In Tuesday’s Sun: our Hegelian Dialectic
The return of Parliament, the anniversary of the Occupy Movement, and the NHL lockout may seem like improbable subjects for a single opinion column. But bear with us. In Hegelian…
Warren
On the way to hockey
Me, as Son Two plays iPhone game and totally ignores me: You’re ignoring me. You don’t find me interesting anymore. Son Two: I do find you interesting. I just find…
God and hate
An evangelical Christian who must be read: I tried to watch it, but I couldn’t make it halfway to the 13-minute mark. Everything about it was tawdry, pathetic, even pornographic.…
Lose? You can’t win
LeBlanc is of course right. I’ve been of the same view for a long time. If you couldn’t win your own seat, then you should not – not – be…
More Adams on merger
I admire his determination. Reminds me of me, when I was younger and foolisher. Having beaten my head against that particular wall for a few years, and with nothing left…
A whiff of political B.S.: an Ontario case study
This morning, on the much-read National Newswatch, there was this headline: “NDP Surge to tie for First Place Provincially, Ontario Liberals In Third; 43% Want Liberal leadership review: Poll“ When…
In Sunday’s Sun: Spaceman vs. Space Cadet
The spaceman vs. the space cadet. That’s (sort of) what Sun Media’s Mike Strobel famously called the looming Liberal leadership contest between Marc Garneau and Justin Trudeau. There’ll be other…
The sad ballad of Tim Hudak
Ontario Liberals didn’t like the outcome of the Kitchener-Waterloo by-election – and it’s spelled Kitchener, Tim Hudak, not “Kichener” – but Ontario’s PC leader probably liked it a lot less.…
Hits and Misses
I was there earlier this week, for a Fight The Right interview. We looked around for a while, and I picked up the Edmonton’s Rock’n’Roll Bitches ‘Wild West’ EP, plus…
The Islamophobic web
“Canadian Hindu Advocacy” is a group that says it plans to screen the Innocence of Muslims propaganda film that has stirred up chaos and death in the Middle East. Who…
Lougheed
Very sorry to hear of his passing. A great Canadian.
Kay, defined
Well-written, carefully reasoned and – as with all of his treatises on this subject – completely full of shit. When I wrote for the National Post, and Kay was my…
It’s KITCHENER, dummy
Here’s Michael Harris, aptly-named Ontario PCC MPP FOR A KITCHENER-AREA RIDING. At a PRESS CONFERENCE. Oh my Lord Almighty, I love these guys. I hope they never, ever change. THeir…
Sun News: I’m outnumbered!
…but I (and you) knew that already. Which is beside the point: the Sun folks, whose opinions I vehemently disagree with 99 per cent of the time, are open about…
This PC MPP is an idiot
And no less than B’nai Brith agrees Jim McDonnell’s characterization of opponents as Nazis is a disgrace: “There is no place in Ontario for invoking the racism, hatred and violence…
Ford follies: a continuing series
From a respected Toronto municipal columnist: In essence, someone has to save the mayor from himself. He cannot be rehabilitated. He doesn’t “get it” when it comes to appropriate behaviour…
Teachers, taught
The most pro-union paper in the country: …the moral high ground that teachers’ unions claim to occupy is slipping away..the unions are exploiting ordinary Ontarians for their own pecuniary purposes.…
Why “progressive” in scare quotes?
Does the Globe now plan to do likewise for “conservatives?”
Heeeere’s Johnny
At Bishop Carroll, we were obsessed by the film, too. But mainly because it was scary.