Musings

Recipe For Hate is being featured on Apple’s iBooks!

Check it out: Apple is promoting Recipe For Hate on their iBooks web site! My ever-patient Dundurn Press publicist, Kendra, says that Apple has decided to promote pre-orders of the…

I don’t want to be yet another man writing about how #MeToo affects me

I have been resisting #MeToo. I have. For starters, I am generally pretty unenthusiastic about hashtag campaigns. Most of the time, they are just slacktivism – ie., the false belief…

Column: when do you cease to be a country?

She’s on the bus! The second she pulls down that veil, arrest her! When do you cease to be a country? When do you stop being a people, a nation?…

You are invited to the Recipe For Hate book launch – and the SFH Kinda Suck record release!

Twenty bucks will get you the book and the record (both signed)! Ten bucks will get you the bands and a bad rash.

“The Charter protects all Canadians, every one of us, even when it is uncomfortable.”

Justin Trudeau said that, back in July, when he was asked about his government paying $10 million to Omar Khadr. It’s a quote: “The Charter protects all Canadians, everyone of…

There’s a political lie for every occasion

Recipe For Hate is out!

Was just at Dundurn Press (and I’m now at the Patrician Grill to celebrate, where else) and they gave me a pile of copies of my new book, Recipe For…

Would you invite a neo-Nazi to your house? (Updated! Happy ending!)

Of course you wouldn’t. But Ontario’s three main political parties did. A committee comprised of all the main parties in the Ontario Legislature have given Canada’s leading white supremacist an…

Dear Conservative readers of this web site 

It’s been several hours, and I still think this is the stupidest political move I’ve seen in months – and that’s saying something. Why, you ask? This isn’t a decision.…

Ivanka Be Sedated

SFH, meanwhile, offer this to our fellow punk rocker. Gabba gabba hey, punk grrrl!

Why did Scheer run away from his own press event?

Seriously. He did. Here’s the Globe: Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer abruptly ended a news conference and stopped taking questions from reporters on Monday when asked whether he was aware his…

Recipe For Hate mania strikes Ottawa!

I’m serious. Check out the reaction of these hundreds of total strangers to the news that Recipe For Hate – which Publisher’s Weekly called “riveting…Tension starts high and stays there…

This young guy in Ottawa picked up Recipe For Hate!

Nice guy. Knew a lot about current events. Says he looks forward to reading Recipe For Hate. Told him it is getting great reviews. We had a great chat, although…

Column: desperate politicians do desperate things

How desperate is Justin Trudeau to keep NAFTA? Ask the Mexicans, now peering out from under the proverbial bus – where, you know, Trudeau pushed them. Pretty desperate. As they…

Did Donald Trump obstruct justice?

The Brookings Institute has just released a 108-page, single-spaced, fully-footnoted, tightly-reasoned indictment of Donald Trump. The whole document is here. At the risk of spoiling it for you, here is…

The Kinsellian Political Rules™

So, I tweeted about Donald Trump’s fired Chief of Staff being interviewed by Robert Mueller, the Russiagate special counsel. I said it recalls the Kinsellian Political Rule Two: never fire…