UncategorizedGOP: not even the end of the beginningIt is easy to forget how much happened in the Democratic race of 2008
UncategorizedCrowns and chaos in the Middle EastI wouldn’t suggest taking this classic bit of political science too seriously, with its everything-but-the-kitchen-sink...
UncategorizedThings The King’s Speech was silent aboutI got the book The King’s Speech for Christmas and just finished it; in the very wide field of “slender material adapted into a...
CanadaCanada’s looming battle over labourWith contracts for half a million public sector workers to be negotiated this year, things could get very ugly
UncategorizedThe ecstasy and the agonyIf the government makes it impossible make pure MDMA, is it really surprising when dirty MDMA hits the market?
UncategorizedA little Rae of sunshine“ Better a Rae Day than a Harper lifetime. ” Not a bad line, is it? I take this minor witticism to be a major portent for the...
UncategorizedSCTV in Edmonton: notes toward an FAQThere’s a movement—it’s a clever piece of magazine marketing , actually, but we’ll call it a movement—to build some sort of...
SocietyNugent-Hopkins takes the hyphen to new hockey heightsOilers star Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is blazing a trail for the once-dropped hyphenated hockey name
UncategorizedA Double-E G-G?In the journalism game, we call it “burying the lede”. Friday’s Postmedia papers have a column by Stephen Maher in which he...
UncategorizedBanknotables: a holiday conversation starterIf the Famous Five don’t belong on the $50 bill, who does?