Author: gritchik

The always stellar Anders slept through a committee presentation about helping homeless soldiers earlier this week. The president of Veterans Emergency Transition Services says the tired MP arrived late, texted for a bit and then proceeded to sleep through the rest of the meeting. This isn’t the first time Anders

My dad would’ve been 71 today had he lived. Seventy-one. He died before I was even out of diapers but I’m told he doted on me, his only daughter. His only child. Growing up, his death was shrouded in secrecy and I knew, somehow, not to ask questions. Instead, I

Today, I defended a man, a Minister of the Crown, whom I dislike.  But what I dislike more are the sewer tactics being used against him under the guise of opposing Bill C-30.  This story has been circulating around Ottawa for years and now, it seems, people have found a

Yes, that’s right. Now that PMSH has his much coveted majority, that’s where we’re heading. One of his backbench mouth-breathers is introducing a private member’s bill to study when exactly a fetus is “human.” Stephen Woodworth is aggressively pro-life – make no mistake, his goal is to make abortion illegal

NDP newbie MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau is seeking a Parliamentary Assistant.  I was a little hard on Ms. Brosseau during last spring’s federal election. I don’t apologize for it – my points were valid – but I’m surprised by the beating this young MP is taking – on Twitter, Facebook

“For the second time in [a] year, a Toronto playwright has felt the chilling reach of the federal Conservatives…” Wouldn’t it be great if the Opposition parties would get their collective shit together and hold this government accountable? Just sayin’.

Because it would put them out of business. Now they’re complaining that the 30% tuition cut promised, and delivered, by the Liberal government isn’t good enough. It seems that the CFS would rather everyone get a 13% reduction, including international students, no matter how high their family income. Look, I

The ten pounds Ford recently lost is rumoured to have been shed from between his ears.      

Perhaps it’s because I’ve been really, really poor (which now seems like a lifetime ago) or perhaps it’s because I don’t like wasting money or maybe even because I hate seeing others getting ripped off, too, but I am sick of these bloody electronic scanning systems that seem to just

I got there late, so here’s my abbreviated take on the whole thing. – As has already been said ad nauseum, the Liberal Party is alive and kicking. Walking onto the convention floor and looking out at literally thousands of members, was amazing. And at a policy convention, no less.

Campaign Life Coalition is at it again, handing out a slick flyer this past weekend, full of unattributed “facts,” demanding the government defund abortion because “it is an elective procedure and not medically necessary.” These pro-life zealots don’t believe that abortion should be funded in any case. If the woman

I’d be happier about this if Via Rail didn’t call their passengers liars in the news stories about the Smiths Falls incident. I’m quite happy to swear an affidavit that everything I said was the truth. Oh yeah, they’re still getting the bill for my cab fare to Ottawa. Good

          I decided to head to Ottawa for the last day of the LPC policy convention (I have no love of policy but my partner was there and I’d get to see old friends that I never get to otherwise). So, after debating whether to travel

I found this column online yesterday, which intrigued me. Back in the day – and I mean back, way back – more than two decades ago, I spent some time in the modeling industry. I wasn’t very good at it partly because I found it stupid, partly because my face,

Take that all you ignorant, anti-gay, social conservative jerks.

Get a load of this: The GOP presidential hopeful recently attended a town hall at a Dublin, New Hampshire private school where he preached his wisdom on what, exactly, makes a good father.  In a word? Straight. As in heterosexual. Full stop. “Marriage is not a right,” Santorum said. “It’s

It’s only fitting that my first post of the new year, be a look back to the last.  Being the nerd I am, I love analytics so here are the basics from 2011. Most viewed post:  A very conservative Christmas message. In just under 48 hours this video was shared hundreds

We decided to see a movie tonight (apparently most of Toronto did, too), specifically, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.  For those of you unfamiliar with the books or haven’t heard anything about this movie, it is, without question, unsuitable for children.  Hell, it was probably unsuitable for me.  Rated

It’s too bad nobody warned you.  Oh, wait… From the Globe’s Gerald Caplan: There was never a Trudeauland or Mulroneyland or Chrétienland, but as The Globe’s Lawrence Martin has made us understand, there is already a Harperland whose nature is quite apparent. Like the American conservatives whom the Harperites so