Tag: Musings

There are no bylines in the Toronto Star’s print edition today.  Journalists there have pulled their bylines, as their collective agreement permits, to protest cuts and layoffs earlier this week. You can debate whether it is an effective tactic or not.  Personally, I mourn for the loss of every newspaper

If John runs, too, it splits Ford’s vote. Enough for Chow to win.

I’ve thought Ontario has been heading towards one all along. Now my Sun colleague Chris Blizzard is prognosticating the same thing, albeit for different reaons. Bonus: you also get to read about groundhogs being hung by their testicles!

We were there. Is it worth taking in?  I’d say yes.  Now, as Olivia herself said: “It’s just a movie,” but it was a pretty good one. “They took some artistic licence,” she added.  ”Jack and I didn’t kiss that much.”  That got a few laughs. Anyway, it’s worth seeing.

Free speech is terrific, of course, as long as it’s being exercised in the abstract, or it doesn’t adversely affect you and yours. That’s why – if you were gay, or a woman, or even just sane – and you came across Bill Whatcott stuffing one of his filth flyers

Spotted by my colleague Paulo.  This is crazy.

With Sandra Pupatello, the Ontario Liberals had a chance at a big win in Windsor; without her, they don’t. The Ontario NDP will cruise to a win there, as things stands now. So sayeth 308′s polling synthesis model. In London West, where Chris Bentley had big numbers in the past

As regulars know, I spend a lot of time in hockey rinks.  Two of my boys play in the GTHL, and one of them was seriously injured a few weeks ago in a tournament in London. His hip was fractured, his spine was bruised, and the other leg was injured,

From the Times: “The results were both surprising and disturbing. Uncivil comments not only polarized readers, but they often changed a participant’s interpretation of the news story itself. In the civil group, those who initially did or did not support the technology — whom we identified with preliminary survey questions

That is a huge, huge number.  I was with Justin’s campaign guru, Gerald Butts, last week for lunch.  I told him I thought he’d do well with the social media contingent – but not this well! To put it in context, here’s a snapshot at other such membership/leadership/supportership drives: The

Is Canada becoming a more conservative place? Surveying the landscape some days it sure seems that way. My friends John Ibbitson and Darrell Bricker certainly think so. Ibbitson and Bricker have written an entire book about the subject, The Big Shift, in which they assert conservatives will be “perpetually dominating”

Sent along by a friend of a friend. Ah, memories.

Warren, As a key supporter of my campaign I wanted to make sure that we stay in touch… We still have a really important campaign still on the go, and the outcome of it will affect our country. Many have already declared support for Justin Trudeau as the best candidate

“[Kingston Mayor Mark Gerretsen] implying that Kingston has been wronged by Gananoque’s interjection into the casino debate is as audacious as a bully complaining he skinned his knuckles while punching his smaller victim in the teeth.”

Damn you, former colleague Mohammed Adam! You just made it harder to dislike the guy. (Also, good read.)

Yep. Right. On this cool new thing called “Facebook.” On the “Internet.” Yep.

Fidlar.  My God, I love this quartet of anarchic, crazed, drug-addicted miscreants.

March starts as neither a lamb nor a lion, but with a fascinating report. It suggests Tim Hudak has trouble – but, then again, if the Ontario PCs move decisively ahead in the polls, the dough they need will be found and/or freed up.  Bankers like winners, of any stripe.

Now that is a good idea.

…sent along by my friend Steven Del Duca. Hearing amazing reports.