2018: the coming provincial and municipal elections
My former Sun colleague Antonella Artuso got in touch with me to seek my opinion on the coming Ontario and Toronto elections. Her story is here. And my full response…
Musings
Me and Charles Adler on 2017’s winners and losers, proportional representation, ethics and the GOP
All right here.
Globe and Mail: Recipe For Hate “shines…Kinsella nails it…absorbing, jarring and raw”!
Wow! This is a great way to end 2017. And, I am honoured. The Globe and Mail has reviewed Recipe For Hate – and they like it! Their review: Recipe…
When the place is open and no one is there to serve you, should you wait or walk out?
So. About this. Nick Kouvalis is in the news. Nick Kouvalis has been advised to have no comment. As a lawyer, I don’t disagree with that. But Canada’s Best-Loved Political…
The best and worst of Canadian politics in 2017
It’s a cliché, sure. It’s hackneyed and overdone, true. It has been done a million times, agreed. But it’s fun: the columnist’s year-end political winner/loser list! And, this year, regular…
I can’t comment on this
But the fact that I’m posting it here should tell you plenty. From Canadian Lawyer Magazine: Toronto lawyer Warren Kinsella has settled a claim he launched against a Twitter subsidiary…
Me and Charles Adler on Khaaaaaaan
Right here.
Joe Strummer, gone so long, gone too soon
The sticker affixed to the London Calling album shrink-wrap, 38 years ago this month, boldly declared that the Clash were “the only band that matters.” If that is true –…
I admit it: I love KFC!
Our Daisy colleagues are really, really smart. I think this is a really good idea, don’t you?
He hath become the enemy
I threw the “hath” in there to sound Shakespearian and to attract your attention. It worked. Here’s what I wanted you to pay attention to: how Liberal partisans, defending Trudeau…
The Ballad of the Social Blemishes, 40-plus years later
Forty-seven years. Forty-seven years ago tonight, the Social Blemishes – me, Ras Pierre, Rockin’ Al and a few others miscreants – took to the makeshift stage in the gym at…
Watch this Rosemary Barton exchange with Justin Trudeau. Wow.
It is truly something else. Among other things, it means that Trudeau needs to get better prepared before he scrums again on this mess. And it means CBC needs to…
David Akin broke the Aga Khan story, so he should have the definitive word
And it’s a brutal one. PMJT first PM in history to violate a federal statute while in office: "Mr. Trudeau did contravene sections 5, 11, 12 and 21 of the…
Trudeau broke ethics rules?
Yes. So says the Ethics commissioner: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke multiple federal ethics rules when he accepted a ride on the Aga Khan’s private helicopter and stayed on his…
Best and worst of Canadian political 2017
For my bestest-ever editor, the Hill Times‘ Kate Malloy – who oversees one of the few truly still-successful newspapers in Canada, by the by – I’m doing my clichéd year-end…
Booklist: Recipe For Hate “explodes off the page…a dark and engrossing tale”!
Wikipedia: “Booklist is a publication of the American Library Association that provides critical reviews of books and audiovisual materials for all ages. Booklist’s primary audience consists of libraries, educators, and…