“Why Sinners should win the best picture Oscar”
Michael B. Jordan as twins in SinnersAs many already know, I'm a bit of a film nut. My favourite film of 2025 was Ryan Coogler's Sinners, a great masterpiece that…
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Today’s tonic from Lloyd Axworthy: “Canada once rejected America’s aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it”
If you are one of those Canadians who supported former Prime Minister Jean Chretien's rejection of America's illegal and immoral military aggression based on lies of WMD in Iraq in…
Today’s tonic: Jon Ossoff: “The President posting about the Obamas like a Klansman” | Full Speech
I’ve been scouring U.S. Democratic politics since November 2024 desperately looking for hope. Hope in the human form of some decent, talented, progressive Democrat who can challenge the MAGA hellhole…
Public Interest or Private Profit? Liberal Insider Mike Crawley Plots to Seize the Ontario Liberal Party Leadership
I've never been some well-connected, business-card-waving, lobbyist-registry-joining insider willing to sell access to people I know in the Ontario Liberal Party. Sure, I could've taken that route after 2003 when…
My Favourite Films of 2025!
Sinners, starring Michael B. Jordan and Miles CatonI think 2025 was a horrible year in many ways - politically, socially, environmentally, economically - but when it comes to film art,…
‘Heated Rivalry’ is the oasis of tender, sensual masculinity we didn’t know we needed in 2025!
Like some, I had spotted in November the Heated Rivalry posters (pictured) on bus shelters sporting the shirtless hockey star characters in mid-embrace, foreshadowing the show's steamy gay sex scenes,…
Doug Ford’s hot air is not good governance! We just don’t have any good alternatives…
Is there any major policy area Doug Ford's PC government in Ontario is actually managing well? The health care sector? Nope. It's a disaster getting worse every year, hallway medicine…
Doug Ford’s hot air is not good governance! We just don’t have any good alternatives…
Is there any major policy area Doug Ford's PC government in Ontario is actually managing well? The health care sector? Nope. It's a disaster getting worse every year, hallway medicine…
Happy Pride Weekend: Cherish our Freedoms in Canada while Hungary cracks down on Pride; Trans kids aren’t just here to be abused by their parents, rules Alberta court
Pride march in Budapest on SaturdayThousands marched in the streets of Budapest this weekend in defiance of corrupt conservative dictator Viktor Orban, favourite strongman of Donald Trump and Stephen Harper.…
Happy Pride Weekend: Cherish our Freedoms in Canada while Hungary cracks down on Pride; Trans kids aren’t just here to be abused by their parents, rules Alberta court
Pride march in Budapest on SaturdayThousands marched in the streets of Budapest this weekend in defiance of corrupt conservative dictator Viktor Orban, favourite strongman of Donald Trump and Stephen Harper.…
Zohran Mamdani has struck a blow to the Democratic party’s centrist-do-nothing passivity
Democratic candidate Zohran MamdaniI was thrilled this week when New York Democratic assemblyman Zohran Mamdani shocked his party's centrist-do-nothing establishment and won the Democratic primary to run as mayor in…
Zohran Mamdani has struck a blow to the Democratic party’s centrist-do-nothing establishment
Democratic candidate Zohran MamdaniI was thrilled this week when New York Democratic assemblyman Zohran Mamdani shocked his party's centrist-do-nothing establishment and won the Democratic primary to run as mayor in…
Toronto’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ film festival wraps as Pride Month kicks off!
Happy Pride Month to all as we start off June! I am feeling even more proud than usual at the moment after having just seen a slate of decent queer…
Toronto’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ film festival wraps as Pride Month kicks off!
Happy Pride Month to all as we start off June! I am feeling even more proud than usual at the moment after having just seen a slate of decent queer…
Today’s tonic: “Let’s drop the phoney Alberta versus Canada nonsense. The province has met the enemy — and it is them”…
Today's tonic: "Let’s drop the phoney Alberta versus Canada nonsense. The province has met the enemy — and it is them" by Jim Stanford, director of the Centre for Future…
Today’s tonic: “Let’s drop the phoney Alberta versus Canada nonsense. The province has met the enemy — and it is them”…
Today's tonic: "Let’s drop the phoney Alberta versus Canada nonsense. The province has met the enemy — and it is them" by Jim Stanford, director of the Centre for Future…
Today’s other tonic: “ANALYSIS: Did Mark Carney just shake up Ontario Liberal politics?”
Today's other tonic: "ANALYSIS: Did Mark Carney just shake up Ontario Liberal politics? "In removing Nate Erskine-Smith from cabinet, the prime minister might have complicated Bonnie Crombie’s hold on the…