Punk rock, reaching across borders and the ages
Our record label CEO, Simon Harvey, sent me a note: Well, this is cool. A friend in Vancouver just posted a picture, of a stack of great old singles he’s…
Musings
If I have one message for y’all, this is it
Fighting far-right mvmts means getting involved in #cdnpoli at the local level, says @kinsellawarren "A tweet is not enough. A Facebook link is not enough. You need to show up."…
My U of C law prof is being appointed to the Supreme Court – and she is in my new book!
Amazing! The newest addition to the Supreme Court of Canada will be Sheilah Martin. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday morning his nomination of Martin to fill the seat on…
Today it’s Matt Lauer. But it could anyone, really.
Any war room veteran will tell you: no one is too big to fall. With the right evidence, delivered at the right time and in the right way to the…
Happy anniversary, Raymi the Minx
Raymi the Minx is a friend of mine. I have known her to be a singer, a poet, a model, an artist and, most of all, a blogger. I have…
Blocked
I can’t tell you how sad it makes me that I get under her skin. SAD!
Carleton U event sold out!
I am told it is now standing room only. Come on by if you can, I would love to chat!
An open letter to the worst minister in Canada
Dear Minister Joly: May I call you Melanie? You’ve blocked my access to your ministerial Twitter account, so please forgive the formality of an open letter. I sense that I’ve…
Can a single page win an entire election?
If it can – and it might – PC leader Patrick Brown may well have won the 2018 provincial election this weekend. One sheet of paper: seriously. Here it is.…
Meet our grandson
Harry. He’s pretty chill. His parents have a Harry Potter thing. So, yes, he is holding a wand. Really.
Melanie Joly is spending $5 million of our money on a hockey rink
…a hockey rink that does not permit the playing of hockey. From next week’s column: Anyway. Let’s forget about the Holocaust Monument, and the Netflix thing, and Canada 150. Let’s…
He was a man, take him for all in all. I shall not look upon his like again.
The conclusion of President Kennedy’s speech, the one he never got to give, on this day in 1963.
Blandy Scheer, true beleiver and champion of Dad jeans, etc.
So, the column I wrote about conservative and visuals got picked up over at HuffPo, and it irritated myriad Tories. Which worries me a great deal, as you can well…
I think I love you
What a brilliant clip. What a great banner above his head. What a fun show. What a great tune. RIP, big guy.
Politics is pictures
Conservatives don’t like Justin Trudeau. They really, really don’t like him. This writer is a regular on Evan Solomon’s CFRA radio show with Alise Mills and Karl Belanger. My friends…
You want political war stories?
We are going to have more political war stories than you could hear in a lifetime! Please come and support my good friend Arthur Potts. It’ll be a great evening!…
Henry Rollins worked with Charles Manson
That headline isn’t clickbait. It’s the truth. This revelation first came out about seven years ago, but I missed it. In the wake of Manson’s (deserved, overdue) death, it has…
Postmedia writes up Recipe For Hate!
As seen in: Calgary Herald Leader-Post Montreal Gazette Windsor Star Kingston Whig Standard Vancouver Sun Canada.com Not bad!
Vancouver Sun: “Recipe For Hate strikes a timely chord”
The Sun: “It’s fiction, but there’s plenty of truth running throughout.”