Stephen Harper once told an American right-wing think tank, “You won’t recognize Canada when I get through with it.” I used to think that was just a rare unguarded, boastful moment from Harper. He was in a comfortable environment (American right wingers, whom he has been emulating for years), and who knows, he might have […]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
I admit it — I’m a sucker for the Academy Awards. Just like hockey fans look forward to NHL Trade Deadline Day, I look forward to the Academy Awards. Every year since I’ve had a platform to spout opinions, I’ve made my Oscar choices. My choices are based perhaps one-quarter on my actual opinion based […]
Millions of North Americans will tune in Sunday to The Simpsons landmark 500th episode. I will be one of them. I’ve seen the previous 499, so why stop now? I mean, it’s not as if it’s a show that I actively look forward to every week, likes Parks and Recreation or 30 Rock or Justified […]
Let us take a moment to send a hearty ‘Thank you’ to a gutsy Ontario Superior Court judge, who has told Stephen Harper to stuff his mandatory sentencing where the sun don’t shine. OK, she didn’t exactly put it that way. Judges are generally a little more sophisticated than that. But Madam Justice Amy Molloy, […]
I had one of those ‘whoa’ moments today when I picked up my morning paper and read that Whitney Houston had died. I can’t say that it saddened me, or even shocked me — poor Whitney had been on a terrible downward path for years now. But when a megastar passes, even one whose best […]
It is really quite astonishing what Alison Redford is getting away with these days. First, Redford takes her cabinet on a tour of Alberta. Price tag for this little public relations exercise (which comes, by total coincidence, with an election two or three months away): $100,000. The opposition bellows, the media yawns, and Redford gets […]
