Tag: Musings

He’s written nasty legal letters to everyone who hosts/links to me. So, if the web site suddenly disappears after 12 or so years, you know who to blame. Stay tuned.

So, twenty years ago, I worked with, for and around my friend Dingwall.  On the night of the Nova Scotia Liberals’ smashing victory – their first in twenty years! – I got to play TV co-host with him, which is a first.  Watch, about seven minutes in (click on the

For those Gotcha Conservatives (hello, Andrew Harris!) who were impatiently bombarding me last night with emails and tweets, demanding my reaction to the gas plant schmozzle, I say this: I was on TV, co-hosting the Sun News Network’s excellent coverage of the Nova Scotia Liberals’ smashing victory, and therefore a

There are more here. Watch them. Me, I’m my way out of the office to buy half-a-dozen Dodge Durangos, to pay for more commercials like this one.

My Sun News Network hosting duties complete, I can now celebrate Stephen’s huge, historic win – and take a trip down memory lane, when I spoke before the Nova Scotia Liberal AGM!

Live! A giant, disembodied, crazed head attacks Brian Lilley on the Sun News Network set on Nova Scotia election night! Brian didn’t make it.

Language changes. Many eons ago at Carleton University’s journalism school, Prof. Roger Bird was listening to some of us energetically debate whether the proper spelling was “cigarette” (as The Canadian Press style guide dictated) or “cigaret” (as the Globe and Mail then bizarrely insisted). Finally, Bird, who most of us

Snippet below. Link here. “…According to the Toronto Police document, Lisi set about trying to retrieve a stolen phone in March. Ford and Lisi (who has a criminal record for assaulting and threatening women) are friends and Lisi has told people that he has provided drugs to the mayor, which

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Glen Pearson doesn’t like what I had to say about Michael Ignatieff.  He says I’m “vicious,” “cutthroat,” “shadowy,” “arrogant,” “repellant,” “brutal,” “maddening,” and a practicioner of the “old politics.”  Wow! And those are just some of the nice things he says. Anyway, I’m not sure what to say, or even

NEW YORK — Does this happen in Canada? Darin K. Williamson, who has been asking me a lot of questions on the train between Newark and New York, tells me not to worry. “I’m on the job,” he says, lifting his plainclothes shirt a little to show me his detective’s

…and she doesn’t look a day over 47! Happy Festival of Lala!

Heading back to TeeDot soon. Got the T-shirt, though.

Two things about this. One, I didn’t hear from the author of the piece. I’ve been in New York, but I always check my email and whatnot. So I don’t understand how I couldn’t be reached. Two, there’s a very good reason why Mr. Reid will never comment publicly on

Psychic sign at corner of Soho’s Broadway and Prince, locked. If you’re a good psychic, can’t you foresee when your sign will be swiped?

But I mean that in the nicest possible way.

Walking through SoHo. We are Group Six. Or, I call us, Group Six Six Six. Fits.

If you are a regular user of hard drugs, I can’t imagine what could be more convenient than having your personal driver moonlighting as a drug dealer! How convenient!