Netanyahu and Harper: A Dynamic Duo
Israeli Conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retains his position after a divisive election campaign. The leader of the right wing Likud Party has seen plummeting popularity in his native land; the in...
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...
10 Jobs John Baird May Have After Resigning
Canada's favourite angry man is sadly leaving his post as Minister of Foreign Affairs. His tenure was marked famously by cats, yelling, and other stuff. While John Baird is not telling folks where he is going n...
Harper Sends Mixed Messages about Scotland, Foreign Aid, Sociology
This week, the Harper government approached the NATO conference in Wales with reservations about spending more money on foreign commitments. However, in true Canadian style, they agreed to give more after all—...
To Tweet or not to Tweet: John Baird in Hot Water Over Mostly-English Tweets
This week on A Huge Waste of Taxpayer Dollars, we learn that official language commissioner Graham Fraser is investigating a formal complaint that Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird doesn’t tweet equally in bo...
Canada takes aid away from Sudan when it needs it most
Throughout the course of recent developmental history, it seems as though the entire world has been living a lie. That’s right; Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, and any other international development and ai...