Big silver lining: goodbye to the buffoonish Giorgio Mammoliti
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…
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We get the mediocre city we deserve if we re-elect John Tory as Toronto mayor
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…
The point has been made. It’s time to move beyond the ban on police in Pride
The Canadian Press/Michael Hudson I supported the move two years ago by Toronto Pride to ban uniformed police officers from their annual parade and festivities.Like many at the time, I’d…
New Brunswick and now Quebec elections once again expose major flaws with our voting systems…
CAQ’s François Legault could win majority with only 30% of votes I’ve long advocated for proportional representation voting systems that would produce results that genuinely reflect the choices made by…
Here’s to the women who can teach all men about dignity in a dangerous world…
Like many people, I’ve been watching this week’s events in the U.S. closely as Brett Kavanaugh fights for a lifetime seat on the highest court amid very credible allegations he…
High school students fight back against backwards Ford government
As a gay man who married another man yesterday, I’m overjoyed. I’m also proud to be reading here about these students taking a stand against the backwards Doug Ford government…
Monstrous Doug Ford proves just how dangerous and hypocritical he truly is…
I was delighted this morning to hear the news that democratic rights including the right to effective representation, as well as freedom of expression, should mean something in Ontario. Justice…
Democratic rights in Canada at stake in court fight against Ford’s attack on local Toronto elections…
Dictator Ford (photographed by Justin Tang of the Cdn Press) I’ll give Doug Ford one thing: like his late brother, he is an expert on swindling the public with his…
Doug Ford appoints far-right, homeschooled, 20-year-old ideologue as “Parliamentary Assistant” to Minister of Education
Undeniably handsome but dangerous Tory Sam Oosterhoff. Doug Ford is showing his hand, offering a little gift to the far-right zealots that make up at least 15% of his party…
Great news from the Supreme Court against discriminatory law school in BC
Sign on display at Amyx Hardware in Tennessee since 2015. The notion that religious bigotries can trump basic human equality has always appalled me. When the U.S. Supreme Court, loaded…
If the Ontario NDP couldn’t win this year, I’m not sure they can ever win…
Ontario political map after Thursday night. Oh, what a gross election in Ontario. I’m still digesting what happened Thursday but I do want to share some thoughts. Healthy democracies consist…
I’m voting NDP to stop Doug Ford and his cult of Ford Nation…
Honest Facebook meme making the rounds We saw this horror movie already in the 1990s and early 2000s. It was Mike Harris’ “Common Sense” Revolution which actually resulted in the…
That moment when you’re reminded Doug Ford isn’t a good person…
Any decent person running for premier would’ve been able to say he’d support LGBT people and attend their annual parade. But not Doug Ford, who never misses an opportunity to…
The Ontario NDP replaces the Liberals this year as the slayers of crappy Conservatives…
The latest CBC poll aggregation – May 30, 2018 This ongoing Ontario election campaign continues to fascinate and surprise. The latest polls are showing Andrea Horwath’s NDP either neck-and-neck with…
Abandoning the Liberals in certain regions to vote NDP may actually get you a Doug Ford PC majority
NDP tweeter Derek Leebosh turning the tables. Some New Democrats have been having a field day on Twitter lately, getting their revenge it would seem on Liberals for previous elections…
Nik Nanos, please give us something more credible to help progressives stop Doug Ford
One aspect of the ongoing Ontario election campaign is unfolding as I expected: most less-than-stellar pollsters are showing the PCs in the lead with the NDP moving into second place.…
Don’t trust the pollsters nor the cynical pundits, Kathleen Wynne is going to do better than they think…
(Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS) The Ontario election campaign has begun in earnest. I’ve got a few observations I’d like to share and some predictions. DON’T TRUST MOST POLLSTERS…
Granic Allen fired by Doug Ford after handing him the PC leadership…
Social conservative extremist Tanya Granic Allen was removed yesterday from the Ontario Progressive Conservative candidate roster by leader Doug Ford after more of her homophobic bigotry was revealed. Yesterday, the…
Tri-Curious gets the DVD treatment starting April 21st!
The DVD cover for CAS As many know, on top of my political inclinations, I’m also a filmmaker on the side. In 2016, I was very proud to write, produce,…
POLLSTER BOMBSHELL: “I pulled this one out of my ass.”
In an exclusive interview with Queer-liberal (exclusive because the short attention spans of other Queen’s Park reporters caused them to sashay away after the question was asked), pollster Lorne Bozinoff…