Author: Matt Guerin

I’m disappointed that Canada has another climate change denier going to Ottawa in Pat Perkins, the new Conservative MP for Whitby-Oshawa.  But I was impressed with the ability of Liberal candidate Celina Caesar-Chavannes to increase her party’s support from 14% in 2011 to 41% yesterday.   The same NDP candidate

This Martin Regg Cohn opinion piece pretty much sums up most of my thoughts on Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, whose unfortunate leadership was renewed yesterday by skeptical NDP delegates at their Toronto convention.  She may have a feisty and engaging personality, but as we saw in the last provincial

It’s extremely rich of Harper Conservatives to be complaining about political smears coming from their political opponents in the Whitby-Oshawa byelection, which takes place tomorrow to fill the seat formerly held by Jim Flaherty. The Harperites perfected the ruthless tactic of launching multi-million dollar negative ad campaigns to attack their

What a remarkable contrast!   As we know, Stephen Harper has such tight restrictions at his events, only card-carrying Conservatives with long party histories can get in.   No one except the most elite gets anywhere close to him.  And most definitely, uninvited guests or average Canadians get zero chance to interact

I could write today about Russia’s latest petty move in that country’s despicable campaign against LGBT people by removing a memorial to Apple founder Steve Jobs in St Petersburg after the man who succeeded him at the helm of the company, Tim Cook, came out as gay.  But those bigots

I’m glad that John Tory won the Toronto mayoralty and that the Ford era is now over.   I hoped to see more progressive councillors get elected across Toronto, but sadly the power of incumbency in many places is tough to beat.   Kristyn Wong-Tam won in my ward, which is great. 

It has been a grueling municipal election race in Toronto since it began all the way back in January, when the repugnant incumbent Rob Ford jumped into the race for mayor on the first day he could despite his many scandals.  The last four years have been an absolute hell-hole

Tonight, my boyfriend and I saw and thoroughly enjoyed the charming 80s musical spoof comedy film, ‘Eternity: The Movie,’ at Toronto’s Carlton Cinema.  I wanted to give the flick a shout-out.   Directed by Ian Thorpe and starring the very adorable Barrett Crake and Myko Olivier (pictured) as would-be R&B

The newspaper reports on this were awesome to read.  But the TV story below from Global really does it justice: “A dozen Toronto high school students are striking back at a Toronto District School Board (TDSB) school trustee over some of his controversial tweets. “They students have urged the board to

Several journalists have reported that Toronto mayoral candidate Doug Ford, the thuggish brother of Rob Ford, said after last night’s CTV debate: “I can’t stand that little bitch.” Ford was referring to Toronto Star reporter Jennifer Pagliaro after a post-debate media scrum.   The comment was heard by Star photojournalist Lucas Oleniuk and

After the shock and sadness wears off, there’s no doubt that many conservatives will use yesterday’s attack by a lone gunman in Ottawa to justify their ongoing anti-Jihad crusade.  I noticed a few conservative-sounding Canadians on the news last night staring into the camera saying this violence, “Is our future!” and that

I must admit that I’m very torn still about how to vote in the Toronto election, despite my last post. Some, including myself, previously have said Olivia Chow hasn’t articulated a clear and inspiring vision in this campaign.  But this speech at last night’s debate in Toronto proves that Chow

I’m pretty much in full agreement with Royson James today.  Barring some last minute Nanos poll that shows Chow overtaking DoFo for second place in the Toronto mayor race (that would allow me the indulgence of a Chow vote for one last kick at the Scarborough subway extension, as well

What legitimate purpose could Rob Ford have for showing up at advanced polls in Ford Nation country (Wards 7 and 8) and in swing areas like Ward 17 (which sadly voted for Ford in 2010) over the last few days other than to try to intimidate voters into supporting his

There has been much self-righteous and misguided criticism of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau for his decision to vote against Canadian combat action against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (or ISIL.) Conservative types with their knee-jerk support for combat and bizarre romanticism of war see this current tragic

Ugh, just when he was doing so well, just days after I endorsed him on this blog, Toronto mayoral frontrunner John Tory told reporters last night that he doesn’t believe “white privilege” exists. It happened in a media scrum after a Jane-Finch area mayoral debate, the only one specifically dedicated

Bob Hepburn delightfully sums up the state of affairs for about 65%-75% of Torontonians for whom the only issue in this municipal election is kicking the Fords out of the mayor’s office after four years of woeful damage to our city’s governance and reputation: “It’s about defeating the Fords, stupid!”

We’ve all had travel nightmare stories. I’ve been mostly lucky in my life, at least when it comes to the airline industry. This story is small potatoes next to most airline horror stories we often hear about. But I thought I’d share it in the hopes of warning the public

I have always liked John Tory and, as the polls show him as the best candidate to beat Doug Ford, I hope he does. If this new poll out today (showing a clear but modest lead for Tory over Ford with Olivia Chow trailing in third) is backed up by

I shot this short video of Andray Domise, who’s running for Toronto city councillor in Ward 2 in this municipal election, last night at a meet-and-greet event.   As you can see, he’s an articulate, level-headed, decent guy fighting to make his community better.  His main opponent is, of course, Toronto’s