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Hey… it’s free speech!

30 September, 2008 (18:33) | Political Beaver | By: James Headley

The New Democrats are standing by a B.C. candidate who has come under scrutiny for her beliefs about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The Liberals say Bev Collins, who is running in Cariboo-Prince George, should quit because of her association with a movement that believes 9/11 was the result of a conspiracy.
In a radio interview last [...]

30 September, 2008 (18:25) | Political Beaver, why some of my best friends are... | By: James Headley

Douchebag.

This is Michael Kandola. He is an assmunch. His idea of a good time, other than apparently having his eyebrows threaded, is to attack queer men for giggles on a Saturday morning.
Feel free to spit on him, just don’t get any on that fabulous shirt he’s wearing.
Vancouver police Const. Tim Fanning said the evidence suggests [...]

Musings on Dion

28 September, 2008 (17:06) | Political Beaver, why some of my best friends are... | By: James Headley

Rex Murphy hosted an hour long ‘Conversation with Canadians’ piece on the Cbc this afternoon, which the wife and I managed to catch on our trip home from the Okanagan. I have to say, I was quite impressed with the man… by no means far enough to tear me away from my die-hard NDP support, [...]

RCMP: Dudes, if it’s gonna make us look bad…

19 September, 2008 (16:08) | Political Beaver, Servin' and Protectin' via the gun barrel | By: James Headley

We just won’t participate?
The RCMP won’t fully participate in a public inquiry into the death of a Polish immigrant who died shortly after he was jolted with a police Taser at the Vancouver airport if the officers involved could still face charges, a RCMP spokesman said Thursday.
The second phase of the inquiry into Robert Dziekanski’s [...]

Phoque!

19 September, 2008 (15:38) | Music, Political Beaver | By: James Headley

Haha!

Getting what we paid for…

18 September, 2008 (16:36) | Political Beaver, Ungrateful Dead World Tour, seriously | By: James Headley

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said Wednesday he will allow the release of a report on the cost of the Afghan war, despite concerns it could sway voters in the federal election.
Parliament’s budget officer, Kevin Page, tallied the full cost of the mission since it began six years ago and wanted to make his findings public [...]

A noun, a verb and a safe-injection site…

18 September, 2008 (16:02) | Political Beaver, what the christ!?! | By: James Headley

Yes, let’s bring the fantastically successful War on Drugs(tm) to the Downtown Eastside
Tough policing is the answer to solve the problems on Vancouver’s crime-ridden and drug-addled Downtown Eastside, according to Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City.
He also said it was a “terrible mistake” to have facilities such as Insite. At the small [...]

Sensible Solutions…

16 September, 2008 (16:11) | Political Beaver, salsa and socialism, why some of my best friends are... | By: James Headley

An NDP government would forgive the student loans of new family doctors who remain in general practice at least 10 years, NDP Leader Jack Layton pledged on Monday.
The debt amnesty is part of the party’s proposed health-care plan, which calls for $1 billion over five years to increase the number of medical students across the [...]

Union busting…

16 September, 2008 (15:41) | Political Beaver, salsa and socialism | By: James Headley

Union officials are outraged after a group of migrant farmworkers who were harvesting vegetables in Abbotsford were sent back to Mexico after filing papers to unionize.
United Food and Commercial Workers Canada alleges Floralia Plant Growers in Abbotsford put 14 migrant workers on a plane back home the day after the owners found out about their [...]

ee cummings had the right idea…

15 September, 2008 (14:23) | Bloggers, Fiddlin' while the Republic burns, Man in a box, Political Beaver, Servin' and Protectin' via the gun barrel, Things I done stole | By: James Headley

To hell with capitalism  
Not going to weigh in here with any heady predictions or even poke blindly at what is actually going on with financial markets today. To those who may be watching the talking heads and pundits… stick figures never lie.
In other news, Pakistani soldiers begin clappin’ back at US cross border [...]