Buffoonery continues at Toronto City Hall as Rob Ford wins appeal
The circus that is Rob Ford’s bizarre Toronto mayoralty will continue after the manboy won his appeal to stay in office today after being found guilty of breaking conflict of…
Matt Guerin
Queer-liberal: Accredited blogger at Ontario Liberal leadership convention 2013
I’m very pleased to announce that I’ve been approved as an accredited blogger at the 2013 Ontario Liberal leadership convention taking place this weekend, January 25th to 27th. You can…
Busy weekend of Liberal leadership voting; the wacky Glen Murray…
Like hundreds of Liberals, I put my name on the ballot this past weekend to become a delegate to the Ontario Liberal leadership convention later this month. Across the province,…
Pupatello still tops, followed by Wynne, in my Liberal leadership deliberations
I remain quite supportive of Sandra Pupatello for the leadership of the Ontario Liberals. She continues to perform well with a clear and consistent message that I’m sure will continue…
Sandra Pupatello for Ontario Liberal Leader & Premier
After much thought and watching the candidates in action over the last few weeks, I’m going to follow my head and my heart and endorse Sandra Pupatello for Ontario Liberal…
Martha Hall-Findlay is looking better and better every day…
Justin Trudeau seems to be imploding lately with the revelation of old and very unfortunate 2010 quotes about Alberta and now an incoherent position on the gun registry. Suddenly, the…
Time for Toronto conservatives to find a new champion and ditch Buffoon Ford!
Many of Rob Ford’s opponents are celebrating today’s surprising court decision to remove him from office for breaking the law. Apparently, Rob Ford intends to appeal the decision in court…
GridTO article: Splitting the Village
This week, I was happy to be interviewed for this Grid Toronto piece about the possible splitting of Toronto’s Gay Village into two federal/provincial ridings. Here’s an excerpt and link…
Tories way down and Liberals way up, yet some in the MSM say this is good for Stephen Harper?
This article is one of a couple currently using a new Ipsos Reid poll to argue that Justin Trudeau is Stephen Harper’s newest friend. The last Ipsos poll earlier this…
Americans vote for same sex marriage in 4 states & re-elect a pro-equal marriage President!
Let me just quickly celebrate the great re-election of Barack Obama on Tuesday night. He's the first President of the United States to publicly support same sex marriage. I do…
Republican minority voting suppression tactics will hopefully end after 2012…
Further to recent revelations about forcing voters to show government issued photo ID in certain Republican-controlled U.S. states this election, let’s look at another Republican tactic in this campaign: cancelling…
Ontario Liberal leadership race continues to take shape…
I was on this mailing list from George Smitherman (see email below), glad to say. I think George has made the right decision to stay out of the Ontario Liberal…
Screenplay for ‘THE GOLDEN PIN’ by Matt Guerin & Cuong Ngo
This was the shooting script for the 2009 short film, ‘The Golden Pin’, which I co-wrote with director Cuong Ngo. I also worked as Associate Producer on this production. The…
BLOG RE-DESIGN: New professional blog for Yours Truly…
I’ve decided to end my political blogging and re-focus my online efforts to promoting my career as a screenwriter, producer and filmmaker. I’ll keep my existing content on this site…
Electoral riding commission threatens to split Toronto’s LGBT Village in Two….
The Commission looking into redistributing 338 ridings for the federal House of Commons for the next election (up from the current 308) has released its proposals. They include adding 15…
NDP launches new TV ad: Stephen Harper’s solution
So It’s so very cool to see Canada’s official opposition, the federal NDP, lash back quickly against the Conservatives and give them a taste of their own medicine. For too…
Silver fox Anderson Cooper finally makes it official: "I’m gay"
Belated Happy Pride Day and Happy Canada Day wishes for all!This news from CNN star Anderson Cooper was a nice post-Pride gift this morning. The silver fox have finally made…
Pride short-film showcase – ‘It makes for a nice escape if people get a little Prided out’ says Guerin
Very nice write-up on Xtra.ca about something I’ve been working on the last few months. I re-print it here in its entirety: Pride short-film showcase ON SCREEN / ‘It makes…
Fourth Horseman decides to postpone the Liberal Apocalypse…
Yes, Bob Rae made the right decision yesterday when he announced he won’t be a candidate for the permanent leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. It was right for…