Here’s the thing
Are you like me, and are you now completely and totally fed up when writers write “here’s the thing” in their prose? What does it mean, really? “Pay attention to…
Warren
Mystery solved: Caplan joins Team Pupatello!
TORONTO – Ontario Liberal legend Elinor Caplan has declared her support for leadership contender Sandra Pupatello. Caplan, who had previously been associated with Glen Murray, today said she has today…
Mystery tweet by Sandra Pupatello
Whatever does it mean? Stay tuned!
Alt-J: Fitzpleasure
Musically, this song is amazing. Video arresting, too. Put it on Facebook a few days ago. Now doing likewise here.
Glen Murray
His move effectively disenfranchises the hundreds of good Liberals who stood up to support him. Those people have been left in the lurch, and will now likely be forced to…
Teachers’ union boss lawbreakers
It’s breaking the law. It’s not a “democratic protest.” That’s bullshit. Let there be no mistake: they are breaking the law. Ontario Liberal leadership candidates who equivocate on this should…
Scott Anderson, revealed
About a decade ago, I was asked by Izzy Asper to write a column for the Ottawa Citizen. ”You’re a Liberal,” he said over the phone from his beloved Winnipeg.…
Ivey School press release
TORONTO – Students looking to spend thousands on post-secondary degrees can now obtain a Richard Ivey School education – where they’ll get to learn principles of Social Credit economics from…
Fight The Right reviewed in Washington Times: “of vital importance”
How the left fights the right The Washington Times (Washington, DC) Mon Jan 7 2013 Page: B4 Section: COMMENTARY; BOOK REVIEW Byline: Michael Taube When it comes to modern politics,…
The column did not run in the Sun
…I am still trying to find out why. This is the first time this happened in the time I’ve been writing for the Sun.
column missing
The column below doesn’t appear to be in the Sun online. Anyone see it? I can’t.
In Tuesday’s Sun: They doth protest too much
You might call it the Hamlet Principle. You know, from William Shakespeare’s play of that name. Act 3, scene 2, wherein Hamlet’s mother famously observes that another character “doth protest…
Big error by Spec’s editor-in-chief, but no apology to readers
Here. No apology to the paper’s readership, as predicted. (Reminds me of a big error the Spec’s owner, the Star, made but refused to apologize for. See number five.)
Oh, look
Now they are smearing her with financial audits they haven’t actually released. From the same fiscally-incompetent crew who shit the fiscal bed on the fighter jets. Amazing. Anyway, this latest…
Back to school
Son One has suggested that I kill him instead of making him go back. “That sounds a bit extreme,” I suggested. “Besides, you only have another decade or so of…
In Sunday’s Sun: I detest this government
As a political contrasts go, it was stark. It came in the same week, too. In the very same week Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence was continuing a hunger strike, vainly…
Dr. Denial: Q and A
Here. Questions and answers: Why did the elusive Chris Mazza “break his silence”? Because someone suspects they are about to hear from the OPP, and because they want to lay…
Liberals feeling good about ourselves
…because, as Twain said, reports of our death have been an exaggeration.