Tree stump gives finger
Near Son Three’s lacrosse practice. Yes, I am a child.
Musings
At Sun News to discuss today’s big Ottawa story
…And here’s the tweet of the afternoon, offered up by CP’s Bruce Cheadle: It was an arch-enemy.
Laura Jane Grace makes her debut
So much for my concern that she needed to focus on herself, and not the band. She obviously disagrees. Guts like this you rarely see. Amazing.
Ornge and the Cons, a continuing series
You don’t see this gem too often in any of Frank Klees’ pious pressers: Ornge effectively started in at least 2000 (or sooner). You know, when the Cons were the…
Best comment on Baird’s decision to “speak loudly” on Syrian pogroms…
…by someone who knows whereof he speaks. Like he says: too little, too late.
Free solution for Catholic educators worried about “gay-straight alliances”
Promise to stop taking billions in taxpayer dollars. If you dislike what the government’s doing, stop taking government money, okay? You’re welcome.
In today’s Sun: long hot Summer ahead
The youth of Quebec doth protest too much, some say. The protests have been going on in the streets of la belle province for more than 100 days. Thinkers and…
The death of broadsheets
Quote: Reeling from a drop in advertising revenue, Postmedia Network Inc. will axe dozens of newsroom jobs across the country and stop the publication of Sunday papers in several of…
We get letters
We get letters. Lately, we’ve been getting letters from New Democrats – all coincidentally anonymous, all suspiciously-similar, most helpfully originating from the National Capital – who profess to be profoundly,…
Welcome to OLO
Your first task: explain why your boss, an erstwhile environmentalist, has a four car garage!
Next time Angry Tom lectures everyone about the “tar sands”
…show him a picture of his FOUR CAR GARAGE.
In today’s Sun: His Royalness
His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of…
Kettling kwestion
It’s a hot topic. At the G20 in Toronto, and now with the ongoing demos in Montreal. My question: it’s clearly detention, as defined by the SCC. So why don’t…
Boy, lost
I’m a former cops and courts reporter, and I usually read crime stories more than I read politics stories. As such, I’ve been transfixed by the terrible and tragic Etan…
My response to Lilley: Glenn Beck is still an anti-Semite
Folks at the Sun News Network have been asked not to go after each other off-air, and we generally observe that. It looks bad. So I was a bit surprised…
Menzingers – Nice Things
The video kind of blows, but the song is genius, and the album it comes from is 2012′s best, so far. These guys are now what Against Me stopped being,…
On the lesson of Alberta, and Grits
…polls, and pollsters, get things wrong. The Angus Reid Group was one of the pollsters who got things dramatically wrong in Alberta, for instance. That said, this puny online survey…
Byline, May 23: on s. 13 and human rights
Lilley and I duke it out on s. 13. I’m right.
Courtney’s cure
I don’t ever post these sorts of appeals, but if my brother Bernie Farber asks me to, I will. Here’s The Cure for Courtney.
Wanna have an election?
The Opposition clearly want one. Personally – speaking only for me, myself and I – I wouldn’t necessarily object. I enjoy elections. I like elections. Mostly, however, it will permit…