Because some of you were asking
…and because I haven’t commented on Ontario politics in a long time (get used to it).
Musings
When is negative not negative?
Raj, who I think is one of the best political reporters around, caught the contradiction (along with a colleague): here. That is, Justin Trudeau has said he will not go…
Art Bergmann: I’m going to f**kin’ Airdrie
Great story by Mike Bell about Art Bergmann in the Calgary Herald, here. I didn’t know Bergmann. He was a big wheel from Vancouver’s punk scene, all dark clothes and…
Dear U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Dear U.S. Friends: I know at least one of you is likely to read this, because I see evidence of your visits in my web site’s analytics all the time.…
I plan to use this a lot in the coming Toronto mayoralty race
…if someone stops dithering, that is. Man, am I ever glad I never throw out any of my old political stunt stuff.
Toronto needs a mayor: how can you tell when Rob Ford is lying?
…his lips are moving. Old joke, but – in his case – it fits. Read, for example, this hot-off-the-presses evisceration of Ford’s Big Budget Bullshit. It’s good: There are many…
From the Calgary punk rock archives
As I recall, this Social Blemishes/Snot gig was in 1978. I don’t know who the Famous Brothers were. ‘Cause we all know who became super, er, famous, don’t we?
Fury’s Hour reviewed!
Here! Also: it’s available as a Kindle download, and makes for an excellent Christmas/Chanukah gift, folks! The author, possibly looking the part.
Forum fabrication, falsehood, fiction?
Asked how his firm got the Brandon-Souris by-election wrong by THIRTY PERCENTAGE POINTS, here’s the whopper offered up by Forum’s president: “I know people are going to say ‘Oh, your…
The Pope is seeking the right kind of politician
…and aren’t we all. “I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor.” His…
By-election Olympics: Trudeau gets gold and silver; Harper and Mulcair get bronze
Not sure what I mean? Take a look at this chart that I found over at Maclean’s: That chart shows, rather dramatically, that Trudeau’s Liberals gained vote everywhere. Everyone else…
In Tuesday’s Sun: I predict a Liberal win by the punk rocker in Brandon-Souris!
Even if he loses, Rolf Dinsdale is a winner. Full disclosure, first part: The deadline for this column was well before all the votes were counted in Rolf’s Brandon-Souris riding…
On that new Liberal ad
…I think it’s really good, and I say so in today’s Hill Times: “…Liberal pundit Warren Kinsella, president of Daisy Consulting Group, said in politics, pictures matter more than words,…
Team Tory and Team Ford, joined at the consultant
…being besties! How nice! Relevant: this and this and this. Oh, and this: Tory would consort with a guy who suggests he has no “integrity”? Like, wow.
Ha ha ha ha
Oh my God, the little rich boy from Yale has an agent! He’s all grown up!
SFH says: go, Rolf, go – and go vote, Brandon-Souris!
From tomorrow’s column: …to Canada’s political chattering classes, Rolf is a marvel: he’s the guy who erased the 60-point lead the Conservatives had in 2011’s general election. He’s the wunderkind…
In Sunday’s Sun: the death of our king
It was January 1967, just after New Year’s, and my dad came home from Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, where he worked as a doctor. He was preoccupied. Jack Ruby,…
Governments defeat themselves
…and another political truism, in 140 characters or less.
Ford Nation sightings
Right here.
The Irish Catholic King
…he was our king, anyway. Fifty years, at this exact moment. So long ago; so very sad, still. My column on Sunday is about him, and Dallas – where we…