My law: the end of law
What if there are no more rules? What if there are no more laws? No more precedents, no more constitutions, no more charters? What if the law just becomes what…
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My latest: what if I’m wrong about PPC Pierre?
So, Pierre Poilievre. This space has been somewhat critical of him, you might say. Just a bit. His peddling of World Economic Forum conspiracy theories. His pimping for Bitcoin, which…
My latest: rates up, everything else down
Interest rates: Going up. Voter confidence: Going down. On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve did something it hasn’t done in nearly three decades: It raised interest rates by three-quarters of…
My latest: listen up, fellow Albertans
Dear Alberta: Yes: I was Special Assistant to that dastardly Liberal Prime Minister, Jean Chretien. Yes: I worked on the presidential campaigns of the two Democratic Horsepeople of the Apocalypse,…
My latest: the morning after Doug Ford’s big night
Random Ontario election observations, the morning after: Centrism matters: Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford stuck resolutely to the political middle, which — in Canada, at least — is where all…
My latest: Doug vs. Pierre
This is a tale of two “Conservatives.” We say “Conservative” in quotation marks to make a point. And the point is this: Doug Ford and Pierre Poilievre may be notionally,…
My latest: character matters
When does a politician’s character get revealed? Because, as Ken Dryden once memorably said about hockey, character doesn’t get built by the political life. It gets revealed. Our history is…
My latest: Jason, we badly knew ye
Wither thou goest, Conservatives, in thine dark blue car at night? Sorry to get all Jack Kerouac on y’all, but that little line from On The Road kind of fits,…
My latest: get wasted, get violent, get away with it
We Canadians like to feel superior to the Americans. The Yanks regularly give us reasons to feel superior. There’s their fetishization of all manner of guns, which results in mass-shootings,…
My latest: boffo box office? Not so much
Can you picture it? If Cecil B. DeMille was still around, and he was directing a big-screen re-do of his 1958 epic, The Ten Commandments, Stephen Harper would be cast…
My latest: the smart, Indigenous female lawyer vs. SlapMineNutsMC
How would you choose, if you were the leader of a feminist political party? In Sault Ste. Marie, an experienced and respected Indigenous lawyer — who is female — wanted…
My latest: dog catches car
What happens when the dog catches the car? You know what we mean: dogs sometimes chase after passing cars, but they never really catch them. The cars are faster than…