Irie, SFH!
Ras Ritalin Boy (guitar), Jah Davey Snot (skins) and Sly Winkie (disembodied left hand, and frightening full frontal at the 2:30 mark) try to sound less white. Punk rock, begone!…
Warren
Ivison on Libs
Fun read. Best line: the last one. Also, I intend to mock Butts with the “svengali” appellation for the next decade or so.
Liberal Showcase: not many tickets have been sold
Surprise, surprise. Breaking this thing up over two different weekends, in two different cities, was always a dumb, dumb idea.
Rob Ford: arrives at work at lunchtime, stays four hours, leaves
If I had an employee like that, I’d fire them. So would you.
National Post: the Harper Conservatives are “jerks”
Mother, fetch me the smelling salts! I think I’m going to faint! “But with the economy growing slowly, and even Alberta’s oil wealth underperforming, the Tories must now confront the…
Getawayfromme – the Hot Nasties
Getting ready for tonight’s SFH session, and dug up this old Hot Nasties tune for us to try – Getawayfromme. Boy, I was an angry young man. (Who has become…
April 4, 1968
As I have done for years – and as I have remembered since that day, when I was a boy in Dallas – today I remember the death of Martin…
The New Disappearing Party of Canada
Yaffe’s right – Trudeau has basically erased the Mulcair Dippers’ public profile. But the process was underway well before Justin Trudeau became a leadership candidate. Bob Rae, and his caucus,…
A pox on transit
I wrote a couple weeks ago that I was fed up, to the teeth, with the incessant nattering in Toronto about transit. “Two things that drive me nuts about Toronto,…
Boy, it sure is good thing we’re not going to go neg!
Yep. Good thing.
Robocall reflection
Perhaps that silly sally at Sun News, and the “explosive” media tour, wasn’t such a hot idea after all. Meanwhile, somewhere, one of Canada’s most principled journalists is frantically trying…
Rob Ford loses again
He’s been denied his ridiculous demand for compensation in the conflict of interest case, as expected. What’s fascinating, however, is that the Divisional Court seems to be suggesting that he…
Proud father update
I have more than 5,000 Facebook “friends.” Except, as you might expect, they’re not all friends. Some are Facebook fiends. Because Facebook comments are unmoderated, stupid things sometimes happen on…
Dear Toronto politicians
If you impose tolls and yet more taxes to pay for this Metrolinx thing, you’re all dead men (and women) walking. Make better use of the tax dollars we already…
My view at the moment
Boy, am I ever glad I shelled out for Raptors season’s tickets.
In Tuesday’s Sun: mutiny on the S.S. Harper
As uprisings go, it sure ain’t The Mutiny On The Bounty. Not yet, anyway. As you may have heard, last week Official Ottawa was agog over the fact a couple…
Nicholas Hoare, RIP
The loss of this extraordinary bookstore is an unmitigated disaster for anyone who loves (and needs) books. With the exception of Ben McNally’s spot on Bay, there just aren’t many…
Best political spot ever
Adrian Dix’s B.C. NDP release an attack ad on themselves. Absolute genius.
Hill Times: True-dough
Here: “Liberal front-runner Justin Trudeau has raised more than $1-million as a candidate for leadership of the third party in the House of Commons which “says a lot,” say a…