Chong, preach
I’m no PMO shill, obviously, but I think this Chong bill is a trap. It is dangerous. Among other things, it would render this sort of nightmare – which I…
Warren
Junior Murvin, rest inna peace
Junior Murvin, a giant of my teenage punk years, died yesterday in Port Antonio. He was in his sixties. No one knows yet what was the cause, apparently. The Clash…
You can come if you haven’t smoked crack, bought illegal drugs, drove drunk, or hung with organized crime
Dear Rob Ford: We decided to have a meeting, and limit attendance to people who haven’t committed a number of major crimes. Sorry. Sincerely, Kathleen Wynne and Norm Kelly
In Tuesday’s Sun: Paris Ford
Rob Ford went to see a football game on Sunday night. The rest of us got to see what people really, truly feel about him. They flocked to him. They…
The greatest early Canadian punk rock singles
I own all but a couple. You?
Conservatives: deleting emails is “the usual protocol”
Remember how Kooky Kavoukian and the Ontario PCs shrieked and brayed about how the routine deletion of emails was a “crime”? How democracy itself was at risk? Remember all that?…
In Sunday’s Sun: lies, statistics and polls
Can public opinion polls suppress voter turnout? Of course they can. Do they? Yes, a lot, a lot. If a poll shows the electorate evenly split, turnout typically surges —…
Globe story on Brandon-Souris
Quote: “…For all the potential missteps, Mr. Dinsdale says he’s not looking back. He plans to run in 2015. “In an election, many, many things go your way. Many, many…
Because some of you were asking
…and because I haven’t commented on Ontario politics in a long time (get used to it).
When is negative not negative?
Raj, who I think is one of the best political reporters around, caught the contradiction (along with a colleague): here. That is, Justin Trudeau has said he will not go…
Art Bergmann: I’m going to f**kin’ Airdrie
Great story by Mike Bell about Art Bergmann in the Calgary Herald, here. I didn’t know Bergmann. He was a big wheel from Vancouver’s punk scene, all dark clothes and…
Dear U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Dear U.S. Friends: I know at least one of you is likely to read this, because I see evidence of your visits in my web site’s analytics all the time.…
I plan to use this a lot in the coming Toronto mayoralty race
…if someone stops dithering, that is. Man, am I ever glad I never throw out any of my old political stunt stuff.
Toronto needs a mayor: how can you tell when Rob Ford is lying?
…his lips are moving. Old joke, but – in his case – it fits. Read, for example, this hot-off-the-presses evisceration of Ford’s Big Budget Bullshit. It’s good: There are many…
From the Calgary punk rock archives
As I recall, this Social Blemishes/Snot gig was in 1978. I don’t know who the Famous Brothers were. ‘Cause we all know who became super, er, famous, don’t we?
Fury’s Hour reviewed!
Here! Also: it’s available as a Kindle download, and makes for an excellent Christmas/Chanukah gift, folks! The author, possibly looking the part.
Forum fabrication, falsehood, fiction?
Asked how his firm got the Brandon-Souris by-election wrong by THIRTY PERCENTAGE POINTS, here’s the whopper offered up by Forum’s president: “I know people are going to say ‘Oh, your…
The Pope is seeking the right kind of politician
…and aren’t we all. “I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor.” His…
By-election Olympics: Trudeau gets gold and silver; Harper and Mulcair get bronze
Not sure what I mean? Take a look at this chart that I found over at Maclean’s: That chart shows, rather dramatically, that Trudeau’s Liberals gained vote everywhere. Everyone else…
In Tuesday’s Sun: I predict a Liberal win by the punk rocker in Brandon-Souris!
Even if he loses, Rolf Dinsdale is a winner. Full disclosure, first part: The deadline for this column was well before all the votes were counted in Rolf’s Brandon-Souris riding…