Weekly Recap Archives - Page 18 of 79

Stéphane Dion Calls Out Federal Ministers for Monolingual Tweets

A picture is worth 140 characters. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld Twitter: the place where celebrities’ inane thoughts are limited to 140 characters of stupidity. That being said, it is only nat...

NDP’s Pat Martin Nearly Loses Vote Because his Underwear are “Clearly too Small”

Pat Martin, vigilante against “rat-faced whores” and Public Works nearly caused the failure of a vote to adjourn parliamentary debate due to his tight underwear. Yes, in our nation’s highest forum for political...

Drug Shortages To Be Listed

The Harper Government is making it mandatory for drug companies to post public notices when they are running out of a given drug. For years, doctors, patients, and Canada’s medical organizations have been lobby...

R.I.P. Sun News 2011-2015

It’s sad to see businesses die young. In the case of Sun News, however, fewer tears might be shed at their passing, simply because that’s the reason they’re shutting down. They couldn't get enough people to tun...

Sun News Network Goes Down Swinging

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - Shakespe...

Prentice Put In Pickle Pondering Provincial Sales Tax

It’s been a strange few months for Canadians at the pump; drivers might have wondered whether a group of hoodlum kids swiped the “1” from its position in the front of gas prices. Since the fall, Canada has seen...

Government Marijuana Campaign Cost Was High

As the semester resumes, the intoxicating scent of marijuana begins to waft across the quad. Sadly, this aroma is overshadowed by the reek of shit that rolls across the country from Ottawa. When Liberal MP S...

A Breakdown of the Baird Resignation

Last Monday, Rick Roth—presumably the lisp-stricken cousin of a famous rapper, but more notably the spokesperson for Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird—announced that Baird would soon resign from the Harper...

Eve Adams Crosses Floor to Liberals, CPC Says They Didn’t Want Her Anyway

With a single tweet, the whole Canadian media-sphere blew over. Was it the cabinet shuffle? No, that happened but nobody cared. It was Eve Adams VI: Return of Eve Adams (Again): Pleased today to welc...

Infrastructure? Bah, Humbug says Joe Oliver

Christmas may have come and gone, but Canada’s unrepentant Scrooge is still hard at work. Joe Oliver, successor to the late Jim Flaherty, recently found himself in a(nother) feud with the provinces, this time o...