No cheers for minority govI have a column in the other place today, in which I take issue with a couple of recent polls suggesting that Canadians are tired...
word blegI’m looking for examples of words that are only ever used in their positive sense. I’m thinking of terms like...
Sunday linkage1. It’s amazing how much time you can kill on tumblr. Here’s my new favourite. 2. Academics are conformist s. 3. Monkey reform...
Don’t ask ’em no questions, they’ll tell you no liesThat’s from a report by Rue Frontenac . If you didn’t know it already, Rue Frontenac is staffed by the very same locked-out union...
Obama regrets his choice of wordsOn his comments about the Cambridge police, President says he "could have calibrated those words differently"
America and race in the Obama ageIn what should have been a press conference on the status of his healthcare reform package, Barack Obama strayed from his usual...
A family breaks its silenceAlberta journalist Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan have been held captive in Somalia for 11 months
Walter Cronkite in conversation with Gertrude SteinAt 18, the future anchorman writes of the novelist’s comfortable shoes, close-cropped hair and of the rumours of a war that would later launch his career