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 I'll be hosting one of my occasional Maple Syrup Editions of Virtually Speaking tonight, discussing the work of one of Canada's m...

I am once again temporarily in the employ of a great Metropolitan newspaper and shall be moving to fortified compound in the tri-city area...

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From the same brilliant commonsense school of "thought" that gave us a high school dropout as Minister of Education in Ontario, t...

Aislin, for my money, is still one of the most eloquent political and social pundits in this country in either language. Tweet

To paraphrase Sinclair Lewis: When fascism comes to Canada, it will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a hockey stick. Coach Harper won h...

"I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush" ...actually the song is about the use of agent orange in Vietnam, but......

FSM willing and the skype doesn't crash, Scott Tribe will be my guest tonight to talk Canadian politics on Virtually Speaking Sunday: ...

Read this excellent summary by Lawrence Martin and then tell me we can afford to give Stephen Harper another term as president prime min...

A cheep shot, but too funny not to share - if you have Flash, click and go play it now. Pointy McShouty's Flying Circus aka Angry Bair...

Much is being made by the usual suspects of this clumsy smear job on Layton by the Toronto Sun . Give that story a very careful, very close...

So the Globe and Mail has e ndorsed Harper , admitting they value money over democracy. While their competition is definitely anti-Harper ...

Let us be clear, Stephen Harper is the front runner in this election. The last thing a front runner wants is to lose control of the agenda o...

This why I'm glad Canada has reasonably restrictive gun laws and doesn't have the cowboy shoot'em up culture of our southern nei...

Seriously, I hope John Lennon's ghost lays a first-class haunting on Stephen Harper. Tweet

Footage shot in Minamisanriku , a town of about 20,000 more or less erased by the March 11 tsunami. So far only about half of the residents ...

Our Man in Abiko , who laboured at the same Great Metropolitan Newspaper that I did for many years, though at a different time than I, is ...

Or should I assume that my campaign consultant fee is in the mail? See end of third bullet point. What took you so long? I'll try to ...

That bastion of Marxism and vanguard of the glorious revolution of the proletariat, The Globe and Mail,  today brings us a story so shocking...

Highminded and objective? Maybe not. Fair and accurate? You betcha! Tweet