Cabinet shuffle question
I’m at the cabin with Son Two and Son Three – so I was unable to check if Michelle Rempel was again asked what hair products she uses by that…
Musings
In Tuesday’s Sun: the pipsqueak and the cabinet
Sometimes, in political life, you get credit for what you do. More commonplace are those occasions where you get none. Consider, then, Stephen Harper’s newly minted cabinet. Unveiled Monday, the…
Where I am right now
On the dock with Sons Two and Three, after a fun day of water skiin’, swimmin’ and shootin’ (the legal kind). I am happy. Wish you were here!
In Sunday’s Sun: we don’t give a rat’s ass about your stupid cabinet shuffle
Cabinet shuffles don’t matter. Not to Joe and Jane Frontporch, they don’t. To real folks, like Joe and Jane, it’s just Ottawa talking about Ottawa. To those who stalk the…
A jury
…is a group of people of average ignorance.
Guess the author: ecology and overpopulation
Who said this, which has been tweaked to make it a bit of challenge: “The annual increase of population in difficulties of providing for this army of new citizens which…
Rollins’ top twenty punk albums
The Clash – The Clash Generation X – Generation X The Adverts – Crossing the Red Sea X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks…
Quebec sovereignty: a tale of two slides
There’d be winning conditions for a new referendum, this suggests: If this wasn’t also happening: More here. Harper, I have long felt, is the best argument for the Part Quebecois’…
Wire: Map Reference
Lala and I saw ‘em last night at Lee’s. Verdict? They were phoning it in. None of the great old tunes, few of the newer ones with energy. Lunchbag letdown.…
Cavoukian: she got it wrong. And now she needs to do the honourable thing.
Here are quotes from statements that Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s “Information and Privacy Commissioner,” made on June 5: “It is difficult to accept that the routine deletion of emails was not…
Forum, deconstructed
Here. Will anyone at the Star listen? Don’t be silly.
Kooky Cavoukian et al. are full of shit
The entire premise of her previous hyperventilation and hysteria – that emails had been “deleted” – was false. She, and the Opposition parties, got it wrong. They hadn’t been deleted,…
On that horrid witch Jan Wong: a legal review
My former partner and colleague at McBinch, who is far more judicious in his language than I would have been, assesses the latest legal twist in the Wong saga. He’s…
Howard Levitt’s ride
Fun tale about a fun guy. How do I know Howard’s fun? Last time I saw him, he was at an SFH show, selling our merch at the Bovine Sex…
Warren vs. Bell Mobility, et al.
I tried to be nice. I tried to be polite. Now, they get Mean Angry Warren.
Toronto’s electricity grid is “hanging by a thread”
…so says Hydro and others. So, then, why are shops like Mac in Yorkville keeping the doors to their air conditioned premises open in this way? Send along pix of…
Me on Giambrone
We’re pals, full disclosure, so I am happy to see Adam running. And I meant what I told Global’s Jackson Proskow: the only people who care about most of these…
In today’s Sun: re-regulate, now
In the coming weeks and months, as Canada attempts to comprehend the cataclysm that struck Lac-Megantic on the weekend, government and citizens will attempt to determine the cause – and…
It’s biblical (updated)
And it was cut off by a zombie attack. It’s been nice knowing you. Adios. Your browser does not support the video tag Here is what slowed down the traffic.…
Lac-Megantic: the latest victim of government deregulation?
The photos, and the stories, coming out of that Quebec town are truly astonishing. We should pray for the people there, and collectively push for a comprehensive investigation of the…