Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. - Chris Selley nicely summarizes Jack Layton's celebration of life today: I can just hear people kvetching: Was this a funeral for a great…
August 2011
Full text of Stephen Lewis’s stirring eulogy for Jack Layton
Never in our collective lifetime have we seen such an outpouring, so much emotional intensity, from every corner of this country. There have been occasions, historically, when we’ve seen respect…
A Western Strategy
Many Liberals in the Western Provinces are disheartened. Some have a sense that we can never again be competitive and that running candidates is close to futile. I have been…
Majority of Canadians remember Layton fondly
According to an Angus Reid poll, a majority of Canadians agree with Jack Layton being accorded a State Funeral, and remember him with fondness: A majority of Canadians (55%) think…
Tough acts to follow
This week has marked the untimely departure of two charismatic leaders from the helm of two very different organizations. Canada’s New Democratic Party Jack Layton succumbed to cancer, shortly after…
Final tributes to Jack Layton in pictures
Click for pictures from Jack Layton’s final journey today from Toronto City Hall, and then Roy Thomson Hall. It was an emotion-packed, life-affirming day.
Lezra Levant and the Orange Drag Show
Oh boy. This going to be embarrassing eh? Remember how in my last post I said people should ignore how Lezra Levant, in an interview with Michael Coren, mocked the…
On Jim Karygiannis
I don't really know much about the Jim Karygiannis thing. He is accused of questioning former Tory candidate Harry Tsai's competence in the English language, and this is being interpreted…
Hurricane Trichet Hits Jackson Hole
I just finished watching Jack Layton’s state funeral and notice that Jean-Claude Trichet’s speech from Jackson Hole is out. The European Central Bank president does not seem to get it.…
Thoughts on a State Funeral
20 years ago, Jack Layton founded the white ribbon campaign to end violence against women. Now it is a movement across 60 countries. That’s what I learned while watching his…
One last, brief word about Mr. Layton…
Scores of Canadians are going to speak and write eloquently about Mr. Layton, and what – if any – legacy he will leave, and they will opine on this truly…
Adieu, le bon Jack
Agree with him ideologically or not, Jack Layton was clearly no ordinary politician, and the week following his passing has been no ordinary week. The widespread emotional outpouring in response…
A Sea Of Orange Hope
It's not fashionable to be earnest these days when irony and cynicism are the king and queen. But they've been deposed today at Roy Thompson Hall where there is a…
Cheri DiNovo and Biblical Views of Homosexuality
I don't want to detract from the tone set in my previous overview of the religious leanings of Parkdale-Highpark candidates, but I feel compelled to address a particular interview with…
2011 Ontario Election: Religion in the Riding of Parkdale Highpark
Religion usually isn't a dominant issue in Canadian politics. While there is certainly a general correlation with higher levels of Christian religiosity among conservatives, prominent debates over religion as the…
Naked Against the Power of Hurricane Irene
Funny video I found on Youtube thanks to the #StormPorn Twitter hastag (hat tip @jeffjarvis for that hashtag). ***Warning, may contain men in their natural state****
Jimmy K the Multiculturalism Critic
Let me say off the bat that I don't know Jim Karygiannis, but from all accounts of people I know that do, he's apparently a nice guy.However, these accusations leave…
About British Columbians’ Supposed Tax Revolt
There has been a lot of uninformed opinion by people in distant parts of Canada about the meaning and significance of the referendum in which a majority voted to repeal…
Another violent cop gets off: Drunk West Vancouver who beat unarmed civilian gets wrist slapped
This is sadly another in a long line of violent police officers abusing their duty to violate innocent citizens and getting away with a mere wrist slap. Worse yet, this…
The Levitating Monk
Magician Dan White travels to Nepal to learn some of the magical secrets of the Mysterious East. Beautiful exotic landscapes. Folkloric story elements with people fooling each other over power,…