About that ad
The one to the left. In case you’re wondering, that space: Was first offered to Team Red, to a very senior person. They said they’d get back. They didn’t. Was…
Warren
Inquiries about inquiries
Some of you have asked what I feel about the calls for inquiries arising out of yesterday’s release by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission summary report on the disgrace that…
In this week’s Hill Times: election 2015 is the NDP’s to lose (and they might)
TORONTO — Knowing the precise moment when New Democrat winners were transformed into New Democrat losers isn’t all that simple. Was it when first-place Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow —…
Fred probably doesn’t want a dirty rotten Liberal to say this
…but, in my experience, he’s a good guy. And he’d make a fine MP.
We are the rank
Per the post below about Colter Wall, some of you have messaged me to enquire about the Dils/Rank and File. Here’s one of the best tunes by the latter, to…
Colter Wall: check this guy out
Unbeknownst to many of you, I am a closeted fan of alt-country and related sounds. When in the woods, for instance, all I play is reggae, dub – or, I…
Election 2015, in 140 characters
Campaigns matter, of course, per the cliché. Bien sur. But the picture that is emerging from the last few weeks of polling is distorted. Am I wrong? Am I right?…
You can’t blame this
…on money or the ethnic vote. But, God knows, you can’t stop people who should know better from peddling dangerous fantasies.
My Dad, who died 11 years ago years ago this month
…would have been happy about this day. When he was dying, in fact. He told us to “sue those tobacco companies.” And someone did. In a ruling described as “historic”…
The media on Andre Marin: “the watchdog needs a babysitter”
The Post: Such teenagerish behaviour is not particularly unusual for the veteran watchdog. Indeed, Marin has gotten in a number of public spats on Twitter, which occasionally end with him…
The latest from the Kid Kodak bunker
“WK-if your goal is to drive His Highness crazy, you are doing a good job. OO office update: Surveillance seriously being increased. They are trying to find out who leaked…
Fare thee well, Peter MacKay
He’s a nice guy, but I don’t think his departure matters too much. Things hadn’t been going particularly well for some time – see here and here and here and…
SFH official portrait
Aren’t we handsome? Left to right: Steve Deceive, Winkie Nuclear Age Smith, Bjorn von Flapjack III. Missing: Davey Snot.
Neo-Nazi rag engaged in fraud and Holocaust denial
Quote: So watch out for door to door fraud by this despicable hate group. Danforth Music Festival and Beaches Blues Festival are owned by Leroy St. Germaine, the same waste…
Breaking: Kid Kodak Andre Marin has gone missing!
And there is a reward for his safe return! (Well, actually, there isn’t. There’s a reward if he doesn’t return. Ever.)
Dear Ontario legislators:
if you reappoint this guy, you need help. Signed, Ontario
Has Andre “Kid Kodak” Marin lost his mind?
The multiple instances of defamation notwithstanding – and my lawyer tells me we can, and should, sue and that we’d win – what I found most astonishing, here, is that…
U of T: Toronto is already segregated – on transit, services and just about everything else
But God help you if you actually say that out loud. I mean, Olivia Chow may pretend that she doesn’t know you! “David Hulchanski, a professor of housing and community…
In this week’s Hill Times: weep for the Canadian media
Fittingly, it took a small-town radio station to ask The Question. It came on Dave Glover’s drive-time show on CFWN in Northumberland. “What,” I was asked, “do you think about…