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Calgary-bound

Got to Vancouver’s airport at 5:30 for a flight to Calgary and more interview. Folks were gathered around TVs, quiet, watching Sandy coverage, shaking their heads. Reminded me of walking…

This

This is the Globe’s front page this morning? This is a big story the morning after Sandy hit? With a graph? And a big turn inside? This is Globe “unlimited”?…

Campaign Yoda

There is no campaign try. There is only campaign do. Arrived in Van last night, and talked politics late into the night with Bjorn and Babs. They gave me Yoda,…

I am old, I am old

I shall wear my trousers rolled. Dare I eat a peach, etc. There’s all kinds of fun political stuff happening, and it’s exciting and positive and great. But you know…

Read this

I’ve been hearing about this all day, and now I’ve finally read it. You will remember it for a long time. I hope Ann Coulter does.

Oh, look/regarde

A federal politician doing what federal politicians are supposed to do: you know, be leaders. Promote tolerance. Oppose division and nativism. Show courage. Stephen Harper and Thomas Mulcair? They’re cowards.…

Perfect Youth

Sam Sutherland’s much-anticipated book about Canadian punk rock, which I stayed up reading way too late last night, is crucially important. And not just because I was part of the…

Judges, judged

I know judges. I have worked for and with judges. I have appeared before judges. Judges don’t like supplant the peoples’ judgement with their own. Even when the facts and…

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