Also not The Onion
“Premier” John Horgan: I’ll sue you to stop you from exporting your oil, but I’ll also sue you if you stop exporting your oil to me. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #ableg —…
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Not the Onion
Doug Ford is trying to distract voters with a reckless pledge to put beer in corner stores. It's not safe and it's not sensible, unlike our balanced approach to adding…
This is what paying the Wizard $70,000 a month gets you
The finest political advice in Canada!
The writer’s so-called life
Every damn word of this is true. I have felt the sting of the betrayal, as the writer puts it, from both family and friends. You try and put it…
Column: heartless in Gaza
The email arrived at 6:03 a.m. It was accompanied with a little graphic of a flashing red siren, up near the top, presumably to signal its importance. “Take action,” the…
Witches! Swamp!
Me: I am order, you are chaos. @LisaKinsella: What? Me: You weaken the moral universe with your femininity. @LisaKinsella: Are you fucking insane? Me : Witches. Matriarchy. Swamp. @LisaKinsella: You…
#ONPOLI this hand, that hand
Random thoughts on that startling Abacus poll this morning: On the one hand, the Abacus survey doesn’t entirely take into account regional realities, seat distribution, and turnout – so Doug…
Jordan Peterson says witches exist. And they live in swamps.
From the mouth of the latter-day Father Coughlin, in today’s New York Times. Mr. Peterson illustrates his arguments with copious references to ancient myths — bringing up stories of witches,…
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…
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…