Author: Warren

A friendly inquiry this morning about how many people come to my web site elicited this response: “I don’t know.” So I decided ask the guy who would, from Team Propellerhead. His response: “In the last year you had 2.2 million page views– spread over 1.3 million sessions, and 355,000

Changed politics forever. Re-elected Johnson. Named my firm about it. Still gives me shivers. Oh, and wrote tomorrow’s column about it!

More about him here and here.

One ad, one little ad, changed everything. Named my company after it, was inspired by it: do it, do it strong and tough and loud, and do it right. Take the risk, and you just might win. That’s Daisy.

It also neatly summarizes my perspective on all of existence.

It’s a shit-eater, too. Wow. Some of us had been saying the Citizen had been reckless and wrong about the former Premier. Very, very happy to see this.

[I’m putting this up today, early, because I have been actually shocked by how little coverage there has been of the significance of this day. W] September 4, 1984: thirty years ago today, I was on an Air Canada flight from Ottawa, heading home to Calgary to start law school.

What makes you think we didn’t prefer David?

So, 1,200 of your family, friends and neighbours are murdered, or go missing. Would you be upset? How about this: the murders and the disappearances have been going on, unchecked, since 1980. Is that upsetting? No? Then, let’s say you go to Ottawa for help, and they shrug and refuse

The movies I love the most, as Lisa or my kids or family might tell you, are movies like Castaway, Life of Pi, All Is Lost, Open Water, and Into The Wild. Which might suggest that, were it not for the ones I love, I’d be gone, baby, gone. Into

Beacher Emma Kinsella was one of around 4,000 young athletes who travelled to the North American Indigenous Games in Regina in late July. She was invited to swim for Team Ontario, which won the swimming competition. Swimmer Emma Kinsella receives some of her six medals at the National Indigenous Games

You’re served.

It’s Forum, so everybody needs to take a frigging Valium. On the other hand, however, this:

Well-written. Fair points therein. (i ain’t desd yet, BTW.)

Doing edits on the new book, 30,000 words in. Dunno if it’ll sell two copies, but it may surprise a few folks. Heading home in two days. Other surprises await there, too. (Baseless speculation welcome, as always.)  

I’ve been doing this web stuff – it’s a web site, people, not a blog – for about a decade-and-a-half. At the start, I didn’t have comments – partly because the web-site-based platform I used, designed by Bjorn and Boris, simply didn’t permit me to do so – and partly

Weather great, kids aren’t killing each other, and almost at 30,000 words – after two months. Not bad. Cheers, W

enator Romeo LeBlanc looked around. It was Spring 1993, and LeBlanc was sitting in a room on Parliament Hill, surrounded by a half-dozen Liberal Party staffers. I was one of them. We called ourselves “the task force,” which we hoped sounded bland. We wanted to avoid being called what we

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