There are few things that depress me more than the sight of progressives fighting each other.
As the NDP and the Liberals are doing these days.
Especially when I remember how close we once came to forming a Great Canadian Coalition, and bringing down Stephen Harper.
And how great it felt to work together, before that dream was shattered.
And my only consolation is that when I look at the way the polls are going, I can see another coalition in the making.
It's hard to imagine a more ghastly thing to watch on a grim, grey, fall day in Harperland, than Rex Murphy on Jian Ghomeshi.
The only thing more depressing would be a Stephen Harper speech, or an ISIS video.
But I watched it anyway eh?
Because I'm really interested in what people who work at the CBC have to say about that scandal, after seeing that its hapless managers are claiming they had no idea that their big star was harassing women and bullying his staff.
Well I see that Stephen Harper's visit to China has got off to a heavenly start.
With our new Chinese overlords wanting to talk about business, now that Harper has signed the sellout FIPA deal, and they have us over a barrel for the next thirty years.
While Lord Harp seems more interested in talking about crosses.
I'm ashamed to admit that when the stories about the ghastly harassment of women in this country began to emerge, first at the CBC and then on Parliament Hill, I was shocked and horrified.
But because I'm a gay guy, and I've never harassed anyone let alone a woman, and sex for me means love not violence, the idiot thought entered my mind that it wasn't my problem.
So don't don't blame me eh?
But as the trickle of horror stories became a flood.
And gave birth to this magnificent movement.
I rapidly realized how wrong I was. It is my problem. It's everybody's problem. And as Carol Goar says, we all need to look in the mirror.
Two years ago he told us that he was pressing the "reset button" on his plan to buy 65 F-35 fighters from his friends at Lockheed Martin, after it was revealed that their cost would blow Canada up instead of the enemy.
He promised us his corrupt regime would look at other slightly cheaper warplanes, and hold an open competition.
But it seems that nothing can shake Stephen Harper's insane obsession with the F-35, even though with only one engine it's totally unsuitable for patrolling Canada's vast Arctic spaces.
And today we found out that he has secretly ordered four of them.
As probably you know, the Con regime has given the Canada Revenue Agency more money to go after its enemies.
While depriving it of the resources and the inspectors to go after tax evaders.
Well now it turns out there may be method to that madness.
For it seems that when it comes to tax evasion, the Cons are part of the problem.
As if Stephen Harper hadn't degraded the image of our Parliament enough.
Reduced it to a fascist circus where the Big Lie rules, and shame goes to die.
Mocked it, muzzled it, or just crapped on it like a monstrous alien monkey from outer space.
Now we find out it's also a place where power corrupts even basic human decency. A boozy place stuck in the past, where young women are routinely harassed.
And considering all of the above, I have to say I found what Tom Mulcair had to say today extremely disappointing.
Well I see that Denis Lebel, Stephen Harper's Quebec lieutenant, has been forced to beat a humiliating retreat.
After trying to rename Montreal's Champlain Bridge after the famous hockey player Maurice "Rocket" Richard.
Only to fail miserably.
The replacement for the Champlain Bridge will not bear the name of Montreal Canadiens hockey legend Maurice Richard. Federal Infrastructure Minister Denis Lebel made the announcement in Quebec City Thursday morning.
At first sight it couldn't be a more depressing sight, or more of a nightmare.
Team Mitch McConnell and his ghastly Republican tea baggers, seizing control of Congress, and promising to bring change to America.
Which has some progressives in that country wondering whether it's the end of irony.
Or the beginning of fascism.
Well it looks as if we won't have Dean Del Mastro to kick around anymore.
For after beating his chest for a few days, like a wounded gorilla, the Deaner has finally decided to throw in the towel.
Dean Del Mastro, the MP for Ontario's Peterborough riding, has quit less than a week after being found guilty of spending too much on his 2008 campaign and trying to cover it up.
Del Mastro spoke to MPs in the House of Commons just after question period today. The resignation takes effect immediately.
