Our Representatives...

...the fruits of democracy!

LET THEM EAT CAKE Goverence...

Rumors Are Flying....

...that in order to help replenish the parie's campaign fund Dressup Jack is going to run a lottery where you pick the date and the time that Brosseau will do/say something that reincarnates blonde jokes.

Elusive NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau speaks out

07/05/2011 1:59:06 PM CTV.ca News Staff

The NDP's headline-grabbing MP has finally broken her silence, telling a newspaper in her riding that she's never been there, but plans to go soon.

Let's play Dead or Alive

It's Mike's favourite party game

Granatstein: Ruth Ellen Brosseau devalues politicians

The federal election last Monday has turned my world upside down.

The party might suck but some of the members will give them a glimmer of sanity...

Andrew Cash: From punk to politics

Enjoy...

PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF THE LOYAL OPPOSITION-Seperatists Enclave

...LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT jACK

 The New Democrats' volatile voice of experience

Graeme Hamilton: Thomas Mulcair, deputy leader of the NDP, has promised to take under his wing the raft of New Democrat rookies elected in Quebec Monday. But who is going to keep an eye on Mr. Mulcair?

Adler: Separatism lives on

His name is Pierre Luc Dusseault. He is a newly elected NDP member of Parliament from Quebec. And he is only 19, and still without NDP training. So he is to be forgiven, I suppose, by the mainstream media for letting the cat out of the bag.

I'm Guilty As Charged...

Jerry Agar May 03, 2011
Agar: End the secret society

You own an important enterprise. It is called Canada. But you don’t really know who does what or where a good deal of the money goes.

Lesson 1:

Kelly McParland: First order of Tory business, stop the free lunch

REUTERS/Jim Young No more free lunch for Gilles

Presumably one of the first acts of retribution policy initiatives the new Harper majority will take is the removal of the $2-per-vote subsidy for federal political parties. The Prime Minister made no secret of his plan to do so, and he now has the ability to carry it out with limited fuss.
It would be smart to make it one of the government’s first actions, along with other long-standing ambitions (see: Gun registry; abolition of) so they will be out of the way, and long forgotten come the next election. But while the Tory faithful will be happy to see the subsidies go, the election results have changed political realities so much that the need to act (as opposed to the desire to act) seems somewhat less pressing than it used to. Read More »

Question...Where Are the Vast Majority Of Them Between Elections?

Youth Nation

Vote mobs descend They're here, they're young, and they want their voices heard.

They turn out for the main event but few of them stay to help cleanup after the event...remember the massive concert at Downsview Park a few yers ago to stamp out child hunger; how about the more recent extravaganza to help Haitians and I am sure you have your favorite cause but did you pack your bags the next morning and travel to Africa, Haitia, etc.? Now we hve Facebook, YouTube. Twitter and you can save the world without even putting on your sandals.

IMHO OATES Is A Man Of His Word...

James: Ootes says he’s not here to sell off TCHC

Egypt, Lebanon, Et Al....Bottom Line For Most North Americans...

The Reality Behind First Nation Solitude...

For a group of B.C. fishermen, another Caledonia

Hopefully...

GET OUT AND VOTE...

Another Inmates Have Taken Over The Asylum Item...

USA on the brink of bankruptcy;

Budget woes could leave California parks without toilet paper...

'Toilet-Paper' bandit faces jail time....

...but:

Go To DRUDGE REPORT...

DEM CRACKUP: COMEDIAN ASKED TO LEAVE HILL HEARING...
...tries to enter images from his colonoscopy into congressional record
Sarcastically Argues For Farm Workers...
Makes 'Gay Iowans' Joke...
VIDEO...
Gets 7 Armed-Guard Escort...
Shock: Even DC reporters declare Colbert to be out of line...
'Mocking'...

You Have To Wonder...

Rex Murphy:

The United Nations, once a noble dream, is now just a joke

The Geneva Convention and Hitler in the 30s and the United Nations and Ahmadinejad in 2010? You couldn't find, no hard you try, of an prime example of the inmates taking over the asylum.

Jonathan Kay on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Inside the mind of a conspiracy theorist

We Are Trying But...

 

John Ivison: Minister defends Canada’s support of Israel

Tom Sandler/Handout

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu with Canada's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Peter Kent.

John Ivison  September 7, 2010 – 7:28 pm

 

Perhaps it should be no surprise that the Palestinian Authority is unhappy with Canada’s foreign policy in the Middle East. But it is a shock to hear a Canadian minister admit to a relationship that is anything less than cordial.
Peter Kent, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, called from Israel, where he was updating senior Israeli polticians, including President Shimon Peres, on this country’s strategy in the Americas (Canada represents Israel’s consular interests in Cuba and diplomatic interests in Venezuela).
While in the Middle East, Mr. Kent also visited the West Bank, where he met Riad Malki, the Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Minister. During a frank exchange, Mr. Malki apparently expressed his unhappiness with Canada’s bias toward Israel, particularly its voting record at the United Nations, where it routinely votes alongside the Jewish state.

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We Are Playing Into The Hands Of Muslim Zealots...

Christopher Hitchens: The appalling campaign against the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’

Reuters

An advertisement against a new Islamic centre to be built near the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan, which will begin appearing on New York City buses next week.

...by giving them more propaganda to convince their adherents that the west is not the bastion of freedom that the West claims it is and to justify the deaths of 3000+ people.

Lighter Side Of The News

Roy MacGregor

Locals have had their fill of Blackfly Summit buzz

Don't Wait For Kiss Ass Ontarians To Take To Streets...

Thousands protest Quebec budget
It was a sign of the coming fiscal storm: thousands of people poured into the streets of Montreal to protest Quebec's bad-news provincial budget and prompted a police intervention.

Thousands protest Quebec budget | Canada | News | Toronto Sun

Our Parliament Seems To Have Been Designed To Generate...

a time out each afternoon for cucumber sandwiches and tea.

It's democracy, not dysfunction

Filibuster gridlock may leave the perception that Congress is broken – but the U.S. system was in fact designed to generate unbearable tension

Congrats To Those Who Participated BUT...

...how many would have taken to the streets if we weren't experiencing El Nino?

 

Kelly McParland: Sad-sack Leafs outdraw national day of Liberal rage

Posted: January 25, 2010, 12:53 PM by NP Editor

No. of people willing to turn up to watch the 28th-place Toronto Maple Leafs lose yet again to the Florida Panthers in one of the dullest Saturday night hockey games in recorded history: 18,087 No. of people able to bestir themselves long enough to mount nationwide day of protest at prorogation of Parliament (figures from news reports): Toronto: 7,000 Ottawa; 3,500 Halifax: 500 Regina: 300 Winnipeg: 300 Calgary: 200 Vancouver: "Several thousand" (Let's be generous and say "several" means 4,000) Total (with a few smaller gatherings): 16,000-20,000

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