We get letters: the gun lobby is today’s winner!
Rudy Verstraeten, 24.138.185.196, wrote: Warren YOU are the F**king idiot. We are law abiding gun owners and follow the law and hurt no one.Get the gang bangers of the streets…
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Adams on Uniting the Left
Why it won’t happen: “Because of a party tribalism and institutional self regard in which the interests of voters are barely considered.” Yep. Some of us tried, however, and got…
Den Tandt on Garneau
A narrative is forming: Trudeau’s young and vital, but not serious. Garneau’s the other side of that: older, calmer, wiser. In other news, the NDP has to be going crazy…
Gardner on Trudeau
Reading this, I was reminded that Gardner was a senior staffer in Mike Harris’ government. He’s running from that past, and simultaneously embracing it. It’s weird, but most people do…
Gardner on Trudeau
Reading this, I was reminded that Gardner was a senior staffer in Mike Harris’ government. He’s running from that past, and simultaneously embracing it. It’s weird, but most people do…
Intern wanted
Daisy Group is looking for a U. of T. student (for its proximity to us, not because it’s without equal) who is interested in part-time interning. Writers given priority. We…
Ontario PC MPP compares government to Nazis
And, no, I’m not making that up. Jim McDonnell, the Honourable Idiot from Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry, said this, and I quote: “It’s 73 years ago today that Canada declared war on…
Peter Lougheed
I am very sorry to hear this news, and I hope that it is not true. He is, truly, a great Canadian. In the case of my family, we would…
Peter Lougheed
I am very sorry to hear this news, and I hope that it is not true. He is, truly, a great Canadian. In the case of my family, we would…
Iran: get ready
I suspect it’ll happen any day, now.
Rob Ford’s Toronto: two TTC buses have a chit-chat
From a regular reader: “Warren: 1:36 pm, and they’re having a chat on Eglinton and Duplex. Blocking both lanes – on a road that already has several major construction bottlenecks.…
In today’s Sun: the punk oracle
The 2012 punk rock festival called Riot Fest is, admittedly, a pretty unusual place to research Barack Obama’s demographic appeal with younger U.S. voters. But we aren’t afraid to go…
Here we go
Only 70 or so games to go!
More than a decade, tomorrow
Randy Scott’s note. This story is hard to read.
Q. What will you never see too much of in a Rob Benzie story?
A. Named sources.
Super-scientific poll: who will be the first to bash Warren’s new book?
Everyone knows two things about political people, and political books. One, political people look at the index, and only buy the political book if they see their name. Two, reviewing…
Monday morning bits and pieces
Rotten Apple: If, as rumoured, today’s big Apple announcement is about a smaller iPhone or iPad, I don’t really care. Like billions of other people, however, I will care if…
In Sunday’s Sun: lies, damn lies, and polls
A joke. That’s what media political polls have become in this country. And, if the news media continue to trumpet the results of polls, they risk becoming a joke, too.…
The Astronaut vs, The Space Cadet
This is, hands down, the funniest column I have read about politics in ages. Along with the jokes, it also contains some truths worth knowing.
Iggy, we hardly knew ye
…actually, we knew you quite well, as it turns out. Hands up anyone who is surprised by this. Anyone? Anyone? Didn’t think so.