred to as a tea-partier, perhaps you shouldn’t be hiring American Tea-partiers in your inner sanctum. Yeesh! Video H/T WK …
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Mayor Boss Hogg and his brother sidekick Donut Dougy say that cuts are necessary to things like school crossing guards, school lunch programs to impoverished children, dental programs for children, two cops per patrol car, libraries, social housing, as they’re all considered to be “gravy”, but they seem to think that things like ferris wheels are essential? …
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Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, Angelo Perischilli is replacing Dimitri Soudas as Stevie Spiteful’s mouthpiece.  I guess all that Harpercon sucking up and Liberal derangement syndrome has paid off.  No, he doesn’t parle en Francais, which leads me to believe that Steve really doesn’t care much for French speaking Canadians, particularly Quebecers.  I mean, if any staffer in Stevie’s inner sanctum should speak French, shouldn’t it be the head mouthpiece? Apparently, Angie will have help, from Andrew MacDougall. Since this job of being Stevie’s mouthpiece …
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With all the media talk on Liberal – NDP merger, this morning’s Gang of 4 with Tea-party Tommy Schnurmacher, Kimmeee Fraser & replacing the absent Trude the Prude Mason was reporter Laura Casella, yanno, the junior wingnut, who is apparently all ga ga for Stevie Spiteful all ganging up on Egbert Gaye.  This episode was particularly disturbing to me. Sick and disturbing. Yep, just listen to Kimmeee cackle, and you would swear this woman lives in a batcave. Anyhow, for openers, given that they don’t support the merger, like many of the conbot trolls don’t on the CBC …
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Speculation regarding Jack Layton’s successor had already begun within days following his death.  Personally, I thought it was in poor taste. Kind of predatorial, really.  I mean, couldn’t we bury Jack first before getting to this new business?  Anyway, it’s all now in full swing as of today and as Jean Lapierre mentioned on Andrew Carter’s radio show this morning, the leadership race begins today.  Fair enough. So let the speculation games begin.  I will be providing my own analysis about the names being thrown out as time goes on, but before I do, I think I …
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Jack Layton’s state funeral service couldn’t have been more fitting.  Different kinds of music being played, from classical to Quebecois from Martin Deschamps to pop to a gospel rendition of a 60′s Youngbloods’ classic by Julie Michel. The musical selections also represented something Jack Layton strived toward, besides social democracy;  diversity.  In fact, not only did the music reflect this diversity, but so did the entire service. While Reverend Brent Hawkes, a married gay minister (that had to have killed Harper and his socon element) presided over the …
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