Thu Jan 31, 2008 – 10:55 pm
A new biography of the former prime minister, whom Canadians have long been taught to regard as a great liberal politician, reveals that as a youth and young man, Mr. Trudeau was an anti-Semite, admired fascist dictators such as Hitler and Mussolini, promoted revolution and longed for an independent and Catholic Quebec that would be […]
Thu Jan 31, 2008 – 10:40 pm
Bookkeeping proves to be a sensitive business for a politician. When the matter was discussed in Parliament after La Presse disclosed the facts, Premier Chrétien declared: “This Parliament would be much better off if we had more Gagliano’s.”
Thu Jan 31, 2008 – 10:06 pm
Do you smoke? No?
The first tobacco ban was imposed by the Nazi Party under direct orders from Adolf Hitler. (Follow the Wikipedia entry to footnote 1).
Thu Jan 31, 2008 – 7:28 pm
What say you, Messrs. Dion, Ignatieff, Rae et al.? Do you agree with this stunt? Not surprisingly, the Nazis do. (Anti-semitic link deleted). ……
(From the good folks at Wikipedia):
The genetic fallacy is a fallacy of irrelevance where a conclusion is suggested based solely on something or someone’s origin rather than its current meaning or context. […]
Thu Jan 31, 2008 – 3:04 pm
A slate of Ontario Young Liberals executive hopefuls have a new website, but what’s amusing is seeing that their vision matches up quite nicely with the true federal and provincial Liberals visions. They should be shoo-ins!
Thu Jan 31, 2008 – 3:04 pm
A slate of Ontario Young Liberals executive hopefuls have a new website, but what’s amusing is seeing that their vision matches up quite nicely with the true federal and provincial Liberals visions. They should be shoo-ins!
Thu Jan 31, 2008 – 1:06 pm
Paul Wells speaks, Jan 29, 2007
President Bush has had a difficult time lately in Iraq. He lost the mid-term elections, fired his defence secretary, and is about to launch his presidency’s last stand — a “surge” of thousands of fresh troops in one more desperate attempt to take and hold Baghdad.
Norman Podhoretz speaks Jan […]
Thu Jan 31, 2008 – 10:48 am
It must be a sign of desperation, but the key argument that I hear from John Tory’s defenders is that there is no better alternative. This is a very optimistic take on Mr. Tory given that outside of Toronto, the only thing people know him for is an ill-fated promise regarding school funding and opportunistically […]
Thu Jan 31, 2008 – 1:05 am
It’s a little late, but here is my post on the 20th anniversary of the R v. MORGENTALER ruling.-Matthew
This past weekend, I posted a blog entry on the column that the National Post printed on Saturday featuring Ryerson University professor Judy Rebick, a woman whose current job title I found out is strikingly Orwellian: the […]
Wed Jan 30, 2008 – 9:42 pm
I know that infighting isn’t looked upon kindly within the conservative parts of Canada these days, what with the recent 13-year Liberal situation which was caused by the division of what is now the Conservative Party of Canada but I don’t think anyone sheds any tears about the arguments made against David Orchard back in […]
