My take on why Teenage Head were godlike geniuses, as done for CBC
Here.
Warren
In today’s Sun: ten reasons why Harper may quit
It’s (finally) summertime, when the political speculation is easy. Heretofore, the subject that no longer seems as crazy as it once did: Will Stephen Harper quit before the next federal…
My sons are away for the next two weeks
…And my daughter is at camp for the entire summer. When I told my youngest boy how sad that made me, this was his visual response.
Please God, please make Bargnani go away
Is that so much to ask on Canada Day?
In Sunday’s Sun: when scandal is the rule and not the exception
If we have a national memory of seven minutes, do scandals matter any more, or at all? If we have seen and heard everything before, does a new scandal register…
SFH at the movies
Hollywood, here we come! SFH’s tuneful genius is to be found in Julie Pacino’s (yes, daughter of) latest flick, Billy Bates. It’s being released in the Fall in LA and…
Perfect
This week’s cover of The New Yorker.
Dear Prime Minister Harper
I’ve actually never written you a letter before. I’m doing so now to ask you to intervene in this case: hundreds in thousands in Canadian dollars going to one of…
Toronto needs a mayor: why I can’t support John Tory
The Toronto Star continues to giddily shred its credibility with its reliance on the same polling outfit that (a) declared a “crushing” Wildrose majority government in Alberta (b) a “comfortable”…
Yahoo News: Harper Reformatories make themselves the (bad) story
The other reason this story is important is because it shows how very afraid the Conservatives are of the new Liberal leader. Since Trudeau won the Liberal leadership in April,…
W@AL: I was wrong. About everything.
Outside Sun News studios, following an appearance on Brian Lilley’s show, I am struck by a proverbial lightning bolt on the way to Damascus. Clearly, I was wrong about Dalton…
Rob Ford is a liar
…and employs liars. Surprise, surprise. What do those boys get up to after dark, I wonder. Is someone ever going to write about that, I wonder.
In Tuesday’s Sun: disasters, political and natural
In Alberta, no elections are happening next week. People are focused on more important things — like the tragic loss of life attributed to the great flood of 2013, or…
The 2013 Alberta flood: I am puzzled, as usual
In researching tomorrow’s Sun column, I came across a number of photographs of Alberta Premier Alison Redford, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper touring my flooded…
The clash of cultures
Specifically, that of (a) a nameless turtle, Chrysemys picta marginata methinks, and (b) Roxy, Canada’s best-loved political dog. Wish I had filmed this encounter up by the cabin; it was…
Inside the Saddledome?
Sent this morning by my best friend (and former Hot Nasties guitarist) Pierre. Somebody time me it’s photoshopped. True?
In Sunday’s Sun: in Rae’s yesterday walked his future
After big election upsets, like in British Columbia this year — or in Alberta last year, or federally the year before that — political people like to say knowingly, “Campaigns…
Daughter, delivered to Camp Oconto
It ain’t fancy, but it’s home for the next two months!
Calgary
Like my family – now in Kingston, Toronto, North Vancouver and Winlaw, B.C. – I have been watching the news and pictures coming out of Calgary with actual astonishment. In…