OPEN LETTER to Senator Don Plett, I understand from this Hill Times article that you are planning to introduce amendments in the Canadian Senate to this democratically-passed private member’s bill,…
Due to parliamentary rules that few Canadians understand, the Senate is threatening to kill an NDP MP’s democratically-passed Transgender Rights private member’s bill when it’s amended in the Senate’s Legal…
Tea Party Ontario PC leadership candidate Monte McNaughton I love Kathleen Wynne dearly and greatly appreciate her style of leadership. I find that I agree with her on most issues.…
I want to give a quick shout-out for a feature film I saw last weekend: ‘Tru Love,’ by co-directors Kate Johnston and Shauna MacDonald, which is playing for a second…
In yet another disgusting abuse of power and waste of taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars by Stephen Harper and his government, it’s now been confirmed that a laughable “Health Canada” ad campaign…
This story about Billy Crystal has been making the internet rounds this week. I thought I’d comment, mostly to post a link to this great article by Noah Michelson, executive…
When you tell someone they’re not going to be your party’s candidate in an upcoming byelection, that you’re going to appoint someone else if they even try to run, but…
I have been busy lately catching some 2014 films I missed last year. Scene from ‘Selma’ The most recent viewing was director Ava DuVernay’s superb ‘Selma,’ (pictured on the right)…
The events this week in Paris were horrifying. It’s true that the West is currently being targeted by Jihadist militants, some isolated and deranged, some well-funded and trained. Our values…
It’s about time! After months of dumb stubbornness, Prime Minister Stephen Harper finally relented and met yesterday with Ontario’s duly elected premier, Kathleen Wynne. She only got less than an…
Actor Ellar Coltrane as seen in “Boyhood” from age 6 to 18 My Top Ten Films of 2014: 1) Boyhood (One of my favourite directors, Richard Linklater, finally looks poised…
University of Prince Edward Island President Wade MacLauchlan in his Charlottetown office.(Nina Linton For The Globe and Mail) 2015 may also bring a second openly LGBT premier in Canada: Prince…
I’m extremely proud that I was able to predict way back in the fall of 2013 that Kathleen Wynne would win re-election with a majority government in Ontario. Good friends…
Stephen Harper is being taken to task a lot lately for spending $600 million of taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars on ‘Government of Canada’ advertising that does little more than promote his…
Columnists are not reporters. Facts are less important to them than spouting off on their biases. They’re not supposed to outright lie in their commentaries. They can omit important facts…
Stephen Harper is proving he can be as classless as the worst of men. I’m tired of his petty arrogance being described as “competence” and “good judgment” by his supporters…
Poland makes history by electing its first openly gay mayor Wonderful news! Gay rights campaigner Robert Biedron has pledged to ditch the limos and ride a bike 01 December 2014|…
Polly Hamilton, left, and Quinn Maloney-Tavares, both 11, wanted to do a social justice school project on gay rights, but their principal at an Ottawa Catholc Catholic School vetoed the…
Opening scene from director Daniel Ribeiro’s ‘The Way He Looks’ I sadly missed a previous Toronto screening for Daniel Ribeiro’s feature film ‘The Way He Looks,’ at the Inside Out…
Simple minds cling to their simple talking points: “These guys are getting fully loaded… It’s nonsense….I’ll be on them. I’ll try to make sure it doesn’t happen again.” Despite everything…
