Highly-Scientific Poll™: should Prime Ministerial spouses have staff?
This has been a raging controversy, apparently, bigger even than Fort Mac and ISIS. I know this because it was the subject-matter of two radio shows I did yesterday –…
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Profiling: from next week’s Hill Times
A snippet from my column about the Ben Rhodes controversy, and the lessons that some might be able to draw from up here in the Great White North: But the…
Can you order someone to submit to sexual assault?
Kathryn Borel says someone did just that to her. Borel, as you probably know, was the complainant in the second Jian Ghomeshi trial, the one that had been slated to…
We grow old, we grow old
I have a son who was born 18 years ago today – his arrival prompted by a bank robbery, a garage sale, and a crazy ride in 1974 Volkswagen Beetle.…
Alternatives to Ghomeshi
Sounds like an indie band, eh? But, after this morning, I suspect many will be wondering if there was a better option in the R. v. Ghomeshi cases. The first…
All lined up, battery brides
For reasons I do not fully ken, these two Eighties gems popped into my head this morning. I am a sucker for a weirdo bass line. Useless facts: one guy…
In this week’s Hill Times: pouring gasoline on the fire
A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. Robert Herrick, an American writer and essayist, said that. He was an interesting fellow – a novelist, a poet, a Harvard grad, a…
Tommy Stinson loves SFH
It’s true. The Guns’n’Roses and ‘Mats bassist was at the Bovine on Saturday night and gave a shout-out to SFH. So sayeth Cam Carpenter. Want proof? Here’s me and Tommy…
Showboating politicos don’t put out fires
And that’s why Justin Trudeau has rightly said he won’t be heading out to Fort Mac just yet. In my own (personal) experience, politicians need to be very, very careful…
Postmedia water-cooler talk
Informed speculation, as it were, is as follows: The board has taken over, and Godfrey is basically out. I’m told his role is now purely symbolic, and he is not…
The New York Times and the times in Fort Mac
Front page of yesterday’s Times. I am a devoted reader of the New York Times. It was via the Times, in fact, that I first learned of the Carville-Clinton war…
The NBA needs to suspend Wade
.@NBA @MiamiHEAT: The Abdul-Rauf precedent is clear. Suspend Wade. #Canada @Raptors https://t.co/twgT8I1k7i https://t.co/dMVm2he6bS — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 8, 2016
Conservative MPs, you are a disgrace
Disgusting, despicable, detestable: none of those words adequately captures what Conservative MPs did this week. Forget about the fact that the anthem needed to be changed. Forget about the fact that…
STAMP applauds CUPW grievance action over neo-Nazi rag
The press release that went out last night. Share widely, please.
Highly-scientific poll: reaction to stuff Justin Trudeau did
For the Liberal Prime Minister, it was quite a week. It was like there were two Justin Trudeaus – one, a serious Prime Ministerial leader type, and one who was…
At the 1:30 mark, this gets actually terrifying
And, after watching it, I say to anyone – from the Left or the Right – who is trying to turn this catastrophe into a political victory for your side:…
The putative Republican presidential candidate speaks his mind
It’s not all that new, and he speedily deleted it. But get ready to be seeing a lot of it. Heh.