Canadian Louise Arbour, former Justice of the Supreme court of Canada, a former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and most recently the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights retires and the entire World thanks her for her long and dedicated service.

Except Canada apparently. We were the ONLY ONES without something to say, and she’s a citizen of our country! Apparently its all under direct orders from Mr Harper that not even a thank you, not even a courtesy wave recognizing that she even existed be issued.

It seems unprecedented (though I am no historian) that a Federal Finance Minister would so blatantly interfere in Provincial politics.

It boggles the mind that anyone could think it appropriate for a Federal Finance Minister to give a press conference the day before a Provincial budget is released only to lecture the Provence about what the Federal Finance Minister believes its budget should and should not have.

It seems unfathomable that a Federal Finance Minister would loudly and publicly undermine the investor confidence in a Canadian Provence by saying no one in their right mind would want to do business there.

But would you like your gas at a fixed rate from Terasen or at a floating rate from an independent provider?

Somebody somewhere thought it would be a good idea to privatize everything, oddly they had lots of money with which to buy formerly public institutions which is probably why they thought it was so good. So they convinced other people, the methods by which are not for me to say, and suddenly the people of BC were blessed with the sacred right of choice in who they bought their natural gas from.
Whoopdee fuckin’ do.

The man who wheeled his way into City Hall looks well on his way to rolling right on out again. Seems like he knows it too, going by his increasingly desperate moves policy wise and a less then cool demeanor when faced with the press circuit. He still tries to seem like a domineering tyrant, but you ain’t selling it no more Mr. Sam. We hear the tremor in your voice as you try desperately to sound like you know what you’re talking about. Sorry Sammy Boy, we figured out that you don’t a long time ago, though it took some a while to see past your chair.

So who does the next PM have to be to help Brenda Martin? Chretien? Mulroney? Campbell? Turner? Clark? It sure does seem like our PM of Oil is more interested in obfuscation and libel suits than he is in the well being of a Canadian being held in violation of treaties we have with Mexico.

Stop showing your contempt for average Canadians Harper. We vote and we can kick you out as easily as we let you in. Show that you have some balls and take a stand. Get on that phone, call the President of Mexico and stop being a goddamned coward

Dear Stephen Harper,

When will you be honest and upfront with Canadians? You’re slipperiness makes your claims of being a straight shooter smell awful even way out here. Why wont you be honest and just clear the air? It’s obvious you aren’t afraid of parliamentarians but why dont you have the balls to face Canadians?

Your spin is not impressive. Answering questions with cheap shots and trying to spin reality into your world is no longer working. I think you are a liar, my neighbour thinks you’re a liar, growing numbers of Canadians think you are a liar.

Weird, this one kinda scared me when I was doing it. It kept staring at me smiling and it felt like it was thinking “Oh yeah boy get rid of the caterpillars”

Man those were some challenging crawlers but they more than made up for Dion’s fair squigglies.

Im an openminded guy. I believe everyone should have the same rights as others and this comes to same sex marriage, however after seeing this picture I am convinced that there should be a law against politicians wearing floral wife-beaters.

Yikes!

It’s springtime at Meancouver and we’ve decided to give the blog a spiffy new look! Enjoy.

Ghost riding rules! A true extreme sport.

U.S. may protect oilsands - source: National Post 3/11/08

It disturbs me when I read articles about the US govt reclassifying oil produced in the Tar Sands as conventional oil to avoid the strict regulations that come with the alternative fuel classification. I understand the impact of having cheap oil on the everyday cost of life (believe me, being unemployed you know the cost of living quite acutely) and I also understand North America’s interest in freeing us from the dependence on middle eastern oil but this way of thinking just doesnt make sense.

So, it has only to pass the senate and then the government of Canada will be able to retroactively remove tax credits from movies it finds “offensive.” In their statement to the press they said that they want to make sure our money isn’t going to hate propaganda, porno or violence. I know Canada has recently been producing a glut of federally funded violent hate porn, but do we really want a bunch of uncultured hick MPs from Alberta to tell us what films Canada can make?

  Little surprise that more conservative sleaze is oozing up from under the floor boards, though I doubt anyone suspected that they would sink this low.  To offer the dying Cadman a million dollar life insurance policy to topple Martin’s government.  It’s a strange story, but here’s what points to it being true.

Let’s tackle the conservative defense first. They say that Cadman “the day of the vote said there were no offers made.”  They also accuse anyone who questions this as doubting the word of a dying man.  He actually said neither Martin nor Harper personally at specific meetings made offers, which no one is accusing them of. There is also the next point which could be why he mentioned nothing.

Ring around the Rosy

Pocket full of Posies

Husha, Husha,

We all fall down.

Anyone else feel like this is our Parliament? Endless dancing and circling, playing little games that don’t amount to Jack shit. Little kids on the playground. Harper the bully. The gutless nerdy Dion. The indignant keener Layton. Duceppe the spoiled kid whose Provence now gets bought off whether it likes it or not.