UncategorizedA high-priced tea partyCanWest: Ouch . Best of luck, amid all the wheeling carnage, to Frances Bula, one of the country’s finest city-hall reporters, now...
UncategorizedManitoba Chamber OrchestraI was going to write something longer, but the usual distractions intervened. Just to say that on Saturday I sprung $15 on a hunch...
UncategorizedWe distort, we derideFox News runs cartoonishly distorted pictures of reporters who criticized it.
UncategorizedOn the terrifying rise of my arch-enemy Michael ByersITQ brings the big news that Michael Byers will seek the federal NDP nomination in Hedy Fry’s riding. (Why ’seek,’ by the way?...
UncategorizedAn under-resourced warU.S. and other coalition deaths were up nearly 50% in June over the record-low month of May, but for the second month in a...
UncategorizedSarko-triumph!More from the incorrigible twit who governs France. Recall that intelligent people have been pointing to Sarko’s six-month...
Uncategorized"Look, we start the week the same way as The New Yorker, with blank paper and ink. There’s no reason why we can’t be just as good as they are. Or better. They’re so damned dull.”Clay Felker dies , but he leaves a glory behind. Adam Moss , his worthy successor, leaves the obituary duties to Kurt Andersen.
UncategorizedThe future of newspapering, for the next few months anywayI read Howie Kurtz tut-tutting about the Orlando Sentinel , so I went to look for its redesigned front page. Here it is. I haven’t...