Author: Warren

Publish anti-Muslim material: it’s free speech. Publish anti-Kate Middleton material: it gets your newsroom raided. And some wonder why large swaths of the world mostly detest us. Wonder no more, etc.

…and this statement shows that, when it comes to self-government, the Harper cabal are a bunch of damned liars. “Canada’s great experiment in aboriginal self-government is about to collapse – or, at least, it certainly looks that way for a Yukon first nation that has successfully managed its own affairs

…which means I am walking around King Street East in make up. I wouldn’t get away with this in Bancroft.

All is forgiven. And during a friendly chat with Chicago residents, [Ford] ended up mistakenly saying Manitoba was across from Detroit — rather than Windsor.

Interesting read on plummeting water levels.  Tells you plenty, On the lake I’m on, up North, the water used to touch the bottom of my dock.  It’s now so low, my tin boat can slide right under the dock’s lowest point.  My bigger boat is pretty close to doing likewise.

Quote: “Enlightened Liberals—both of them—felt they wanted a dramatic change from the Pearson brand of poker politics, a candidate who could re-establish public trust in the party and reawaken confidence in itself. As soon as Trudeau hinted that he might be available, historians smelling of water biscuits, lobbyists desperate for credit

“Those people”? Which people is he referring to? No answer will be forthcoming, but it probably doesn’t matter.  I now think that Mitt Romney is well and fully done, like dinner.  Game, set, match, etc.  You can’t write off half the United States of America, and then expect to become

My favouritest sports writer ever, Cathal Kelly, in a typically great column, here.  Provocative and informative, like the best columnists are.

Here’s Randy Denley’s pledge to run again as an Ontario PC candidate. And here’s his employer, the Ottawa Citizen, letting him still write about provincial politics. I await Glen McGregor’s outraged denunciation with anticipation.

The CAW negotiating team, as seen on CTV’s web site.  All guys, all white.  If Harper, McGuinty or any other level of government showed up with a senior team as homogeneous as this, they’d get (deservedly) creamed.  I’m sure there are women and minorities at CAW, but I sure don’t

Toronto’s “mayor” is in Chicago today to drum up “business.” Many media are with him to document any pratfalls; Mike Harris and Ernie Eves are there to observe the proceedings, too, in the way that parents cast a watchful eye over troublesome children. The whole thing reminded me of something,

The return of Parliament, the anniversary of the Occupy Movement, and the NHL lockout may seem like improbable subjects for a single opinion column. But bear with us. In Hegelian terms — you remember The Hegelian Dialectic from first-year poli-sci, don’t you? — the disgusting money fight between greedy multi-millionaire

Me, as Son Two plays iPhone game and totally ignores me: You’re ignoring me. You don’t find me interesting anymore. Son Two: I do find you interesting. I just find this game more interesting. Me: Nice.

An evangelical Christian who must be read: I tried to watch it, but I couldn’t make it halfway to the 13-minute mark. Everything about it was tawdry, pathetic, even pornographic. All but the most fundamentalist believers from my evangelical Christian tribe who watch that video will be appalled and ashamed

LeBlanc is of course right.  I’ve been of the same view for a long time. If you couldn’t win your own seat, then you should not – not – be running for leader.  It’s a waste of your time, and the party’s too. Do folks have a right to run,

I admire his determination.  Reminds me of me, when I was younger and foolisher. Having beaten my head against that particular wall for a few years, and with nothing left to show for it, I happily pass the torch to Paul.  Good luck to him. He’ll need it.

This morning, on the much-read National Newswatch, there was this headline: “NDP Surge to tie for First Place Provincially, Ontario Liberals In Third; 43% Want Liberal leadership review: Poll“ When you click on the link, you are not taken to the web site of a news organization or a polling

The spaceman vs. the space cadet. That’s (sort of) what Sun Media’s Mike Strobel famously called the looming Liberal leadership contest between Marc Garneau and Justin Trudeau. There’ll be other contenders, perhaps, but Strobel’s pithy portrayal is the one that fits the race-to-be. Garneau is a former astronaut, of course,