Somehow, I can’t picture John Tory doing this
It’d be like asking Thurston Howell II to hang with Skrillex or Daft Punk. It can’t be done. Here’s Olivia at Electric Island on the weekend. Pic by StreetsTO.
Warren
Hot Nasties, death, Fucked Up and the NME
“If you guys had stayed together, you would’ve been really big,” daughter said to me this afternoon, as we headed back from the cabin. “But you wouldn’t have had me,…
In Tuesday’s Sun: Prince Pothead
Is Marc Emery a secret agent for the Conservative Party of Canada? It sure looks that way. It’s impossible that you have not heard of the World’s Most Famous Pothead.…
John Tory calls Rob and Doug Ford “flim-flam” artists
Here. A flim-flam artist is someone who engages in a “trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game.” Yep. .
In Friday’s Sun: a thousand points of light. Stay the course. Persian Gulf.
Capricious, unstructured and even dangerous: That’s what American political thinker Walter Lippmann once wrote about the public’s views on foreign policy. “The unhappy truth,” he wrote in 1955, “is that…
The Festival of Joy is upon us
Be joyous! The ten-day celebration of the birth of the Warren Child is almost here. Your offers of gifts will be received with thanks, here.
John Tory has the worst judgment in the history of the world
The examples of Dithers’ lousy judgment are legion (video faves here and here). So, on Monday, Tory offered a stirring and (uncharacteristically) unambiguous call for Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair…
What I had to say about Kathleen Wynne and her opponents on Sun News, because Harrison Ruess never posts our clips
The senior web producer at Sun News is Harrison Ruess, a charming and dashing young man. He has no faults I am aware of, apart from the fact that he…
Our best Deadmau5/Ford lines
There’s a ridiculous amount of coverage, this morning, about the totally ridiculous summit between Rob Ford and DJ Deadmau5. As a public service, we at Daisy came up with some…
Social media cause and effect
It seemed like the obvious response to Steve’s tweet. .
Help wanted
Looking for a Toronto-area accountant who can do occasional accountancy stuff for smallish consultancy-type firms. Anyone know anyone? God bless. .
Things you can’t do when you’re not a toddler
Okay, this made me laugh. Yes, I’m strange.
In Tuesday’s Sun: A column in which I again stand with Israel hate mail landing in 5…4…3…
For political parties, winning elections is – naturally – the big prize. Almost as good: stealing away an entire demographic group from an opponent. Case in point, Canadian Jewish voters.…
John Tory, then and now
Indecisive. Flip-flopper. No judgment. That’s what the polling says. And, today, he has provided yet more evidence of it.
Dear John: back in TO
Daughter is back, too, with three bronze medals, two silver and one gold from NAIG; Son Two is back for lacrosse camp, and his voice is changing; and the book…