Author: Warren

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

It was a little thing, apparently. A tweet, a bit of digital detritus, something that comes and goes, with little or no attention paid. Happens all the time. What made it significant was not its casual sexism, or even that the tweet’s author (a high-profile columnist) or its target (a

Wendy Sullivan is a Canadian white supremacist who uses the handles “Girl on the Right” or “Right Girl.” She broadcasts on something called “Brass Balls Radio,” as well. Here is a tweet she posted yesterday. There are many more like it on her Twitter feed. That, to me, meets the

Quote: “At around 7 p.m. on March 25, about three hours after official visiting hours, Mr. Ford arrived unannounced at the Toronto West Detention Centre and asked if he could have a tour of the jail, four sources with knowledge of aspects of the incident said. After the tour request

Here’s Morgane and pals, who we met through the Palma Violets, rockin’ out to the Nasties’ signature tune.  Stardom and riches await!

Tomorrow, I get even older. So, I sit on the dock – and the cursing we’d been hearing has stopped, for now, thank God – and I’m here with new GBV (Tobin Sprout is back!) and a quart of Beau’s Lug Tread, and the sun is heading West, and everything

The court transcript, here. Oh, and he was on something last night on the Danforth, here. I’m sure it’s all a great big coincidence.

On the dock with Son Two, hours after his return from camp. Get Daughter on Sunday. Been quite a week. So here it is in pictures. Monday: me and Lala at Santa Monica Pier: Tuesday: onstage with the Palma Violets. That’s Chilli, there. Pic by the amazing Debi Del Grande,

Look, I know lots of folks will be positively giddy that Sun News Network, along with some other applicants, didn’t get “mandatory carriage.” Some will be celebrating its imminent demise. (Some of them will even be journalists, which is a bit jarring: I mean, these days, what sane journalist derives

One take is found here. It’s well done, but I think it misses the key point. And I say this as (a) someone who ran and (b) someone whose writings figured in my loss: writers and journalists and commentators make for lousy candidates because they have left a written record

From just now: Two people have been arrested in connection with the Rehtaeh Parsons case. Police arrested the two at 8 a.m. at their respective homes following an investigation by the RCMP/Halifax Regional Police Criminal Investigation Division. The ages of the two males arrested have not been released. The two

It’s the Invasion of the Tribbles! Eeeeeaaaargh! Ein zwei drei vier! Britain’s best band, and an old fart from Calgary’s first punk combo, onstage at the Echoplex in Los Angeles on August 6, 2013. Shot by Lala. A great time was had by all. Just wish Ras Pierre had been