How Jagmeet Singh can be saved from himself
PART TWO IN THE HILL TIMES’ ONGOING SERIES DESIGNED TO HELP OPPOSITION LEADERS TO HELP THEMSELVES Dear Jagmeet: By now, you would have seen the latest Nanos poll thing, showing…
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Metroland Media on our fight against that neo-Nazi rag
Warren Kinsella and Lisa Kinsella have been leading the community efforts against Your Ward News publication. – Dan Pearce/Metroland Here: East-end Toronto activists continue fight to stop delivery of Your…
Hate crime in Canada
As the Your Ward News hate trial is starting, this Statistics Canada finding on hate crime is revealing. And important. It’s not just Trump’s America. It’s happening here, too.
Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau hate each other’s guts. And that makes sense.
Photo credit: Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford, seen together in happier times. That’s what newspaper editors always write when publishing a photo of a couple who have (a) just announced…
How Andrew Scheer can win the next election. You’re welcome.
AN OPEN LETTER TO ANDREW SCHEER, CONTAINING SUPER-USEFUL FREE ADVICE ABOUT HOW TO WIN THE NEXT ELECTION Dear Andrew: First off, well done. You handled the Tony Clement scandal way…
Victory! Neo-Nazi rag barred from postal system
After many years – and after lots of hard work by a lot of people in the Jewish, Muslim, LGBTQ communities, as well as women and people of colour –…
Scenes from the Daisy mid-terms party
And the candidate we worked for in Maine, Janet Mills, won Governor! First woman elected to that post! Daisy extends its wins to the U.S.! Woot! Logan Ross and the…
Revealed: what the LPC and CPC war rooms will be using in 2019
Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer are agreed on one thing, at least: the next election is going to be nasty. The 2019 election will be decided less than a year…
Recipe for Hate is a bestseller!
And it’s been in the papers, here, and I didn’t even know! Been too busy with (a) fighting neo-Nazis in the courts (b) moving to my house that is older…
The petit gars wants you to read New Dark Ages!
Last night, me, Lisa, our Daisy colleagues, and an army of Chretien fans gathered at the amazing Ben McNally Books on Bay Street for the Toronto launch of the Bosses’…
Petit gars et petit Justin
“Petit Justin!” He got a laugh every time he said it, so the Rt. Hon. Jean Chretien naturally used the line more than once. Everyone laughed. Petit Justin, standing off…
Canadian Jewish News on the neo-Nazi death threats trial
Here: …hearings in the current case , after several days of testimony and argument. James Sears, the editor-in-chief of YWN, and LeRoy St. Germaine, its publisher, are facing charges of…
Can a newspaper publish without a publisher?
A Toronto judge apparently thinks so. Disappointing. Betsy Powell’s story for the Star below. Judge rules there’s no evidence Your Ward News publisher threatened political strategists with death A Toronto…
Scenes from Chretien’s 25th anniversary party
IMG_9813 At one point, Chretien missed a punchline, and everyone laughed anyway. He then re-did the joke, and everyone laughed even harder. “I’m getting old, you know,” he said. No…