Tees made up by my man Hallice at tobeseen.ca! On sale at our Ottawa show tomorrow night at the Elmdale!

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Here.

(And, no SFH isn’t on there.  During the round-robin, we deliberately threw our guitars at the netting to ensure we got a shitty band to go against in the semi-finals.  We were disqualified.  But come to our gig anyway! We’re raising money for Pussy Riot’s defence!)

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I (and one other, who wants to tell her story) warned plenty of folks.  They didn’t listen.

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I haven’t lived full-time in Calgary since 1987, when I graduated from law school, but who cares! If “Calgary Joe” can run, so can I! Anyone else wanna run with me?  Even a quick stopover at Calgary International Airport counts towards the residency requirement in the CPC!  C’mon – it’ll be fun!

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And, when the CRG starts digging into the private lives of Liberal leadership candidates, as they now will, the Grits won’t be able to say a bloody word about it.  Because they brought this guy back.  What a joke.

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A few days ago, Jon Latvis got in a bit of PR trouble. Anti-Racist Canada spotted a photo of Latvis, in full stormtrooper regalia, meeting with Toronto mayor Rob Ford. They sent the picture to me, and Ford and his staff ended up having (another) bad day.

Latvis, too. The guitarist for neo-Nazi band Rahowa was upset about the attention. He wrote me an email suggesting that the swastika tattoo on his arm wasn’t, er, a swastika.

Latvis also called the Sun newsroom, and they assigned a police beat guy to write up Latvis’ complaint. He was threatening to sue, the Sun guy told me. Let him sue, I said. You need a reputation before you can sue for damage to it, I said.

Latvis was delighted by the resulting story, I am told, and I could see why. He was basically permitted to lie his face off, and also claim that he didn’t know what Rahowa was singing about during the many years he performed with them. He denied being an anti-Semite and a white supremacist, too.

So, the good ARC folks got to work. Their posting is found here.

Personally, I still think a picture is worth 1,000 words. In Latvis’ case, the pictures below also eliminate any doubt whatsoever about who Jon Latvis really is, and what he stands for. They also make clear he’s a liar and a creep.

So, sue away, Latvis. I’m bored, at the moment, and need some entertainment. You’ll do.

Latvis’ web site, wherein he says he played with Rahowa, which means “racial holy war.”

Latvis, left, with Nazi skins at Tri-City show in 2001. Look like a fascist salute to you? Me, too.

Latvis onstage in 2001. Blood and Honour is an international neo-Nazi music network.  The Celtic Cross above his shoulder signifies racial separation.  It’s also the logo for Stormfront, the biggest global hate site.

The view of the stage at a gig Latvis performed at in 2005. That’s a swastika on the left, of course.

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It’s going to be a schmozzle. A circus. A travesty.

In other words, the usual.

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Right on cue.  I didn’t know Marois was going to say this, but I certainly anticipated it in my Sun column, filed this morning and out on Sunday:

“Two: global, national and sub-national economies will continue to slide.  Unemployment will go up, growth will go down. In Quebec – where Stephen Harper is the most detested Prime Minister in generations – the PQ will do what it has done many times in the past: it will blame far-away anglophone Ottawa for Quebec’s economic woes.”

Here we go.

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From Tim Juhlke, timothyjuhlke2@hotmail.com, an instant classic!

So anyone who actually wants to defend this nation is a nose breather you pathetic left wing bitch. Diversity is a weakness you traitor piece of shit. You and your like are the biggest enemies the western world has. Japan, Russia and the Ukraine are smarther than lefties. Third world immigration is an influx of destruction, welfare and criminality. Those nations recognize that. You blame economics for Black crime, Blame black culture moron. If you think you can simply give our nation away without a fight dream on. You need to go you low IQ scumbag. If they try an Obama trip here it will be destroyed. You need to be slapped out you fucking pathetic excuse for a man. This country was made by white people for white people and if you don’t like it get the fuckout.

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L’etat, c’est lui.

That Stephen Harper is the undisputed leader in Canadian politics — that he utterly dominates the landscape, in a way no one else does — is a fact. It is also a blessing and a curse for the Conservative Party of Canada.

It is a blessing in the sense that Harper, more than any other person, is responsible for all of his party’s successes. It has been a long time in the making. About a decade ago, Harper commenced working on a three-step plan to transform Canada.

First, he brought together the warring factions of the right. He convinced Reformers and Progressive Conservatives that, unless they came together as a single conservative force, the Liberals would continue to beat them.

Second, Harper set to work on destroying the brand of the most successful political machine in western democracy, the Liberal party.

Harper knew his principal rival was, and remains, the Grits. Over a decade, Harper has methodically deconstructed the Liberals, to the point where the once Natural Governing Party is a rump in the House of Commons.

Finally, Harper has moved his party to the centre, and shed much of the racism and extremism that once was synonymous with the Reform Party. He now has the most ethnically diverse caucus in the House of Commons, and he has purged most of the rednecked mouth-breathers who dominated his caucus. Just a few weeks ago, he mercilessly put down a social conservative attempt to reopen the abortion debate.

His successes are myriad. So, too, his adversaries. Their corpses — Dion, Ignatieff, Rae and others — litter the political landscape.

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