Column: supremely unexpected
Talk about life imitating art. When this writer started typing up what would become the novel Recipe For Hate, several things were not anticipated. Positive reviews, for example: not used…
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A Ford Nation poll, inaccurate 21 times out of 20
Look, I get along well with Doug Ford. I shouldn’t, given that I am a Bolshevik, in comparative terms. But we get along. So. There’s this poll that mysteriously appeared…
Lisa who?
Well, this is kind of interesting. What do you guys think? Prominent Liberal commentator and consultant Lisa Kinsella is “seriously considering” running for the soon-to-be-vacant Ward 32 seat on Toronto…
He was just the office boy National Security Advisor!
Totally unimportant. Nobody remembers him. Michael Who? To wit: WASHINGTON — President Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, is expected to plead guilty on Friday to lying to…
Punk rock, reaching across borders and the ages
Our record label CEO, Simon Harvey, sent me a note: Well, this is cool. A friend in Vancouver just posted a picture, of a stack of great old singles he’s…
My U of C law prof is being appointed to the Supreme Court – and she is in my new book!
Amazing! The newest addition to the Supreme Court of Canada will be Sheilah Martin. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday morning his nomination of Martin to fill the seat on…
Carleton U event sold out!
I am told it is now standing room only. Come on by if you can, I would love to chat!
An open letter to the worst minister in Canada
Dear Minister Joly: May I call you Melanie? You’ve blocked my access to your ministerial Twitter account, so please forgive the formality of an open letter. I sense that I’ve…
Can a single page win an entire election?
If it can – and it might – PC leader Patrick Brown may well have won the 2018 provincial election this weekend. One sheet of paper: seriously. Here it is.…
Meet our grandson
Harry. He’s pretty chill. His parents have a Harry Potter thing. So, yes, he is holding a wand. Really.
Melanie Joly is spending $5 million of our money on a hockey rink
…a hockey rink that does not permit the playing of hockey. From next week’s column: Anyway. Let’s forget about the Holocaust Monument, and the Netflix thing, and Canada 150. Let’s…
Blandy Scheer, true beleiver and champion of Dad jeans, etc.
So, the column I wrote about conservative and visuals got picked up over at HuffPo, and it irritated myriad Tories. Which worries me a great deal, as you can well…
Politics is pictures
Conservatives don’t like Justin Trudeau. They really, really don’t like him. This writer is a regular on Evan Solomon’s CFRA radio show with Alise Mills and Karl Belanger. My friends…
Vancouver Sun: “Recipe For Hate strikes a timely chord”
The Sun: “It’s fiction, but there’s plenty of truth running throughout.”
The launch launched!
And it was a fun one. The Mayor and his amazing wife came, media luminaries like Stephen Maher were in attendance, and political stars – like former MP Paul Zed…
Apple iBooks calls Recipe For Hate one of the “best books” of the month!
Wow. Apple iBooks has called Recipe For Hate one of the top books of November 2017 – and offered up this review: It’s the late ’70s and the Ramones are…
Media roundup: neo-Nazi rag gets charged for promoting hate
Best part of yesterday: our kids said they’re proud of us. Second-best part: Andrew brought his months-old son into the office. But it was a wonderful day, and a long…
BREAKING: neo-Nazi rag charged with promoting hate against women and Jews
BREAKING: James Sears and Leroy St. Germaine, the editor and publisher of the racist, homophobic, misogynistic, anti-Semitic rag Your Ward News, have been criminally charged – finally – for promoting…
The police, the Crown and the AG “have done nothing” about that Nazi rag
Your Ward News, to be precise. And the Toronto Police Service, and the Crown, and the Attorney-General, HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT THAT FOUL NAZI HATE RAG. And many, many…
Column: when going neg goes wrong
Go neg, sure. But don’t fib. The Working Families group has a new ad out. If you live in Ontario, you’ve likely seen it. If you don’t, you haven’t. But…