It’s a good thing my memory is not completely shot, because I just remembered to tell you that the world will end today! Or already ended this morning! Or is about to end after supper tonight. Or something! Harold Camping, the 90-year-old leader of Family Radio International, stirred a global frenzy when he predicted that [...]

Just like Saddam Hussein, another Middle-East leader spent his last few minutes of freedom hiding in a hole in the ground! Moammar Gadhafi, like Hussein, figuratively slid back under the rock he came out from, and paid the price for his sins over the last forty two years. According to reports from multiple sources, Gadhafi [...]

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Over the course of my life I have run into people who are so smart, talented, pleasant, kind, good natured, funny and exuberant. And I have stood in complete awe of them! I have also seen people who are so ignorant, vile, corrupt, shit for brains/stupid as a doorknob – that they make me want [...]

An American woman got the shock of her life when her cell phone company hit her with a $201,000 dollar bill, after her brother left his phone on during a trip to Canada – way out of her plan’s service region. According to WSVN-TV, Celina Aarons’ bill reached the ridiculous level because of a whole [...]

Yesterday my wife found out she had to take the car in for repairs, and then take the bus home. Not that day……next Friday! She walked around the house all day yesterday in a state of vague distraction, and when it continued this morning I finally ignored my better judgment and asked her what was [...]

Late breaking news from Gander NFLD tonight! Canada’s worst air disaster occurred today when a Cessna 152, a small two seater plane, crashed into a cemetery in central Newfoundland. Newfie search and rescue teams have recovered 826 bodies so far and expect that number to climb as digging continues into the evening.

My 21 year old daughter is a constant source of amazement to me, and I have never been more proud of her than today when I read her Facebook page: “What is going on with OWS?? I’ve been watching interviews with protesters and they don’t even know what they are protesting! What is the end [...]

With all the protests and riots lately, your ever helpful, and ever hopeful scribe, has come up with the perfect way to have a protest movement here in the twenty first century! Rather than have all these different marches and sit-ins and demonstrations and movements and causes and rallies and gatherings that take place all [...]

A month after the Occupy Wall St. movement began in New York, protesters took over parts of several Canadian cities on Saturday. Protesters in marched in Calgary, Montreal, Vancouver, Halifax, Fredericton, Moncton, Guelph, Windsor, Kingston, London, Nanaimo, Courtenay, Duncan, Kelowna, Kamloops and Nelson, B.C., Lethbridge, Regina, Winnipeg and Ottawa, but the largest rally is in [...]

By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN, QMI Agency The problem with complex issues is that they’re, well, complex. Take the stand of Tea Party protesters against Big Government and the Occupy Wall Street crowd against Big Business. Many Tea Partiers condemn Occupy Wall Streeters as dirty, communist-loving hippies, while many Occupy Wall Streeters accuse Tea Partiers of being [...]

Writing and photos by Scott Snider with contributions from Derek Flack A General Assembly and info session was held last night for the Occupy Toronto action, which is set to begin Saturday morning in the Financial District. Although the specific route that marchers will take prior to their act of occupation is yet to be [...]

Dear Readers; Although I have shown my distaste for the far Right on many occasions, that doesn’t mean I have any great love for the far Left either! Globe and Mail reporter Graeme Smith made a ludicrous and asinine statement about the Taliban, and we can only thank God that Michael Petrou of MacLean’s magazine [...]

Dear Readers; Your humble scribe got this in the mail today and after a bit of research found out that the article was a HOAX! BUT! I am going to print it with the understanding that it is not true and then give my reasons at the bottom! Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia sure [...]

The Moroccan and Canadian governments have started discussions that aim to establish a free trade agreement between the countries. According to government officials on both sides, the negotiations are expected to run through October 14 in Ottawa. The discussions have been welcomed by Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway. [...]

By John Size | Daily Brew British Columbia and the Prairies had better prepare for an unwelcome house guest to move in for the winter, forecasters say. Meteorologists are calling for an early and cold winter in Western Canada, probably one of the top three coldest in the last 20 years for the West Coast. [...]

Dear Readers; Amnesty International has called on Canadian authorities to arrest and prosecute George W Bush, saying the former US president authorised “torture” as he directed the US-led war on terror. Bush is expected to attend an economic summit in Surrey in Canada’s westernmost British Columbia province on October 20. ———————————— London-based Amnesty made a [...]

Posted by Erica van Wyngaarden in International Affairs Recently, EthicalOil.org released a series of ads decrying the extraction of oil in politically oppressive and unstable nations, suggesting instead the support of Ethical Oil in the Canadian Oil Sands. These ads, as well as Ezra Levant’s concept of Ethical Oil, propose a choice: choose human rights [...]

Dear Readers; Even though this article is not about Canadian politics, it definitely bears a good look and consideration by Canadians! ————– By Robert Evans | Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) – When Switzerland goes to the polls to elect a new parliament later this month, voters in Zurich will for the first time in the country’s [...]

By Amir Alwani http://potentnews.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/crumbling-canadia… I’m sick of people thinking politics is some sort of hobby, like we can just choose to decide it doesn’t have to do with our life, death, happiness and freedom. Looking at the mechanics that underlie our world is not something I do out of boredom. To me, it seems self-evident [...]