It’s all over before it’s started (updated)
As predicted: his strategy is to destroy his former political home. He’s doing that. This turns the PC Party of Ontario into a running joke. Their leadership race becomes a…
Musings
Brown is kicked out of caucus – but will he run for leader again?
I’m told he plans to. Now, Vic Fedeli did what a few of us felt he needed to do – he needed to kick out the former leader: UPDATED: Ex-leader…
The Patrick Clown Show, plus bonus caucus resignation phone call tape!
ABOVE: Brown says he didn’t resign – but here’s the tape proving that he did! Yesterday there was an Ontario PC leader debate. You are forgiven for not noticing. That’s…
#MeToo at Queen’s Park – again?
With all of the Patrick Brown self-immolation today, I missed this. I sincerely hope John is able to assist this woman in a way that protects her and respects her…
Patrick Brown thinks he’s still leader
He has had “Progressive Conservative leader” on his Facebook profile for weeks. Now we know why. He’s launching the first political coup in modern Ontario history. This guy is in…
From next week’s column: PR tips in the #MeToo era
There’s a couple of them that seem particularly germane this morning. I wonder who I am referring to? • Don’t attack your alleged victims. In the #MeToo era, even Harvey…
Happy birthday
Many guys will understand what I mean when I say this: your father is both a bit of light, and a bit of shadow, over your path through life. Mine,…
CTV tells Patrick Brown to get stuffed
…and I suspect his former staff, caucus colleagues, many journalists and many, many women applaud CTV for doing so.
“Fogel must go.”
Hear hear. Here’s why I have nothing but contempt for the man, and why I left his gang: he oversaw, and defended, flying the racist Shaidle to Israel. March 2010:…
This guy could practically work in Trudeau’s PMO
More here. And, if you don’t get the reference, the above headline explained, here.
Review: Recipe For Hate “a complex, multilayered mystery”!
“The Canadian Review of Materials is published weekly from September through June and is an all-volunteer online publication which features reviews of books and other materials that are authored, illustrated…
Patrick Brown, P.I.
Welcome to today’s class in how not to do P.R., folks. Today’s case study is Patrick Brown, former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. Three weeks ago, CTV broadcast a…
Sub judice and a dead boy
On Friday night, in Calgary, I spotted tweets by the Prime Minister of Canada and the Minister of Justice about the verdict in the trial of the “man” who shot…
My wife is pretty smart, #onpoli
She predicted this four years ago. My friends at Campaign Research say she’s on to something.
It isn’t witness tampering
…but it certainly resembles that. That was what I wrote last week, too. A PMO director contacting a complainant in a sexual harassment case, when a third-party, arms-length investigation was…
Column: should government name things for a neo-Nazi?
Should the governments of Canada and Nova Scotia name something after a neo-Nazi? It’s not a hypothetical question. Fall River, Nova Scotia (pop. 11,526) is a little community in Halifax’s…
Michael Bate advocates rape
Michael Bate’s Frank magazine has so far dodged #MeToo – but NB: he runs a misogynist’s sandbox where harassment of women isn’t just tolerated, it actually culminated in a “contest”…
Kathleen Wynne is the luckiest politician alive
Here’s why: • Andrew Horwath’s New Democrats have been in a witness protection program for months – and, when they finally start to show signs of life, they lose their…
Saskatchewan Burning
The appalling miscarriage of justice in the #ColtenBoushie case cries out for more than an appeal: we now need to consider federal prosecutions for the violation of a person’s civil…
Adler-Kinsella Show: in which I defend Trudeau on personkind, and on all kinds of pipelines
Every Thursday, I have a radio-via-phone encounter with my great friend Charles Adler. This week, the encounter took place by luggage rack two at Calgary’s Airport (said airport having received…