UncategorizedIn glorious black and whiteTurning to check out my own story (naturally) in the issue of Maclean’s that appeared today, I was struck by the vintage...
OttawaOn the issues: Law and orderIs Harper’s proposal to impose harsher sentences on teenaged criminals constitutional? The usual reaction to a controversial...
UncategorizedAnd we thought he was great in "Away From Her"Gordon Pinsent’s phrasing, in his plea for artists to be heard in the campaign debate about cultural funding, sounds like a tip of...
UncategorizedMeanwhile, under the Arctic ice... (Part II)If no coherent debate about climate change is generated during this campaign, we will look back years from now and feel deeply...
UncategorizedMeanwhile, under the Arctic ice...The most depressing thing about this campaign is the way the climate change debate has gone. Any hope that it might rise to the...
UncategorizedWomen and men: still not the sameSince we here at Maclean’s decided, right out of the starting blocks, to declare the women’s vote the big factor to watch in this...
UncategorizedSo then Gerry sez...I can’t help it, I find Gerry Ritz a funny guy. Like back in 2002 when Stephen Harper and Stockwell Day were slugging it out for...
UncategorizedCarbon tariff: bad. Carbon tax: good.There’s something to the Conservative news release this week slamming Stéphane Dion for proposing a “carbon tariff”—an...
GeneralBreathing a deep, banana-flavoured sigh of reliefRelax, smokers of hookah pipes. A Conservative party media spokesperson assures me that today’s promise from Stephen Harper to...