By-elections, by the numbers
The morning after the by-election in Leeds-Grenville, Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, I know what Gordie and I would have been doing. We would have been going through the numbers.…
Musings
38 years ago tonight
My girlfriend Paula Christison had been over, and we’d been studying, then watching something on the little black and white TV we had. My Carleton roommate, Lee G. Hill, was…
RIP, Pete Shelley
The Buzzcocks’ lead guy was a huge, huge help to me on Fury’s Hour – always patient with my dumb questions. And he was an equally-huge influence on the Hot…
Fourteen reasons
…why we still need effective gun safety laws. 29 years ago. Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical…
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…
By your words, if not your deeds, we know who you really are
I’ve been studying and writing about the Racist Right for decades. When you start fulminating about “globalists” (meaning Jews), a “distinct culture” (meaning a white European culture) and a global…
Dictionary vs Dictionary.com
Did you know that doxastic is a philosophical adjective relating to an individual’s beliefs? Or that doxorubicin was an antibiotic used in treating leukemia? Or that doxy is a 16th…
41, RIP
Very sad. A true gentleman, like Republicans used to be. We will toast our Walker’s Point neighbour in Kennebunk in the Summer.
Christie Blatchford is human garbage
It was read out in court that the photo shows Rehtaeh hanging out a window throwing up from intoxication, naked from the waist down, while a young man penetrates her…
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.