When in a hole, stop digging
So Notley did. Good. Now, can we please all go back to pretending there is something called “The Media Party?”
Musings
From the bulging “junenile insults” file: Kid Kodak lashes out
My sense he is unhappy about not being reappointed. Um. Er. Here’s his (typically) tweeted response to Your Humble Narrator’s post of yesterday, which he posted at three o’clock in…
Bye bye, Kid Kodak
The long search is over. @Ont_AndreMarin will not be re-appointed. — Allison Smith (@QueensParkToday) February 16, 2016 Ha ha ha ha! I look forward to your next attempt to have…
Ten reasons why the Notley government is really stupid to bar Ezra and The Rebel
Ezra lives for this stuff. In a battle with bureaucrats, he always wins. He always has the last word, and his audience is bigger than you think. Media who dislike…
Savages – Adore
Boring video, genius of a song: “I understand the urgency of life.” No kidding. There’s Sleater Kinney in here, Siouxsie, Pauline Murray’s Penetration, Bikini Kill. All good, good things. Brit…
In this week’s Hill Times: the first casualty of war
Not that it’s anyone’s business, but I voted Liberal in the last election. The Liberal candidate in our riding, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, made it easy. Serious, impressive young guy, great C.V.…
20 years ago today. A good day.
Those were the days.
This one struck a chord
PS: Stephen Harper also said it, July 1, 2006.
Possible new @SFHPunks album cover
You like? May be too subtle.
Divisive: the modern political era, figured out
It’s written about at length in today’s New York Times Magazine (go buy it, don’t go online to get it for free). Brilliantly. But here’s the greatest practitioner of division…
The first anniversary of the death of Sun News
Remembered it’s been a year – time flies, eh? As you may recall, I wrote the open letter thing below, and it attracted about 300 comments. Sun News attracted strong…
Sometimes, in my old age, I get tired of facile bullshit
Canada is us, the people. Canada is not governments. Stop saying "Canada is back." We, Canada, never left. #cdnpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 12, 2016
The Ottawa Citizen: with a whimper, not a bang
The Ottawa Citizen died yesterday. Oh, sure, there are still some good people there to put it out, for however long. But make no mistake: the marquee newspaper in our…
In his week’s Hill Times: son, not the father
Growing up in Calgary, as I did, there were certain things you just didn’t do. If you didn’t you were just asking for trouble. You didn’t, for instance, ever offer…
Daughters, and St. Joan
Funny story: this morning I woke up, and Joan of Arc was gone. You’ve got to understand: I have worn a (blessed) Joan of Arc medal around my neck every…
ISIS, Trudeau and democracy
You may not like it, but – if you’re a democrat – you have to accept it. That’s how it works. Lots of us opposed withdrawing from the #ISIS bombing…
I love the smell of political revisionism in the morning
Winning campaign managers – John Rae, Don Guy, et al. – make the Sphinx look like a chatterbox. They don’t give interviews before, during or after campaigns. They don’t talk…