ISIS’ plans
This report is consistent with this analysis. Both are highly disturbing, and both suggest that we are at the beginning of a very long struggle. I won’t even bother to…
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Un beau jour!
Ce jour, en 1980, Pierre Trudeau a gagné un gouvernement majoritaire, ayant annoncé sa retraite que quelques semaines auparavant. #CDNpoli — Daisy Group (@DaisyGrp) February 18, 2015
Who is going to win the 2015 federal election?
Here’s what the bright Mr. Grenier says on CBC’s web site this morning. But what do you guys think? Last week, Lala and me had a long-overdue dinner with two…
Brockville, Sun News, and holding the elected to account
Ronald Zajac, right here. Read.
Methinks Ms. Hebert knows more than she’s sayin’
Just sayin’. You can (should) read the whole piece. But these bits I found interesting: If anything, Adams’s inclusion on the Trudeau team has more to do with a dogged…
Chris Hedges (and me, via Chris Hedges) on pornography
Finally, someone says what I’ve been labouring to say about pornography for years. Full link is below the quote: BOSTON—“Fifty Shades of Grey,” the book and the movie, is a…
Q: What do you do when a Minister of Justice pronounces on your client’s guilt before trial?
A: If you’re a criminal defence lawyer, you dance a jig, and then skip down to court to secure a mistrial, that’s what! Not sure it's a good idea for…
It is lawful to stop an unjust aggressor
So says no less than Pope Francis, in response to ISIS’ barbaric killing of 27 Egyptian Christians: “The Pope departed from the script of an address on Monday to emphasise…
Happy flag day
When we were home in Calgary, during the NEP, someone burned the flag we had up on the roof. “What should we do?” I asked my Dad, as we stood…
CBC National story on Sun News Network: what’s remarkable
…what’s remarkable isn’t the subject matter, or the fact that it used B-roll of people who left the network almost four years ago, or that I wore a sweater Lala…
Dear Sun News Network folks
I was on Twitter, past midnight, reading some of the things people were saying about the network’s demise. There was a lot of gloating and awful stuff being said. I…
In Friday’s Sun: the five stages of political denial
Political people are all the same. Whenever they get into big trouble – whatever their party, whatever their ideology – they go through Five Stages of Political Denial, sort of…
Sun sets
It’s true. There are some good people there, and I feel very bad for them. They worked hard. They were good to me, too, over the past four years. My…
Ratf**king: a lengthy exposition, five questions, and a TV appearance
That’s what they called it, in the Watergate days: ratf**king. No less an authority than Wikipedia defines it as “an American slang term for political sabotage or dirty tricks.” Donald…
In defence of Eve, and all women: new rule
Look, I’m no fan of what Justin Trudeau did this week. Most real Liberals aren’t, either. As I will opine in a column on Friday, he should have: Welcomed Eve…
One of these things is not like the other
Navdeep Bains, former Liberal MP and Justin Trudeau advisor: “ will be subject to same rules as anyone else in terms of a green-light vetting process and the nomination process.…
I am (still) a confused teenager
I don’t know what’s worse: accomplishing nothing that is notable in your life – or accomplishing something when you are young, and never again repeating it. Such were my reflections,…
Pretty good column about Trudeau’s “open nominations”
Worth a read, though I’m biased. Right here.
Breaking #cdnpoli news! Must credit www.warrenkinsella.com!
BREAKING: Announcing my plan to cross office floor to chat with members of #NDP & #CPC. I will then return to my desk. Thank you. #cdnpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren)…