What Does "Free Speech" Really Mean in Paul Fromm’s World?
It's becoming increasingly common to find Paulie posting or "liking" images such as this on his Facebook profile: We would note that the quote in the cartoon isattributed to a…
2013
Is Justin Trudeau Smarter Than Twitter? (Redux)
The guy raised $25,000 at a Friday night ladies night event, invoked a little Tom Friedman in the process, and this afternoon dropped a wee bit o’ policy: .@MJGismondi I…
Rick Mercer On The Harper Regime’s Shoddy Treatment Of Vets
As a supplement to The Disaffected Lib’s excellent post on Remembrance Day, take a look at Rick Mercer’s thoughts on a government that not only has turned its back on…
Nov. 10: The very strange case of SWN at Rexton
Before I begin the real topic of this, it’s worth looking at Saturday’s first page of the Whatever section. It has 16 students, mostly university students, talking about what remembrance…
Lactic acid
I’m taking a “learn to run” course at the Running Room these days. It seems silly, yes. After all, I have been running – off and on – most of…
Saturday Photo: At the Launch..
My friend Jack Ruttan took this at the launch of Desire Lines: Stories of Love and Geography last Wednesday. It was a good party! We’ll have another good time on…
Stephen Harper and scandals
Senate scandal and his friend Rob Ford keeps people entertained with his shenanigans.
Why the Conservative government Must Be Defeated in 2015
1. The millions of taxpayers’ money spent on partisan propaganda, the personal attack ads between elections, the “anything you can get away with” attitude to parliamentary democracy, the avoidance of…
Justin was kidding around. Lighten up!
First Trudeau was called a sexist for taking part in a charity fundraiser organized “by women for women.” Now people are busting his chops over a facetious remark he made…
We get letters: a nice Conservative writes in
From: Brian Sumner Date: November 10, 2013 at 12:35:02 PM EST To: warren.kinsella@sunmedia.ca Warren – don’t you ever get tired of sucking little Turdy Turdeau’s dick??????????????
Rob Ford’s Re-Election Campaign Gearing Up
Ford handlers have already selected their campaign theme song. This is not to suggest any shred of equivalency between the late Ms. Winehouse’s struggle with substance abuse and that of…
Video: Steve Anderson speaks out against Big Telecom & in support of Canadians
OpenMedia’s Steve Anderson has always stood up on behalf of Canadians against price-gouging, poor service, and poor policies that exclude Canadians from accessing affordable telecom options. Here he is doing…
About those China comments
Justin Trudeau – and the team around him – have found themselves under some criticism this week. First with the “ladies” night fundraiser’s condescending invitation, and then, with the much…
The CBC’s Right Wing Personalities Have No Counterparts
For all of the various whining that the CBC is "statist" and left wing biased, I ask, where are the left wing CBC counterparts to these gems: Rex Murphy, seen…
The CBC’s Right Wing Personalities Have No Counterparts
For all of the various whining that the CBC is “statist” and left wing biased, I ask, where are the left wing CBC counterparts to these gems: Rex Murphy, seen…
The CBC’s Right Wing Personalities Have No Counterparts
For all of the various whining that the CBC is "statist" and left wing biased, I ask, where are the left wing CBC counterparts to these gems:Rex Murphy, seen here…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Economist discusses research by Miles Corak and others on intergenerational inequality. And interestingly, other studies seem to suggest Corak has actually…
HuffPo’s Aaron Brophy is a frigging idiot
No SFH on his list of best Rob Ford songs? Is he on crack? Evidently. Here are ours, which are better than anyone else’s.
A Self Unmade Man
In his review of Paul Wells’ book, The Longer I’m Prime Minister, Crawford Killian writes that Stephen Harper has a history of political misjudgement: One of Wells’ key points is…
Act of Remembrance
They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell…