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Quote: “It’s unclear whether Anonymous’s decision to intervene was prompted by Kinsella’s online plea. (Kinsella suspects that Anons were working on the case before he spoke out.) Still, the fact that a public figure had called openly on the group attests to its growing stature in Canada. I first took

I will use this opportunity to shamelessly point out that I, unlike everyone else, predicted the re-election of Premier Redford.  Here. Also, I will use this opportunity to point out that, in the days that followed April 23, 2012, I delighted in mocking the many folks who got it wrong.

Yesterday, the National Post published a story headlined “Two-thirds of Torontonians support Bombardier jets at Island Airport.” But when I went looking for the story this morning, to link to it for you, it was gone. Vanished. Funny, that. Before it disappeared into the Internet ether, the Post story uncritically

Following tragedy, offering one’s “thoughts and prayers” on social media is commonplace. People now do it in a ritualized fashion whenever bad things happen. After the murders in Boston last week, average folks felt compelled to offer their “thoughts and prayers” to the victims, allegedly of the Tsarnaev brothers, on

…but not in a way that any of us would like, of course.  This one is a bit close to home, as my Mom is on that train run regularly.

Quote: “There’s very little vote that I can see that will bleed from Harper to Trudeau. But, from Mulcair to Trudeau, there will be plenty of voters shifting allegiance. The Dippers need to do a lot more than remove the word ‘socialism’ from their constitution,” Mr. Kinsella told The Hill Times in

Really? Except: The attack ads are working. Twitter “teaches” nothing; mostly, teachers do. Obama lost the gun control vote. Question Period changes nothing. Twitter circulated an avalanche of false information about the Boston bombings, and arguably made false stories easier to spread. Nobody donates to, or as a result of

Apropos of the season, I’ve been tossing out a few “friends.” I do this periodically. Out they go to the blue bin, like old magazines. Bye-bye. A couple full-on lied to my face, which never makes me feel terribly enthusiastic about the durability of the relationship. One I have made

What’s amazing about the Conservative Party’s Justin Trudeau advertising isn’t their content, or their tone, or their mere existence. Some of us predicted (a) the anti-Trudeau attacks were coming and (b) the Cons would target his life (in)experience. And so they have. No, what is amazing is how Liberal partisans,

Will Mr. Harper now be condemning the Boston newspaper – as well as Mr. Obama, who said we now need to know the “how and why”?

Read this.

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“It has become apparent that our laws have not kept pace with the world we live in,” said Landry in a release. Oh, really?  So, the fact that she was photographed while being gang-raped – when she was 15 years old – doesn’t fall within the relevant section of, say,