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Satirical and hard hitting political op-ed writer mixes tongue-in-cheek humor with stinging analysis of current issues from around the world.
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Canada Grows a Pair
It boils down to a case of the unexpected followed by the expected.When Canada made international headlines by walking out of the auditorium just prior to a speech by Iran’s loony leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, many of my fellow Canucks were surprised...
An Open Letter to Michael Ignatieff
Dear Michael,First of all, I am not going to refer to you as ‘Iggy’. Here in Alberta there is only one ‘Iggy’ who stands for leadership, strength, and fortitude, and you, my friend, are not him. To the meat of the matter: I understand you are...
I Just Read It for the Pictures
I was getting ready to write a stinging condemnation of the Harper governments pathetic, money and court-time wasting attempt to pull a ‘Nixon’ by trying to forge a tough-on-crime image with their minimum sentence law for marijuana possession.Won...
From Karzai to Cammalleri: Random Rants
Watching Obama take the United States down the path to socialism is like a vivid nightmare. For non-leftwing Canadians (yes, we do exist) who have lived our entire lives in a soft-socialist nation, it feels like barely surviving a plane crash only to...
Playing the Odds
For the gambling fan, here’s the line:Odds that the Obama stimulus package will fix the economic problems: 50 to 1It’s not all bad, but spending the way out of a hole was already tried – and failed – in the 1930’s. If Obama had gone the oth...
Unlikely Friends
Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks to Canadian soldiers in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Canadian love-in with Barack Obama hit its crescendo on Tuesday with the Inauguration ceremony. The buzz was so great (reminder: he’s not OUR president) it ma...
