Mike Duffy: The Cons Used Robocalls to Win An Election in BC

Well you have to hand it to Mike Duffy. His trial may not be as popular as it once was, but he's still doing a number on Stephen Harper's legacy.

First he claimed Harper couldn't be trusted. Then he claimed that the powerful Con senator David Tkachuk encouraged him to claim every expense he could.

Now he's claiming that the Cons used robocalls in BC to win an election. 

The Day Rona Ambrose Stared Into The Abyss

It was only Rona Ambrose's third Question Period as Leader of the Opposition. 

And there she was yesterday, trying to look like she's really in control of her shattered party, that she knows what she's doing.

And that she's the steady hand on the wheel of the Con shipwreck.

Only to suddenly seem to lose it, and let out a primal scream.

Mike Duffy and the Final Agony of Stephen Harper

Oh dear, I see that the Mike Duffy trial just keeps on getting messier for the Cons.

Yesterday Ol' Duff claimed that Stephen Harper couldn't be trusted.

Now he's going after the Con senator David Tkachuk.

Telling the court that Tkachuk told him to claim every expense he could.

Darth Trump and the Death Star Nightmare (The Video)

In my last post I wrote about Donald Trump and the politics of hate. 

And I pointed out that Stephen Harper was our mini Trump. 

Who helped set our country on fire. Before he went down in flames.

But now the ultimate nightmare.

What if that smelly bigot with the deathly comb over is Darth Trump?

And he wins the next election.

Donald Trump, Stephen Harper, and the Politics of Hate

I'm sure you know how I feel about Donald Trump. I've called him a fascist buffoon before, and compared his hair to one of the most poisonous caterpillars in America.

But now that so many people all over the world feel the same way, including our new government.

In an unusual move, the Canadian government, which usually refrains from commenting on foreign election campaigns, joined the chorus of those criticising Trump. 

“It’s something that we can’t accept in Canada ... We have never been as far removed from what we’ve just heard in the United States,” foreign affairs minister Stephane Dion said.

Some more than others...

Mike Duffy Says Stephen Harper Can't Be trusted

Well the big day finally arrived. Mike Duffy finally got the chance to take the stand and tell his side of the story.

And although it would have been better before the election than after it. And we didn't really need to know that Duffy now needs regular injections in his eyeballs. He didn't disappoint me.

For not only did he claim that making him a Senator from P.E.I. was all Harper's idea.

Stephen Harper and the Loonie Apocalypse

He promised he'd lead us to prosperity, in the golden tar ponds of Albertonia.  

He spent a billion dollars of our money trying to brainwash us into believing that he was a Great Economist Leader.

But now the chickens, or the bats from hell, have come home to roost.

And it isn't The Rapture.

It's the Oily Inferno or the loonie apocalypse.

Stephen Harper and the Invisible Man

I don't know whether Stephen Harper will turn up for Question Period today, because he didn't bother or dare to attend the Throne Speech.

And people are starting to call him the invisible man. 

The man who can't be seen, or dare not show his face. Because he's either too crushed, or too humiliated, or can't stand the sight of The Man Who Was Not Ready sitting in his seat.

But still clings to his lowly MP's seat, and his parliamentary immunity, in case he's suddenly dragged into the Duffy trial.

For who knows what Ol' Duff might say when he takes the stand in his own defence?

How to Help Stop Seniors From Dying of Loneliness

When I was a boy my grandmother read me a story about an old woman whose body was discovered in a rooming house, days or weeks after she died.

And when they went through her possessions they found a diary, with only these same words written on every page:

"Nobody  came today."

And although my canny granny was probably just trying to guilt me out for not visiting HER enough i.e. more than four or five times a week. 

That story changed forever how I viewed seniors and loneliness.

The Montreal Massacre and the Never-ending Violence Against Women

At a time when the United States is going through yet another spasm of gun violence.

And I see how some wing nut in that country reacted to this editorial in the New York Times. 



I'm glad that I live in Canada, and grateful that today is National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

And that Justin Trudeau, our new Prime Minister attended a ceremony on Mount Royal, where 14 beams on light were projected into the sky.

To remember these Canadian victims of gun violence.