Weekly Recap Archives - Page 31 of 79

MP Spending Sprees: Where Budget Surplus Goes

An election is certainly just around the corner as MPs traipse across country with open pocketbooks! Government MPs, that is. Those in the Opposition couldn’t get you a single penny unless they gave it to you ...

Petition to Return Horny Satan Statue to Vancouver

As a political satirist, there are good days and there are bad days. Sometimes the news is as stale as the dust bowl that sits atop Harper’s head, while other times the absurdity flows like the bountiful brown ...

The Chronicles of Rob Ford: A Timeline

.postlayout-fullwidth .post-column article { padding: 0px; } .postbody-wrapper { border-top: 1px solid #EFEFEF; margin: 0px 0px; } Rob Ford is no longer running for Mayor of Toronto, but his ...

NDP Promises New Federal Minimum Wage

This weekend, NDP leader Tom Mulcair announced another part of his plan to NDP-ify Canada, should he win the next election. He plans to re-instate the Federal Minimum Wage and push it all the way up to 15$ an h...

Harper Ratifies Canada-China FIPA

Everyone has had a babysitter that overstepped its authority. If not, surely each can recall the moment when the elementary school teacher put a student in charge of the class when she left the room. What happe...

Rob Ford Quits Toronto Mayoral Race, Doug to Run Instead

Stuck in a hospital and stuck in the polls, Rob Ford has officially ended his campaign to become the next Mayor of Toronto—not that being stuck in the polls had anything to do with it. Toronto’s all-but-castrat...

Tina Fontaine and Harper’s Non-Sociology

In August, Stephen Harper claimed that Tina Fontaine’s murder shouldn’t be viewed “as a sociological phenomenon,” but as a “crime” (note: if you want to hear a funny joke, read that last sentence again). Howev...

Hamilton Bans Milk in School, Brings Epipens to Food Courts

In Hamilton, the words “food fight” no longer inspire scenes of a bloody Caesar (the Roman leader or the alcoholic beverage; both are equally tyrannical and messy). There will be no more throwing of milk carton...

Canadian Nazi Party Founder Campaigning for Municipal Office in Ontario Cottage Country

I’m one of the few Caucasians I know who doesn’t have a cottage. After years of spending my long weekends in the city while nearly every white person I know flocks to a country home, I’ve started to equate the...

Harper to Address the UN

Stephen Harper, fresh faced and rosy cheeked from discovering one of the Franklin expedition ships, will address the United Nations later this month for the first time in three years. However, he won’t take par...