Author: Matt Guerin

I joined the NDP to take part in a historic moment. I voted for Nathan Cullen as my first choice in today’s leadership race. Nathan’s unique, post-partisan appeal seemed a bit too ahead of his time, but at least he finished a very respectable third place and made his mark

The Conservatives are a fringe party in downtown Toronto. Even at their lowest popularity, the federal Liberals always did much, much better in opposition riding by-elections than tonight’s pathetic 5% Tory result in Toronto-Danforth. Yep. They’re fighting with the Greens for third place. The Tory vote has shrunk from 14%

The proudest moment for me during last night’s great Oscars telecast: Canadian Christopher Plummer winning Best Supporting Actor for his terrific performance in ‘Beginners.’ Richly deserved, the 82-year-old Toronto native who now makes his home in Connecticut becomes the oldest person to win an acting Oscar ever. And to win

Alberta, why must you always disappoint us?…

I heartily agree with Xtra’s Andrea Houston about Don Drummond’s glaring omission in his report last week, which could be nicknamed ‘How to cut inefficiencies and duplications in the Ontario government except those inefficiencies and duplications that might require a constitutional amendment and a little fortitude to take on historic

Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government has a minority of seats. Re-visiting the Catholic school system isn’t something that will likely be contemplated right now with the government’s fate hanging in the balance. But nevertheless this issue screams for action! This is perhaps Dalton McGuinty’s last term as our ‘Education Premier’ (unless

This article today by Chris Selley is the latest to clearly signal the increasingly irreconcilable conflict between the public sphere in Ontario and one of its two publicly funded education systems, namely the Catholic school system. While the provincial government has been working hard to combat the biggest threat to

Very disturbing, but not surprising. Stephen Harper and his over-bloated PMO control every aspect of federal government policy. So Harper expects us to believe he doesn’t know anything about this case or the revised government position that same sex couples from most foreign countries can’t get married in Canada? I

“Really! It’s in that book you hold up when you scream at gay people.” I came across this great commentary by Bill Maher and had to share it here for obvious reasons. Enjoy!

What’s good for the goose isn’t good enough for the gander! Yet again, Rob Ford proves himself to be a liar and a hypocrite of monumental proportions. Are you a taxpayer in Toronto? Do you know with whom Rob Ford is meeting right now? Do you have a right to

Behold, the latest atrocity by writer Christie Blatchford. After studying for weeks the impacts of macho men who allegedly massacred their daughters and a wife to protect male honour, she’s now lamenting the low number of macho male rapists and child murderers in Toronto. Blatchford doesn’t like men showing their

Voters in Toronto’s suburbs complained the former Miller administration ignored them and only spent money downtown, so they elected Rob Ford, who killed Miller’s Transit City plan which would’ve built rapid transit lines throughout the suburbs. Now Scarborough will have no rapid transit and crowded buses for four years starting

Yes, the provincial government has introduced tough new anti-bullying legislation. The legislation includes provisions which will ensure that LGBT students and their straight friends who wish to form Gay-Straight Alliance-type groups in all publicly-funded schools will be able to do so. Such groups help promote tolerance and acceptance for LGBT

Disgusting. Nothing surprises me about these neo-con dopes in the Conservative Party of Canada anymore. Maybe this was Lethbridge MP Jim Hillyer’s imitation of Marc Lepine?

This scene and this episode of ‘Designing Women’ meant so much to me when it first aired in the late 1980s. I was a closeted teenager living in homophobic and AIDS-phobic times, quite used to sad depictions on television and elsewhere of effeminate, weak gay men dying like helpless victims

I am so glad to see ‘Movember’ come to an end. Yes, raising awareness and funds in the fight against prostate cancer is a great cause and I’m glad they raised so much of it in Canada and elsewhere this month. The problem with ‘Movember’, at least for me, is

This is a great ‘It Gets Better’ video by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, proving yet again he’s the right person for the job as leader of this great, dynamic and diverse province. It’s nice to have a premier who stands up for all students and is willing to take action

Despite his previous attacks on Nelson Mandela and longtime moronic behaviour, Tory MP Rob Anders has been continually protected by the central Tory brass around Stephen Harper from ever being challenged for his free ticket to Parliament from Calgary West, despite numerous attempts over the years to elect somebody qualified

I’m very glad to read that the Toronto District School Board is trying to hold PC Leader Tim Hudak accountable for his party’s disgusting, misleading and ‘homophobic’ flyer published during the recent Ontario election campaign. I blogged about th…

I love it when this happens. Not only does the LGBT community get to shatter some stereotypes about athletes, we also get a new and VERY HOT hero! David Testo, a 30-year-old midfielder who played for the Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps FC, re…