Author: Warren

Wanna feel old? Read these grafs, from the column I’ve filed for Sunday.  TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY THE RED BOOK CAME OUT. Holy crap, do I ever feel old. “…So we put out the Red Book. It was 112 pages long, it was bursting at the seams with ideas, and

Pere Ubu’s, that is.  Been listening to them since I was 15 years old (which, if you are familiar with their oeuvre, should tell you plenty about how truly odd Yours Truly is).  I would’ve posted ‘Blow Daddy-o,’ which I want played at my funeral, but I couldn’t find a

Here. It’s kind of boring, so suggestions about how to make it more useful to you guys would be gratefully accepted. If nothing else, it’s an offset to what a lunatic in Ottawa did on Wikipedia. Check that out, and ask yourself who might have written it.

They get knocked a lot. But on this occasion, they acted swiftly and in the right way. Her family has suffered enough.

…and other things, too. The first confirmation, here:

Full disclosure: we at Daisy Group have been working with the plaintiffs in this historic case for years, always focussed on getting to this day. We are very confident that these children (now adults) will – after a long, long wait – finally receive the justice they deserve. Stay tuned.

Politicians don’t get credit for very much most days. So, credit where credit’s due: Federal leaders have acquitted themselves well in the days since the Parti Quebecois unleashed its bigoted “charter.” They could have remained quiet. They could have maintained what Brian Mulroney once amusingly called “a courageous silence.” But

Too many Liberals hate Stephen Harper. I’m not one of them. I oppose many of his policies, to be sure. I get mad at him sometimes, for sure. But I do not regard him as evil, and you shouldn’t either. To my surprise, my family’s very personal experience with Stephen

After 23 years, I have see them again. I can die now. Good bye.

Because of this.

It’s a mutually-reinforcing conceit, former Bill Clinton advisor Dick Morris once observed. Politicians and their staff pride themselves on their ability to manipulate the media and – through them – the public. And the media revels in the fact that their journalism is “worthy of the skills of great manipulators.”

Meanwhile, I wave the Canuckistan flag with the Viletones. Pix by @lisakirbie.

On the Magnificent Mile in the Windy City for Riot Fest. Note my headgear, which no government here has yet made illegal.

Chicago-bound for Riot Fest to see Against Me, Pennywise, Bad Religion, Joan Jett, Public Enemy, Violent Femmes, Flatliners, Blondie, Pixies and – of course – the Replacements. That’s if Porter figures out how to be an airline again, that is. Which is a big if.

Everyone is talking about Lakeridge Hospital’s brilliant response to the hateful Parti Quebecois “Charter.” The news stories – one of them is here – don’t tell you who came up with the concept, however. Well, I can tell you that a certain former Dalton McGuinty  guy (who is rather brilliant, but don’t tell him

Karen Stintz provides Canada’s largest city with real, honest-to-goodness dead air when asked if she’s blown the transit file (because, um, she has). “Who’s in charge?” she is asked by one of the fairest journalists in Canada. “How much of [the transit file chaos] is your fault?” Dead air, around

At the 50-minute mark: “one of the best gems of the era” – Sam calls it a “world-wide anthem of another life”!