To the Liberal Party of Canada: Enough with the hang-wringing over leadership and the hour-by-hour coverage on CBC Radio over your future. Stephen Dion has never been comfortable wearing the party leader’s slippers. Iggy and Rae everyone says are carpetbaggers. Manley, Tobin, McKenna are old skool. Why look any further than your own caucus? It’s […]
The Toronto International Film Festival, my country’s annual celebration of its own inferiority complex, has come up with a golden idea — Canada’s Top Ten Films of the Year. If there was ever a glaring example of what a disaster the Canadian culture industry is, it is our attempts at theatrical release cinema. In the […]
Here's Rick Mercer's take on today's same sex marriage vote in the House of Commons. A modest proposal, he hears, is being devised by Canada's New Gov't™ to have a wee re-think on most minority rights, and by drawing the rights out of a hat during caucus meetings it will help to keep it fair. […]
Walk of Fame hardly a fitting tribute to these greats Canada has produced more than its fair share of pop culture relics. There are too many to mention in a single blog posting. But today there are 2 Canucks that seem to be at the top of their game after 40 years as entertainers! For […]
Is this story over yet? Name one Prime Minister in Canada that enjoyed a love-in with Ottawa’s parliamentary reporters? Mulroney? He despised them. Trudeau? Yeah, he would make them pancakes at every press conference. Harper is only doing what every other PM does. Those who crow about accountability are being either disengenous, or outright political.
Class. Leadership. Talent. BC Boy. Lots to admire here. That Steve Nash receives his 2nd MVP in as many years is a huge story, but my fellow ‘Nucks are buried in hockey playoffs. Just wanted to take a minute to notice a great athlete and a remarkable person. M-V-P, M-V-P, M-V-P! (sorry, couldn’t resist) (just […]
This morning greets us with another “controversy” about a political blog gone awry. This one for a Ontario Liberal insider who (surprise!) does government relations for a living. Mike Klander has already been purged from the memory banks of the Liberal Party, and his membership has been resigned. His credentials include being elected Executive Vice […]
There are a few things about my country that truly fry my Canadian bacon, and one of them is the pomp and circumstance about the nation’s highest political appointment: The Governer General. The breathtaking swiftness in which a 15-year old lad was removed from the GG’s residence on a tour for asking aloud, “Is that […]
Frank Magazine was folded this week. I don’t have any great connection to Frank Magazine, which was published in Ontario, featured Upper Canadians in the main, and had a poor grasp of BC politics and life out here in general. However, they were one of Canada’s few native jesters in print, and they will be […]