Stephen Harper's Desperate War with the White House

Well I never said the end of the Con regime would be pretty eh?

But who knew it would be so humiliating? Such a crude awakening. 

Sammy Yatim and the Fatal Legacy of Stephen Harper

When I went by Dundas Square this evening after work, a march had already departed heading for the place where Sammy Yatim was killed. 

All that was left was a chalk memorial that the rain will soon wash away.

But I will not easily forget what happened to that troubled teenager. Not only because it strikes at the very heart of the kind of country I want to live in.

But also because I know what it's like to be confronted by a disturbed man with a knife. I know that patience saves lives.

And what bothers me most of all is that none was shown to Sammy....

The Day Obama Humiliated Stephen Harper

Well we all know he's an oil pimp. We all know he says he's an economist.

We all know he's been claiming that the Keystone XL pipeline would create tens of thousands of jobs in the United States.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper told an American audience today that the Keystone XL pipeline "absolutely needs to go ahead." Harper said the project will create 40,000 jobs south of the Canadian border and that can't be ignored.

And trying to embarrass Obama into approving the Keystone XL pipeline.

But unfortunately for Great Oily Leader you can't fool all the people all the time. And unlike him Obama CAN count.

What is Margaret Wente Drinking?

I ask this delicate question because the Globe's would be Marie Antoinette seems singularly obsessed with what Justin Trudeau is smoking.

As only she could. 

I’m not overly invested in the marijuana debate. My friends and I all smoked pot when we were young, but hardly any of us bother any more. In my circle, the drugs of choice are martinis and Chardonnay. Frankly, we consider stoners déclassé.

Putting down pot smokers, promoting booze, and making as much sense as if she was on GLUE.

Sochi and the Hate Games Boycott

Well I see the ghastly old gnomes of the International Olympic Committee want everyone to know it's safe to attend the Winter Games in Sochi.

So please don't even think of boycotting them.

Because they won't be The Hate Games.

Even if you're gay. 

Justin Trudeau and the Great Marijuana Debate

Well I'm glad to see that Justin Trudeau has come out in favour of legalizing marijuana.

For the noblest of reasons:

“It’s one of the only ways to keep it out of the hands of our kids because the current war on drugs, the current model is not working. We have to use evidence and science to make sure we’re moving forward on that.”

And I also see the Cons have come rushing out to denounce him for the lowest of reasons. 

Stephen Harper's Sneaky Assault on Medicare

It may seem like just another federal-provincial disagreement, another argument in a fractious country.

But there are very good reasons the premiers are united in opposing Stephen Harper's job training plan. 

For not only were they not consulted. Not only is the Con regime clawing back money from provincial programs. Not only is it spending millions on advertising claiming credit for a program that doesn't exist.

It's also, as I have pointed out before, a sneaky attack on the future of medicare.

Stephen Harper and the Fatal Enemy List

He's still lurking in the shadows. Still afraid to meet the media. Still hoping that Canadians will forget his Enemy List.

But it's just not working. And today thousands of them demanded to know who is on that sinister list. 

Jason Kenney and the Two-Headed Monster

I always knew Jason Kenney was a man of many faces eh?

Some hidden and some not.

I always knew he was extremely vain and incredibly ambitious.

But who knew he was so inflated with his own sense of self importance, that he would steal another Minister's portfolio? 

Why We're ALL On Stephen Harper's Enemy List

When I first read that Stephen Harper had an Enemy List I was not surprised. For it's his madness that makes him so dangerous.

But I was worried about my country and its democracy. For no democracy can survive in such an atmosphere of intimidation.

And of course, I was also worried that I was not on Great Paranoid Leader's list of enemies... real or imagined. 

For how low can you go eh?

But it turns out the situation is even worse than I thought. Because as Susan Delacourt points out, we are ALL on an even larger list of his friends and enemies.