Tag: Musings

That’s the memorable (and accurate) description my colleague Andrew Tumilty – now cloistered in the Ontario budget lock-up – gave to Your Ward News.  Here’s a link to his HuffPo piece, and a snippet of his thoughts, below: Your Ward News is dangerous hate propaganda that, up until last year, was

IDEA: A constitutional amendment requiring that the last person Trump speaks to on any issue must be Justin Trudeau. https://t.co/7nqkzlSmvh — Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) April 27, 2017 Trump: I “was going to terminate NAFTA as of 2 or 3 days from now” but Trudeau/Peña Nieto asked “could you please renegotiate”

From next week’s column. I’m rather enthusiastic about political alliterations, as Gerald Butts and Don Guy know too well: But we’ll give you this much, Kev.  You were uncharacteristically candid when you withdrew from the race at one of those clichéd hastily-called press conferences.  You were honest.  You had reflected, you

Screw Facebook. If I’m going to do this, I’m doing it in my house. With a twist.  Sex Pistols The Clash The Ramones Ted Nugent The Police Pennywise  Bad Religion KISS Green Day Blink 182

If true, this thing is over, no?  Bernier campaign tells me O’Leary is out of #CPCLdr, will endorse @MaximeBernier. Holy boom! — David Akin (@davidakin) April 26, 2017

Lisa is moderating. I think it will be an interesting debate, because of the quality of the participants – but also, speaking personally, I’ve got a family member who is a longtime smoker who has sworn to me that this technology is going to save his/her life. Should be interesting.

And we need your help! If you oppose hate showing up in your mailbox, get in touch! Warren Kinsella shows some of the graphic images found in Your Ward News (Lorenda Reddekopp, CBC News) Political consultant Warren Kinsella is one of the people complaining about the paper, which is edited

Today at 10 a.m., at a hearing room on the third floor at 4900 Yonge Street in Toronto, a special panel will start hearings into whether Canada Post should be delivering a pro-Nazi, Holocaust-denying hate sheet called Your Ward News. Lisa, Richard Warman, Bernie Farber, me and many others take

Here is this morning’s big news, from the Post’s Drew Hasselback, which will take bread off the table for 25,000 Canadian families, most of them in British Columbia: Canada vows to fight ‘unfair and punitive duty’ as Trump slaps tariff on softwood lumber And here is a headline from a

We thought you should all see how the Mighty Finn™ approaches the back yard.  ​​

[The ad, not the firm.  Although all of us would’ve gladly worked for her for free, if she’d asked!] The bearded Republican regarded us suspiciously. He had been washing his pickup truck (naturally) and listening to country music on the radio (ditto).  It was blindingly-bright Saturday morning in August in New

Also, the hand-washing thing.  Anyone who knows me will tell you I’m more OCD than Howard Hughes.  I carry Purell wherever I go. Way to go, PM! Cabin socks rule!

Tomorrow at 10 a.m., at a hearing room on the third floor at 4900 Yonge Street in Toronto, a special panel will start hearings into whether Canada Post should be delivering a pro-Nazi, Holocaust-denying hate sheet called Your Ward News. Lisa, Richard Warman, Bernie Farber, me and many others take

So, I opined on Twitter that the neo-Nazi Le Pen cannot win in the next round of the French residential elections. It’s a widely-held view; the odds are decidedly against the Trump-favoured fascists in the next round. That single tweet excited this response from an Ottawa actor (who, tellingly, is

So, Chelsea Clinton tweeted this cool thing, which I retweeted: Letter I wrote to President Reagan at 5. (I never got a reply). Thank you to all who shared your White House letters. pic.twitter.com/wOAQXsyBIc — Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) April 22, 2017 Which elicited this reaponse from my pal Peggy Blair:

Who needs sleep anyway?

Here. Good thing we’ve been sucking up to him and his kids, eh? Yep.  Sure is working. President Donald Trump has called protectionist trade measures by the Canadian government “a disgrace.” “Canada, what they’ve done to our dairy farm workers, it’s a disgrace,” Mr Trump said on Thursday in the

Here.  Calm down, John. The B.C. Liberals’ official Twitter feed, meanwhile, referenced a hashtag gaining steam on the social media platfom based on Clark asking Horgan to “calm down”: “#CalmDownJohn: reaction from the 1st #bclexn17 leader’s debate,” the party stated. Central Saanich Coun. Niall Paltiel‏ remarked that, “It looks like