Musings
In Tuesday’s Sun: abolish Question Period!
Parliament is back in session, and so too Question Period. Nobody would dispute that the former is a crucial part of the way in which we govern ourselves. But the…
Seat projections are voodoo politics
But they’re fun. Here’s CBC’s latest, which you can take with several gargantuan grains of salt.
Comment rules
Someone using a false name and false email address has tried this morning to make criminal accusations about Kathleen Wynne and Team on this web site’s comments section. I have…
In today’s Hill Times: where’s the plan?
What a difference a few weeks make. Not so long ago, the federal government was counting on a structural surplus — and lots of largess to dispense at around the…
Death
It wasn’t Roger Ebert’s elegy that got me thinking about it: I’m Irish Catholic and, like my Jewish friends, I think about death all the time. Goes with the territory.…
In Friday’s Sun: little interview, big problem
Should Canada have participated in the First World War, when we weren’t contributing anything that our Allies didn’t already have? Should we have joined the fight against fascism in the…
Right about now, the PM is throwing a big dictionary at a staffer
H/T Louis Butko.
Arnold Chan
Arnold is an old friend from the Team McGuinty days, and an impressive new Liberal MP. He is an amazing person, very driven, and I am very confident he will…
Orwellian
Rejection of George Orwell’s Animal Farm by Knopf. For those of us who slave away behind a keyboard, worth clipping and saving.
Facebook isn’t growing, the others are
Somewhere, Steve Ladurantaye is doing fist pumps.
Is just something in my eye, is all
That’s all. (Made me miss you, BK. Time goes fast.)
Trudeau and ISIS: the perils of local media
The federal Liberal caucus is in London, this week, planning for the coming Parliamentary session – but also to wave the Grit flag, a bit, and try and recapture the…
Now Magazine: still full of shit
Here we go again: the free speechies at Now Magazine are making legal threats about the way in which I exercise my free speech. In particular, the self-styled progressives at…
51 days to break his first major promise
That has to be some kind of a record. Sworn in start of December, whiplash-inducing flip flop a few weeks later. Then: “I would freeze fares for at least the…
In Tuesday’s Sun: terror isn’t on the ballot, but it may as well be
In Summer of 1986, around the time I was reporting on the activities of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations for the Calgary Herald, an editor approached me in the newsroom. “How…
Now-now, Now
The self-professed progressive free speechies at Now are threatening to sue me again. Yawn. Sure can dish it out, etc. etc.