In Friday’s Sun: disasters are in the eye of the beholder
Rudy Giuliani’s second term was not going well. It was a disaster, in fact. He’d been diagnosed with cancer. His signature tough-on-crime policy was rounding up more hot dog vendors…
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SFH! Chris Turner! Shift Magazine!
Exclamation marks!
How not to manage a public health crisis
This was slipped under peoples’ doors in the middle of the night. Seriously. The coordination of the medical/governmental/public response to this thing has been a five-alarm shit show. Not going…
Average writing about averages
Paul Adams tweeted this – Story? Column? Op-ed? What is it? – earlier this morning. My friend Darrell Bricker was appalled by the fact that the national broadcaster would be…
In Tuesday’s Sun: sorry, big media, but you don’t own every word that is uttered
The media are upset. This isn’t a unique thing. It happens a lot. But what makes the latest controversy noteworthy is the subject-matter: an obscure change to Canadian copyright law,…
Forgive me for feeling somewhat vindicated
…two months after the fact. Better late than never, I suppose. I never called him a racist, you know. I simply asked if his policies treated different people differently. If…
Why Malala won: she is one of the few actual Christ-like people alive
At around the four minute mark. “I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I…
Bye-bye Globe and Mail
When I was going to Bishop Carroll High School in Calgary, my Dad subscribed to the Globe and Mail. We got the Herald, too, but both of us thought the…
In Friday’s Sun: certainty is the first casualty of war – not Justin Trudeau
It was “Justin Trudeau’s lousy week,” declared the Globe and Mail editorial headline. “Justin Trudeau is war’s first casualty,” wrote Chantal Hebert in the liberal (and Liberal) Toronto Star. “Liberal…
She concludes at the end, there, by reminding me she’s “only asked for money twice”
Welcome to my life.
New media not so new to the newly-maturing: newspaper
Ladurantaye will be tickled. Or, not.
Axworthy on the coalition against ISIS
He speaks for quite a few of us, I think: “I was concerned, and I was surprised at the decision to be honest, because traditions and the history and the…
New Daisy Group web site!
Thanks to the prodding and design work of Bjorn, and the work of Lala and Babs, the new Daisy Group web site is up! Below, some screenshots from the new…
John Tory “summoned” by Harper
Only @JohnTory2014 would think being “summoned” by a very unpopular Conservative leader is worth promoting. What a bunch of idiots.
In Tuesday’s Sun: war – what is it good for?
War, what is it good for? Remember that lyric? For Edwin Starr, war – and the song “War” – was good enough to represent a number one hit in the…
I need some cherry pie
You have no idea, none, how huge this is for me. What I own should give you a small clue: Two (not one) Twin Peaks boxed sets Maps of Twins…