After watching this sobering, fascinating interview with famed political philosopher Charles Taylor on yesterday’s Power & Politics, I’m more convinced than ever that my headline is true. Taylor was commenting…
PM Harper, another Tory and evolution-hater MP James Lunney. Yuck and yuck and yuck. It seems the thinly-veiled, socially conservative extremist face of the Conservative movement in this country is…
Wednesday was Pink Shirt Day in Canada, a day to stand up against bullying. But in Ottawa, where Tories act like bullies most of the time, attacking anyone who can’t…
A few hundred social conservatives reportedly gathered outside the Ontario legislature Tuesday to protest the province’s revised sex-education curriculum, claiming ignorance is a virtue when it comes to their kids’…
Director Michele Josue, father Dennis Shepard and mother Judy Shepardaddress crowd at gala event in Toronto last night. I attended the gala screening last night of the documentary feature ‘Matt…
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…
