Damn Cold

This last weekend, was it only five days ago, I was wearing a spring coat and it sure as heck was warmer than -3 in fact it was a record 14 above. And now this....which is more like January norms than February. But this too shall pass and this weekend it will be warm again....

Whining and Dining with the Irvings

Crying the blues the Irving gas and oil monopoly laid off staff in Newfoundland today, six managers, and blamed the government for regulating gas and oil prices.

Mr. P3

Another example of the Harper regime planning to implement it's ideology of privatization at all costs is his appointment of Mr. P3 Michael Wilson as Canada's ambassador to the United States. He is spokesman for the The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships

Web organ donor a first in Canada

 ""In his desperate search for a kidney donor, Ken Fogelman turned to an unlikely place — the Internet.  When the 54-year-old Toronto civil servant found Jenny Oad, 31, a single medical technician from East York, willing to give him one of hers, it began a year...

New Meaning for Nanny State

Asper nanny stole $150K So the Aspers like many rich folks have a nanny. Usually they are indentured servants, slaves by any other name, who are not immigrants but brought here to work in the homes of the rich and wealthy. Nannies are the private version of day care. The...

Standard Western Racism

Not satisfied with insulting Canadian Muslims with its thinly veiled racism by republishing the Muhammed cartoons now the Western Standard in the same issue has struck another low blow by insulting the wife of the Premier, with an anti-aboriginal racist slur.

Conservative Conundrum

A less than impassioned criticism by the 'Prime Minister' of Ezra Le Rant and his Western Standard and the Jewish Free Press both of Harpers home town; Calgary.In fact it isn't a criticism at all it's a defense of Le Rant. Harper regrets publication of controversial Muhammad...

Canada's Real Prime Minister

Is this guy. Really. And you thought you voted for some new Conservative party. Ha! Just look at who got the position of Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Wilson to be next ambassador to the U.S.

:Did Air Canada dump Ezra's Western Standard?

Air Canada, which normally carries the Western Standard in its lounges and on some flights, has also decided pull this issue of the magazine.

MPs who switch parties often find themselves forgiven

"The case of Liberal renegade David Emerson has prompted anger over the idea of MPs switching parties, but history suggests voters can be forgiving of turncoats. The first MP to change parties was Stewart Campbell of Nova Scotia who made the move in September 1868, just 14...