March 23, 2014
8:50 am
Tweet of the day
Russia says it will no longer recognize highly compromised 1948 Newfoundland referendum used as premise for annexation by Canada.
— Coco Cabrera (@coco_urnews) March 23, 2014
March 21, 2014
3:34 pm
Welcome to the weekend, kiddies.
Everybody Dance Now.
Shit.
Okay, then, how about THIS!
March 21, 2014
3:12 pm
Dog Photobomb of the Day
March 20, 2014
5:55 pm
Gideon
March 19, 2014
8:33 pm
Unscheduled Musical Interlude
TCS - Robot Heart: Heart-Shaped Box - Nirvana (covered by Kawehi) from Kawehi on Vimeo.
March 18, 2014
6:08 pm
Spring
h/t Karen
March 18, 2014
5:45 pm
What we're reading
March 18, 2014
3:59 pm
"Prison is an expensive way to make bad people worse"
"Champions of harsher justice measures in the Harper government would have us believe that longer sentences are a win-win-win: for victims, for safe streets and for future victims. To that end, the government enacted a number of mandatory minimum sentences - which almost always involves incarceration - in the belief that Canada's judiciary are too lenient.
(snip)
The results show either no effect or higher rates of re-offending in jurisdictions with mandatory sentencing compared to non-prison options. Put another way: focusing on the high quality research into deterrence-based sentencing - most of it conducted in an environment as close to random assignment as social scientists ever enjoy - leads to the conclusion that there is either no deterrent effect or, ironically, that deterrence-based sentencing leads, in practice, to higher rates of re-offending when compared with non-prison alternatives."
The rest - chapter and verse - here: The irrationality, ineffectiveness and costs of the Harper crime agenda
A reminder: The Authoritarians - a.k.a. "Harper's base" - are always the first in line to form a posse.
March 17, 2014
6:53 pm
Your tax dollars at work
Annual cost for Harper's RCMP security detail has doubled to $19.6 million since he became PM in 2006
March 17, 2014
5:39 pm
No caption or comment required
March 17, 2014
10:10 am
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Here's to a long life & a merry one.
A quick death & an easy one.
A pretty girl & an honest one.
A cold pint & another one!
Slainte
h/t @MattDuniganTSN
March 15, 2014
2:05 pm
Maysoon Zayid
March 14, 2014
4:05 pm
Welcome to the weekend, kiddies
Friday night. Go have some fun. Do it now, while you're young and beautiful.
March 13, 2014
3:13 pm
Unscheduled Musical Interlude
March 12, 2014
10:00 am
Rick's Rant
March 12, 2014
9:57 am
The Shock of Recognition
Particularly horrifying when looking in the mirror.
March 8, 2014
8:47 am
International Women's Day
Tweets of the day:
So, just to be clear, every single female Harper Govt MP voted *against* a national inquiry for missing/murdered aboriginal women?
— CC (@canadiancynic) March 8, 2014
I just want to make sure I'm understanding that correctly when people tell me we need more female MPs in Parliament.
— CC (@canadiancynic) March 8, 2014
@canadiancynic Agreed. Assholes cannot be sorted by gender.
— MJGlass (@MJGlass2) March 8, 2014
March 7, 2014
4:59 pm
Welcome to the weekend, kiddies
It's the weekend, kiddies. Make a joyful sound.
h/t Rev. Paperboy (@revpaperboy)
March 7, 2014
4:46 pm
How Tory Electoral Reform Would Cast Out Voters
Voting Chief: Elections Act Changes 'Would Not Serve Canadians Well'
March 7, 2014
4:22 pm
Pants on fire
You DO understand this, my conservative friends, right?
Author of report touted by Poilievre contradicts minister on voter fraud
March 7, 2014
10:53 am
Dog Photobomb of the Day
Roo used to do this.
March 6, 2014
9:23 pm
Perfidy
March 6, 2014
3:23 pm
Jess. In Memoriam.
March 6, 2014
11:48 am
Unconditional Love
h/t @rickygervais
March 6, 2014
9:00 am
Rick's Rant
March 5, 2014
8:24 pm
WTG
Way To Go, Harper. Way To Go, Ritz.
Way To Go, rural prairie provinces, who voted for these mouth-breathing evangelical ideologues.
I would say that you have made your beds, now lie in them, and too bad so sad. Except that it is ALL of us - all Saskatchewan residents, all Canadian citizens, who will have to pay for your greed, your selfishness, your short-sightedness.
We stand as living proof that politicians can't go too far wrong by appealing to the worst of human nature.
THEY are doing very well, by the way. It is the voters - and the non-voters - who suffer.
"First of all, it was the Harperites who moved with lightning speed to eliminate the single desk marketing authority of the Canadian Wheat Board, the legislated monopoly over western wheat and barley export sales that existed for nearly 80 years. One of the consequences of the dismantling of the single desk was the removal of the CWB's role in logistics - moving the $5 billion to $6 billion worth of grain produced in Western Canada every year to export markets.The rest HERE.
But in their ideologically driven haste to bring "marketing freedom" to western farmers, the Harperites conveniently ignored the warnings of farmers, academics and the industry that such a wrenching change would require several years, if not decades, of transition."
Regina Leader-Post columnist Bruce Johnstone
March 4, 2014
3:46 pm
Yes, Prime Minister ...
. . . you lied.
March 3, 2014
12:11 pm
Mayerthorpe, 2005: In Memoriam
Lest we forget ...
March 1, 2014
5:29 pm
Tweet of the day
John Baird says Canada is prepared to have its navy towed to the Black Sea.
— Coco Cabrera (@coco_urnews) March 1, 2014
March 1, 2014
2:26 pm
What we're reading
March 1, 2014
11:56 am
Kitchen Piggies
Pigs in a blanket. Brought to you courtesy of Country Fun Petting Farm. Thanks, Ken & Shirley!
March 1, 2014
9:00 am
In like a lion ...
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