Mark Bourrie wants to shut down this web site: the latest
Mark Bourrie is a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. Anyone who reads this web site is pretty familiar with him, and the way he behaves. You can read more…
Musings
Punk rocker does good
Rolf Dinsdale, our former guitarist, is the Liberal Party candidate in his home town. To save Rolf (and me and Davey) some time, we state: • The band is neither…
Mark Bourrie wants to shut down my web site
He’s written nasty legal letters to everyone who hosts/links to me. So, if the web site suddenly disappears after 12 or so years, you know who to blame. Stay tuned.
Nova Scotia election night: as we all get older, we all change jobs
So, twenty years ago, I worked with, for and around my friend Dingwall. On the night of the Nova Scotia Liberals’ smashing victory – their first in twenty years! –…
About those gas plants
For those Gotcha Conservatives (hello, Andrew Harris!) who were impatiently bombarding me last night with emails and tweets, demanding my reaction to the gas plant schmozzle, I say this: I…
The greatest ad campaign in the history of the world
There are more here. Watch them. Me, I’m my way out of the office to buy half-a-dozen Dodge Durangos, to pay for more commercials like this one.
The McNeil Liberals win Nova Scotia – big time!
My Sun News Network hosting duties complete, I can now celebrate Stephen’s huge, historic win – and take a trip down memory lane, when I spoke before the Nova Scotia…
On the SNN set!
Live! A giant, disembodied, crazed head attacks Brian Lilley on the Sun News Network set on Nova Scotia election night! Brian didn’t make it.
In Tuesday’s Sun: the national language omnishambles
Language changes. Many eons ago at Carleton University’s journalism school, Prof. Roger Bird was listening to some of us energetically debate whether the proper spelling was “cigarette” (as The Canadian…
Toronto needs a mayor: drugs were used to get back Rob Ford’s phone
Snippet below. Link here. “…According to the Toronto Police document, Lisi set about trying to retrieve a stolen phone in March. Ford and Lisi (who has a criminal record for…
Glen Pearson reviews reviews, and is thereby reviewed
Glen Pearson doesn’t like what I had to say about Michael Ignatieff. He says I’m “vicious,” “cutthroat,” “shadowy,” “arrogant,” “repellant,” “brutal,” “maddening,” and a practicioner of the “old politics.” Wow!…
In Sunday’s Sun: they’ve got problems, we’ve got problems
NEW YORK — Does this happen in Canada? Darin K. Williamson, who has been asking me a lot of questions on the train between Newark and New York, tells me…
Lala is perilously close to 50 today
…and she doesn’t look a day over 47! Happy Festival of Lala!
SoHo selfie, 7 a.m.
Heading back to TeeDot soon. Got the T-shirt, though.
Backroom hacks on Iggy
Two things about this. One, I didn’t hear from the author of the piece. I’ve been in New York, but I always check my email and whatnot. So I don’t…
Soho, 8 a.m.
Psychic sign at corner of Soho’s Broadway and Prince, locked. If you’re a good psychic, can’t you foresee when your sign will be swiped?
Rob Ford’s cronies apparently have more drug connections than Rexall and Pharmasave put together
But I mean that in the nicest possible way.