Bernie Farber, a lonely province turns its eyes to you
He’s my brother of another mother, so I’m biased. But if Bernie doesn’t run, I will never speak to him again. ’Cause he’d win, no?
Warren
Four PMs on a plane
I’m writing an entire column about that flight in this week’s Sun (which will be out on Wednesday, jot tomorrow)! But you can have fun with it, too, right now…
Raps trade Gay?
What the Hell?
33 years ago tonight
December 8th, 2010, 2:06 am Thirty years ago tonight, I was a student at Carleton, and Lee G. Hill and I were sharing a room at Russell House in the…
In Sunday’s Sun: in which I become the only person in Canada to dislike Chong’s bill
Look, I like Michael Chong, too. In fact, I’ve probably liked the Conservative MP longer than anyone else. Way back in November 2006, when we were being urged by elites…
Dear Pierre, Alan and Bjorn
She got 80 per cent on the Star Trek quiz, here. You know what this means. br />
“Shit on top of a boiled egg”
My God, my God, I love reading interviews with the Gallaghers. Here’s Noel: How about Miley Cyrus? Are you a fan? I think there’s a trend, unfortunately, in the game,…
Fourteen reasons
…we should never give up on eliminating violence against women: • Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student • Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student • Nathalie Croteau (born…
Mandela music
Many moving tributes to Nelson Mandela this morning, and many of them describing how he was their spark: to oppose racism, to oppose oppression, to oppose totalitarianism. I was involved…
PMO spox: Harper resignation rumour “absolutely false”
Well, it always is until it isn’t. Not much else Jason can say, really.
SFH is number two on CBC Music’s chart!
…well, okay, their ‘Gallery of Songs Inspired by Rob Ford’ chart, that is. But we’re SFH, and we’ll take whatever we can get. Click on the image to see what…
Teenage Lament: long-lost Hot Nasties track
Also located in last night’s rummaging through a closet. From a gig we played at Calgary’s Union Hall, opening for DOA. Here it is. Download, fold, spindle or mutilate, as…
SFH and Rob Ford-related news
Above: the teenaged lead singer of the Hot Nasties, circa 1977-78. Photo located last night under a pile of old records. Note the rasta handle. SFH’s fate seems inextricably linked,…
Dear Chief Blair
Dear Chief Blair: Other folks want to canonize you as a saint. I’ve never felt that way, for various reasons. Another reason: your guys had the goods on Rob Ford…
Toronto needs a mayor who doesn’t do heroin
ROB FORD DOES HEROIN. That would’ve been my headline. Call me crazy, and many do, but it seems to me that that is news. Wow.
Irene David Cleary
My Aunt Irene passed away on the weekend, another family member felled by cancer. Her funeral is today in Knowlton, in the Eastern Townships, and I couldn’t get there on…
14,000+
Hey! Somewhere in the past few days, I acquired more than 14,000 Twitter enthusiasts. At the moment, 14,234, to be precise. I have some small distance to go before catching…
Lame, lame, lame
Jim Watson calls Gord Brown “Gordie.” Good God! The horror! Oh, wait. I call Gordie “Gordie,” too, because he’s one of my oldest friends. I’m friends with Michael McSweeney, as…