I don’t watch the Michael Coren show, I just haven’t paid any attention to what channel he is on. (CTS)
The Phantom Soapbox watched the August 14th program.
I understand Coren had Kathy Shaidle on as a guest, who some time ago ended her Relapsed Catholic blog and launched Five Feet of Fury. Along with Shaidle, Coren [...]
You don’t have to be a political wonk to know at least one of the voices of the religious right in Canada. He’s not going to let us forget.
So why, given the proven track record of hyperbole, grandiosity, pomposity and illusion that is Charles McVety, doesn’t The Globe & Mail take an hour out of [...]
Stuff is still broke. It’s been broke for awhile and while it is just stuff, fixing it means finding qualified people, making sound decisions, paying for it and going through the frustrations any consumer goes through.
In the cascading series of events, I’d figured out I needed help. While I can break my arm patting [...]
ABSO Jesus
This is a comment prelude to the Fresh Fire Statement at Northwest Musings:
“Here is some info, but according to what we have heard from several sources, this is much more than just an emotional relationship. According to staff And former staff members, they claim that Todd is a pathological liar. The board privately has [...]
I got an email from Living Liberally, an eclectic and busy network in the US, with a chapter in Auckland and Calgary.
There are several kinds of Living Liberally activities including:
Drinking Liberally - our national network of social clubs
Laughing Liberally - our political comedy project
Screening Liberally - our politically-conscious film series
Eating Liberally - our gatherings of [...]
Conservative Christian groups smarting from abortion activist Henry Morgentaler’s appointment to the Order of Canada have now filed a complaint against Supreme Court Justice Beverley McLachlin, demanding she be removed from her post over her role in the awarding of the honour.
Forty-two groups, businesses and one individual signed the letter of complaint against McLachlin which [...]
Americans in Calgary are being invited to fork out 1 thousand dollars a plate in a Republican fundraiser.
For a thousand dollars they get to listen to Senator Sam Brownback. The Galloping Beaver has the details.
The International Rescue Committee, an aid group which has worked in Afghanistan for over 20 years has suspended operations in the [...]
By now the billion or so of us that watched the opening of the Beijing Olympics know the firework footprints were CGI - a computer image of the real ones. We know the reasons China did what they did.
Now we know the little girl who sang the Hymn to the Motherland wasn’t on stage in [...]

“We Canadians live in a blind spot about our identity. We have very strong feelings about who we aren’t but only weak ones about who we are. We’re passionate about what we don’t want to become but oddly passive about More
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