Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has dropped a bombshell in international political circles with a major, groundbreaking announcement settling centuries of debate: Santa Claus is a Canadian citizen.
The repercussions for us as Canadians cannot be understated.
For those not familiar with Santa Claus, he is a man who lives at the North Pole building toys, only to [...]
Filed under: holidays | Comments (10) Article tags: christmas, holidays, jason kenney, jim flaherty, lisa raitt, peter mackay, rob nicholson, santa claus, tony clement, too much egg nog
[SCENE - Interior, Tony Clement's office. Tony's desk is strewn with empty Tim Hortons cups, as Tony grins happily standing in the foreground"]
TONY: Hello my fellow Canadians, I’m Tony Clement, MP for Parry Sound-Muskoka, Minister of Industry, as well as my newly-appointed title, Minister of Twitter.
[Tony grabs a Blackberry from his pocket and begins furiously tapping, cut [...]
Filed under: Rejected sketch comedy scripts | Comments (8) Article tags: census, ignatieff, scripts, telemarketing, tony clement, tories
Tony Clement is our favourite Cabinet Minister. He’s unashamedly geek-chic like a Judd Apatow character, he’s thoroughly unwilling to take any of your shit, he’s not a loony-bin Reform righty, he shows up on radio talk shows to make poop and weiner jokes, and he rocks Twitter so hard it made Ashton Kutcher jealous. But [...]
Filed under: Current Events | Comments (6) Article tags: aquaman, drowning, muskoka, statscan, tony clement, water safety
Have you heard? There’s a small summit coming up around June 26-27 called the G20, in which the 20 coolest world finance leaders (suck it, #21!) get to convene in the small town of Toronto to complain about other countries, get in a dick-size contest about the strength of their financial systems, and enjoy free snacks. Generally the resources [...]
Filed under: Current Events, MapleRag Local Beat | Comments (4) Article tags: abortion, blue jays, fake lake, g20, g8, huntsville, mammoth erections, muskoka, riots, summit, tony clement, toronto
Back in the pre-Youtube days – a phrase that sounds so quaint and old-fashioned you’d might as well be starting a sentence with “so I got my Van Halen 8-track stuck in my Geo Metro” – funny videos were hard to come by on the web. You’d have to use Yahoo, or Lycos, or Altavista [...]
Filed under: The Interweb, YouTube Adventures | Comments (8) Article tags: arnold schwarzenegger, commercials, infomercial, question period, slap chop, tony clement, vince, youtube
In a move designed to “shake up” the stagnant world of the Canadian parliament, Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager Brian Burke announced a blockbuster trade deal today to send Parliament stars Tony Clement and Martha Hall Findlay to the United States Congress in exchange for prospects Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-ND), Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), [...]
Filed under: Maple Products, Spoooorts, satire | Comments (8) Article tags: america, brian burke, congress, hockey, jim jordan, maple leafs, martha hall findlay, parliament, sports, stephanie herseth sandlin, tony clement, trade
Here we see Tony Clement, Conservative Member for the riding of Twitter, taking a stupid picture with his stupid camera-phone-blackberry-photo-gadget of Canada’s sweetheart, Barbara Ann Scott, as she looks ready to set parliament on fire in accordance with the wishes of most Canadians.
Tony, you look like a doofus. Instead of smiling and applauding like a [...]
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Our stunning realization that Dean Del Mastro was a distant relative of Peter Griffin made us think about how it would be a great way to have fun (and make fun!) if we started a series where we found the long-lost relatives of Canadian MPs. Here’s part one in our new favourite game! (It’s also [...]
Filed under: Fun and games, Maple Products | Comments (9) Article tags: claude debellefeuille, jean pierre blackburn, leon benoit, lois brown, long lost twin, mark holland, mps, rob anders, separated at birth, tony clement