Tag: Musings

Check this out. Was pinging around Twitter last night:   If it’s true – and I don’t know who the pollster is, perhaps Ekos – it means Team Trudeau needs to take a long look in the mirror. And make changes. 

…when we open for Palma Violets on Friday night! Just imagine: you could be in the same room as us! And this one goes out to star LPC candidate, Bill “Open Nomination” Blair!

You want to know how how old I am? Want to know how square I am? I did not know what the above acronym referred to, at all. When I saw it in a CBC headline yesterday, I had to go look it up (and, once I did, I was

Maybe it’s because it’s been a while since my book on this income inequality thing. Maybe it’s because the Occupy kids have moved on. Maybe it’s because I’m missing something.  But saying this: “Benefiting every single family isn’t what’s fair.” I don’t see what’s wrong with that.  Sure, Justin Trudeau has made

Wow. “The federal Conservative Party says it won’t participate in the traditional leaders’ debates run by a consortium of broadcasters including CBC, CTV and Global and will instead accept up to five independently staged debates in the run-up to the fall federal election. The decision by the Harper Conservatives appears

Who am I?  Chantal Hebert has a column in today’s Star about the new Ontario PC leader. I’m biased, but I think she pulls her punches. Here are some of the things you need to know about young Patrick, who to me bears a striking resemblance – ideologically and otherwise

I actually debated him once or twice.  He kicked my ass, I think. Didn’t agree with him on most things, but respected him on all things.  A great Canadian.

Said no front-page headline ever, anywhere, BECAUSE IT ISN’T NEWS. Sometimes, we are a ridiculous country, cf. here and here and here. And media wonder why Stephen Harper never attends the thing anymore. Wonder no more, etc.

I like the writer, but this story is a pile of anti-Israel horseshit. In particular: Contrary to what this polemic suggests, ethnic origin was long part of the Criminal Code. A big factual error. Supporters of anti-Israel efforts are given lots of space to say whatever the Hell they want.

First things first: we now have conclusive proof Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi is not infallible. Nenshi, much-adored by progressives everywhere, predicted Alberta’s PCs would win another majority government. “I suspect the PCs will win,” said Nenshi. Um, no. They didn’t. It was in all the papers on Wednesday morning. In

Not based on the evidence in this case, they’re not. Full disclosure: former Maple Leaf Andre Derveaux is a friend and a client.  This morning, we helped him at a press conference about what has happened to him over the past few weeks. Andre was playing in the Swedish league in

To wit: “The real issue is me. Twitter is an addictive little thing, and if it’s there, I gotta check it. When you keep doing something after it stops giving you pleasure, that’s kind of rock bottom for an addict…I just had a little moment of clarity where I’m like,

In the new Now Magazine!   

…and all three federal political parties supported that, and rightly so.  Just as we criminalized the promotion of hatred, we should criminalize the promotion of hate’s bastard brother, terror. Anyone who doesn’t get that is recklessly blind, or egregiously partisan, or both. 

Paul Godfrey’s bean counters ordered Alberta papers to support Jim Prentice.  Seriously. Read this.  This guy makes Fox News look actually fair and balanced. 

So sayeth Peter MacKay: “It was like a morgue,” Justice Minister Peter MacKay told reporters Wednesday morning after the weekly meeting. “Someone said it was like – it’s Albertastan now.” Just a hunch, but I’m betting some folks at Justice are looking at the little blinking light on their phone,

#abvote alliterative why: bogus budget; caca campaign; diverse demographic; economic exigency; lousy leader; debate debacle; change chosen. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 6, 2015

But mainly Justin.  The party of Peter Lougheed in third place: never thought I’d live to see that.  (Oh, and all my Calgary high school teachers who called me a socialist? Suck it.)   

Lousy product, lousy service, lousy prices. I don’t often offer unsolicited advice on businesses you should use, but you should stay away from this one with a ten foot pole. They’re in Whitby and they’re not worth your time or money.