Author: Kevin Wood

Is there anything more tedious than a professional contrarian with a newspaper column? You know the type, they are everywhere – those who can be relied upon to always zig when society zags just because they fancy themselves courageous rebels taking a stand for “freedom” or “common sense” by doing

Someone thinks this story should make you angry about the big bad government and how it discriminates against poor persecuted Christians and robs people of fundamental liberties with its jackbooted thugs and politically-correct commissars. In other words, it is a typical SUN news story. Naturally the story of how Michael

Then Lord Tubby would certainly get one, with crossed swords, oak leaf clusters and bar.But they don’t.People who renounce their Canadian citizenship to accept foreign honours should automatically be stripped of the Order of Canada, as should people who disgrace the Order by being convicted of serious criminal offences.They stripped

This photo of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty with Canada’s last penny cost taxpayers $56,000. That is more than many rank and file public servants make in a year. That is the annual salary of a nurse or government clerk or soldier.So, the next time you get pissed off about how long

While we in Canada had a crown-wearing Beaver for our national birthday Google Doodle, our neighbours to the south were treated to the work of one of their greatest patriots,  who would have been 100 years old on July 12. Naturally, this did not sit well with the very people

I am enjoying Aaron Sorkin’s new series The Newsroom. He pretty much had me at “It’s not” however, I will be listening for Sorokinisms Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed

WARNING: extremely foul video, do not watch while eating, digesting, considering eating, or thinking about using a bathtub, ever. I woke up yesterday morning to find the toilet overflowing and the bathtub half filled with raw sewage. No, that is not the opening line in a new blues song, that

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Members of the congregation, your attention please! We have our first ever guest post from none other than our spiritual leader of the moment aka Our Man in Abiko: Dearly beloved, agents provocateur, lost sheep, members of the choir and the Rev. Paperboy, Our Man wanted to make the purpose

The level of Star Wars geekdom involved in this bends the needle. I mean, writing the parody lyrics is one thing, even the notion of making it a rock opera. But making a seriously high quality video of it? This is a super sized, extra-large order of hot Star Wars

Yeah, we’ve got you coming and going on the whole music thing this weekend. Just click on the control bar above the radio to pause the music stream and have a look at some music videos. These first few were suggested by regular reader and hero of the revolution the

No, this is not a weather post. The weather in Southern Ontario has been great lately, hail storms notwithstanding. It has been in the mid 30s C, a little humid, but nothing compared to August in Tokyo.Those in the know will get the reference. I’ve recently passed on to Mrs.

A lot of people are claiming the immigration and citizenship minister Jason Kenney’s “Asshole-gate” is a tempest in a teapot and now that Kenney has phoned Alberta deputy premier Tom Lukaszuk to apologize for calling him an asshole in an email to CPC caucus members, we should forget the whole

Now that Team Coyne’s campaign for the Liberal leadership has come out into the light, one wonders if we can convince Parliamentary process expert, ace thumb-typer, tireless CBC news minx and hat enthusiast Kady O’Malley to run against him. With competition like this, Justin Trudeau might decide to run after

and I’m passing it all on to my kids in just this way.Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed

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