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Dispatches From Afganistan
Our hope is that we will be able to carry a series of posts from a Canadian traveling in Afghanistan doing some investigative reporting. Our first concern is for their safety. Stay tuned!
Afghanistan and Iraq: the same war
Afghanistan and Iraq: the same war
by David Orchard and Michael Mandel
Kinsella’s Shtick is Chick
For the longest time we have tried to figure out the allure of Kinsella. By all insider accounts he was less of a backroom general than a side room shill in the Chretien court. Oh sure towards the end Kinsella got a boost but by that time it was when Chretien needed all the friends he could get so Kinsella got a promotion—to what we are not sure.
A Modest Proposal for Canadian Soldiers in Afghanistan
So Canadian soldiers are angry that the torture of detainees is overshadowing all the good they are doing over there. We would be too. Torture is like that.
Here is modest proposal: if you are upset at handing over detainees that may be tortured, stop doing that. You are fully in your rights and obligated by international law to do so.
Its your choice boys. Torture is like hard-drugs, it tends to corrupt the moral fabric and overshadow all else.
May’s Day of Appeasement
By Goodwin Ginger
We have seen a lot of bullshit in our time and even participated in some of it but still we have to call bullshit on the whole faux May day Chamberlain fiasco.
Our opinion: all Sound and furry signifying exactly nothing. If May is guilty of anything, it is using a worn out troupe of the right to go after the Cons.
Happy May Day
Chavez celebrates May Day with the Nationalization of Oil. What is Alberta doing for May Day?
Chávez poses dilemma for oil companies
By Benedict Mander in Caracas and Carola Hoyos in London
Published: April 30 2007 21:54 | Last updated: May 1 2007 03:12
Venezuela’s military might will be on full display on Tuesday as Hugo Chávez, the country’s president and a former paratrooper, celebrates winning back Venezuela’s natural resources in the oil-rich Orinoco for the people.
Bold Prediction
If the Canucks are the last Canadian team in the play-offs, central Canada will cheer for an American team. That the CBC refused to broadcast the last Canucks game is further evidence of the degree to which Ontario dominates national institutions. And of course the degree to which the national broadcaster is an ad revenue whore:),.
NB. Any offence given to the hard working men and women of Canada’s prostitution sector by comparing them to the national broadcaster was unintended.
Eclectic commentary in no particular order: Miller, Dion, BUZZ, Canucks
Miller is no longer a member of the NDP: Good now we don’t have to vote for him while we hold our noses. Provincial liberal cabinet minister in the works???
Hargrove is in favour of the deal between Dion and May. May we say, (pun intended) if Hargrove is for it we are against it. See, two can play at reactionary politics. CAW is quickly becoming politically irrelevant.
Speaking of sinking ships it looks like another rat is fleeing the SS Dion
Proving once again the perpetual revolving door between corporate Canada and the two business parties is still alive and well, Belinda has jumped ship back to daddy’s company. Oh well I guess another stint in opposition at that pay provided neither the power nor the status that such “new monied” Canadians feel they need. Cheers!