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Did Justin Trudeau just give Patrick Brown a gift?
It sure looks that way. Check this out: Minimum wage hikes across Canada this year could cost about 60,000 jobs, despite the benefits they would bring, the Bank of Canada…
The new world disorder
2017 was bad; 2018 will be worse. That’s been my view for a while. It’s centred on a three-part thesis: one, that the West’s enemies will take further advantage of…
2018, day one
Started to go through my smart editor’s edits for NEW DARK AGES in the @XPUNKBOOK series today but I kept getting the pizza wheel of death so I fell asleep…
Happy New Year, y’all
Heading out to a fancy dinner and then a party with the most amazing woman. She’s beautiful and brilliant. Have a great evening, all – and an even better 2018!
2017: looking on the bright side
The thing that most characterized and energized 2017 for me was a deep and visceral loathing of Trump. It made me feel 30 years younger. It was a revivifying and…
The greatest single sentence in the history of the New York Times
Until the “Donald Trump today resigned the presidency” sentence, that is.
2018: the coming provincial and municipal elections
My former Sun colleague Antonella Artuso got in touch with me to seek my opinion on the coming Ontario and Toronto elections. Her story is here. And my full response…
Me and Charles Adler on 2017’s winners and losers, proportional representation, ethics and the GOP
All right here.
Globe and Mail: Recipe For Hate “shines…Kinsella nails it…absorbing, jarring and raw”!
Wow! This is a great way to end 2017. And, I am honoured. The Globe and Mail has reviewed Recipe For Hate – and they like it! Their review: Recipe…
When the place is open and no one is there to serve you, should you wait or walk out?
So. About this. Nick Kouvalis is in the news. Nick Kouvalis has been advised to have no comment. As a lawyer, I don’t disagree with that. But Canada’s Best-Loved Political…
The best and worst of Canadian politics in 2017
It’s a cliché, sure. It’s hackneyed and overdone, true. It has been done a million times, agreed. But it’s fun: the columnist’s year-end political winner/loser list! And, this year, regular…
I can’t comment on this
But the fact that I’m posting it here should tell you plenty. From Canadian Lawyer Magazine: Toronto lawyer Warren Kinsella has settled a claim he launched against a Twitter subsidiary…
Me and Charles Adler on Khaaaaaaan
Right here.
Joe Strummer, gone so long, gone too soon
The sticker affixed to the London Calling album shrink-wrap, 38 years ago this month, boldly declared that the Clash were “the only band that matters.” If that is true –…