THE LATEST AESOP'S FABLES

1.  Greece intends to pay its debts
2.  The IMF intends to make Greece pay its debts.
Greece is "in arrears", not in default.

TWISTING THE GREENIES INTO KNOTS

New CO2 rules should aid Keystone XL approval, TransCanada says

HE WHO PAYS THE PIPER...

U.S. doctors, hospitals reap $6.5 bln from drug and device makers

WHEN BEAVERS GO ROGUE

Oregon men hospitalized, recovering after rare beaver attack

GONE IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE

Alberta NDP government inherits more than $1B surplus from last budget under PCs

EEYORE SHADOWS HARPER

 ..."Every time the PM tries to pump some sunshine up the collective posterior of the electorate, the Governor of the Bank of Canada shows up and ruins things."

JT'S LATEST BRILLIANCE: GENDER QUOTA

“a Liberal cabinet will have an equal number of women and men.”

WHEN WHORES GET TOO OLD...

...they say it wasn't about the money.

MAPPING STATISTICS

22 maps of Canada as you’ve never seen it before

LIFE UNDER ISLAMIC STATE RULE

The Islamic State’s “caliphate” has evolved into an entrenched pseudo-state, based on a bureaucracy of terror

AGING AND OWING

Seniors going bankrupt in soaring numbers in Canada.

STOP WAGGING YOUR FINGER TOM

Mulcair has 'no lessons' to give on integrity, Senate speaker says

JUSTIN FINDS HIS INNER GREENIE

Trudeau says a Liberal government would put a price on carbon pollution

THREATENING MARKETING BOARDS

Ottawa plans compensation for farmers to blunt impact of trade deal

IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE A POLITICIAN...

...you're better suited to be a whore.
Toronto Sun's Anthony Furey nails it.

GETTING THE GREEN SHAFT IN ALBERTA

Notley and her NDP promised that it would, “take leadership on the issue of climate change"

MORE USELESS JOBS

Public sector jobs increased more than private sector over decade

SINGLE MEN SCARCE IN BC?

B.C. gets go-ahead to pursue polygamy charge against Winston Blackmore

SIGNING THE TRANS PACIFIC TRADE AGREEMENT

Harper poised to sign Pacific Rim trade deal, putting safe rural ridings in play

LANGUAGE SKIRMISH IN LONGUEUIL QUE.

The mayor of Longueuil, Que., wants the province to amend Bill 101 so no English can be spoken during city council meetings

...AND DON'T COME BACK!

Australia says it will reveal new laws stripping citizenship from dual nationals engaged in terrorism.

RIGHT BACK AT YA

Trudeau’s comments ‘outrageous and offensive': Uppal

30 YEARS SINCE AIR INDIA BOMBING

Air India bombers still torment their victims.

THE INNOCENCE OF VLAD

An interview with Vladimir Putin: An exercise in control

THE HORROR!!!

'Man riding a moose' video under investigation in B.C.

LAUGH!

Hinterland spiders on drugs; a short video.

MORE BRILLIANCE FROM THE DAUPHIN

Trudeau blames Harper for fumbling Canada’s key relationship with U.S.

FOR SOCCER FANS

Canada is on the move at the Women's World Cup, headed to the quarter-finals thanks to a 1-0 win over Switzerland

AT HIS BEST ON THE SIDELINES

 During the last question period attended by all three leaders before the election campaign, PM Harper and Mulcair engaged in a verbal sparring match. The dynamic was fascinating — while those two men duked it out on a series of issues, Trudeau was a spectator.

  

SURE, THAT'LL WORK

Rise of the rude: Public service executives urge 'civility' policy

CONTACTING THE CANADA REVENUE AGENCY

The CRA says busy signals actually save people time by encouraging them to call back rather than stay on hold.

RESPECT IS EARNED, VLAD

Speaking at his signature economic forum, Putin went on at length about how respect on the international stage was important to Russia

NORTH AMERICAN CAMELS

Miners in north-western Canada have discovered ice age camel bones whose DNA is forcing scientists to redraw the family tree of the now-extinct species.

CALLING EARTH

The comet lander Philae has awoken from a seven-month hibernation and managed to communicate with Earth for more than a minute, the European Space Agency said Sunday.

JOHN TORY IS EXCITED!

 Toronto’s “enthusiasm” for the 2015 Pan Am Games will come, Mayor John Tory predicted Friday.

HEY WYNNE, HEY COUILLARD, HEY TRUDEAU !

Benedict's talking about you!

CHALLENGING THE IPCC

The IPCC and others blame CO2 for increases in sea levels, ignoring evidence that shows the sun to be the cause.  H/T SDA

BIG AL'S TRAVELLING BULLSH*T SHOW

Global warming’s guru Al Gore, will be in Canada next month, speaking at the rather grandly named “Climate Summit of the Americas” organized by Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne.

SURE, THAT'LL WORK

Use fur trade-trade model to fix Canada's Aboriginal woes, Louie says.

SOMETIMES THE BEST DEFENCE...

...is to have your buddy shut his mouth.
The Ottawa Citizen's Andrew Cohen shakes his pom-poms for Evan 'Oink' Solomon.

ONTARIO : OLD ASSINIBOINE WORD MEANING....

..."happy humping grounds soon go like buffalo herds"

"BUILD A CABIN"

The ultra-wealthy are  preparing with the doomsday bunker for billionaires.

THE BUZZ

About allowing beekeepers on your property in Ontario.

THE HIGH COST

Snakebites aren't cheap.

DRIVERLESS TRUCKS

Coming soon to the oil patch.

WHAT CAN BE SAID? OTHER THAN...

When whores get too  old.

**Feel free to write a poem***

800 YEARS OF THE MAGNA CARTA

Two clauses, 39 and 40, remain on the United Kingdom’s statute books and are at the heart of the legal and constitutional basis of all the Anglosphere’s common law nations.

STEYN: CLIMATE CHANGE FRAUD

 The warm-mongers have declared that there is, in fact, no warming "pause", no "hiatus".

WHAT'S THIS? A LIBERAL PRESS RELEASE?...

...WHY DON'T I USE IT TO WRITE AN ARTICLE FOR THE STAR??
Robert Benzie, Queen's Park Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star, born and raised in The Big Smoke and a post-secondary graduate of JOURNALISM school, weighs in on the neonicotinoid debate, and Ontario's new defacto-ban by effectively regurgitating government propaganda. 
The pesticide hinders the ability of bees — and 400 other pollinator species like birds and butterflies — to navigate, feed, or reproduce.
Scientists must cite credible research when making such claims, but not Toronto "journalists", evidently.
As Kate is wont to say over at SDA, we need a famine.

TIME FOR AN OPEN SEASON

Worst U.S. bird flu outbreak in history expands to Michigan; traced to Canada Geese

DR. TIM BALL RALLYING THE SKEPTICS

Environment Canada deliberately excluded Canadian climate experts – something that continues to this day. Climate change became political and unaccountable because bureaucrats at EC controlled it.

SMOKIN' THE GREEN DOPE

Alden Meyer, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in a statement that the agreement is a sign that "the end of the fossil fuel era is inevitable, and the dawning of the age of renewables is unstoppable.

CANADIAN EXPORTS

Seal penis sales part of plan sent to Fisheries Department

FIFA SOCCER: CANADIAN WOMEN WIN 1ST GAME

Canada captain Christine Sinclair pulls out the win with dying-minutes penalty kick

IGNORANT & DANGEROUS BEHIND THE WHEEL:

Tougher penalties coming for distracted drivers in Ontario

DOES IKEA STOCK CABIN KITS?

Sweden spirals downward.
h/t SDA (and tj230)

BANISHING THE BEAR

Stephen Harper says Russia can't rejoin G-7 with Putin in power

CONTAGIOUS STINK

Kathleen Wynne’s controversies are a weight on Trudeau’s Liberals

CANADIANS HELPING UKRAINE

Harper arrives in Germany for G7 summit; promises to champion the  plight of Ukraine in its fight against Russian-backed rebels a top summit priority.

WATCHING TOO MANY SCI-FI SHOWS

"Climate Security": assessments say drought, flooding, massive storms and famines could cause widespread displacement of populations and food shortages, sparking wars and conflict.  Cue the drums of doom.

WHEN WHORES GET TOO OLD...

...they bite and scratch their former best slut friends.

DON'T BRING YOUR TATTOOS...

...to a swordfish fight.
“He was a tough guy, he was such a tough guy that everyone’s scared of him, the whole harbor’s scared of him,”

THE SNEAK BEHIND THE CURTAIN

Ontario Premier Wynne has pulled an iron curtain over Hydro One, ensuring one of the largest privatizations in the province’s history will unfold in secret.

JUST ANOTHER LIBERAL MONEY GRAB

Ontario’s largest business group is warning of the “unintended consequences” of  Wynne’s new provincial pension plan

THE BUSINESS OF MEDICINE

MDs getting paid up to $350 per patient for medical marijuana referrals, despite bans

WHEN WHORES GET TOO OLD

They hang out a M.D. shingle and sell you dope based on b*llshit studies.