Author: Warren

The competition for the public agenda — and the public’s attention — is fierce. It’s also a bit of a paradox. The paradox is that the public’s agenda isn’t the public’s. Governments and corporations think the media controls it. The media thinks governments and corporations control it. The public, meanwhile,

You have to read the whole story. It is really, really important. Quote: “Abused, neglected, vulnerable — they should have been protected. Instead, they were deprived of that most precious commodity: A childhood. This puts all of us to shame. And it shames us all that our premier is leaving

The best and worst of the Liberal Party of Canada were on full display in the past week. On the one hand, there was the “race” to be the Liberal candidate in Toronto Centre, which became available when Bob Rae decided to retire from politics. The behind-the-scenes machinations in Toronto

The Liberal standard bearer has tried pot a few times and doesn’t drink coffee. Two of the top Conservative icons, meanwhile, haven’t sued anyone for stating one of them smokes crack and the other was a major drug dealer. I like the Liberal’s chances.

I am taking Daughter and Son One to Boston today. They are flying back to Toronto. Son One is starting hockey camp, and daughter is going to be packing for her first year at Dalhousie. And so, I have a little boy, Son Three, who is so, so sad that

For anyone getting harassed by a lunatic threatening to sue them for linking to another web site, note this: “…the majority held that a plaintiff concerned about mere hyperlinks should sue the publishers of the original articles, who made the material available to the public in the first place. Hyperlinks

…at ce moment. The Bush family are off to the left, which I bet is the first time somebody has ever said that about them.

Circa 1977 at my Calgary Catholic high school, most of my friends ­— charter members of the drama/music/poetry/punk rock subculture — were gay. So, even in arch-conservative Calgary, being gay wasn’t a big deal to us. We went to gay clubs like the Parkside Continental, and we wrote and sang

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Beach house, outhouse, old punk louse.

The revelations about Sen. Pamela Wallin — and her apparent willingness to use the treasury as her personal piggy bank — will get folks talking again about abolishing the Senate. And that’s good. The Senate is an anti-democratic abomination. And, as everyone from the federal NDP to the Ontario Liberals

The noose is tightening. Quote: “Toronto police are investigating attempts by associates of Mayor Rob Ford to retrieve the crack cocaine video. One target of the investigation is Alexander “Sandro” Lisi, 35, a Range Rover-driving Etobicoke man with a criminal history of threatening and assaulting women, who has been acting

I was a Texan. Proof, in six seconds, here.

…with some old fart who somehow made it onstage. Hard to believe it was just last week. Pix by Debi Del Grande. LA Music Blog review, here (a “subtle gem”! Ha!). Left to right: Chilli of Palma Violets, unidentified street person, lead singer Sam.

…that’s how many followers I now have on Twitter.  Just noticed. Justin Trudeau, watch out! I’m in your social media rear view mirror, pal!

The scene: a Starbucks, at Yonge and St. Clair. The players: Kevin Donovan, the lead investigative reporter at the Toronto Star, and James Lockyer, the founding director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted. The mood: convivial, certain, but (obviously) insufficiently discreet. Key elements in the dialogue: The

As I wrote a few weeks ago – and whether you liked the Muslim Brotherhood or not – they were democratically elected, and then were overthrown in a military coup. You cannot be selective about democracy.  You are either a democrat, or you are not. And, as of today and

The Sun is doing a clarification, but I wanted to do more than that. Here it is: I owe Glen McGregor a clarification, and perhaps even a correction. But I owe readers some context. First, the clarification/correction. Back in June, McGregor – formerly of Frank Magazine, presently of the Ottawa

Glen McGregor, he of the “Deflower Caroline Mulroney Contest,” is very, very angry about my column below.  This upsets me a great deal, as you can well imagine. He’s called my bosses at the Sun to demand a correction for writing, as I did, that he asked Michelle Rempel (now