Trudeau is assembling a leadership team?
News to me. Anyone else heard this?
Musings
In today’s Sun: the politics of crime
There’s a reason why so-called law-and-order issues are favoured by conservatives. It’s because, politically, law-and-order issues favour conservatives. These tragedies tend to follow a sad pattern. First, the crime. As…
My Auntie Bea
They held her funeral today, sooner than I’d expected. I couldn’t get there on time. She was the original feminist nun, and such a remarkable person. I love her and…
Roxy for Obama!
Brought back from the U.S. of A. for Roxy, Canada’s Best-Loved Political Dog, by Katherine’s parents, Jane and Rick Stoneman! Reads: BARACK’S BEST FRIEND. Beyond awesome. Roxy, like her master,…
Fern Hill is still an idiot
Here she goes on Twitter, again trumpeting the online meeting place for far-Right Canadian bigotry and intolerance: “Fern Hill @fernhilldammit Walking the walk. Way to go, Free Dominion! http://www.freedominion.ca/ @freedominion…
Syria, the Edmonton Journal, and indifference
More concerned about newspaper wars than civil wars, the Edmonton Journal’s Stuart Thomson this morning tweeted that my call for Western military intervention in Syria was “glib.” I’ll leave it…
My choice for Liberal leader
Here. It’s perfect. You’re welcome.
Flanagan hoists Mulcair on his own petro-petard
Dippers will bleat about Wildrose in response, but it’s a fair point nonetheless: the federal NDP leader is a hypocrite.
Forget about the Lib leadership subject matter
I just wanted to observe that Susan Delacourt does a great job covering federal Liberal stuff, as here. If it wasn’t for her ongoing interest, we’d only be written about…
Blazing Fat Cur: we can’t be bought, but we can be rented
Oh, look! One of Canada’s leading white supremacist bloggers is accepting advertising from unexpected quarters! How very multicultural of Mr. Shaidle!
W@AL: Wild horses couldn’t keep me away. Well, actually, they could.
Live from the lake road this morning! Better than spotting a groundhog!
In Sunday’s Sun today: the world is beyond saving
The photograph, posted by a famous journalist, isn’t just horrible. It is beyond words. CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour tweeted it to her 325,000 Twitter followers. The photograph shows three dead…
Liberal leadership rumour mill
Right here on wk.com! Lotsa stories pinging around the MSM and blogosweird, in the past few weeks, here and here and here and here and here. Anyone got baseless speculation…
This world
Don’t open the links, like I did. But most of you will, I expect. This and this have reminded me that of my conviction that the world is, essentially, evil…
There’s one reason why Rob Ford is mayor of Toronto
And it’s because my friend John Tory didn’t run. That’s it. Per Alberta, I’m skeptical of all polls, these days. But there’s a simple reality, here: if John had run…
A murder of questions
Why didn’t Toronto Police take this tip seriously? How could the video be online for days, and the authorities didn’t know, or care? How can web sites like “Best Gore”…
Mr. Radwanski’s passion
As both a Catholic and an Ontario Liberal, I disagree with just about everything Adam has to say, here. But I like the fact that he says with passion and,…
Flaherty and Ornge: the Conservative links grow
Quote unquote: “Questions are swirling as to why ORNGE officials sought to place a helicopter base at the Oshawa airport and if Finance Minister Jim Flaherty made an attempt to…