Wed May 24, 2006 – 12:17 pm
Insurrections can still have their comedic moments:
Early in the afternoon native leaders brought forward a symbolic olive branch and a war club. They asked residents to choose….The Caledonia residents didn’t budge. Then one of the front-end loaders on the native side began digging up the road.
Which of course removes any questions about the legality […]
Wed May 24, 2006 – 10:12 am
Matthew points out that the Six Nation’s ancestral claims to the disputed Ontario land are somewhat thin:
It’s important to add that when it comes to Six Nations that we’re not dealing with a group that was is as rooted to the land as some of Canada’s other First Nations. The Six Nations originally came […]
Tue May 23, 2006 – 5:54 pm
First, native protesters have no sense of irony. Following the initial dismantling of the native blockade, Caledonians responded by building their own blockade. Natives protesters were incredulous. They couldn’t use the road with the new blockade in the way! The roadblock was a manifestation of colonialism and racism, so the native protesters showed the Caledonians […]
Sun May 21, 2006 – 5:38 pm
OK, let’s give Gerard Kennedy some credit: He is saying some interesting things so far in the Liberal leadership race. To bad all his pronouncements so far have been as shallow as a reflecting pool.
Kennedy seems to be focussed on breaking out of the Toronto power-base of the Liberals. Not a bad idea considering […]
Thu May 18, 2006 – 7:52 am
Maybe a little immature but a bit of a laugh.
http://www.herald.ca/Front/504265.html
A nice story out of Nova Scotia on the RCMP’s first gay nuptials; a storied love affair coming to the “ultimate” form of commitment this weekend at the Rodd Grand Hotel—only so ultimate as divorce laws are lenient. RCMP spokesman, Sgt. Skidmore, had nothing […]
Wed May 17, 2006 – 10:44 pm
Kate draws attention to today’s disturbing testimony at Chuck Guite’s fraud trial:
A former vice-president of Groupaction, told Charles Guité’s fraud trial Wednesday that he feared for his life if he were to blow the whistle on what he saw as suspicious goings on between his ad agency and former prime minister Jean Chretien’s office.
“I wasn’t […]
Tue May 16, 2006 – 8:15 pm
This article from March sounds eerily familar after Bush’s address on immigration yesterday. Not only has the White House poached Schwarzenegger’s views, it looks like they lifted whole passages out of this article for the speech:
We can embrace the immigrant without endorsing illegal immigration. Granting citizenship to people who are here illegally is not […]
Sun May 14, 2006 – 8:28 am
In anticipation of the release of The Da Vinci Code, The Great Pumpkin reprints a very appropriate piece of advice from Screwtape.
Sat May 13, 2006 – 12:55 pm
George Smitherman, Ontario’s health minister, is gay and a former drug user. He is probably lots of other things too, but these are the primary reasons for the Toronto Star’s celebration of him. Today’s installment:
The 42-year-old health minister is telling Ontarians that for five years in the early to mid 1990s he fought and […]
