UncategorizedWarm feelings, strategic votingHow much strategic voting will go on come Oct. 14? It’s an increasingly pressing question. Polls tells us a lot of traditionally...
GeneralKissing the flagHere at Deux maudits anglais headquarters, we’ve been wondering about the rather loose use of the term ’nationalist’ in Quebec...
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...
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...
UncategorizedFeschuk: My advice to Dion? Unleash the killer robots!He ignored my pleas to grow a moustache. Now it’s too late for the fallback: Plan Afro.
OttawaFrom Deaniacs to DionistasIf you have a few minutes, go back and listen to Howard Dean’s speech to the Liberal leadership convention in November 2006. It’s...
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...
OttawaMaybe an Inch and a HalfNot long ago, I wrote that the commitment of Canadians to the environment was a continent wide and an inch deep. Herewith , the...
UncategorizedWhat’s on the immigrant voter’s mindStéphane Dion announced a comprehensive immigration policy today at the Shiang Garden restaurant in Richmond, B.C. It was a...
GeneralDion gets off a good oneDion delivered his best joke of the campaign at University of Victoria this afternoon. (OK, there aren’t a lot of other...