We're Number 4! We're Number 4! Cracked: Joint Task Force 2 started out in the 1990s as sort of bodyguards for Canadian politicians and diplomats. By 2001, they had the chops to participate in the war in Afghanistan -- secretly....
Posted by gnotalex on February 20, 2013 9:53 PM
The Gods of the Copybook Headings: Well Dan, that's not actually what John Robson was saying. The opening line refers to a poll in which 49% of Canadians said they didn't care if Quebec left. He was not saying...
Posted by gnotalex on July 11, 2012 6:59 PM
Publius takes a look at the apparently intractable problem of ever-expanding government: Having children spend a large portion of their time being indoctrinated in the latest environmentalist propaganda is not education. It does, however, give employment to teachers who have...
Posted by gnotalex on October 20, 2011 7:07 PM
The Province: I am disgusted to be a new Canadian. Although I felt considerable satisfaction when I cast my ballot Monday for the first time ever in a Canadian election, all pleasure at participating in my country's electoral process vanished...
Posted by gnotalex on May 6, 2011 7:12 PM
Toronto Star: Facing charges of political sabotage by the powerful head of Sun Media Corporation, the Conservative Party has denied wrongdoing but cut ties with a key political strategist. The move was made to distance the Stephen Harper campaign...
Posted by gnotalex on April 28, 2011 7:05 PM
The ChronicleHerald.ca: The overreaching of Canada’s human rights commissions and tribunals into matters of free speech, as regular readers know, has been a problem for many, many years. But most politicians have lacked the fortitude to tackle the problem. Instead,...
Posted by gnotalex on April 26, 2011 7:09 PM
Mark Steyn, writing in Maclean's in 2006 about the new "Canadian" politician, Mikey Ignatieff: I've met him just once, a decade or so back, at a dinner party in London for Canadian expats. He left early, telling me he found...
Posted by gnotalex on April 6, 2011 7:03 PM
The Atlantic Wire: The Wikileaks cables have brought us tales of nuclear intrigue in Pakistan, secret geopolitical negotiation in China, and the threat of all-out war in the Middle East. But what about our diplomatic mission in Canada? What untold...
Posted by gnotalex on December 2, 2010 7:05 PM
I don't know why I didn't think of it before, but one of those "Rate My Teacher" sites must have something on Michael Ignatieff. And what do you know? He also attracted comments such as: His friends call him iggie,...
Posted by gnotalex on March 8, 2010 8:25 PM
Never play poker against a man named "Doc"; and, Never date a woman with open sores; and, Canada.com: Union leaders were on Parliament Hill Tuesday pushing for the federal government to adopt a "Buy Canadian" policy before it rolls out...
Posted by gnotalex on February 10, 2009 10:05 PM
Canada.com: OTTAWA - Conservative MP James Moore denied Wednesday that he looked at a picture of a "scantily clad" woman on his laptop computer while at his seat in the House of Commons. "I don't know where this attack is...
Posted by gnotalex on December 5, 2007 10:05 PM
cnews: Liberal MP David McGuinty, the Opposition environment critic, excoriated the Conservative government for its secrecy. "This is the kind of subterfuge and hidden agenda that the government has on such an important issue," said McGuinty. "It's not intending to...
Posted by gnotalex on September 4, 2007 10:05 PM
They lay one egg (each year). They put their excrement in one place. They hide their excrement. Michael Ignatieff, musing on the Atlantic puffin as a possible new animal symbol for the Liberal Party. Really. Then again, it does...
Posted by gnotalex on August 30, 2007 10:01 PM
Toronto Star: Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams and Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion hail from different parties, but they have one thing in common - neither wants to see the re-election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In that spirit - call it...
Posted by gnotalex on August 27, 2007 10:08 PM
Toronto Star: Canada is in secret talks with the United States that could lead to the bulk export of water south of the border, Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion charges. "The pressure coming from our American friends to remove Canadian water...
Posted by gnotalex on August 20, 2007 11:21 PM
CTV brought Mike Duffy in yesterday to discuss the Cabinet shakeup. Among those commenting on Gordon O'Connor's removal from Defence were the NDP's Dawn "Big Guns! HUGE GUNS!!!" Black and Opposition Labour critic Denis Coderre. Black's take on things was,...
Posted by gnotalex on August 15, 2007 10:33 PM
Note how the "progressives" are warming to the idea. Give them a year or two and it'll become human rights orthodoxy, on par with holy homosexuality: When same-sex marriage was first raised as a possibility, social conservatives quickly condemned it...
Posted by gnotalex on August 8, 2007 10:43 PM
CTV: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has spent more than $20 billion so far on his military spending spree. But the Opposition is accusing Harper of an American-style defence buildup that seems "more attuned to offensive warfare" than peacekeeping. [. ....
Posted by gnotalex on July 22, 2007 10:08 PM
CTV: "They hit me with an electrical current and I fainted," player Isaias Perralta told Chilean media. "When I regained consciousness, I saw 10 police officers were hitting me and throwing acid in my face." Certainly sounds plausible to me....
Posted by gnotalex on July 21, 2007 9:48 AM
Trinidad & Tobago Express [emphasis mine]: SURGERY was performed on Sunday to remove a coconut from the body of a man who was sodomised with the fruit during an attack by a gang of men. Ste Madeleine police are now...
Posted by gnotalex on July 16, 2007 10:25 PM
Susan Delacourt tut-tutting in The Star: Soldiers, hockey gear and race cars are not just the stuff of young boys' wish lists any more -- they're also symbols that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government is deliberately choosing to embrace. What's...
Posted by gnotalex on June 19, 2007 10:27 PM
Plaintiffs: Mr. Rodney MacDonald, Halifax, NS Mr. Danny Williams, St. Johns, NL Defendant: Honest Steve's Auto Sales, 24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON Summary of Claim: In February of 2005, Plaintiffs visited the used car dealership located at 24 Sussex...
Posted by gnotalex on June 13, 2007 10:33 PM
I was hoping someone would be commenting on CBC's "Seven Wonders of Canada" contest, because then I wouldn't have to write about the godawful thing. Christie Blatchford to the rescue: . . . Ms. Jamieson had already confessed, the night...
Posted by gnotalex on June 12, 2007 10:19 PM
Proud To Be Canadian: In a meeting of the combined foreign affairs committee and defence committee in Ottawa, the failed former leader of the you’ve got to be kidding party, Alexa McDonough, just called our Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, "dumb...
Posted by gnotalex on June 6, 2007 10:31 PM
Joel at Proud To Be Canadian has dug up a lot of information on Jeff Monaghan, the self-styled "anarchist" (I'll put it in quotes, as he denied the description tonight on the CBC) and Environment Canada flunky who is under...
Posted by gnotalex on May 10, 2007 10:35 PM
At The Torch, Damian Brooks takes a look at gadfly UBC professor (and heretofore undisclosed by our ever-so-conscientious media: NDP advisor; NDP financial contributor; and NDP convention delegate) Michael Byers, who has been running around of late, trying to get...
Posted by gnotalex on May 2, 2007 10:34 PM
Toronto Sun: The Conservatives' new environmental platform is a "complete and total fraud" that is "designed to mislead the Canadian people," former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said yesterday. You'll pay for that, Almer Gortry. * But before we get started,...
Posted by gnotalex on May 1, 2007 10:30 PM
I wondered how long it would take. For someone to blame the Virginia Tech shootings on George Bush, that is. CBC to the rescue. On The National tonight, Elliott Layton, a former (and formerly-respected) anthropologist who studies mass-murders, attributed it...
Posted by gnotalex on April 16, 2007 10:37 PM
National Post: Canada's use of the term "visible minorities" to identify people it considers susceptible to racial discrimination came under fire at the United Nations yesterday - for being racist. In a report on Ottawa's efforts to eliminate racial discrimination...
Posted by gnotalex on March 8, 2007 10:28 PM
...phones up the Globe to share every single element of an internal strategic debate over the Liberal ad strategy designed to blunt the effect of a highly successful Conservative ad campaign? If I were Stéphane Dion or his principal...
Posted by gnotalex on March 6, 2007 10:35 PM
I've republished these quotes from the Globe and Mail out of sequence, mainly for my convenience: [University of Ottawa Professor Amir] Attaran said his interest in the detainee issue began about a year ago when he was asked by the...
Posted by gnotalex on February 13, 2007 9:28 PM
I was reading up on the now-finalized purchase of Boeing C-17 heavy airlift by the government. I see that the USAF is allowing us to cut in on its current order. That's most gracious on its part. Or maybe it's...
Posted by gnotalex on February 6, 2007 9:50 PM
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