In the rough
Fore! You know, when your party drops to one seat in Toronto, you want to know your election co-chair is golfing in California. Because he is. #onpoli #olp #pcpo pic.twitter.com/m750qay1u4…
Musings
Operation Save the Furniture
My old friend David Akin got in touch with me about study that Global News has put together. Akin and a team of researchers looked at where the three provincial…
Work hard, play hard, at Daisy Group
We had a surprise visitor today! We've had Prime Ministers and Premiers at Daisy – but this was our first President. Thank you President @BarackObama for a productive meeting –…
Recipe For Hate called one of the best books for young readers!
Need a great summer read for your reluctant young reader? Try one of these titles, selected as Best Books for Kids & Teens, Spring 2018! Congratulations to @sylviamcnicoll, Shelley Peterson,…
Deputy Minister Wynne, we presume
Spoke to CBC’s Mike Crawley yesterday about why Kathleen Wynne is doing so badly. Told him Wynne made herself the only face of this government – that she didn’t ever…
Column: campaigns don’t matter
Now that Ontario’s election is underway – and Quebec’s and New Brunswick’s are in the offing – you’re going to hear this tired old chestnut a lot: “campaigns matter.” Do…
“Wynne’s Liberals have fallen everywhere”
“The Liberals have fallen pretty precipitously everywhere. So this is becoming a race between these Conservatives and the NDP.” Great work, Team Wizard. Poll here. Chart here:
The greening of shaving
But my brother Esau is an hairy man, but I am a smooth man. I recall those lines from a Beyond the Fringe sketch first released in 1964 (see below).*…
Ouch
Got that Amber Alert just as I was about to go under the scalpel. One the one hand, glad the system worked. On the other hand, disappointed the surgeon was…
My Trump prediction in 2012
All the way back in 2012, @kinsellawarren had an inkling about Trump. Wrote a cool song about it too. #FightTheRight pic.twitter.com/WgL35cga5c — Richard McAdam (@RealRGM81) May 13, 2018
In yesterday walks tomorrow, etc.
@fordnation isn’t @realDonaldTrump, but it simply amazes me that Ford’s critics are reprising in 2018 the tactics that didn’t work against Trump in 2016: mocking his supporters, calling them racists…
The Kinsellian Pine Box Theory™️
You get to leave power in one of two ways. One, you get to leave on your own two feet, at a time and place of your choosing. Or, two,…
You’d almost think it was a two-party race, in fact
Son 2 and me drove all over multiple Ontario ridings in past few days. If the sign war is any indication, a big blue wave is coming – with lots…
Gordie’s funeral was today
It was uplifting and unbelievably sad, all at the same time. Jim Watson and I eulogized our friend, or tried to. I was okay, until the end. It was hard.…
700 voters say “arf”
The votes are in – and Roxy nearly beat the leader of the Ontario NDP. She did, however, easily beat the Ontario Liberal Premier! Not bad for a dog!
Ontario Campaign 2018 begins!
And here, to celebrate, is a snippet from my column next week: Doug Ford – who I know and like, full disclosure – is not a professional politician. He may…