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Bourrie loses another one: the Law Society kicks Mark to the curb
As per the letter below. They didn’t even bother to contact me, they considered his complaint so utterly without merit. Wow. Which reminds me: I still haven’t been arrested for…
My new song
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In Tuesday’s Sun: I don’t bite, Justin.
Justin Trudeau won’t agree to an interview. With Sun News, that is. He dismisses queries from Sun Media reporters on the Hill, even super nice guys like David Akin. He…
McPunk
I have long called McDonald’s Corporate Death Burger (h/t MDC). I also refer to a Big Mac as a “Stomach Bomb.” The first libel action against me (at age sixteen,…
Sunday morning
The view in our living room.
In Sunday’s Sun: your election loss is in the mail
The Evil Empire. Yes, that’s what we called it. Back before the dawn of time, you see, I was chief of staff to a federal cabinet minister. The minister had…
Walk softly and carry a big, big stick for big spenders
Wynne has this incongruity I like: she smiles a lot and is friendly, but she is absolutely brutal when fat-cats start getting reckless with taxpayer-subsidized expense accounts. It’s like a…
A decade-plus investigation
My, my. You wouldn’t suppose the timing has anything to do with the ongoing Senate scandal, would you? No, of course not. The decade-plus-long delay makes this a joke. If…
Ontario politics: should I kill myself, or have an election?
Political courage, someone once said, is not political suicide. Noble sentiment, I guess, but it’s also worth knowing that the author of the statement was Arnold Schwarzenegger (not Camus, who…
Strummerfest 2013 – tonight in K-W!
SFH and a ton of other bands – plus our newest members, Steve Deceive and Royal Niblit!
My exclusive self-portrait, at the Leafs game
You’re welcome.
Live from the Leafs-Kings game
Text exchange between Son One and me. We Kinsellas are unimpressed by movie stars.
Breaking: the Harper government has just lost the next election
I’m not kidding, either. If this extraordinary story isn’t an Onion-like bit of satire – and I checked, it doesn’t seem to be – the Harper guys are done like…
Impressions about Justin Trudeau and Justin Trudeau’s mouth
I read this story, and then I re-read it. It’s one of two possibilities. One, it’s a candid and honest admission by Justin Trudeau about one of Justin Trudeau’s shortcomings,…
Pope Francis: person of the year
Good pick. And here and here and here are some reasons why.
Dale vs. Ford: …and Ford wins
Rob Ford, who is the scum of the Earth, this week called Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale a pedophile. Quite a few of us immediately suggested that Dale needed to…
In Wednesday’s Sun: four Prime Ministers, three parachutes on a plane
So, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former prime ministers Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell and Jean Chretien took a plane to South Africa to attend the public memorial for Nelson Mandela.…