Tag: Musings

From Liberal.ca: Please join us for a lively and enlightening evening with guest speaker Warren Kinsella who will explore the social and economic implications of the disturbing trend toward income inequality in Canada. Warren Kinsella is a lawyer with a broad range of experience as a political consultant. From 1990

…here’s a video about Rob Ford – and, er, crack cocaine – right here! We’re living in a “world-class city,” but lately it seems kind of icky Some days it’s downright silly Being governed by hillbillies! We’ve got a mayor on crack? We wanna give him the sack He makes

“Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe,” said a French cultural theorist, Jean Baudrillard. “The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.” Baudrillard’s works influenced The Matrix movie series, of all things, but we shouldn’t hold that against him. Surveying the

The long wait is over, SFH Nation! Here it is, folks – Canada’s best-loved geriatric punk trio, SFH, offer up their newest tune and video: ‘Mayor On Crack?’ Proceeds from sale of this unstoppable chart-topper will go to a Canadian addiction-counselling facility.  Download it now, download it often! We’re on

It’s not the crime; it’s the cover up. As older generations may recall, that old political axiom can be traced to the Mother of All Scandals, Watergate. Back in June 1972, five Republican operatives — White House “plumbers,” they were called — were caught breaking into the Democratic National Headquarters

…from the Star’s story on Crackhead’s best friend: Price has also taken to returning the calls Ford frequently touts that he gets from Torontonians who call the number he gives out publicly. Lisa Kirbie, a Toronto-based political consultant, called Ford after he controversially offered on his radio show to talk

Full disclosure: I work with the abused survivors of a number of Ontario institutions. A year ago this week, they met with Kathleen Wynne, who promised to help them. A few months later, they followed up with a letter – and got nothing back. This isn’t just another case of

Anything else? Anything else? Anything else?

Downloaded that Blackberrry 10 update yesterday, before leaving for Ottawa. Device has not worked since. Dead as a doornail. In case you’re wondering, did this wee post on my iPhone. There’s a moral, there.

Over 300 tickets have been sold, I’m told.  See you tonight!

Thirty years ago, in Ottawa, a guy walked into the place where Chris and I were sitting. He handed me a Joan of Arc medal, and walked out. I’ve been wearing the medal around my neck ever since. Joan was murdered by the English nearly 600 years ago in Rouen

…and the source, as it turns out, is none other than Rob Ford. Link here. The Star: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford told senior aides not to worry about a video appearing to show him smoking crack cocaine because he knew where it was, sources told the Star. Ford then blurted

As the House Communist© at Sun News, I draw to your attention this and this. Fair’s fair. If CBC gets yet more “mandatory carriage,” so should the SNN. I support both. The CRTC should, too.

(And, yes, I was one at the Ottawa Citizen and Calgary Herald, many moons ago.) If Rob Ford was indeed heading out to Dixon Road to get really f**ked up periodically… …and since he’d be unable to drive himself afterwards… …and since he’d repeatedly refused even a police plea that

The seventeenth floor at 320 Dixon Road, in Kingsview Village.  Bullet marks can be seen on a door on that floor, above. The Sun has more: “Several days after the shooting, the Toronto Sun learned the holder of the video that allegedly shows Rob Ford smoking crack also lives on

This is the view, right now, of the Don Valley Parkway – which Son One and I take to get downtown every day. We won’t be going that way. Thanks, Rob Ford.

Just out now in the Globe: The tipster who prompted Rob Ford’s chief of staff to go to police about a video allegedly showing the mayor smoking crack cocaine was Dave Price, a staffer in the mayor’s office and longtime friend of the Ford family. Late on May 17, the

Spotted yesterday in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. This youngster from Canada was planning on taking kiteboarding lessons, but since there wasn’t a lot of wind, he opted for the wake boarding part. Damn, his name is on the tip of my tongue.

After more than a week of extraordinary revelations, another one this morning: the Star is reporting that someone senior in Rob Ford’s office – paid for by Ford’s mythologized taxpayer – knew where to find the video of Ford smoking crack cocaine. That is, the video that Ford now confidently

It’s a mystery wrapped in an enigma: Why did Nigel Wright destroy his political career to protect Mike Duffy? In Ottawa political circles, it’s one of the many Senate scandal questions now being mooted every day. Why would the prime minister’s chief of staff — the most powerful unelected person