Tag: Musings

Wayne Wettlaufer (yes, that is his real name), the pride of Kitchener-Centre.  Somewhere, as we all shake our heads in wonderment, Leslie Noble is kicking a hole in a wall at PC HQ.  

And they’re off! Who’s gonna win the most?  Who’s gonna lose the most?  Personally, I think by-elections rarely end well for governments, so the Wynne people need to lower expectations, in the way that Hudak and Horwath are busily doing. Wynne’s assets? She exceeds expectations, and she can rely on

Spotted on a Sun News Network monitor, just as I was about to tape a hit on Brian Lilley’s show. Pithy – but, I think, true. Justin Trudeau could beat Stephen Harper. If that doesn’t persuade Harper it’s time to go, nothing will. Sharp political analysis, in three words or

Here.

It’s (finally) summertime, when the political speculation is easy. Heretofore, the subject that no longer seems as crazy as it once did: Will Stephen Harper quit before the next federal election in October 2015? There are plenty of reasons why he shouldn’t, or why he won’t. But there are 10

…And my daughter is at camp for the entire summer. When I told my youngest boy how sad that made me, this was his visual response.

Is that so much to ask on Canada Day?

If we have a national memory of seven minutes, do scandals matter any more, or at all? If we have seen and heard everything before, does a new scandal register on our collective consciousness? Not really. It’s been quite a time, has the spring of 2013. At every level, in

Hollywood, here we come! SFH’s tuneful genius is to be found in Julie Pacino’s (yes, daughter of) latest flick, Billy Bates. It’s being released in the Fall in LA and NYC. The Kardashians have asked us to take them down the red carpet at the star-studded premiere, but we said

This week’s cover of The New Yorker.

I’ve actually never written you a letter before. I’m doing so now to ask you to intervene in this case: hundreds in thousands in Canadian dollars going to one of the most violent neo-Nazi groups – the one, in fact, who provided the blueprint for the Oklahoma City bombing. The

The Toronto Star continues to giddily shred its credibility with its reliance on the same polling outfit that  (a) declared a “crushing” Wildrose majority government in Alberta (b) a “comfortable” Parti Quebecois majority in Quebec, and (c) an “overwhelming” BC NDP majority. That’s One Yonge; if management there want to

The other reason this story is important is because it shows how very afraid the Conservatives are of the new Liberal leader. Since Trudeau won the Liberal leadership in April, the Tories have been proactively on the attack with negative ad campaigns, regular bulletins and talking points and with members’

Outside Sun News studios, following an appearance on Brian Lilley’s show, I am struck by a proverbial lightning bolt on the way to Damascus. Clearly, I was wrong about Dalton McGuinty, and pretty much everything else. Watch what happens next. Your browser does not support the video tag

In Alberta, no elections are happening next week. People are focused on more important things — like the tragic loss of life attributed to the great flood of 2013, or the extraordinary damage that was caused by it. At times like this, no one wants to hear about politics. But

In researching tomorrow’s Sun column, I came across a number of photographs of Alberta Premier Alison Redford, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper touring my flooded hometown.  A question arose: why is Harper wearing a military flight jacket? Is such a thing allowed?  Was he channeling

Specifically, that of (a) a nameless turtle, Chrysemys picta marginata methinks, and (b) Roxy, Canada’s best-loved political dog.  Wish I had filmed this encounter up by the cabin; it was pretty funny.  It ended with me sliding the turtle into a safe, marshy spot – and Roxy retreating, looking quite relieved.

Sent this morning by my best friend (and former Hot Nasties guitarist) Pierre. Somebody time me it’s photoshopped. True?

After big election upsets, like in British Columbia this year — or in Alberta last year, or federally the year before that — political people like to say knowingly, “Campaigns matter.” Watching Rob Rae disappear down a parliamentary corridor on Wednesday — the arm of Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau