Olivia’s campaign video
I like it. (And, yes, before you ask, she did experience some facial paralysis recently. So perhaps John Tory’s campaign can mock that, just like they mocked Jean Chretien’s facial…
Warren
Watch out, circus! The lion tamer is here!
From today’s Globe, by Gable. Classic. .
Why I want Olivia Chow to be Toronto’s next mayor
Back on November 27, 2012, I picked up a copy of Sing Tao. That’s the front page, up above. I’ve kept that paper ever since, hoping to get Olivia Chow…
Does Rogers actually pay John Tory $10,000 a meeting?
…a board position, by the by, that he refuses to resign. And, while we’re on the subject, what was he paid to lobby for bigger profits for big telcos?
A statement for and about the new age
Me: Hey, look, Twitter’s down. Colleague Aaron: Yeah, I know. And I can’t even tweet about it. .
Toronto needs a mayor: And it sure ain’t John Tory
Reading this story will make you, um, hunger for a mayor who is capable of making a decision. Among other things. .
In Tuesday’s Sun: hit Putin where it hurts – in the bank account
Dear Barack Obama, Stephen Harper et al.: We sense Vladimir Putin is making you angry. Even worse, we sense that he is – once again – making you look like…
Spotted on a Toronto street
Says it all. We need someone who can drive Mayor Crackhead out of office, I’d say, and we need that someone soon.
JWK on PKP
So, PKP. I’ve never met him, I’ve never seen him, I’ve never heard from him. That’s the way I like my media moguls: totally invisible. In my years at the…
15,000
Isn’t that a nice illustration? The Internet is fun. Anyway. Hit 15,000 Twitter followers sometime over the weekend. If (a) I didn’t have a lingering Man Cold and (b) Winter…
We get letters: this morning’s death threat
From “Chris,” email Roadhammer_@live.ca, IP 24.138.62.169. He’s somewhere in Nova Scotia, looks like. I know you won’t approve this, but you still have to read it. I hope to HELL…
In Sunday’s Sun: whither thou goest, Quebec?
Now that Quebec’s separatist government has called an election – and now that there is a very real prospect of the
Toronto needs a mayor: seriously. We do.
Check what this genius tweeted tonight, then later deleted. Wow. Then again, the possibility that he lives in a different time zone than the rest of us may explain a…
John Tory’s message to women, on International Women’s Day: “Learn how to play golf”
“I’ll say to young women…learn how to play golf. Because you will find it’s immensely advantageous to your career.” Those kinds of views are indeed “frankly out of date.” So…
Happy Day, women
There are many awesome posters out there. This was one of my favorites for today. .
Two Sun hits: on Harper copying Trudeau, and on how we can punish Putin for the invasion of the Ukraine
Here, on the Reformatories adopting Justin’s position on pot and MP expenses – after previously mocking him on both. Holy flip-flop, Batman: And here, about seven minutes in:
Liberal-NDP merger/coalition/cooperation? A truly federalist NDP?
Sigh. Well, you guys know I – like Messrs. Chretien, Romanow and Broadbent, among others – favour progressives finally coming together. So that we stop splitting the vote, and so…
Toronto needs a mayor: this sentence is important for what isn’t in it, not what is
To wit: “Detectives are investigating allegations of drug use and drug trafficking and trying to determine if there was an organized, aggressive attempt to retrieve the video of Mayor Ford…
Babymetal: the band that will destroy metal
They’re also my current favourite band of all time: choreographed bubblegum pop fused with hardcore? Nobody has ever done that before! The old metalhead at the start, horrified by what…
Lenten observance
Straight edge, for the next 40 days. Mayor Crackhead, care to join me? We can both submit to blood tests at the end. .