Tag: Musings

Check this Kevin George guy out: he doesn’t like the results of that poll showing 60 per cent of Kingston opposes (most of them strongly) a casino. So he says the poll is wrong and, besides, council has decided the matter, and that’s that. Amazing.

R.I.P.  What a giant that man was. And, like every politician I’ve known from Windsor, he was a fighter and a winner.

Jon, if you read this, email or text me. Same deets.

I wanted my daughter to go to Mass with me. Here, fittingly for modern times, is our text exchange.

As the Liberal party’s leadership race inches towards its mid-April conclusion, one fact is undeniable: Justin Trudeau has won it. The Montreal MP has raised more money than all of his opponents combined. He attracts fans in the thousands, even in previously hostile territory like rural Western Canada. And successive

My Mom, living in Kingston as she does, is happy about this. So too all of her friends and neighbours. Story here. Can the provincial government ignore something like this? Not if they want to keep that seat.

Isn’t this stupid? Isn’t it beyond idiotic? Let me put this in caps, so my plaintive cry is heard by Globians:WHY TWEET A LINK TO A STORY THAT IS BEHIND A PAYWALL? And they wonder why newspapers are dying. Wonder no more, etc.

Here. I know the whole sad tale (believe me, I’ve heard it from both Bate and Duffy, ad infinitum), so it sort of bores me now.  What I liked to read again, however, is Bate’s wordsmithing.  He still has a style that still makes me laugh out loud. Of course,

I’d be second only to that guy with the great hair! FWIW: @justintrudeau now has 187,000+ followers on Twitter. @marcgarneau: 11,565, @mhallfindlay 7,456, @joycemurray 4,814 #LPCLdr — David Akin (@davidakin) February 22, 2013

As a former Kingston resident – and as a guy whose Mom is still there – I find this poll quite interesting. That is a solid Liberal seat. If Ontario Liberals want to get re-elected, therefore, they need to cool it on the casino stuff. Big time.

Anticipated question at the next Ontario NDP caucus meeting: “How do we vote for the Throne Speech or Budget now? We live interesting times. Or, some people do, anyway.

NDP MP Andrew Cash is in an egregious conflict of interest.  There can be no doubt or debate about that: On Sept. 26, 2011, Cash provided a commitment in writing to the House of Commons ethics commissioner and to the clerk of the House of Commons that he “shall not

As I write this, I’m at Ted Reeve Arena, the rink in my neighbourhood. My son’s team, the Penguins, is playing Ted Reeve Thunder. If we lose, that’s the end of the season, pretty much. Sitting here, I’m reminded of this story. It’s been on the minds of lots of

Son Three at this weekend’s meet, mid-stroke. He won by going straight, going true, and without making any deals with an opponent swimming in another lane. Without trading anything away, in effect. He won two medals.

The only reason pitchfork-wielding Canadian taxpayers aren’t charging onto the Hill to string up assorted senators, of course, is this: They’ve seen it all before. It’s an old horror movie and they know how it ends: Badly, for them. Suggesting that parliamentarians abuse the rules to line their pockets, therefore,

As Daughter One and Son Two tear up the slopes, I write in the insanely overcrowded ski “resort” cafeteria. And I eavesdrop. Based up the bits and pieces I have overheard, I offer the following: 1. The Ontario PCs have been hiring campaign managers and staff for weeks. They will

He’s in lane two. But he comes first with Daddy-o. Your browser does not support the video tag

Sayeth Emerson. Otherwise, you’ve only killed yourself.

Just noticed I now have more than 11,000 “followers” on Twitter. That’s nice.

Whenever a politician starts talking about “values,” you can rest assured whatever they say next won’t be particularly valuable. Take Angry Tom Mulcair, for example, the hapless leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada (please). Last week, Tom got angry again, and started taking swings at evangelical Christianity. He