Taron Egerton as Elton John in Rocketman I caught the new feature film Rocketman at the opening night of Toronto’s Inside Out LGBT Film Festival last week and loved it.…
The Ontario Liberal Party will hold its first Annual General Meeting since the 2018 election next week in Mississauga. At that AGM, party members will be voting on a constitutional…
Current average poll standings: CBC Poll Tracker This year, our outdated Single Member Plurality voting system, also known as First-Past-The-Post, once again threatens Canada’s progressive future, as well as the…
There isn’t much positive to say about the gross Alberta election results this week. The voters of that province are generally much more conservative than other Canadians and they stayed…
In the latest twist in the ongoing SNC-Lavalin scandal, former Trudeau government Attorney-General Jody Wilson-Raybould has shocked the nation again by confirming she now plans to challenge Andrew Scheer for…
Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott in happier times A good friend of mine who tends to vote NDP more often than not, but doesn’t mind Justin Trudeau that much, came…
Stephen Harper’s reptilian, baby clone successor, Andrew Scheer Many Canadians have been confused and disappointed these last few weeks by the ongoing controversy in Ottawa involving SNC-Lavalin and Jody Wilson-Raybould.…
I was pleased to see two white supremacist pieces of shit convicted of promoting hatred of women and Jews this week. Kudos to Warren Kinsella and Lisa Kirbie who helped…
An overwhelming grassroots vote against the police participation in Pride Toronto a couple years ago has now evolved into a near split vote. Grassroots Pride Toronto members participated in a…
The ongoing legal fight in Ontario over Doug Ford’s decision to placate a small group of social conservative extremists hellbent on denying a safe environment for LGBTQ kids in our…
Birds of a feather: Bernier’s hand-picked Burnaby candidate Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, right, poses with former Ontario Tory leadership hopeful and big-time Christian bigot Tanya Granic Allen So much for freedom!…
Far right Alberta Conservative Jason Kenney Watching the Golden Globes on Sunday live, I saw at least three Government of Alberta TV ads extolling the virtues of the proposed Transmountain…
Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma It’s that time of year again! I’m very happy to share my thoughts on my favourite flicks of this past year! As always, there does remain a…
B.C. voters opted for status quo by 61.3% this year After this week’s big defeat for proportional representation (PR) in the British Columbia referendum, change in Canada remains as elusive…
Following November’s announcement that Pride Toronto would again allow police organizations to apply to march in uniform in next year’s Pride parade, I wrote that it was time for that…
Meme of Maclean’s cover this week Like most liberals, I was hoping for a giant blue tsunami to wash over the United States in this week’s midterm elections. While the…
Last week, I expressed alarm about the fact that 25,000 people voted for a known white nationalist in the Toronto mayoral election, representing 3.4% of the overall Toronto vote. If…
Toronto mayor final voting results Yesterday, Torontonians voted in their municipal election and re-elected John Tory by a wide margin with 63.5% of the vote. Second place finisher Jennifer Keesmaat…
Goodbye, Mammoliti! 🙂 Congrats to John Tory who won an overwhelming re-election tonight in Toronto. The voters have spoken: the majority of them must be happy with his performance as…
I like Toronto mayor John Tory as a person. He seems decent enough and hard-working. He’s come a long way since the nasty backrooms of the 1993 federal election and…
