Votes and yarbles
I’ve thought Ontario has been heading towards one all along. Now my Sun colleague Chris Blizzard is prognosticating the same thing, albeit for different reaons. Bonus: you also get to…
Musings
Jack
We were there. Is it worth taking in? I’d say yes. Now, as Olivia herself said: “It’s just a movie,” but it was a pretty good one. “They took some…
In Tuesday’s Sun: on speech and hate
Free speech is terrific, of course, as long as it’s being exercised in the abstract, or it doesn’t adversely affect you and yours. That’s why – if you were gay,…
Dumb dumb dumb
Spotted by my colleague Paulo. This is crazy.
Windsor-Tecumseh and London West
With Sandra Pupatello, the Ontario Liberals had a chance at a big win in Windsor; without her, they don’t. The Ontario NDP will cruise to a win there, as things…
Hockey and kids and violence
As regulars know, I spend a lot of time in hockey rinks. Two of my boys play in the GTHL, and one of them was seriously injured a few weeks…
You stink: the psychology of online vituperation
From the Times: “The results were both surprising and disturbing. Uncivil comments not only polarized readers, but they often changed a participant’s interpretation of the news story itself. In the…
150,000: what that means
That is a huge, huge number. I was with Justin’s campaign guru, Gerald Butts, last week for lunch. I told him I thought he’d do well with the social media…
In Sunday’s Sun: progressives – not dead yet
Is Canada becoming a more conservative place? Surveying the landscape some days it sure seems that way. My friends John Ibbitson and Darrell Bricker certainly think so. Ibbitson and Bricker…
You never know what you’ll find at Goodwill
Sent along by a friend of a friend. Ah, memories.
Sandra’s for Justin
Warren, As a key supporter of my campaign I wanted to make sure that we stay in touch… We still have a really important campaign still on the go, and…
Whig-Standard: Kingston’s mayor marginalizes his own citizens, acts like a bully
“ implying that Kingston has been wronged by Gananoque’s interjection into the casino debate is as audacious as a bully complaining he skinned his knuckles while punching his smaller victim…
Tim Hudak’s favourite bands are the Smiths and the Talking Heads.
Damn you, former colleague Mohammed Adam! You just made it harder to dislike the guy. (Also, good read.)
Top secret
Yep. Right. On this cool new thing called “Facebook.” On the “Internet.” Yep.
Max Can’t Surf
Fidlar. My God, I love this quartet of anarchic, crazed, drug-addicted miscreants.
In like a lamb or a lion? It’s March in Ontario politics
March starts as neither a lamb nor a lion, but with a fascinating report. It suggests Tim Hudak has trouble – but, then again, if the Ontario PCs move decisively…
Female cardinals!?
Now that is a good idea.
Trudeau in Vaughan last night
…sent along by my friend Steven Del Duca. Hearing amazing reports.
Child pornography, real or imagined, is hate pornography
There can be no defence of it, in any context. My long-held view: “Possession of child pornography, whether the product of a camera or one’s imagination, does two terrible things.…