Great line of the day
Carolyn Hax replies to a question about whether to tell the child that their parent didn't want the pregnancy: Don’t succumb to the temptation of making your origin your destiny.Don’t…
@cityslikr on Team Ford’s bullshit, and our complicity therein | #TOpoli
Which Lie Do You Buy? « All Fired Up In The Big SmokeA lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.–…
Woody
Woody Allen was The Onion before there was The Onion.
Feeling like much less of a dolt this evening
I figured out a problem with a site I'm meant to be supporting as part of my freelance business. It was a Drupal White Screen of Death which was not…
Harry Potter in Syndey
Just after looking at the Sydney tar ponds, April and I watched another sort of dark magic: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ . I even had to…
Thank You NPR
I just posted a short thank you video to NPR and its fans because of the effect that their support had on my attitude towards social media. I've realized over…
Who needs EA’s?
Industry can police itself, right? More bold-faced lies from the Cons during the May election campaign… Sigh… environmental laggards indeed… Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Heat. Humidity. Earthquakes. Where are the locusts?
I get the heat and humidity… but I swear I just felt the earth move. And no. The Resident Love Goddess is out with the kids at Shakespeare in the…
When I Can No Longer Walk With Conor
My buddy, Conor, 15One thing about which I have no regrets is the time I have spent with my sons and, in the context of autism and this blog, my…
This Week in Ontario – And They’re Off!
Political excitement at the federal level may have evaporated faster than water in downtown Toronto, but the provincial scene is still very much alive this summer across Ontario.Among this week's…
Ontario Liberals in Free Fall: Add Disingenuousness and Hypocrisy to Campaign to Woo "Progressives"–Updated
In their desperate attempt to halt their slide down the polls, the Ontario Liberals are preparing to spread out across Toronto’s subway to distribute flyers charging the NDP with abandoning…
Lucian Freud Is Dead
As anyone who has read my ongoing analysis of Canada's Group of 7 painters must realize, I don't know much about art. But I do know my way around uncompromising…
PEI and Nova Scotia
Today we ate lunch at the Red Shoe Pub, owned by the Rankin Family sisters. We drove down the coast of Cape Breton to the PEI ferry at Caribou. Here…
Carolyn Bennett Wants Your Suggestions
Carolyn Bennett has started a discussion over at the Liberal Party's new blog:"Some have been asking me if there are things in the Change Commission Report that could/should be enshrined…
Random leadership notes
Alyssa Rosenberg offers a few leadership lessons from the Harry Potter series and one other: Both the Harry Potter series and Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games books are about what happen…
The Race to the Premier’s Office – 58 Days to the First Ballot
Nation, the race to replace Ed Stelmach as leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is now, by any measure, under way. While nominations opened in mid-June, it was…
The Meek May Inherit The Earth
But the accountants have first dibs on Toronto. Poor Toronto. Btw, the group responsible for the report calling for the gutting of Toronto has this as its company song. Surely,…
Canada’s crime rate at lowest level in almost 40 years: StatsCan
Thus reads the headline in a story posted online by The Globe and Mail.Amongst the latest Statistics Canada findings, the following facts are worth noting:There were 554 homicides in 2010,…