Author: Matt Guerin

Let me just quickly celebrate the great re-election of Barack Obama on Tuesday night.  He’s the first President of the United States to publicly support same sex marriage.  I do think Obama’s leadership on this issue this year played a part i…

Further to recent revelations about forcing voters to show government issued photo ID in certain Republican-controlled U.S. states this election, let’s look at another Republican tactic in this campaign: cancelling or cutting down on early voting, taking away opportunities to vote ahead of election day. In Florida, where the race

I was on this mailing list from George Smitherman (see email below), glad to say. I think George has made the right decision to stay out of the Ontario Liberal leadership race. He’s damaged goods, associated with the major scandals of the McGuinty government (E-health, Ornge, etc.) His baggage cost

This was the shooting script for the 2009 short film, ‘The Golden Pin’, which I co-wrote with director Cuong Ngo. I also worked as Associate Producer on this production. The script was 11 pages long and the final cut of the film including credits is 16 minutes. The film played

I’ve decided to end my political blogging and re-focus my online efforts to promoting my career as a screenwriter, producer and filmmaker. I’ll keep my existing content on this site for the foreseeable future. I will also soon launch my own website to showcase my screenwriting work and film making

The Commission looking into redistributing 338 ridings for the federal House of Commons for the next election (up from the current 308) has released its proposals. They include adding 15 seats to Ontario’s current count of 106. Most of the new ridings will be in the 905 around Toronto to

So It’s so very cool to see Canada’s official opposition, the federal NDP, lash back quickly against the Conservatives and give them a taste of their own medicine. For too long, our bully of a Prime Minister has ruthlessly maligned his opponents, created straw men, made things up to attack

Belated Happy Pride Day and Happy Canada Day wishes for all!This news from CNN star Anderson Cooper was a nice post-Pride gift this morning. The silver fox have finally made it official and come out of the closet. In an email to blogger Andrew Sullivan, Anderson writes: “I’ve also wanted

Very nice write-up on Xtra.ca about something I’ve been working on the last few months. I re-print it here in its entirety: Pride short-film showcase ON SCREEN / ‘It makes for a nice escape if people get a little Prided out’ – Chris Dupuis / Toronto / Monday, June 25,

Yes, Bob Rae made the right decision yesterday when he announced he won’t be a candidate for the permanent leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. It was right for him and right for the party. In my humble opinion, had Rae taken the reins of the federal Grits, after

Third reading passage of a Conservative private member’s bill, Bill C304, this past week got little media attention, except from Postmedia and a great opinion piece by Warren Kinsella. The bill, by Alberta Tory MP Brian Storseth, repeals sections of the Canadian Human Rights Act banning hate speech over the

I have been following the ongoing debate in Ontario over the McGuinty government’s attempts to address rampant bullying in Ontario’s public schools.   I support the recent amendment to Bill 13 which gives high school students the right to use the name, ‘Gay-Straight Alliance,’ in school club titles should they choose

Today was a historic day.  It’s the day President Barack Obama endorsed equal marriage in an emotional interview with ABC. I think it’s quite meaningful considering there is no consensus in the U.S. on this yet, the population is still divided on this issue. While Obama’s dragged his feet on

The Wildrose Party in Alberta has nothing on Toronto (in the bigotry department) as long as Rob Ford, aka Mayor Fraud stays in office. If there were any fiscal conservatives or red Tories who still believed Ford’s refusal to participate in Pride events was anything other than a disgusting and

Consider this metaphor: Wildrose leader Danielle Smith seems to resemble a lovely flower in her party surrounded by dying weeds. She’s promising that the weeds won’t overtake her if she leads her party to victory in the April 23rd Alberta election and that she’ll never legislate on contentious social issues