Author: Warren

Getting ready for tonight’s SFH session, and dug up this old Hot Nasties tune for us to try – Getawayfromme. Boy, I was an angry young man.  (Who has become an angry old man.)

As I have done for years – and as I have remembered since that day, when I was a boy in Dallas – today I remember the death of Martin Luther King.  As before, this segment from his most-remembered speech.

Yaffe’s right – Trudeau has basically erased the Mulcair Dippers’ public profile. But the process was underway well before Justin Trudeau became a leadership candidate. Bob Rae, and his caucus, have been punching above their weight for two years. The result – contrary to what I, and others, predicted –

I wrote a couple weeks ago that I was fed up, to the teeth, with the incessant nattering in Toronto about transit. “Two things that drive me nuts about Toronto, ” I wrote.  ”One, the manic focus on transit issues, 24/7, to the total exclusion of all other issues, like

Yep. Good thing.

Perhaps that silly sally at Sun News, and the “explosive” media tour, wasn’t such a hot idea after all. Meanwhile, somewhere, one of Canada’s most principled journalists is frantically trying to figure out how to scrub stuff from the Internet.

He’s been denied his ridiculous demand for compensation in the conflict of interest case, as expected. What’s fascinating, however, is that the Divisional Court seems to be suggesting that he shouldn’t expect the coming Supreme Court hearing to go his way, either: They take pains to note that he lost

I have more than 5,000 Facebook “friends.” Except, as you might expect, they’re not all friends.  Some are Facebook fiends. Because Facebook comments are unmoderated, stupid things sometimes happen on my Facebook profile. When I am over there, I will whack the stupid comments, or (sometimes) block the stupid people.

If you impose tolls and yet more taxes to pay for this Metrolinx thing, you’re all dead men (and women) walking. Make better use of the tax dollars we already entrust you to manage. Thanks. Sincerely, Warren and four million friends

Boy, am I ever glad I shelled out for Raptors season’s tickets.

As uprisings go, it sure ain’t The Mutiny On The Bounty. Not yet, anyway. As you may have heard, last week Official Ottawa was agog over the fact a couple of Conservative backbench sheep finally got up on their hind legs and bleated “no” to the boss. An avalanche of

The loss of this extraordinary bookstore is an unmitigated disaster for anyone who loves (and needs) books. With the exception of Ben McNally’s spot on Bay, there just aren’t many book sellers like Nicholas Hoare anymore. I had two book launches at Nicholas Hoare, and both were special. I am

Adrian Dix’s B.C. NDP release an attack ad on themselves. Absolute genius.

Here: “Liberal front-runner Justin Trudeau has raised more than $1-million as a candidate for leadership of the third party in the House of Commons which “says a lot,” say a number of political observers and insiders. “Money isn’t everything, but the fact that Trudeau has raised such an extraordinary amount—when

I can live with that.

Suckered, apparently, were Lono, Calda (briefly), Bruce A., Friesen, and Patrick. Gotcha! (And, yes, the timestamp is off. And, no, I don’t know how to fix it.)

…and appeared for the last time on the network. It’s a long (and perhaps interesting) story. Details to come.

And, as I remind my children all the time, the lead singer has a Ph.D and teaches at Cornell.

“I will not go negative.” Justin Trudeau had been warming up to saying those words for a few minutes, as he sat before a sold-out crowd of hundreds at Toronto’s Royal York Hotel. And then he finally uttered those words. He will not go negative. At a table near where