Tory MP, Rob Anders, aka “Old Snoozy”
The always stellar Anders slept through a committee presentation about helping homeless soldiers earlier this week. The president of Veterans Emergency Transition Services says the tired MP arrived late, texted…
gritchik
On birthdays. And fathers.
My dad would’ve been 71 today had he lived. Seventy-one. He died before I was even out of diapers but I’m told he doted on me, his only daughter. His…
Sun TV and GritChik
Today, I defended a man, a Minister of the Crown, whom I dislike. But what I dislike more are the sewer tactics being used against him under the guise of…
The Neanderthal Agenda
Yes, that’s right. Now that PMSH has his much coveted majority, that’s where we’re heading. One of his backbench mouth-breathers is introducing a private member’s bill to study when exactly…
Help Wanted
NDP newbie MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau is seeking a Parliamentary Assistant. I was a little hard on Ms. Brosseau during last spring’s federal election. I don’t apologize for it –…
Big Brother goes to the theatre
“For the second time in year, a Toronto playwright has felt the chilling reach of the federal Conservatives…” Wouldn’t it be great if the Opposition parties would get their collective…
Nothing will ever be good enough for the CFS
Because it would put them out of business. Now they’re complaining that the 30% tuition cut promised, and delivered, by the Liberal government isn’t good enough. It seems that the…
Rob Ford, idiot
The ten pounds Ford recently lost is rumoured to have been shed from between his ears.
Tired of getting ripped off
Perhaps it’s because I’ve been really, really poor (which now seems like a lifetime ago) or perhaps it’s because I don’t like wasting money or maybe even because I hate…
Random thoughts on #lpc12
I got there late, so here’s my abbreviated take on the whole thing. – As has already been said ad nauseum, the Liberal Party is alive and kicking. Walking onto…
Anti-choice group at it again
Campaign Life Coalition is at it again, handing out a slick flyer this past weekend, full of unattributed “facts,” demanding the government defund abortion because “it is an elective procedure…
Response from Via Rail on #viafail
I’d be happier about this if Via Rail didn’t call their passengers liars in the news stories about the Smiths Falls incident. I’m quite happy to swear an affidavit that…
A funny thing happened on the way to #LPC12
I decided to head to Ottawa for the last day of the LPC policy convention (I have no love of policy but my partner was there and I’d get to…
The skinny on the modeling world
I found this column online yesterday, which intrigued me. Back in the day – and I mean back, way back – more than two decades ago, I spent some time…
Kids better off being raised by lesbians?
Take that all you ignorant, anti-gay, social conservative jerks.
In case you didn’t already think Rick Santorum was an ignorant jerk
Get a load of this: The GOP presidential hopeful recently attended a town hall at a Dublin, New Hampshire private school where he preached his wisdom on what, exactly, makes…
Gritchik: 2011 in review
It’s only fitting that my first post of the new year, be a look back to the last. Being the nerd I am, I love analytics so here are the…
Some people shouldn’t have children
We decided to see a movie tonight (apparently most of Toronto did, too), specifically, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. For those of you unfamiliar with the books or haven’t…
Harperland
It’s too bad nobody warned you. Oh, wait… From the Globe’s Gerald Caplan: There was never a Trudeauland or Mulroneyland or Chrétienland, but as The Globe’s Lawrence Martin has made…