Indigenous people have had to fight for recognition of every right we have. And we always will. ✎ Wayne K. Spear | February 15, 2018 • Politics I N A WEEK WHEN Indigenous people announced that reconciliation is postponed, if not… Read More ›
Justin Trudeau
One Day There Will Be An Indigenous Prime Minister
One day there will be an Indigenous Prime Minister of Canada. And I couldn’t care less.
The Reconciliation Scam
A lot of people fell for the Trudeau pitch, but the shrink wrap has been off a while now and buyers’ remorse has set in.
Sonny Daze Meets the Orange Menace
The two August Leaders, one the President of America and the other the President of that country somewhere in the vicinity of America, clashed in a fierce battle of handshake. The Orange Menace grimaced, jerking the arm of his rival…. Read More ›
Justin Trudeau: the unserious person’s unserious candidate
THERE WERE ALREADY a lot of reasons I found Justin Trudeau untakeable when he recently added more.
The Roundtable Podcast 66
• Week of 20.04.2014 Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Jim Flaherty | Rob Ford’s Campaign Party | Laureen Harper | Music: Willie Nelson, “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die” | Record Store Day / 4-20 | Justin Trudeau… Read More ›
The Demise of Chatter
IT WAS separation from his wife which in 1974 brought the Welsh political columnist Alan Watkins to the first-floor Islington flat of his son, and thereby to the acquaintance of the Telegraph columnist Frank Johnson, who occupied the floor below…. Read More ›
Black Friday, Santa, Larry Hagman, iPhone Apps, Honest Trailers, Egypt, Bal Thackeray
• Podcast 019 | Week of 25.11.2012 Download entire podcast (320 kbps mp3).
Justin Trudeau and the Liberal’s Groundhog Day
IN THE YEARS since the departure of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, the Liberal Party of Canada has been trapped in a political Groundhog Day. Three times across a decade, the party has risen at what it expected to be the… Read More ›
Good fortune and Bob Rae weren’t always on the best of terms
FEDERAL LIBERAL LEADER Bob Rae’s citation of William Shakespeare was an indirect invocation also of a commonplace political euphemism — the putting aside of personal ambition “to spend more time with the family.” Announcing his decision yesterday not to run… Read More ›
