Top ten things Trudeau could have done with Trump™
The Neville Chamberlains and ostriches are filling my inbox. “Get tough with Trump, eh, Warren?” they bleat. “That wouldn’t have worked, ever ever! What would you have done instead?” It’s…
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Donald Trump is an asshole
Listen to this Canadian punk rock band, if you don’t believe me: Anyway. Here’s Adolf Twitler yesterday, speaking to a rally of mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers: When Trump eventually got around to…
Column: anger is an energy
Anger is an energy. That’s a line from Public Image’s improbable 1986 hit single, ‘Rise.’ The former Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten wails it, over and over, and it eventually makes…
My advice: kick Trump in the nuts
That’s my considered diplomatic advice. From next week’s Hill Times column: At a press conference held to mark the end of the Parliamentary sitting, Trudeau gave the sort of verbal…
Justice, conscience, law
This clip from The Ox Bow Incident is why I became a lawyer. I watched it when I was a kid, and this part – the part with Henry Fonda…
Why won’t Canada denounce this? Why?
It’s the story that made Maddow cry on air. Read it, here. And – now – we are also being told that these children are orphans now – they will…
Column: the new world disorder
LONDON – A G7 truth. British Prime Minister Theresa May, who lately knows a thing or two about unsubtle truths, offered up a perfectly English way of describing it all:…
O lucky man
Justin Trudeau is the luckiest guy alive. Consider the evidence. He starts slipping in the polls. Along comes Donald Trump to the G7 and insults him and Canada and makes…
Column: Kathleen put Kathleen first
Kathleen Wynne’s former cabinet colleague doesn’t mince words. “Kathleen is all about Kathleen,” the former colleague says. “That’s always her focus.” One of her former fundraisers and advisors is similarly…
OLP: the aftermath, and the future
The Wizard, and Wynne, have destroyed the Ontario Liberal Party. A rump in the Legislature. A massive party debt. A terrible, terrible campaign – possibly the worst in Ontario political…
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Two tales of #MeToo
The first tale goes back six months. In January, in the same week that CTV News unleashed its extraordinary story about former Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown, a regular reader…
Bobby
Fifty years today, he died. Half a Century. In my family, he was our uncrowned King. We were in Dallas when they killed him, and I can still remember my…
Linkless, contextless stuff, plus Warren’s History of the Internet
Nearly twenty years ago, when I started this here web site, I would have folks coming up to me on the street or at events or whatever and saying: “I…
Kathleen Wynne doesn’t think she should have resigned
On Saturday, five days before Election Day, the Ontario Liberal leader conceded the election. Usually, politicians wait until, you know, the actual vote has taken place. But Kathleen Wynne insisted…
This is what $70,000 a month gets you
This is pathetic. It’s farcical. And, as I will show everyone next week, it was completely needless. If she had left a year ago – and if she had taken…