The sad ballad of Tim Hudak
Ontario Liberals didn’t like the outcome of the Kitchener-Waterloo by-election – and it’s spelled Kitchener, Tim Hudak, not “Kichener” – but Ontario’s PC leader probably liked it a lot less.…
Musings
Hits and Misses
I was there earlier this week, for a Fight The Right interview. We looked around for a while, and I picked up the Edmonton’s Rock’n’Roll Bitches ‘Wild West’ EP, plus…
The Islamophobic web
“Canadian Hindu Advocacy” is a group that says it plans to screen the Innocence of Muslims propaganda film that has stirred up chaos and death in the Middle East. Who…
Lougheed
Very sorry to hear of his passing. A great Canadian.
Kay, defined
Well-written, carefully reasoned and – as with all of his treatises on this subject – completely full of shit. When I wrote for the National Post, and Kay was my…
It’s KITCHENER, dummy
Here’s Michael Harris, aptly-named Ontario PCC MPP FOR A KITCHENER-AREA RIDING. At a PRESS CONFERENCE. Oh my Lord Almighty, I love these guys. I hope they never, ever change. THeir…
Sun News: I’m outnumbered!
…but I (and you) knew that already. Which is beside the point: the Sun folks, whose opinions I vehemently disagree with 99 per cent of the time, are open about…
This PC MPP is an idiot
And no less than B’nai Brith agrees Jim McDonnell’s characterization of opponents as Nazis is a disgrace: “There is no place in Ontario for invoking the racism, hatred and violence…
Ford follies: a continuing series
From a respected Toronto municipal columnist: In essence, someone has to save the mayor from himself. He cannot be rehabilitated. He doesn’t “get it” when it comes to appropriate behaviour…
Teachers, taught
The most pro-union paper in the country: …the moral high ground that teachers’ unions claim to occupy is slipping away..the unions are exploiting ordinary Ontarians for their own pecuniary purposes.…
Why “progressive” in scare quotes?
Does the Globe now plan to do likewise for “conservatives?”
Heeeere’s Johnny
At Bishop Carroll, we were obsessed by the film, too. But mainly because it was scary.
We get letters: the gun lobby is today’s winner!
Rudy Verstraeten, 24.138.185.196, wrote: Warren YOU are the F**king idiot. We are law abiding gun owners and follow the law and hurt no one.Get the gang bangers of the streets…
Adams on Uniting the Left
Why it won’t happen: “Because of a party tribalism and institutional self regard in which the interests of voters are barely considered.” Yep. Some of us tried, however, and got…
Den Tandt on Garneau
A narrative is forming: Trudeau’s young and vital, but not serious. Garneau’s the other side of that: older, calmer, wiser. In other news, the NDP has to be going crazy…
Gardner on Trudeau
Reading this, I was reminded that Gardner was a senior staffer in Mike Harris’ government. He’s running from that past, and simultaneously embracing it. It’s weird, but most people do…
Gardner on Trudeau
Reading this, I was reminded that Gardner was a senior staffer in Mike Harris’ government. He’s running from that past, and simultaneously embracing it. It’s weird, but most people do…
Intern wanted
Daisy Group is looking for a U. of T. student (for its proximity to us, not because it’s without equal) who is interested in part-time interning. Writers given priority. We…
Ontario PC MPP compares government to Nazis
And, no, I’m not making that up. Jim McDonnell, the Honourable Idiot from Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry, said this, and I quote: “It’s 73 years ago today that Canada declared war on…