In Tuesday’s Sun: what’s Harper’s Daisy going to be?
Fifty years ago on Sunday, politics was changed forever. It begins quietly, with a little girl. She’s in a field somewhere, and she has long, straight hair, and big eyes.…
Warren
wk.com: 2.2 million page views a year! 13 million since 2008!
A friendly inquiry this morning about how many people come to my web site elicited this response: “I don’t know.” So I decided ask the guy who would, from Team…
Daisy, fifty years later
Changed politics forever. Re-elected Johnson. Named my firm about it. Still gives me shivers. Oh, and wrote tomorrow’s column about it!
Apology by former Harper advisor Manny Montenegrino
More about him here and here.
Fifty years ago today
One ad, one little ad, changed everything. Named my company after it, was inspired by it: do it, do it strong and tough and loud, and do it right. Take…
Best sign, ever
It also neatly summarizes my perspective on all of existence.
The Ottawa Citizen’s massive apology to Dalton McGuinty
It’s a shit-eater, too. Wow. Some of us had been saying the Citizen had been reckless and wrong about the former Premier. Very, very happy to see this.
In FRiday’s Sun: September 4, 1984 and the people
September 4, 1984: thirty years ago today, I was on an Air Canada flight from Ottawa, heading home to Calgary to start law school. The pilot came on the
We always said David Bertschi was our preferred candidate
What makes you think we didn’t prefer David?
In Tuesday’s Sun: why Kathleen Wynne should be Prime Minister
So, 1,200 of your family, friends and neighbours are murdered, or go missing. Would you be upset? How about this: the murders and the disappearances have been going on, unchecked,…
Into the wild
The movies I love the most, as Lisa or my kids or family might tell you, are movies like Castaway, Life of Pi, All Is Lost, Open Water, and Into…
Way to go, daughter
Beacher Emma Kinsella was one of around 4,000 young athletes who travelled to the North American Indigenous Games in Regina in late July. She was invited to swim for Team…
Hey Nick
You’re served.
Crazy Town is right
It’s Forum, so everybody needs to take a frigging Valium. On the other hand, however, this:
Clowns at Midnight, on the Devil
Well-written. Fair points therein. (i ain’t desd yet, BTW.)
The view from here
Doing edits on the new book, 30,000 words in. Dunno if it’ll sell two copies, but it may surprise a few folks. Heading home in two days. Other surprises await…
How to deal with online assholes
I’ve been doing this web stuff – it’s a web site, people, not a blog – for about a decade-and-a-half. At the start, I didn’t have comments – partly because…
Dear John: greetings from the coast
Weather great, kids aren’t killing each other, and almost at 30,000 words – after two months. Not bad. Cheers, W
In Tuesday’s Sun: out on a limb
enator Romeo LeBlanc looked around. It was Spring 1993, and LeBlanc was sitting in a room on Parliament Hill, surrounded by a half-dozen Liberal Party staffers. I was one of…