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● “People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” – disgraced American president Richard Nixon ● “I don’t recall. I don’t recall that.” – disgraced American president Ronald Reagan ● “A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It’s a proof. (Read more…) . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: ● “People have got to know whether or not their… This morning I saw a few minutes of a CBC Newsworld political panel and again concluded that Canada must abolish its senate immediately. Abolish it now! There is no time for messing about. The dishonourable, fraud-committing senate serves no legitimate purpose in this day and age, and it’s debatable whether it ever did. The unelected, patronage-appointed, archaic institution is an insult to democracy; costs us an obscene amount of tax money; and provides a bad example to young Canadians that crime does pay. It is nothing but a den of Liberal and Conservative crooks and liars living high on the (Read more…) It’s April 27, 2013: a few days after my blog’s first anniversary, the weekend of Rebelfest in Hamilton, and a few days before International Workers’ Day (aka Mayday, aka the real Labour Day). Additionally, April 28 is International Day of Mourning for workers who were killed or injured on the job. A lot has happened since my last post, and here are just a few tidbits.
● Rita MacNeil – singer, political activist and sex abuse survivor – died on April 16 at the age of 68. The down-to-earth artist was always on the (Read more…) 
 American government, American politics, anti-capitalism, Canadian government, Canadian Politics, capitalism, Class War, Conservative government, Conservative Party, FIPA, Harper government, International Workers' Day, Justin Trudeau, labour movement, Liberal Party, mayday, Mounties, Pete Seeger, RCMP, stephen harper Brian Mulroney is going to be part of Canada’s official gaggle of groupies at Maggie Thatcher’s Bukkake party on April 17, 2013 in London, England.
Yes, that Mulroney; the disgraced former prime minister who took bribes, defrauded Canadians of millions of dollars, cheated on his taxes and resigned under a cloud of corruption (not necessarily in that order). Stephen Harper, Canada’s disgraced current prime minister, is the shithead who invited him for the free ride. No doubt the dishonourable John “Angry” Baird will be there too. He met Thatcher once, and even named his cat after her. What a pussy! . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: Brian Mulroney is going to be part of Canada’s official…
Brian Mulroney, British government, British news, British politics, Canadian government, Canadian news, Canadian Politics, Conservative government, Conservative Party, Harper, Harper government, Maggie Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher, Mulroney, stephen harper, thatcher, UK government, UK news, uk politics “The biggest distinction between a Liberal Party led by me and Stephen’s Harper’s Conservatives is one of tone …” – Justin Trudeau (Toronto Star print edition, April 6, 2013) Exactly. Many of us have been saying for years that the main difference between the pro-corporate, pro-globalization Liberals and the pro-corporate, pro-globalization Conservatives is style, not substance. Liberals campaign like socialists but govern . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: “The biggest distinction between a Liberal Party led by me and Stephen’s Harper’s… RBC declares war against Canadian workers: Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is firing dozens of its employees in Canada and replacing them with lower-paid temporary foreign workers. RBC is forcing their soon-to-be-unemployed Canadian employees to train their own replacements. RBC made $7.5 billion in profits in 2012. Also about a year ago, they increased their service fees. The RBC website insanely claims that it is: One of Canada’s “Best 50 Corporate Citizens” One of Canada’s “50 Most Socially Responsible Corporations” One of the “Best Workplaces in Canada” Canada’s 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures Don’t be confused into believing . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: RBC declares war against Canadian workers
Canadian Business, Canadian economy, Canadian government, Canadian news, Canadian Politics, Class War, Conservative government, Conservative Party, EAC, Economic Action Plan, globalisation, Globalization, Harper, Harper government, RBC, Royal Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, stephen harper Here are some unintentionally hilarious excerpts from an old interview with Jim Flaherty, Canada’s worst finance minister. The article was published by the pro-Conservative (and plagiarism-tolerant) Globe and Mail. It was the height of Trudeaumania, and the Flaherty clan was right in the middle of it. But over the following decade, as the hockey-mad undergrad transformed into a Bay Street lawyer, he became disenchanted with Pierre Trudeau. “I thought it was really quite irresponsible, these deficits and debt and the inflation that followed,” he says. So, like his boss Stephen Harper, Flaherty was a Liberal before becoming an anti-Canadian extremist. . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: Here are some unintentionally hilarious excerpts from an old interview with Jim Flaherty,… SNC-Lavalin + Canadian politicians = organized crime The thoroughly corrupt SNC-Lavalin has its dirty mitts in a bunch of lucrative federal and provincial projects across Canada, despite being tainted by multiple serious infractions. Why are they allowed to operate as normal? Are they another “too big to fail” corporation? Here are a few articles about their shenanigans in recent years. Considering how rampant white collar crime and government corruption is in Canada, It’s likely that these stories barely scratch the surface. AECL sold to SNC-Lavalin Group for $15M – CityNews Algeria reels from tales of oil sector corruption – The . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: SNC-Lavalin + Canadian politicians = organized crime The thoroughly corrupt SNC-Lavalin has its… Jim Flaherty, the most incompetent finance minister in Canadian history, released his pathetic 2013 budget on March 21 and almost immediately snuck off to Hong Kong, en route to Thailand. He only stopped in Vancouver along the way – to give a scripted speech to an exclusive audience of Conservative-friendly corporate insiders. He won’t be back in parliament until at least the middle of April. Very suspicious. Flaherty understood that his piece-of-crap budget of cooked-up dollar figures and phony economic projections was indefensible, so he did what any coward would do: run away. That was no surprise. What is . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: Jim Flaherty, the most incompetent finance minister in Canadian…
Canadian Budget, Canadian economy, Canadian government, canadian journalism, Canadian media, Canadian news, Canadian Politics, Conservative government, Conservative Party, Conservatives, EAP, Economic Action Plan, free trade, globalisation, Globalization, Harper government, Jim Flaherty, stephen harper, Tories, Tory Interview with Glen “the Hamilton Kid” of the Steeltown Spoilers: The above link is to an interview with Glen “the Hamilton Kid” of the punk band Steeltown Spoilers. Glen talks about his band of course, but he also discusses the economic decline and political destruction of the city he loves. The interview reveals some real insight into to the economic and cultural situation in Hamilton since the traitor Brian Mulroney started the ball rolling on globalization, and subsequent Liberal and Conservative governments incrementally continued the class war against Canada’s workers. He speaks in plain language and tells it like . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: Interview with Glen “the Hamilton Kid” of the Steeltown Spoilers Doug Christie – racist anti-Semitic lawyer, white nationalist activist and Western separatist wannabe politician from British Columbia – died on March 11, 2013 at the age of 66 from liver disease. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Historical revisionists – and others who may be well-intended but misguided — are (sieg) heiling the Nazi sympathizer as a underdog champion of free speech in Canada, but that empathy is misplaced. Regardless of one’s stance on hate speech laws and censorship, one should never forget that Christie’s defence of free speech was extremely selective. He defended white supremacists, homophobes and Jew-haters not out . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: Doug Christie – racist anti-Semitic lawyer, white nationalist… Members of Canada’s centrist New Democratic Party (NDP) caucus sing the Stompin’ Tom Connors song “Bud the Spud”, which is about a character who — unlike the fraudulent Conservative senator Mike Duffy — lives in Prince Edward Island. The guitarists are Charlie Angus and Andrew Cash, who were professional musicians before being elected to parliament. In response to the death of Connors, our treasonous and hypocritical Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper — a terrible amateur musician and singer — said: “At this key juncture, I hope [Canadian music fans] can now build for themselves a better, brighter future based on By: Maira Sutton | Published by Electronic Frontier Foundation on Mar 1, 2013: Major announcements from the US and Canada today give a clear indication that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is coming back with a vengeance. ACTA is an agreement negotiated and signed by 11 countries, carrying intellectual property (IP) provisions that would negatively impact digital rights and innovation by ratcheting READ MORE As a follow-up to my last post, here are a few quotes about our crazy, corrupt, upside-down world. “A sane person to an insane society must appear insane” – Kurt Vonnegut “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” -George Bernard Shaw “Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.” -John Lennon “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” -Albert Einstein “In America, the criminally insane rule . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: As a follow-up to my last post, here are a few quotes about our… There’s been so much bullshit and insanity in the Canadian political scene lately, it’s hard to keep on top of it all. Here are just a few recent examples: fraud and theft being officially endorsed in the Canadian senate prime minister Stephen Harper and his stooges lying through their teeth every day in parliament Service Canada treating all Employment Insurance claimants as criminals who are guilty until proven innocent Tom Flanagan — University of Calgary brainwasher, Globe and Mail columnist, CBC pundit, Conservative Party of Canada/Alberta Wildrose Party strategist, and friend/mentor of Stephen Harper, Ezra Levant and Danielle Smith — . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: There’s been so much bullshit and insanity in the Canadian…
Action Pact, Canadian government, Canadian news, Canadian Politics, Canadian Senate, CBC, City of Toronto, Conservative Party, Harper government, Kathleen Wynne, Ontario government, ontario liberals, Ontario politics, Power & Politics, Power and Politics, Rob Ford, stephen harper, Tom Flanagan, Toronto City Council, Toronto Mayor, toronto politics Canadian Progressive Voices: I am now also an affiliate of Canadian Progressive Voices. Check it out at http://canadianprogressives.ca/ Inspired by news stories of the last week or so: What do the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the Vatican, the Canadian senate, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Conservative Party of Canada have in common? They are antiquated, dysfunctional, corrupt, racist, sexist, homophobic, elitist, perverted, deceitful, abusive, secretive, right-wing, hierarchical, criminal-like organizations that are mostly controlled by bigoted, old, rich, white, authoritarian men, yet are mostly funded by lowly, non-wealthy working people – many, or most, of whom naively hold faith that those institutions are designed to serve the general public. Those state-sanctioned gangs have directly and . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: Inspired by news stories of the last week or so:
Canadian government, Canadian police, Canadian Politics, Canadian Senate, class system, Class War, Conservative government, Conservative Party, Harper government, LA police, LAPD, Mounties, organized crime, police brutality, police corruption, pope, RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Tories, Tory, vatican A message to grassroots supporters of the Harper Conservatives (and those who are on the fence): When the Harper Cons lie, cheat, steal and commit fraud, they are doing it to you too. When they keep secrets, they are hiding important information from you too. When they waste money and expand the national debt, it is your money and debt too. When they give tax breaks and subsidies to profitable corporations and rich individuals, it is at your expense. When they ruin Canada’s reputation abroad, they are damaging your reputation too. When they abuse procedures in order to avoid accountability, . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: A message to grassroots supporters of the Harper Conservatives… By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 11, 2013: Senator Patrick Brazeau: Brazeau symbolic of Harper’s indifference to First Nations – Winnipeg Free Press Brazeau, Harper and Idle No More – The Tyee Let’s talk about punishing mentally ill – Winnipeg Free Press Brazeau Just Latest Thrown Under Bus by Harper – The Tyee Editorial: Unreformed senator – Calgary Herald Canadian Senate: READ MORE
Alberta, Canada, Canada Politics, Canadian government, Canadian Senate, Featured, First Nations, Headlines, Idle No More, Keystone XL Pipeline, media, mike duffy, NDP, News, News Watch, Now Magazine, Ottawa, Rabble.ca, RCMP, robocalls, Senator Mike Duffy, Senator Patrick Brazeau, Sovereignty, stephen harper, Tar Sands Say NO to mandatory Sun TV in Canada!: Say NO to mandatory Sun TV! Canada’s Sun News Network (aka the Scum “News” Network, aka Fox News North, aka the Conservative Broadcasting Corporation) has applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for mandatory carriage on cable and satellite TV. That means if you are a cable or satellite TV subscriber in Canada, you will be forced to pay for that fake news channel even if you don’t want it. The politically biased Sun TV (owned by Quebecor) has applied for this favoured status because they aren’t getting enough . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: Say NO to mandatory Sun TV in Canada! Here’s some 2009 footage of Canadian Conservative Senator Mike Duffy on CBC Newsworld’s Power & Politics. The title given to the Youtube video is 100% accurate: “a Drunken Mike Duffy attacks the Canadian Press, elected Members of Parliament”. I remember seeing it the first time it aired. Duffy was attempting to justify massive overspending by thieving, gluttonous, patronage-appointed senators, including himself. I don’t recall the Harper Conservatives ever doing anything to crack down on this flagrant misuse of taxpayer dollars. On the contrary, the problem seems to have gotten worse. Duffy is such a crooked, self-entitled, lying piece of crap! Mike Duffy: pig in the city Canadian senator Mike Duffy, the porcine Conservative from Ottawa, has been caught in yet another scandal, this time for falsely claiming Prince Edward Island as his primary residence and subsequently billing the Canadian taxpayers for related living expenses (more than $30,000 since 2010!). The truth is that Duffy hasn’t lived in PEI since about 1971 (a fact that is well documented by a long trail of official paperwork). His PEI residence is merely a cottage that he occasionally visits on holiday. After this discrepancy started to bubble to the surface, Duffy ordered . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: Mike Duffy: pig in the city by Green Party of Canada | Jan. 28, 2013: The Green Party of Canada is calling on the government of Canada to stand on guard against the demands of the United States (US) for extraterritorial enforcement of an American law: the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). The Government of Canada must protect our citizens and residents READ MORE Honduran Mining Law Passed and Ratified, but the Fight is Not Over by Mining Watch Canada | Jan. 24, 2013: OTTAWA – On Wednesday, January 23, 2013, the Honduran Congress quickly passed and ratified a new mining law that had been developed with support from the Canadian International Development Agency against the will of important sectors of READ MORE
Activism News, Business News, Canadian government, Canadian International Development Agency, CIDA, civil society, Conservatives, Department of Foreign Affairs, environment, Environmental Crimes, Featured, foreign policy, Guest Blog, Honduran National Coalition of Environmental Networks, Honduras, human rights, Latin America, Mining Concessions, Mining Law, Mining Watch Canada, Press release, rights, World News Julian Fantino: once a dirty cop, now a dirty politician The dishonourable Julian “Mussolini” Fantino, Canada’s minister of international cooperation, was recently busted for ordering a pro-Conservative propaganda letter (signed by him) to be published on the website of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), a non-partisan federal agency. After the MP for Vaughan was called out on his infraction, CIDA took the partisan letter off its website. In addition to being full of lies and distortions about the centrist New Democratic Party (NDP), the attack ad broke government rules by being posted on tax-funded, party-neutral, public sector . . . → Read More: The Ranting Canadian: Julian Fantino: once a dirty cop, now a dirty politician
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