Stephen Lewis’ Eulogy for Jack Layton
Full text of Stephen Lewis’ stirring eulogy for Jack Layton - The Globe and MailStephen Lewis gave a very moving eulogy for Jack Layton at the funeral. The audience broke…
Goodbye, Jack!
Today, the country said goodbye to a great leader and hero. Thanks to Jack for everything he did for our country, for the issues he championed, for the battles he…
It is Always Too Soon. . . .
Many Canadians are deeply saddened by the death of Jack Layton. And I too have been affected by the untimely death of a committed social democrat who galvanized the feelings…
Wankers of the Week: Disaster Week edition
Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, how about the week that was? Full of natural disasters, from those storms in Southern Ontario, to Hurricane Irene, to that earthquake on the East Coast…
Shorter Christie Blatchford
“All I did was spit on Jack Layton’s grave and now some people are (gasp) being uncivil!” Once again a vicious right-winger plays the victim card when what she sends…
77 Year Old Jean Chretien Leaps Fence To Get To Interview
Former Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chretien, gave observers a fright after the Jack Layton State Funeral, when he easily leaped over a barricade to give a promised interview to…
Chris Selley brings some much-needed respectability to the National Post
In an almost heroic effort, Selley waxes almost poetical in his description of Jack Layton's funeral and the role of the press in the days preceding it.I’m not above rolling…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. - Chris Selley nicely summarizes Jack Layton's celebration of life today: I can just hear people kvetching: Was this a funeral for a great…
Full text of Stephen Lewis’s stirring eulogy for Jack Layton
Never in our collective lifetime have we seen such an outpouring, so much emotional intensity, from every corner of this country. There have been occasions, historically, when we’ve seen respect…
A Western Strategy
Many Liberals in the Western Provinces are disheartened. Some have a sense that we can never again be competitive and that running candidates is close to futile. I have been…
Majority of Canadians remember Layton fondly
According to an Angus Reid poll, a majority of Canadians agree with Jack Layton being accorded a State Funeral, and remember him with fondness: A majority of Canadians (55%) think…
Tough acts to follow
This week has marked the untimely departure of two charismatic leaders from the helm of two very different organizations. Canada’s New Democratic Party Jack Layton succumbed to cancer, shortly after…
Final tributes to Jack Layton in pictures
Click for pictures from Jack Layton’s final journey today from Toronto City Hall, and then Roy Thomson Hall. It was an emotion-packed, life-affirming day.
Lezra Levant and the Orange Drag Show
Oh boy. This going to be embarrassing eh? Remember how in my last post I said people should ignore how Lezra Levant, in an interview with Michael Coren, mocked the…
On Jim Karygiannis
I don't really know much about the Jim Karygiannis thing. He is accused of questioning former Tory candidate Harry Tsai's competence in the English language, and this is being interpreted…
The Levitating Monk
Magician Dan White travels to Nepal to learn some of the magical secrets of the Mysterious East. Beautiful exotic landscapes. Folkloric story elements with people fooling each other over power,…