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My latest: ten reasons why it’s a ten-point spread
The polls say Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives have dropped, a bit. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have gone up, a bit. How come? Ten reasons. Tories first. 1. Poilievre’s LikeAbility Gap. Every successful…
My latest: we’ve all been here before
Peace in our time. With war raging, and yet more war seeming imminent, speeches were made. Leaders gathered together, rising to leave behind some words that would be remembered.…
My latest: sometimes you can see hate next door
What do you do when hate shows up in your neighbourhood? In some cases, knowing how to react is pretty straightforward. When Heather Reisman’s bookstore in Toronto is attacked and…
My latest: give them the needle
Ehrlich Anthony Coker was a rapist. He was a murderer and thief, too. While serving three life sentences at the Ware Correctional Institution in Waycross, Georgia, Coker escaped. On that…
My latest: got university hate? Follow the money
Follow the money. That’s the best strategy when trying to get to the bottom of a political scandal. Follow the money, and you’ll eventually find the bad guys. But what…
My latest: the Ottawa rally for Israel
OTTAWA — We saw the Palestinians. They were there. They were. They had some flags and some signs, over by West Block on Parliament Hill. We saw them, but there…
My latest: stupidity night in Canada
According to Forbes, the Chicago Blackhawks are worth at least $1.5 billion (U.S.). They’ve won Stanley Cups. Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita played for them. They were Barack Obama’s favourite…
My latest: first they come for the Jews
A Christmas tree. A Christmas tree lighting get-together, to be precise. They’ve been doing the Christmas tree celebration in Rockefeller Center, in Midtown Manhattan, for a long time. The first…
My latest: the Trudeau end times
Annihilation. Bloodbath. Destruction. Massacre. Decimation. Wipeout. Use whatever synonym you like, and it’ll apply. The Liberal Party of Canada – at one time, the most-successful political machine in Western democracy…
My latest: why aren’t the police doing their job?
The street my parents lived on – and where I was born – was Coolbrook Avenue in Montreal. It was previously home to poorer Irish Catholics, but is now home…
My latest: ten things our leaders can do about hate
Hate is everywhere, these days. How to stop it? Jew hatred is statistically the worst, of course, with anti-Semitic crimes and incidents happening everywhere on a near-daily basis. But the…
My latest: the LGBTQ hell
If you’re LGBTQ, you’ll be fine in Palestine, right? I mean, that’s certainly what some folks seem to believe. This week, someone hoisted a banner to that effect at a…
My latest: digitizing the oldest hatred
It’s a deadly virus, one that has killed for millennia. But the virus has mutated. It’s not actually a coronavirus. It’s anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism – hatred of Jews – is one…
My latest: what haters deserve
Yumna was fifteen years old. At the school she went to in London, Ont., she painted a big floor-to-ceiling mural. On it, she’d put the Earth in space, alongside the…
My latest: two wars, two different responses
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Vladimir Putin’s regime immediately commenced brutally killing Ukrainian civilians on a massive scale. Russia committed war crimes. It committed acts of rape and infanticide.…