Tag: Musings

Sam Sutherland’s much-anticipated book about Canadian punk rock, which I stayed up reading way too late last night, is crucially important.  And not just because I was part of the first wave of Canadian punk, or that he writes a bit about the Hot Nasties herein. It’s important because Sutherland

I know judges.  I have worked for and with judges.  I have appeared before judges. Judges don’t like supplant the peoples’ judgement with their own.  Even when the facts and the law clearly point them in that direction. So, if that’s the reality in the case of an election won

Story here.

This isn’t what Nanos found, as I recall. But, wow.

Here. My only comment is I have no comment about what everyone is commenting about.

…that I never thought I’d live to see grown men saying the things they’re saying about rape.   Some days, there’s so much evil in this world, you just don’t know what to say.  This is one of those times.

Interesting: Now with the polish of a short sojourn in the corporate world and several years of government experience under her belt, the 50-year-old former Windsor Woman of the Year, is expected to leave her Bay Street job to run for leader of the beleaguered Ontario Liberals. Former Tory cabinet

Why, yes.  Yes they are.  Glad you asked. From the ever-quick Justin Tetrault: During the Mike Harris/Ernie Eves years, the Ontario PCs prorogued the Legislature five times: Dec. 18, 1997 to April 23, 1998 – 126 days; Dec. 18, 1998 to April 22, 1999 – 125 days; March 2, 2001

  Finance Minister Dwight Duncan will not run to succeed Premier Dalton McGuinty as Ontario Liberal leader, the Star has learned. Duncan will announce his decision Wednesday, paving the way for former minister Sandra Pupatello, his close friend and fellow Windsor native, to return to politics and contest the Grit

CP, CBC and others are reporting similar stuff. So, if it’s true that Dwight is leaving, it is another very sad development for Ontario Liberals. Dwight Duncan is a giant in our party; it is hard to imagine it without him.

Good.

Anyone got deets?

Last night, a number of people – many of them Jewish, in fact – drew to my attention the tweet below, authored by Sue-Ann Levy.  When I saw it, I was appalled as they were.  I condemned what she said, and I suspect many others will continue to do so.

…and I can tell you that senior Conservatives were quite unenthusiastic about him as federal leader. But that’s that.

Liberal leadership season is upon us! It’s all pretty historic, too. For the first time ever, Grits are lining up to choose leaders in Quebec, Ontario and federally. Never before have the three largest Liberal configurations been holding leadership races simultaneously. Historians will be excited by that, of course, but

Over on Twitter, I made repeated attempts to ask Gerry Nicholls about what Harper did at the NCC, since Nicholls is clamouring about what he didn’t.  He repeatedly refused to answer.  My “responsible communication” defence thus assured, I wrote the following letter to PMO.  I’ll let y’all know when (and

There haven’t been a lot of reviews so far – book pages are becoming a lot less plentiful, sadly – but Matt Price at the Huffington Post gave it a thorough read. Here it is in true blurb style: “[Kinsella] deserves credit for writing this book, period… he is absolutely

I’m moving to Canada! Oh, wait.

Says it all, don’t you think?