Lord Emperor Blackburn, Conservative MP for the riding of the Death Star whose resemblance to a certain Star Wars villain is well-documented, has become the second Conservative Cabinet Minister over the last couple weeks to lose their shit at an airport over something hilariously petty!
You see, apparently Jean-Pierre Blackburn just loves tequila. He loves it [...]
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Hello, I realize that I’m way too drunk to be writing right now.
I wrote this whole huge long thing.
But, goddamn, I wasn’t even making any sense.
So I just deleted it all and decided I’d write this to apologize.
I was supposed to be liveblogging Harper’s Youtube appearance, but reading this over, I was basically just hurling [...]
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Over the past year, Twitter has been adopted as the tool of choice for cutting-edge Members of Parliament to connect with their constituents about political positions, breaking Parliamentary news and the inside scoop on Government issues.
Failing that, Twitter’s used for 140-character partisan snipes and announcing what MPs had for breakfast.
According to the fantastic site Politwitter, [...]
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What’s the hottest, safest political position for Ottawa politicians to take these days? “Support our troops”? “We gotta invest in our children”? “Help out Main Street, not Wall Bay Street”? “Job creation is our priority”?
Nope! The trendy position for hot politicians who want to be seen is “I fucking love seals getting their heads smacked [...]
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Former Conservative MP and husband of Helena “Happy Fucking Birthday” Guergis is reportedly recovering in the hospital, nursing lacerations to his lower hand after receiving a VICIOUS slap on the wrist from Ontario courts!
Jaffer, you’ll remember, was busted last year for plowing through a village with a 50 KM/h speed limits doing 93 clicks, being [...]
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I was going to write a SERIOUS BUDGET RESPONSE, like everyone else’s doing, but that just wouldn’t suit our… style. Instead, here’s this.
On Monday, two older men – their hair graying, their eyes full of doe-eyed innocence – stepped back in front of the cameras with their finest suits freshly dry-cleaned, ready to return to [...]
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A new trend is sweeping the nation: contemporary music with increasingly sexist themes is being heard from coast to coast, and little is being done about it. A hit song called “O Canada”, written by Quebecois rapper Calixa Lavallee in 1880, is spreading its message of sexist hatred across the nation. This song’s vulgar message [...]
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