Update On Roma Vs. Kenney
Members of Toronto’s Roma Community Centre will disassociate itself from a number of other groups protesting a reception for Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney–who will be honoured by the…
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You Will Not See His Like Again
No link yet, but Dalton McGuinty has chosen to retire as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party. If you are from around the GTA, when you think of him in…
Arthur Topham Update
The latest update on the saga of Arthur Topham can be found here. For those unfamiliar with his story, a hate speech complaint (criminal code section 319) was recently filed…
Globe Abandons Relevance
Remember that paper that used to look like The NY Times? Its gone now, gone from the Internet. PS. Has the Times already abandoned its firewall? I’ve been visiting Nate…
Your Daily Nazi: Canuck Nazi Threatens To Kill Facebook Founder!!
We all have issues with The Facebook. For Canadian Neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau, they appear to centre around the fact that its founder Mark Zuckerberg is Jewish, not around the fact…
Kid Paiken Talks Like Hippy
He says: Another very important development emerged from the Party’s 2012 biennial convention this past January, however. Liberal delegates overwhelming approved a policy pushed by young Liberals in British Columbia…
Hudak Promises More Stuff He Can’t Pay For
World class cities build underground. When finances are available, our priority for Toronto will be to build subways.Translation: one day far, far down the line (as it were), Scarborough will…
Northern Gateway: Not Going That Way
The latest poll out of B.C.: In the survey, respondents were shown a map with the proposed location of the Enbridge Northern Gateway, a new pipeline from Alberta to British…
Moffat On Suzuki
Mike Moffat has a valid point. It isn’t, as David Suzuki sometimes contends, that economists don’t understand “externalities” or claim we should ignore them. The term is a bit of…
Hate Speech Complaint Against Ezra Levant To Be Submitted To Police
From the Jewish Tribune, but not yet on line: I’ll probably write more about this story eventually, as it tries to play the “Anti-Israel” card against Ms. Csanyi – Robah…
Gangnam Style Meets AC/DC
Not bad. Reminds me of The Zoobombs.You’re welcome.
B.C. Is Special
From The G&M: The Conservatives have always seemed like a party that was a few slices short of a loaf. For years it hung around the fringes of the B.C.…
St. Catherine’s Standard Exits The Propertied Class
After sacking a dozen staffers in June, the St. Catherine’s Standard figures they no longer need to own their own building. The decision was facilitated by the fact that most…
Tory Turmoil In Beautiful B.C.
You heard it here first…It was only a matter of time before John Cummins’ bovine stubbornness and deep-seeded arrogance would be rewarded with a full-on mutiny. And you thought the…
Another "If Only We Had Known" Moment From The Harper Tories
OTTAWA — The Conservative government scrambled Friday to distance itself from an early 20th Century public health pioneer it had honoured just a day earlier at a plaque-unveiling ceremony in…
Ron Banerjee: Two Man Band Or One Lonely Hindi And His Sockpuppet Army?
This post, from GridTO, implies that the group Canadian Hindu Advocacy, led by Ron Banerjee, consists entirely of Ron Banerjee. Me, I’ve always assumed that Ron had exactly one follower…
I Didn’t Catch The Debate
…but I hear Mitt Romney, in his first act as president, promised to smash Big Bird’s skull in with a tire iron. If I were the Obama campaign, I would…
Warman vs. Lemire Constitutional Challenge: Warman Wins
The decision can be found here. Warman’s comments can be found here, and I will write something up that’s a bit more substantial when I read the entire 72 page…
Reading The Wentrails
As noted by this gentleman on facebook, Margaret Wente’s tri-weekly column has not appeared in a week. Was her punishment for this kind of thing a suspension?
Waino On Wente: This Is Becoming Painful To Watch
The Plagiarer: The New York Times reports that a gentleman named Broadway (not his real name) thumbs tweets for rapper 50 Cent (not his real name), who has nearly a…