Musings
CBC: “Your Ward News is back, but community group still fighting to ban hate rag”
Lisa Kinsella, managing partner of The Daisy Group and one of the founding members of Standing Together Against Mailing Prejudice. The group vows do everything it can to sop the…
Star on Keesmaat: “over the top,” “seriously over the top,” doesn’t “move the city forward one iota”
This editorial slams those who have been slamming John Tory – specifically, Jennifer Keesmaat. Some quotable quotes: Keesmaat’s attacks on Tory “really come down to style far more than substance…Tory…
Anti-racism group slams latest issue of hate rag
Contact Lisa, Arti or Tom at (416) 642-3100 for more info.
The pith and substance of the s. 33 debate, in ten pithy points
The courts should not be supreme. The people’s representatives should be. Most judges think they are smarter than all politicians. They may well be, but elected people should have the…
The constitutional beast is back
From next week’s Hill Times: And that, to me, is Doug Ford’s biggest problem. Not that he overturned a court decision everyone expected him to win. Not that he used…
Bill Davis: a Canadian political giant speaks
From Steve Paikin’s spot: As a rule, former Progressive Conservative premier Bill Davis has avoided weighing in on controversial issues since he retired from public life in 1985. He is…
FIDLAR!
Seeing the guys again tonight with my daughter – and, yes, I’m regularly the oldest guy at FIDLAR shows. They are godlike geniuses. Here’s one of their recent best. See…
New Dark Ages promo thingie
Out in early November. Pre-order yours now!
Akin learns about my solo band project
The high school my kids go to sent out an e-newsletter today advising us parents it’s time for “Meat the Teacher”. I think that’s the name of a band @kinsellawarren…
Column: Leaky McLeakface
There’s leaks, and there’s leaks. And then there’s the leak the New York Times got. It was splashed across last Wednesday’s paper, to the extent that the Old Gray Lady…
It’s always about her
Second time in 24 hours she’s done this: instead of coming together with others to defend Toronto, she takes cheap shots. When the choice is Team Toronto vs. Team Keesmaat,…
“Crickets:” Huge news for Toronto and the city-province relationship, across Canada
What today’s court decision means:• John Tory was right to oppose the provincial government’s move• As Tory said, you can’t change election rules mid-election• The province can pass laws about…
Hill Times writes about Tire-gate
Right here. Kinsella nearly gets involuntarily, er, re-tired Hill Times columnist Warren Kinsella looks forward to retirement, he says. But not that kind. Last weekend, Mr. Kinsella was returning to…
We get letters: that are an good speeech!
Since Pynchon’s Crying of Lot 49 is my favourite novel, I kind of know what “entropy” means. So I suggested the Prime Minister kind of didn’t. That elicited this response…
Vox populi, Scarborough-style
The people have spoken. Jen should listen. (The first lady is my favourite.)
Pro tip: when you call your opponent too negative, don’t promote the stuff you’ve called negative
So, the John Tory folks put together a fun little video about the expressed desire of Tory’s main opponent, Jen Keesmaat, to secede from the province and country. Here it…