Failed prime ministerial candidate Stephane Dion was raving in the House of Commons again today.
“Why has the Prime Minister refused to act to put our economy back on the rails?”
He sounded the same theme in this evening’s out-of-focus address to CBC viewers. (CTV’s Lloyd Robertson sheepishly and apologetically signed off without showing it because [...]

Red ink is too “aggressive”.  It might offend the kids’ delicate sensibilities.
Queensland’s Deputy Opposition Leader Mark McArdle told parliament today that teachers were being advised to reconsider their pen choice because it may offend children.
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“Given your 10-year-old Labor government presides over the lowest numeracy and literacy standards of any state in Australia, don’t you think [...]

Jeremy Akerman sat in Nova Scotia’s legislature as leader of the provincial NDP for ten years, but he is adamantly opposed to the Liberal-NDP-Bloc coalition. Here is the full text of his letter in yesterday’s Halifax Chronicle-Herald.
My political sins are in full view for all to see: Fifteen years a member of the NDP [...]

Journalism Doctor John Miller has responded to Mark Steyn’s latest challenge with a conciliatory gesture—sort of. He acknowledges Mr Steyn’s verification of a contentious quotation from Ayatollah Khomeini, but maintains that Steyn presents his views in a way that is unfair to Muslims.
Strangely, Miller even claims that there are essential differences between two independent [...]

Thirty million children in northern Nigeria are to be immunised against polio and measles, even though “radical Muslim clerics and some medical doctors” claim the vaccines are part of an American plot to sterilise girls and depopulate the world.
For five days 200,000 health workers will be stationed at 33,000 schools throughout northern Nigeria to administer [...]

Isn’t the purpose of a regional health authority to provide health services?  Nova Scotia’s Capital Health District seems to have trouble with that concept.
Capital district health authority administrators said Tuesday they’re planning to cope with a projected $7-million budget deficit by authorizing, among other things, lighter schedules for operating rooms, less discretionary spending, reductions to [...]

A man in Vernon, BC, has been found guilty of defamation for opinions expressed in his own home.  Jack Aasen and his wife invited a stranger into their house who led them to believe he was thinking of moving to the neighbourhood.  In fact, he was a private investigator hired by Brad Chapman, the owner [...]