BEY Grits: Fight The Right tonight!
I’m going to be reading from and/or talking about Fight the Right at a meet the candidates thing in my home riding of Beaches-East York tonight at about 8 pm.…
Warren
Fourteen reasons
…we should never give up on eliminating violence against women: Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering…
Canada’s best-loved political web site this morning
The last four postings, I note, are about the news media, and how they sometimes bewilder me. I’m sure I bewilder folks, too, but I don’t charge anyone for “news”…
Rob Ford: not news
My friends Clay Ruby and Paul Magder have already agreed to the stay. So why is today’s hearing in any way news? (Swear to God, some days, I think I…
Why is this news?
Why was it written? Why is it being headlined, anywhere? Why are Opposition MPs compelled to comment? Why should anyone care, when this guy hasn’t been near cabinet for years?…
Stick to writing 10,000 words about obscure trials
…you don’t know a damned thing about punk, or punk rock.
Breaking: Star columnist loses mind
Film at eleven. And people wonder why journalists aren’t successful as politicians. Wonder no more, etc.
Heath on the divided Left
Good read.
We get letters: today’s Shakespeare
So, on December 2, Cesare Rizzuto, at thecuttingedge180@gmail.com, pops me a line. He writes: You really are à small man Get over it Ford got votes in not Mr. E…
Paywalls
I hate them. However, I have already found that, if you delete cookies, etc., you can get in with little difficulty. Anyone else have clever suggestions about how to do…
SFH reviewed in the Star!
Ben Rayner, no less: • S—t From Hell, Why Do You Hate Me? (Sudden Death). One could easily write S–t From Hell off as a joke band because it’s a…
In Tuesday’s Sun: the story of a big jerk
Nick Kouvalis is a big man. Or he used to be. He allows that he had a surgical procedure that helped him shed nearly 200 pounds. Kouvalis is also kind…
Hockey question, in point form
1. Son One has GTHL game last night. 2. Boy on other team goes to aggressively check him for second time in a minute. 3. Son One raises hands to…
Pupatello: OLP leadership debates aren’t preparation for the real world
The coming battle between Ontario Liberals and the Ontario PCs and NDP will not be governed by the Marquess of Queensbury rules. It’s going to be down and dirty. It’s…
Got a Ford you want decommissioned?
Left to, um, right: Big City Lib, Brian Shiller, Adam Chalef-Freudenthaler and David Shiller. Got a government or politician you want toppled? These are your guys. Assembled at SFH’s gig…
Your morning politics and polling irony
I find it a tad ironic that the newspaper that regularly trumpets the results of a polling agency like this, then publishes a piece like this. Delacourt’s piece was timely.…
We get letters: today’s winner!
The Rob Ford bit, below, has resulted in a fair bit of mail from my admirers. Here’s a good one, from josie.erent@talented-minds.com ( I kid you not): —–Original Message—– From:…
In today’s Sun: Rob Ford, human shrapnel machine
In politics, when one becomes radioactive, friends rapidly become few and far between. Scandal and controversy are usually the cause. A politico gets enmeshed in some sort of mess, and…
Farewell Ford Fun!
Tonight at the Bovine, 542 Queen Street West!