By-election predictions
Here. Given how wrong polls are nowadays, you’d be a fool to make definitive predictions anymore. That’s why Eric Grenier, no fool, can now be seen applying qualifiers to every…
Musings
Lunatic on Sun News Network set with Anita
This is what the excitement of live TV is all about, folks!
The secret apology
Someone has lost a legal case to me. They have had to issue an apology. They are trying to keep the fact of that secret. It’s a rather existential bit…
Ontario’s Speaker: the PCs are idiots
Well, he didn’t say that, but he may as well have. Despite Lisa MacLeod’s claims that her party had unearthed evidence that Ontario’s Speaker had been “bullied” – despite her…
Email, he fails: Team Hudak digital fizzle
Yesterday, Hudak’s Tea Party – fronted by the repellant Lisa MacLeod – announced they had uncovered the Mother if All Scandals and released some emails. I carefully analyze them here.…
In Tuesday’s Sun: the next Conservative leader
HALIFAX – When a political party has been in power for a long time, and they are desperate to hold onto it, they will usually opt for something new —…
Today’s shocking news developments
1. Political folks say swear words about reporters. 2. Reporters say swear words about political folks. 3. Opposition politicians, far from being “outraged,” will actually sit on stuff to try…
Halifax: speaking at the International Association of Fire Fighters Conference
I like these guys! They gave me standing O and bought every available copy of Fight The Right! I’m in the mood to run for office, now!
Thank God
I mean it, too: thank God.
Halifax-bound: a request
If I perish in a fiery crash, bury me in my biker’s jacket, the one I bought in high school. Still fits, and it’d render me a fine-looking corpse.
In Sunday’s Sun: we don’t give a shit what you think, old chap
“If you don’t care about the royal baby, don’t bother telling the rest of us you don’t care.” That was my personal message to assorted grumps, grouches and anti-monarchists Tuesday…
The scene in the Slocan Valley
This is a bit too close to home. My brother, his wife and my littlest sibling all live in Winlaw, B.C., in the Slocan Valley, right near Lemon Creek. It…
Toronto Centre, where no one has ever read a history book
Worldly, academic, author, former journalist, Harvard, even a bit of Russia. What could possibly go wrong?
Trudeau, stoned
As pretty much everyone knows by now, Justin Trudeau has this week (re) announced that he supports not just decriminalization of pot, but legalization. I think he’s made a mistake.…
Ann Cavoukian admits she “didn’t do a good job”
Regular readers know my view about the preening megalomaniac who is the ostensibly non-partisan Ontario’s Information Commissioner – but who is, truly, a crazed publicity-seeking McGuinty-hater. Officers of the Legislature,…
Toronto’s next mayor
Here. Reasons why I’d support her, if she ran: She knows how to work with everyone: that’s her rep from the Lastman years, when she was a councillor. She’s flexible.…