Shame
Last night, a number of people – many of them Jewish, in fact – drew to my attention the tweet below, authored by Sue-Ann Levy. When I saw it, I…
Musings
He would’ve been a contender
…and I can tell you that senior Conservatives were quite unenthusiastic about him as federal leader. But that’s that.
In Tuesday’s Sun: three races, three similarities
Liberal leadership season is upon us! It’s all pretty historic, too. For the first time ever, Grits are lining up to choose leaders in Quebec, Ontario and federally. Never before…
Letter to PMO
Over on Twitter, I made repeated attempts to ask Gerry Nicholls about what Harper did at the NCC, since Nicholls is clamouring about what he didn’t. He repeatedly refused to…
Huffington Post: Fight The Right “well worth picking up”
There haven’t been a lot of reviews so far – book pages are becoming a lot less plentiful, sadly – but Matt Price at the Huffington Post gave it a…
Holy crap
I’m moving to Canada! Oh, wait.
Obama talking point for tonight’s debate
Says it all, don’t you think?
Gerry Nicholls opens a door he shouldn’t have
Gerry Nicholls is formerly a “senior officer” with the far-right lobby group, the National Citizens Coalition. Last week, I wrote a column that mentioned in passing Stephen Harper’s time heading…
Cowardly Putin sends Pussy Riot members to prison work camps
Story here. If this bastard thinks we’re going to forget about these women, he’s got another thing coming.
The next Ontario Premier
With a $50,000 entry fee, and a $500,000 spending limit – and, most of all, an end-of-January leadership convention – the Ontario Liberal executive is seeking to discourage minor candidates.…
In Sunday’s Sun: kiss our ass, doomsayers
Can Canadian Liberalism survive? Is the party over? The times are clearly dire, for Canadian Grits. One need only to survey newspaper opinion pages to know this is so. “(There…
Fight The Right in Ireland!
From longtime friend, Chretien loyalist, and future Prime Minister Chris Collenette, who now resides in the land of my ancestors: Fight The Right takes the Emerald Isle by storm! “Warren:…
Says the courageous minister who won’t also call for the Canadian flag to be flown in Quebec
This Conservative government occasionally makes me want to throw up. This is one of those times.
Liberally crucified
The media who were criticizing Justin Trudeau and his Liberal supporters for a permitting “coronation” instead of a leadership contest? Yeah, well, they’re the same geniuses now criticizing Dalton McGuinty’s…
SFH at Strummerfest!
We’ve been asked to play at Strummerfest in K-W, on the tenth anniversary of his passing. Practiced last night. Our ‘Bubbles’ video, for those who care what we still sound…
In yesterday lies today
Now, then.
Strategy questions
Is it ever a good idea to attack the guy without whom you wouldn’t have been elected in the first place? The guy you left high and dry to go…
Fight The Right in the Charlatan
I don’t recall saying that Trudeau was the only solution. But he’s a great, great guy. Anyway, here I am back in The Charlatan – thirty years after I was…
Hebert: McGuinty makes it a real race
I knew there was a reason why I admire her so much.