Donald Trump is an asshole
Listen to this Canadian punk rock band, if you don’t believe me: Anyway. Here’s Adolf Twitler yesterday, speaking to a rally of mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers: When Trump eventually got around to…
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Could Scheer’s social media team be any dumber?
No. No, they couldn’t. Because I’ve been thinking about this. And I think that Andrew Scheer attacking Justin Trudeau over taking a day off today – the St. Jean Baptiste…
Column: anger is an energy
Anger is an energy. That’s a line from Public Image’s improbable 1986 hit single, ‘Rise.’ The former Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten wails it, over and over, and it eventually makes…
We get letters: apparently Black Lives Matter and I are terrorists
Who knew? Also, I particularly like his email handle.
There is no statute of limitations on #MeToo
The headline is ridiculous, but the story is actually well-done, here. The revelation that the victim wrote the editorial was news to me, and it puts the whole matter in…
This tweet about a ridiculous Scheer tweet struck a chord
72,000 impressions and counting. This isn’t the first time the Conservative leader’s social media has misfired. He needs to take a look at that. It isn’t “Justin Trudeau’s cottage.” It’s…
Doug Ford makes a smart pick
Our friend Jenni Byrne is heading to Premier Ford’s office, in a big role. Smart pick. Ontario Premier-designate Doug Ford has tapped a senior staffer from Stephen Harper’s government to…
That new TIME cover: wow
TIME’s new cover: A reckoning after Trump's border separation policy: What kind of country are we? https://t.co/U4Uf8bffoR pic.twitter.com/sBCMdHuPGc — TIME (@TIME) June 21, 2018
My advice: kick Trump in the nuts
That’s my considered diplomatic advice. From next week’s Hill Times column: At a press conference held to mark the end of the Parliamentary sitting, Trudeau gave the sort of verbal…
Justice, conscience, law
This clip from The Ox Bow Incident is why I became a lawyer. I watched it when I was a kid, and this part – the part with Henry Fonda…
Why won’t Canada denounce this? Why?
It’s the story that made Maddow cry on air. Read it, here. And – now – we are also being told that these children are orphans now – they will…