OttawaIs Pinball Clemons the answer?A few weeks ago, the Star went ahead and declared Pinball Clemons a sort of Obama-in-waiting. Some degree of chuckling ensued. The...
OttawaThe Commons: Dream On(The Commons returns with a 37th attempt to understand the Stephane Dion Era.) In the early hours of the last day of his first...
OttawaBTC: Boutros Boutros-Ghali!Pierre Trudeau! Jacques Chirac! Marcel Proust! Christian Dior! The president of Harvard! The guy who founded the modern Olympic...
OttawaBTC: Mississauga GoddamFirst, to Mississauga. Specifically to a park adjacent to a narrow river that just so happened to have a gaggle of Canadian geese...
OttawaBTC: The Leader v. The SalesmanBack, for a moment, to David Foster Wallace’s take on John McCain. Near the end of that little book Foster Wallace arrives at his...
UncategorizedBTC: In search of our own Obama(s)Recent Canadian history is not entirely bereft of above-average speeches. It just takes a bit of a think to remember the good...