Feel that? A rush of warm air in the frigid, dry winter air? That hot tingle running up your leg? Feeling all fuzzy inside? It’s ELECTION SPECULATION FEVER SEASON! Have you got the FEVER?
The Conservatives have introduced their new Human Smuggling bill, and everyone hates it! The Liberals and NDP are gonna vote against it! [...]

Today in Kabul we’re expecting a  balmy high of 38 celsius, overnight low of 0, chance of raining shrapnel stands at 20%, chance of a Canadian pullout in 2011… ehhhh… depends who you ask.
The Harper government’s original plan was to abandon all military operations in Afghanistan by 2011, a war Canada had entered to kill [...]

Your Government advertises on porn sites. The Liberals are outraged. Also, there are naked ladies on the computer-machines, and you should be outraged.
That’s the storyline, but let’s break it down.
First of all, by “Government”, we mean the two saddest little lumps of apathetic-shrugs that make up your tax dollars this side of the CBC: Canada [...]

Your MapleRag – Canada’s only news source, by decree of the Queen – got EXCLUSIVE journalistic access to the final CP24 Toronto mayoral debate, because we’re very important and journalistic. We even got to sit in the front row, taking forbidden Blackberry pictures. Not only that, we had better seats than CityTV anchordouche Gord Martineau! [...]

Boy, sure has been a pretty depressing failure of a week for Canada’s international image, huh? Without even getting into the public tongue-wagging from the UAE (Hey, “Camp Mirage”, there’s a top-secret base name that won’t arouse any suspicion), let’s get into our symbolic depantsing at the United Nations and our symbolic wet willy-ing in Delhi:
INSECURITY [...]

September 11th was this past weekend, and unless you sell commemorative airbrushed XXL t-shirts with balds eagle crying American-flag-patterned tears or are Glenn Beck planning another one of your stupid shouty circlejerks for fat old idiots, 9/11 is kind of a shitty, awkward day. I just wish they would skip it and go straight from [...]

Yeehaw, it’s a news roundup!
Parliament’s on summer vacation and all of the MPs are away at politician summer camp, roasting marshmallows, having inter-party water-balloon fights and telling spooky ghost stories about the Reform Party coming back from the dead. That means no real national political news is happening these days (unless you’re Australian, what in the [...]

For the past week, we’ve been hearing about a boat full of Tamil refugees slowly inching towards our shores, reported in the same dire tone you’d expect from Tokyo TV on news that Godzilla had once again risen from the Sea of Japan. As this rusty barge full of impoverished, hungry third-world refugees slowly made [...]