the woodshed

Every time I get frustrated and think that Canadian politics are completely screwy and the country is doomed by ignorance, stupidity and apa...

It is unavoidable. Soon there will be a Fox News North based around the Sun newspaper chain . Goodbye reasonable discourse, nice knowing you...

Oh dear Ghod, Glenn Beck has committed fiction. Destined to become a masterpiece of accidental comedy.

This is bound to work out well for the people of Afghanistan.

The latest installment of The Maple Syrup Revolution - In which RossK and I discuss the history of blogging  - is now available for your l...

...a Tory wets his pants. Given that, I'm guessing the latest stories about a merger between the Liberals and the New Democrats must h...

I don't want to beat this whole "Summit costs run amok" thing into the ground (Ha! who am I kidding? This whole thing is blogg...

A fake lake? Yeah, because that is so much cheaper than just bussing the press to Huntsville and giving the business to local lodges.

It is heartening to see a community respond to racism in this way, and especially to see the school board and principal realize and publicly...

All hail Paddy Chayefsky!

Or are people there just being taught to be racist dingbats? Apparently an elementary school in Prescott, Az., allowed the students to vote...

The wife and co-author of one of my favorite writers, hell - favorite people in the world, Spider Robinson died last Sunday. Godspeed, trav...

That's what I feel for Dimitri Soudas and apparently what he feels for the Canadian Parliament and the centuries-old rules of the Westmi...

RossK of the Gazetteer joins me on the Maple Syrup Revolution to explain the intricacies of the BC Rail scandal and explore the world of t...

As mentioned below, the Canadian government is spending over a billion dollars on security for the upcoming Group of Eight and Group of Twen...

Any resemblance between this list and any comments by the Harper government, Bush Administration or BP management are strictly coincidental...

One of the advantages of being a conservative seems to be a willingness to engage in the most shameless of behaviours without the faintest s...

History professor and former soldier Andrew Bacevich, a self-declared "conservative Catholic" who served in Vietnam and the Gulf W...

Nominated for best picture in 1965 and beaten by the Sound of Music. "Nick in a moment, you're going to see a horrible thing...

I mentioned in an earlier post that for the amount of money being spent on the G8/G20 meetings just for security, the government could build...