In Sunday’s Sun: we don’t give a shit what you think, old chap
“If you don’t care about the royal baby, don’t bother telling the rest of us you don’t care.” That was my personal message to assorted grumps, grouches and anti-monarchists Tuesday…
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The scene in the Slocan Valley
This is a bit too close to home. My brother, his wife and my littlest sibling all live in Winlaw, B.C., in the Slocan Valley, right near Lemon Creek. It…
Toronto Centre, where no one has ever read a history book
Worldly, academic, author, former journalist, Harvard, even a bit of Russia. What could possibly go wrong?
Trudeau, stoned
As pretty much everyone knows by now, Justin Trudeau has this week (re) announced that he supports not just decriminalization of pot, but legalization. I think he’s made a mistake.…
Ann Cavoukian admits she “didn’t do a good job”
Regular readers know my view about the preening megalomaniac who is the ostensibly non-partisan Ontario’s Information Commissioner – but who is, truly, a crazed publicity-seeking McGuinty-hater. Officers of the Legislature,…
Toronto’s next mayor
Here. Reasons why I’d support her, if she ran: She knows how to work with everyone: that’s her rep from the Lastman years, when she was a councillor. She’s flexible.…
Heretofore, I am to be known as Miguel Angel Dynamite
I’m about to go on Sun News about Weiner’s weiner, among other things. So I decided to try out Slate’s fun Carlos Danger Name Generator, here. I am now officially…
An honourable thing to do
Guys like Morgan rarely get kudos for doing the right thing, so I say: kudos for doing the right thing. Nice to see that it still occasionally happens in Harper’s…
His Majesty, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and His other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith: we care
Crazed republicans remind me of crazed atheists: they are more preoccupied with saying they dislike/disbelieve than those who actually do like/believe in God or Her Majesty or whatever. I mean,…
In Tuesday’s Sun: who oversees the overseers?
Who provides oversight for the overseers? In this era of ombudsmen and commissioners and incessant inquiries, it is no idle question. In a time when, increasingly, gutless politicians are delegating…
We get letters – and from the UK, too!
From: chrisallan276@hotmail.co.uk 4:39 PM To: Warren Kinsella You sit are a sick individual , I really have no idea how or why you are allowed to write a column for…
Trudeau 1, Harper 0
Nice ending to an affair that I always found rather suspicious. Will assorted Conservative (and conservative) critics now apologize to Trudeau for their attacks on him? Of course not.
Why is the Ontario Human Rights Commission tweeting about sex and politics?
Screen cap, before the two tweets were deleted: Not the kind of thing you’d expect from a provincial quasi-judicial body, but perhaps Ann Cavoukian’s malady is spreading through the public…
Free Pussy Riot now
Dear Masha and Nadia: As the one-year anniversary of your trial approaches, we are writing to assure you that, around the world, people are both still thinking of you and…
The Trudeaus aren’t the only family with roots in the Kootenays
My family does, too. A lot of them have lived there for years, near Winlaw. It is a beautiful place, and I’d be living there, too – if there was…
“You want to come after Rob and I, we’re open game”
So sayeth one of the stupidest politicians to walk the planet. Well, okay, Doug, but only because you insist: we will continue to “come after” after you and your idiot…
I left the Bay Street law firm where I was a partner a decade ago
…and I haven’t regretted my decision, not once. I worked with brilliant, wonderful people. They were good to me. But I could see the writing on the wall. When I…