Via Buckdog is an article from an American journalist who looks at how Canada’s political discourse is travelling down the same road to incivility that now dominates US political discourse. While this type of article isn’t new, unlike other such articles on the subject this one puts the blame precisely where it belongs; on the conservatives and rightwing corporate media who use labels such as Quebecistan or Taliban Jack and hurl accusations like terrorist appeaser against anyone who doesn’t march in lockstep with the conservative agenda.

Two more Canadian soldiers were killed while fighting in a war they can’t win.