Fun with numbers
Here. Great news if you’re Brad Wall, not so good if you’re Christy Clark. Across the aisle? Adrian Dix is a very popular Opposition leader, seems. It’s why most people…
Musings
Wente vs. Wong
Long piece. I was nodding until the author tried to set up Jan Wong, who is human garbage, as a victim. She isn’t.
How things get reported now: Thatcher and Twitter
This seems about right, to me.
Nick Taylor-Vaisey
I really enjoy the way he summarizes the news over at Maclean’s. (And I like the fact that he doesn’t clumsily try and drive an agenda all the time, like…
Your morning JT news
Right here. Um, except: 1. Alf Apps? alf Apps, he of Ornge fame, is the voice of renewal? Seriously? Can we get Chris Mazza in to oversee fundraising, now? 2.…
I just voted in the Liberal Party of Canada leadership thingie
The good news: You do it online, which meant I could wear my Star Trek housecoat, skull jammies and people’s revolution T-shirt, and no one cared. The bad news: You…
In Sunday’s Sun: the hockey Dad vs. the aliens
The news that the Conservatives are planning attack ads against Justin Trudeau isn’t news. It’s what Stephen Harper’s party does, and they do it well. If the Harper Conservatives are…
In the Sun (and not by me!): Chretien-Martin era Libs were good economic managers
To wit: From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his successor John Turner increased public spending as a share of GDP by 40%, while the…
Irie, SFH!
Ras Ritalin Boy (guitar), Jah Davey Snot (skins) and Sly Winkie (disembodied left hand, and frightening full frontal at the 2:30 mark) try to sound less white. Punk rock, begone!…
Ivison on Libs
Fun read. Best line: the last one. Also, I intend to mock Butts with the “svengali” appellation for the next decade or so.
Liberal Showcase: not many tickets have been sold
Surprise, surprise. Breaking this thing up over two different weekends, in two different cities, was always a dumb, dumb idea.
Rob Ford: arrives at work at lunchtime, stays four hours, leaves
If I had an employee like that, I’d fire them. So would you.
National Post: the Harper Conservatives are “jerks”
Mother, fetch me the smelling salts! I think I’m going to faint! “But with the economy growing slowly, and even Alberta’s oil wealth underperforming, the Tories must now confront the…
Getawayfromme – the Hot Nasties
Getting ready for tonight’s SFH session, and dug up this old Hot Nasties tune for us to try – Getawayfromme. Boy, I was an angry young man. (Who has become…
April 4, 1968
As I have done for years – and as I have remembered since that day, when I was a boy in Dallas – today I remember the death of Martin…
The New Disappearing Party of Canada
Yaffe’s right – Trudeau has basically erased the Mulcair Dippers’ public profile. But the process was underway well before Justin Trudeau became a leadership candidate. Bob Rae, and his caucus,…
A pox on transit
I wrote a couple weeks ago that I was fed up, to the teeth, with the incessant nattering in Toronto about transit. “Two things that drive me nuts about Toronto,…
Boy, it sure is good thing we’re not going to go neg!
Yep. Good thing.
Robocall reflection
Perhaps that silly sally at Sun News, and the “explosive” media tour, wasn’t such a hot idea after all. Meanwhile, somewhere, one of Canada’s most principled journalists is frantically trying…