Tag: Musings

Glad you’re out, buddy.  Sparky, however, was ready to start raising funds to spring you from the slammer in Istanbul!

Massive raids and mysterious police moves completely unrelated to newfound desire to curry favour with drug and homicide squads, says Toronto mayor, adding: “I do not, nor have I ever, used crack cocaine at any point so far this morning.” UPDATE: Chief Blair is unmoved.

It’s an old trick: John Smith identifying himself as “a source close to John Smith.” Gets your message out, but it doesn’t really fool anyone. Anyway: kudos to Wolk and the rest. Real loyalty isn’t telling a leader what they want to hear all the time. It’s telling them what

Kinsella says that McGuinty was a “winner.” “He had many, many policy achievements,” he said. “Politically, however, his greatest achievement was to be the winningest leader in Ontario’s recent history.”

…has apparently unburdened himself of a few opinions about Yours Truly on Newstalk 1010. Anyone know where a reliable transcript/tape may be found? You know why.

It’s an official SFH contest: be the first to put us over 10,000 YouTube views! Prizes galore!  Runners-up will get SFH to come to their abode, and play a set, gratis!  Grand first-place prize: we won’t come at all, and we won’t play anywhere near you or yours!

I don’t know the Conservative MP, at all, but I like how she pushed back against Glen McGregor’s innuendo: on Twitter, right out in the open, where all can see and judge. Even if I didn’t dislike McGregor intensely – for letting neo-Nazis know where we lived, among other things

“Grits suffer the bitter agony of delete” In comparative terms, you might think stealing taxpayer dollars — or smoking crack — are a bit more serious than deleting personal e-mails. But you’d be wrong about that. Crack? Fraud and theft? Big deal. Deleting e-mails from your mom, to remind you

Below this post are options to share on Facebook, Twitter or as email. Send it to someone as an email, then delete it. Presto! You have just commited what is considered an actual criminal offence at Queen’s Park! Congratulations! Now, go turn youself in to the OPP!

Be the lucky punk fan to push it over the top – 10,000 views in a week! Big time, here we come!

He wasn’t perfect – he was insufficiently attuned to the fact that Nazi imagery was unwanted, even in punk – but he changed the popular culture, and not many of us can say that. Story here and his masterwork below.

…and some extraordinary writing.

In politics, body language is important. In particular, the body language of Messrs. Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau. One of them does not seem worried; the other two look like they are taking nothing for granted. Some pollsters, naturally, tell a somewhat different tale. If you believe successive polls — and

If you start criminally investigating every pol who deletes email, you’d better build a lot more jails. They’re gonna fill up fast. #onpoli

This week, Ontario’s “Information and Privacy Commissioner” – her oxymoronic title neatly lays out the point I am about to make – excoriate some of the folks I know pretty well from the Dalton McGuinty government.  She ripped those folks from stem to stern, for deleting – or even apparently

Quote: One resident of the home where Mayor Rob Ford was photographed with murder victim Anthony Smith has been convicted of trafficking cocaine. Another was found guilty of possessing a prohibited weapon. In 2011, Elena Johnson, the 51-year-old daughter of homeowner Lina Basso, was convicted of trafficking in cocaine. Her brother, Fabio

My ex is riding a bike tomorrow all the way to Niagara Falls. She won’t be alone.  Lots of folks are doing likewise, for the Princess Margaret Ride to Conquer Cancer. Suzanne’s personal page, where you can read her story and contribute, is here.  She’s been training for months, and

A must-read: Ontario once ran 16 of these institutions. All are closed now. But shutting the doors doesn’t undo the damage provincial employees did to thousands of cognitively disabled youngsters. The province has silenced them for half a century. But their day of reckoning will come — no matter how

Sure hope Carleton’s History Department, or any students, don’t see this.