A judge just decided to double Canada's Indian population and see what happens. All we need on top of Idle No More hunger strikes and blockades, right? But don't blame the ruling, which was lucid, reasonable and restrained. Blame the law, which cares what race you are. Click here to read more.
A Bloc Quebecois press release informs me that "The federal government refuses to see the consequences of its ideological reform of Employment Insurance". Now I know what you're thinking. "There's still a Bloc Québécois?" To which I can only reply that there must be or it wouldn't be sending me press releases. What I can't explain, though, is what it thinks it means by "ideological". Click here to read more.
So the United States didn’t go off the so-called “fiscal cliff.” Instead Republicans circled the wagons, fired inward then gave President Obama and the Democrats almost all the tax increases they wanted in return for — spending increases. Progressive opinion cheered even though the nation and its politicians remain poised atop a real fiscal cliff a trillion dollars high. Click here to read the rest.
Theresa Spence hunger strike, Idle No More movement and associated demonstrations have revealed a worryingly deep streak of utopian militancy among Canadian aboriginals. Their cosmic demands and ominous rhetoric are both driven by ideas that must be digested sympathetically then rejected with courteously absolute firmness. Click here to read more.
The City of Ottawa wants us to give them less garbage. The feeling, I assure you, is mutual. Click here to read the rest.