The hardened heart of Mr. Harper.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper had it right when he recently commented on the problems he has with friends. He does not have any. With Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in rehab,…
Peter Lowry
Wynne won what?
Was that a flashback to Canada’s federal leaders John Turner and Brian Mulroney in 1984? These people need new material. The Ontario leaders’ television event last night was like a…
It is Spend-a-Million Harper, for what?
The government finally came clean and admitted that the total bill paid by the taxpayers to take the Hair, the hairdresser and some friends to Israel in January was over…
Revving up for Ontario’s big debate.
If the spin doctors fail to do their jobs tomorrow, does that mean the leaders’ debate does not matter? With the most inane of the commentary on Twitter, you will…
Waiting for the repressed to oppress us.
The Toronto Star waded into the discussion of prostitution the other day. In four pages of wandering and badly edited prose, Star writer Heather Mallick further muddies the waters on…
Horwath harms herself, helps Hudak.
Ontario provincial New Democratic Leader Andrea Horwath is on a slippery slope and she keeps trying to increase speed. By next Tuesday’s leaders’ debate on provincial television networks, she should…
Chow supporters don’t think, they just attack.
Yes, Babel-on-the-Bay promised not to talk about the Toronto mayoralty until September. So, we lied. When your hobby is politics, you do pick up some political traits. What we did…
When is the truth a ‘channel-changer’?
Why would anyone get excited about the Premier of Ontario wanting to keep her job? She likes her job and she has done it better than many of us expected.…
Death of a political party: Mulcair’s measure.
Federal New Democrat Leader Thomas Mulcair has reason to be worried. It is fairly obvious now that he cannot hold half the Quebec seats won by Jack Layton in the…
Death of a political party: Absolving Andrea.
Maybe we are becoming jaded by politics but what is happening to the Ontario New Democrats might be momentous. We are watching a bastion disintegrate. It is like a news…
Death of a political party: NDP and leadership.
Looking more closely at what is happening to the Ontario New Democrats you realize that the signs have been there all along. This is a party without the will to…
Death of a political party: NDP and the unions.
What always divided Canada’s social democrats, be they liberal or socialist, was never dogma or heroes. It was the unions. The liberals saw Canada’s unions as regressive. They were reactionary,…
Charles brought the lovely Camilla to tea.
It must be a condition of having a broadcast license in Canada: When Royals visit, you have to gush a lot. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales came for…
The Ontario NDP has a platform?
And here we thought the New Democrats were going to wing it through this election without a platform. They fooled us again! Here we are with three weeks more to…
Is Canada supporting racism in India?
It can happen. In our eagerness to support democracy, we sometimes get put in a position where we appear to be supporting causes that we would never support back in…
Making common cause with the voters.
This should be a standard lesson in Politics 101. Have we all forgotten it? Why have we stopped making common cause with voters? Looking at the municipal, provincial and federal…
Hudak had the answer and blew it.
All along, we were assuming that Ontario Conservative Leader Timmy Hudak was saving his ace in the hole for late in his campaign. He would have had it as his…
Learning Timmy Hudak’s ‘rithmatic.
One of the problems politicians face is that voters often take you literally. If you are stupid enough to tell voters that you are going to create a million jobs…
The pollsters also need to get real.
Here we are less than half way into the Ontario provincial election and the pollsters are getting more attention than the politicians. Get a life folks. This is far from…
Rosie vs. Justin: seems like a fair fight.
While we rarely waste time reading much of Rosie DiManno’s columns in the Toronto Star, her piece Friday on Justin Trudeau was a rare treat. Maybe it is because they…