I'm not going to shut down this blog or anything. It's not doing anyone any harm that I know of. But just so my last few remaining customers know, I'm blogging regularly over at Maclean's now about topics beyond just...
Posted in Tart Cider on June 25, 2008 09:35 PM
My reaction to Lorne Gunter's inexplicable musings on what more Robert Dziekanski's mother might have done to locate her son behind the big, gormless wall of Vancouver airport security, is over at the Maclean's joint. (Also, currently on your newsstands,...
Posted in Tart Cider on May 16, 2008 05:26 PM
As per previous standing orders, Pierre Poilievre shall be shunned and ignored whenever possible, unless it is to mock him, and under no circumstances shall his opinion on anything be treated as anything other than worthless. Henceforth, however, when circumstances...
Posted in Tart Cider on May 14, 2008 10:20 PM
I don't think Roméo Dallaire helped Omar Khadr much today, but I'm sure he meant to. Jason Kenney has no such excuse. Kady O'Malley's account of the exchange between Dallaire and Kenney at the Subcommittee on International Human Rights today:...
Posted in Tart Cider on May 13, 2008 11:37 PM
Comments are now open on Megapundit—and all the other, lesser blogs for that matter—over at Macleans.ca....
Posted in Tart Cider on May 1, 2008 06:19 PM
Kudos to Murray Whyte for hacking into the Toronto Star's web publishing system and somehow managing to file a story from Chicago about how handgun bans are not, repeat not, the be-all and end-all of solving urban gunplay. Recently at...
Posted in Tart Cider on April 26, 2008 11:27 PM
Courtesy of the Province, I bring you pretty much the exact opposite of the truth: Special prosecutor Richard Peck was appointed by Attorney General Wally Oppal last year to submit a legal opinion on polygamy.Section 293 of the Criminal Code...
Posted in Tart Cider on April 8, 2008 11:20 PM
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a lede: Over the last year and a half, three young adults who have set foot in my house, in the well-to-do, tree-lined Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto, have been murdered. So begins the harrowing, utterly...
Posted in Tart Cider on February 14, 2008 11:49 PM
(A note, right off the top: Obviously, I don't speak for Maclean's in any way, shape or form.) Jon Kay writes: "Just about every intelligent person in the country — on both sides of the political spectrum — has sided...
Posted in Tart Cider on February 8, 2008 06:55 PM
The Maclean's team is liveblogging up a storm on the Super Tuesday results right here. Aside from myself, there's the vastly more impressive likes of Andrew Coyne, Paul Wells and Luiza Savage. Look out for some special surprise guests, too....
Posted in Tart Cider on February 5, 2008 08:25 PM
My friend EMG goes after the Star for some recent crimes against sobriety and concludes, on the topic of the 90,000 Torontonian families purportedly living in poverty, thusly: "I couldn't be less convinced by this figure—given my understanding of what...
Posted in Tart Cider on January 7, 2008 06:33 PM
Requiring photo identification from voters is a complicated thing to mandate. Apparently. Our New Government failed in its first attempt to impose the same standards of identification verification at polling booths as are in place at the average mom-and-pop dépanneur....
Posted in Tart Cider on October 26, 2007 05:47 PM
Man, this place is dead, eh? If y'all are looking for some Selley-brand content, you'll have to head over to Macleans.ca. A sampling of recent things there by me: "A shopaholic's Thanksgiving" - How to calculate the duty you'll owe...
Posted in Tart Cider on October 5, 2007 06:34 PM
It takes a lot to amaze me in Canadian politics, to make me step back and say, "Wow, that's an even stupider, more insulting, more disheartening display than usual." The veiled voter fiasco was all that and more. But this...
Posted in Tart Cider on September 24, 2007 09:22 PM
There's some by-elections going on in Quebec. Y'all seem not to have noticed, based on current programming on both Newsworld and the mother network. Just thought I'd mention it....
Posted in Tart Cider on September 17, 2007 10:39 PM
I happen to believe that if a Muslim woman can vote while wearing a veil, then I should be able to vote while wearing a a Richard Nixon mask, à la Point Break. But then again, I don't believe I...
Posted in Tart Cider on September 10, 2007 05:24 PM
What, in the name of Christ, does John Tory think he's doing? Dalton McGuinty's position on religious schools is utterly incoherent, and yet Tory is actually managing to let the Premier make gains on this issue. I have no affection...
Posted in Tart Cider on September 5, 2007 11:20 PM
Ah, New Zealand - where they wear hats on their feet, hamburgers eat people, and they populate their legislature using a wacky electoral system called mixed-member proportional representation. In light of the upcoming referendum in Ontario, my latest at Macleans.ca...
Posted in Tart Cider on September 4, 2007 03:57 PM
There's been quite a bit of crowing over the "fact" that just one Canadian couple obtained a marriage licence from Toronto City Hall in the first half of 2007. This must be proof, said the usual suspects - among them...
Posted in Tart Cider on August 13, 2007 08:28 PM
In recent weeks, three notable Canadian columnists - names of Travers, Walkom and Wente - have gone on record against Canada's no-fly list on the grounds that no self-respecting terrorist would travel under his own name in the first place....
Posted in Tart Cider on June 21, 2007 12:23 AM
My boss suggests no one get too hot under the collar about any funds misspent by the No side during the 1995 referendum campaign, on account of the whole place had gone mental. I certainly don’t disagree. But assuming he...
Posted in Tart Cider on May 29, 2007 11:00 PM
"On the eve of Mother's Day, a new report from an international charity shows Canada is plunging on a scale assessing the outlook for children in the world's countries," the Canadian Press warned. "Canada's ranking has dropped from 5th to...
Posted in Tart Cider on May 12, 2007 12:54 PM
I find it very odd that no one other than Macleans.ca seems to have clued in that the NHL's Colin Campbell went on record, after Doan-gate had been resolved to the league's satisfaction, with his version of events. From Aaron...
Posted in Tart Cider on May 2, 2007 04:50 PM
Nah, they really aren't. Which is annoying. But my five-times-weekly feature at Macleans.ca now has its own permanent, bookmarkable URL, making it all the easier to spend your lunch hour perusing a frothy summary of what Canada's Megapundits - there...
Posted in Tart Cider on May 1, 2007 09:00 PM
My daily duties at Macleans.ca will henceforth include a daily roundup of columns, blogging and any other form of comment from Canada's foremost opinionistas. From Bagnall to Yaffe, from Cosh to Worthington - they'll all be there, five days a...
Posted in Tart Cider on April 24, 2007 06:44 PM
My latest at Macleans.ca is on the topic of Dalton McGuinty's aforementioned strategic weirdness on the LCBO file....
Posted in Tart Cider on April 12, 2007 12:05 AM
Let us bask in the absurd magnificence of Dalton McGuinty's latest argument against selling beer and wine - just wine and microbrews produced in-province, mind you - in Ontario convenience stores. He says, no word of a lie, that because...
Posted in Tart Cider on April 3, 2007 09:56 PM
...if you don't overdose or get hopelessly addicted, that is. So says the author of a rather interesting study suggesting - not that it comes as a huge surprise - that Canadians generally overestimate the risks of drug use and...
Posted in Tart Cider on April 3, 2007 09:25 PM
My latest at Macleans.ca concerns the nine-year-old Canadian locked up in Texas. At least one law professor thinks Canada can help, despite seemingly being hamstrung by the Safe Third Country Agreement. Officials obviously aren't saying what avenues they're exploring, but...
Posted in Tart Cider on February 28, 2007 09:33 PM
We're focus-grouping a feature over at Macleans.ca in which I, or another of our team of professional skeptics, will examine statements that strike us as amazing, improbable, or just downright odd. The first edition explores the idea that 25% of...
Posted in Tart Cider on February 25, 2007 10:22 PM
When Stéphane Dion introduced his motion in the House of Commons admonishing the government to "reconfirm Canada's commitment to honour the principles and targets of the Kyoto Protocol in their entirety," Stephen Harper pledged to simply ignore it. When Gilles...
Posted in Tart Cider on February 6, 2007 06:33 PM
...is the headline I should have come up with (instead of my editor) for my latest at Macleans.ca, on the prospect of Maher Arar pursuing legal action against media outlets or individual journalists to discover who leaked the incriminating b-s...
Posted in Tart Cider on February 5, 2007 10:41 PM
My latest at Macleans.ca, on the newest Mars-eye view characterization of bloggers....
Posted in Tart Cider on February 1, 2007 04:47 PM
It's all good over there, as I've said before. National Affairs. Bookmark it. But for my money, the pick of this week's litter is definitely Philippe Gohier's piece about the weird and wonderful people in Hérouxville, pop. 1300, aka "Quebec's...
Posted in Tart Cider on January 31, 2007 06:49 PM
On the subject of a law mandating helmets for tobogganers, I've been asked "why not?" a few times since last week. "Why?" is the far more pertinent question — for any legislation, really, and especially considering the far more dangerous...
Posted in Tart Cider on January 29, 2007 09:54 PM
Over at Macleans.ca this week, I took a deeper look at something that probably didn't need it. Should we legislate helmets for tobogganers? Answer: nah. (Before you read it, ask yourself what this means to you: "The majority of severe...
Posted in Tart Cider on January 25, 2007 10:49 PM
My latest entries at Macleans.ca: • Statistics shall stay 500 metres from journalism at all times. • When it comes to the war on drugs, ideology trumps expert evidence every time. • Outrage over Canadians murdered in Mexico is all...
Posted in Tart Cider on January 20, 2007 09:52 PM
My two latest at Macleans.ca, which you should be reading every day, and certainly not just because I'm there: • Certain people in the BC interior think maybe Vancouverites should shut up already about the calamity in Stanley Park and...
Posted in Tart Cider on January 15, 2007 09:38 PM
Most Canadians seem pretty cool with abortion so long as they don't know any of the circumstances. It's none of their business. But recently, it seems to me, as Canadians have been informed of said circumstances -- from Down syndrome...
Posted in Tart Cider on January 11, 2007 10:15 PM
In the New York Times Magazine,The World Anti-Doping Agency's Dick Pound comes clean — to my knowledge for the first time — about his allegations of drug use in the NHL: Take the ruckus he caused when he charged that...
Posted in Tart Cider on January 7, 2007 12:46 PM
I respectfully disagree with Adam Radwanski. For my money, the funniest sentence in the report comparing the toxicity of four Canadian politicians -- though I couldn't tell you why -- is as follows: "Of the four politicians, the highest number...
Posted in Tart Cider on January 3, 2007 11:22 PM
You will find my year-ending feature, "The Year in Bad Ideas," over at Macleans.ca. I think it's kinda fun. Part I — Joe Volpe through weeing on the National War Memorial — is up. Part II — the NDP's Afghanistan...
Posted in Tart Cider on December 26, 2006 12:01 AM
"To bring in legislation to allow the sale and distribution of raw milk would be tantamount to manslaughter and taking Ontario back to the Dark Ages." That's one of my quotes of the year thus far, courtesy of the Globe...
Posted in Tart Cider on December 11, 2006 08:56 PM
Over at Macleans.ca, I have taken a shot at a few questions that don't get asked much amidst all our hand-wringing about dual citizens in Lebanon, in Stornoway, and everywhere in between: Why do we have dual citizenship in the...
Posted in Tart Cider on December 7, 2006 08:41 PM
If you're interested in wry observations on the Liberal convention, along with the occasional incisive nugget, be sure to check out the Maclean's Campaign Blog. If you're interested in cutting-edge analysis of the Liberal convention, be sure to check out...
Posted in Tart Cider on December 1, 2006 10:07 PM
There's this: Harper said the issue of Quebec's nationhood should not be decided by the federal government but by the Quebec legislation. However, he said the Bloc has forced the government to take a position. And then there's this: Conservative...
Posted in Tart Cider on November 22, 2006 10:44 PM
"Bailey" wins the cupie doll for spotting me over at Macleans.ca. You'll find me there until they think better of it, and I urge you to drop by every day for all kinds of hot content from the Macleans.ca team....
Posted in Tart Cider on November 14, 2006 10:06 PM
It's kinda funny that this Douglas Davis continues to be presented in the National Post as "a member of the Middle East Writers' Group" when, as Google, numerous news databases, and Paul Wells hilariously show, he appears to have made...
Posted in Tart Cider on August 29, 2006 09:07 PM
American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan, Jean-Daniel Lafond's (that is, the Governor General's husband's) documentary that has reignited the debate about his appropriateness for Rideau Hall, cannot fairly be called an anti-American film. I have to wonder if its critics...
Posted in Tart Cider on May 3, 2006 11:16 PM
The (I hope) final dispatch from Macleans' guest harridan recaps all the horrors that now await Canada under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. It's the same brand of nonsense she's been peddling from the start, but in reading it I will...
Posted in Tart Cider on January 24, 2006 06:08 PM
"Canadians don't like George Bush and the far-right coalition that brought him to power." "Canadians cherish medicare." "Canadians don't want nuclear weapons in space." "Canadians value our public health care system, a peacekeeping role for our armed services, the CBC,...
Posted in Tart Cider on January 22, 2006 11:00 PM
Hypothetical situation: "Mr. Prime Minister, the Supreme Court just handed down a Charter ruling striking down Criminal Code provisions against polygamy--a development widely foreseen when your government abandoned the common-law definition of marriage. Will you invoke the notwithstanding clause to...
Posted in Tart Cider on January 14, 2006 12:18 PM
I'm going to buck a trend here and say that if some two-bit cow-tipping Senator from Montana wants to believe that some or all of the 9/11 terrorists got into the US via Canada, we should go ahead and let...
Posted in Tart Cider on December 20, 2005 09:32 PM
Now this is a blogging tag-up deal I can get behind: One takes the fifth sentence of one's 23rd ever blog entry and uses it as the first sentence of a short fiction-type thinger. Thanks to Kate for tagging me....
Posted in Tart Cider on November 15, 2005 08:19 PM
A very interesting sexual discrimination case in the UK has splattered egg on the face of Patricia Hewitt, who has become Health Secretary since these events took place: Mr [Malcolm] Hanney, a Bath and North East Somerset councillor, was interviewed...
Posted in Tart Cider on October 13, 2005 11:08 PM
Paul Jackson, fabulist: By "taking out" one couldn't be sure if Robertson meant putting a bullet into Chavez or financing a coup to oust him. One certainly could: You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if...
Posted in Tart Cider on September 7, 2005 09:31 PM
What the hell is this supposed to mean? Conservative leader Stephen Harper's efforts to improve his image apparently doesn't [sic] extend to Canada's gay community.Despite being in the Toronto-area [sic] today, Harper won't be attending the city's Gay Pride Parade....
Posted in Tart Cider on June 26, 2005 03:43 PM