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1. Have you seen that stupid stupid stupid ad for McDonalds? The one where the idiotic woman, out on a date in an obviously good restaurant, asks the waiter if she can have a burger in a box with a yellow M on it? All the while her poor companion wants to crawl under the table, and who can blame him? So McDonalds - is your point that all your customers are as boorish, rude and uncouth as this

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1. Most interesting politician to watch over the next year - Premier Danny Williams of Newfoundland. His deep and intense dislike of Stephen Harper will play a role in the next federal election. It says here he will be very effective in skewering the Alliance.2. Most under rated politician federally - Elizabeth May. She will play a pivotal role in the upcoming election. If she supports Dion's

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The Harpoon who heads the band of idiots that passes for Canada's federal government right now could learn a thing or two from Barack Obama. In fact, Harpoon could learn from grade school kids but there's no chance of that - he doesn't listen and he doesn't believe anyone knows better than him on anything. I thought Trudeau was arrogant - and he was - but at least he had some reason to be, unlike

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Hard to be grumpy with the McGuinty mini shuffle this week. Putting pit bull George Smitherman in charge of nuclear power and infrastructure was an astute move. I'll take odds this keeps George at Queen's Park and out of City Hall, where the field is not nearly large enough for his talents anyway. Who in their right mind wants to be part of something with Rob Ford, George Mamaliti and Frances

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All three provincial party leaders were in the news this weekend and all three reminded me of why they are where they are.Dalton McGuinty got 95.4% support from his Liberal Party to continue on with his leadership unchallenged.John Tory joined hapless federal finance minister Jim Flawerty in calling for tax hikes to solve Ontario's economic challenges.Howard Hampton resigned as leader of the NDP,

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Interesting comment from Mound of Sound, who says he was a member of the working press up to the late 70s. His comments on the so-called journalists we have now are bang on. They can't write, they seldom think and when they do think it's all about them - not about the story.There are only two papers in Toronto that are even worth bothering about - The Globe and the Star. The Sun is laughable in

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I never expected much from the Harper government. The more I watched the press pack try to convince Canadians during the last election campaign that he was brilliant, the more convinced I was that he was a disaster waiting to happen. Turns out I'm right and the press is wrong.Wouldn't ya think guys who travelled the campaign trail with him would have spent enough time around him to know better?

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Stephen Harper's Achilles heel is his bad judgement. His lack of understanding of the world's political realities is dangerous. His embrace of the Dalai Lama has resulted in frosty relations with China - worse than they've ever been. His passion and support for George Bush is embarrassing. The only leader he forged any personal rapport with is Australia's former prime minister, who was thrown out

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A couple of comments from readers: Anonymous corrects me that Brad Wall is premier of Saskatchewan, not Brian Wall. Point taken - the least I can do is get the guy's name right. And Marc's nose is out of joint because I referred to the Saskatchewan Party as PCs. They are called the Saskatchewan Party because the three Liberals in the Saskatchewan Party were outvoted when it came time to choose a

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This past week a dusty video stuck in a corner and overlooked by the PCs when they vacated the Opposition offices in Regina was played by the new residents of the Opposition members' offices in the Saskatchewan Legislature, the NDP.On the tape were some virulent homophobic statements by Tom Lukiwski and Brian Wall, new premier of Saskatchewan.The Liberals, Block and NDP have all been after

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The Prime Minister's supreme arrogance and disdain for matters of concern to large numbers of Canadians was perfectly encapsulated Saturday night when he ignored the Earth Hour and had rooms at 22 Sussex Place blazing with lights, as was the Prime Minister's office on Parliament Hill - on a Saturday night, no less.From accounts across the country, he seems one of the few political leaders who did

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Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan kicked the crap out of Federal Finance Idiot Jim Flawerty on Tuesday when he brought in a provincial budget that was a model of how good governments do business.Canada was treated to the spectacle of a federal finance minister who at the very least is immature and irresponsible and at the worst is in need of psychiatric care. Flawerty took the unprecedented

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So Elliott Spitzer shacked up with a call girl in Washington and is now the former governor of New York.There's been a lot of chatter that his wife shouldn't have stood by his side when he fessed up but should have booted his tail out the door of their home and left him to fend for himself.A bunch of questions. What the hell is the FBI doing trying to entrap a politician? Prostitution is not a

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The Orangeville Citizen has written an editorial suggesting Harpoon or McGuinty should now help out John Tory by getting him into the Pink Palace with all haste. It suggests either man appoint someone like Jim Wilson to an agency, board or commission to open up the safe Tory seat of Simcoe-Grey.The article builds its case for Wilson and then concludes by saying:"We're sure that suitable openings

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A perfect example that it isn't just politicians who can be absolutely stupid beyond belief is the case of Ryerson University student Chris Avenir, an 18-year old first year student who is facing expulsion from the university for cheating.Avenir's crime? He ran a Facebook site for fellow computer engineering classmates where they could discuss assignments and help each other out. Were these tests

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John Tory is a glutton for punishment. Having been defeated personally in Don Valley West by Education Minister Kathleen Wynne, and having been raked over the coals by almost everybody during the election for his ill-conceived faith-based funding proposition, Tory nevertheless has waded into the education field again. He and his Burlington MPP Joyce Savoline have fired a broadside against

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Martin was on the far periphery of the sponsorship scandal. Harpoon is up to his eyebrows in the attempted bribery of the late Chuck Cadman and may be at least an accessory after the fact.What a sleeze ball picture of the desperate Alliance in action, so slavering at the mouth in their lust for power that they try to bribe a dying man with $1 million in insurance if he'll switch his vote. In the

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A whole lot of nonsense has been spouted about Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer who took the life of his severely disabled daughter. In spite of the clamor of misguided disability rights activists, the original jury strongly recommended clemency and a sentence of no more than a year. The judge agreed but was hamstrung by a law which compelled him to hand down a minimum sentence of 10 years

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Sandra Pupatello is one tough politican, blunt, often abrasive and not afraid to call it as she sees it. Dalton McGuinty is a different breed but anyone who thinks he lacks steel hasn't been paying attention.The two of them are taking on Flaherty and Harpoon in a battle of economic philosophies and it's an unfair fight. The Ontario team brings intelligence and facts to the table. The Alliance

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There's a female in Saskatchewan called Kate McMillan who writes a blog called Small Dead Animals - the Roadkill Diaries. The column deserves an award for the most appropriate name of any blog anywhere in the world.This person takes pride in calling herself a Conservative blogger. Given the odious, juvenile crap she writes, if I was a Conservative I'd sue to stop her using the name. I'm not a

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Maya Angelou is an American treasure, a Black woman who fought through the devastation of a tragic and abusive childhood that left her unable to speak for many years. She is a woman of deep insight, tremendous intelligence, a poet and author whose work offers insight and wisdom in almost every sentence and verse.It was with great anticipation, therefore that I tuned in to see CBC News Sunday

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John Snobelen was the perfect minister of education in the Mike Harris government. A high school drop out who has trouble keeping three facts in order, who has never had to worry about logical thought because he doesn't think, and a guy who basically believes, as did the rest of his ilk, that rules apply to everyone but him. That last trait left him free to go off horseback riding and ranching

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I'm not much into predicting the future. That's a mug's game with none of us having any clue as to what the future has in store for us individually.Predicting the future of a city or a province or a country is a little different because it will be here, regardless of fate's fickle finger, which points primarily at individuals, rather than entities. With that caveat in mind, a bit of a look

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Jonathon has his knickers in a twist (see his comment on yesterday's blog) because 1. the CBC should be neutral 2. the CBC is a Liberal tool, which is wrong 3. the CBC should not be asking politicians questions unless in a neutral way 4. questions given to the Liberals were meant to embarrass Mulroney and the Alliance, and, 5. the CBC promotes its far left leanings.A whole lot of codswollop in

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Spare a tear for the Alliance party that is federally trying to raise money for the coming election. Among the horse manure spouted by the party's president, Doug Finley was this incredible statement "the Liberals have long benefitted from the support of the country's most powerful vested interests." True. Conrad Black was a vigorous supported and donor. Must have given $10 or $15 at one time in

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I'm fascinated by the narrowness and meanness of the right wingers who worship at the feet of Harpoon and the Alliance.Came across another blog by some airhead who styles herself as 'the crux of the matter'. She should wish. The latest thing to get the Harris butt worshippers in a snit is that the Toronto school board is considering splitting into two or more smaller boards.The real reason she's

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Sometimes when you ignore them for awhile the morons just dig themselves in deeper.I am rationing my exposure to Harpoon and the Alliance in the interests of lower blood pressure and a happier existence. Why waste time on a group that doesn't matter anyway? John Baird, the fey Minister of the Environment, blew his political brains out in Bali. His ignorance was impossible to hide in a conference

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The NDP, particularly Jack Layton and mouthy spouse Olivia Chow, love to claim the NDP is the only party with scruples and morals and true caring about people. Chow is particularly odious in trying to paint herself as a champion of the people in the party that cares. The two of them never miss a chance to shove their mugs in front of a camera to pose as the people you can love when politics

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Some politicians seem determined to demonstrate beyond any doubt that they are indeed stupid, unable to string together coherent thoughts and so far out of their depth as to be drowning in the turgid waters of ignorance.George Mammoliti is a perfect example. The pea brained city councillor said Thursday the city should call in the army to help combat gang violence. How? Mammoliti has no idea. He

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Warren Kinsella is plumping Pinball Clemons for mayor of Toronto. Holy crap Warren - take an aspirin and lie down and maybe this will pass quickly. Let's hope so.I am not a big fan of Pinball Clemons. I don't dislike the man - I like his enthusiasm and positive approach to life. He knows football and as a player and as a coach he was full value for his money. He did not stand out above other

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Wilson and Manuel are right in their comments about the levels of government and what powers have been assigned to each (to the feds and the provinces) by the various pieces of legislation that created Canada. The powers given to cities is given to them by the provinces.I agree that most people have little understanding of this, including many of the turkeys that are elected at every level. And

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Harpoon breezed through Toronto at the end of the week, basically thumbed his nose at 4 million Ontarians and left town, looking smug and self satisfied for having made it clear his minimalist vision of government was intact.What are we to make of a prime minister who prides himself on being a policy wonk, and who's ambition is to be known as an outstanding leader who leads the country to new

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Well-known Liberal supporter Hal Jackman has joined the throngs of people across Canada who are repulsed by Harpoon's booting of Mark Warner out of the Party. Jackman, who of course has never ever been a Tory supporter, was so angry about the Party's treatment of Warner that he phoned news media outlets yesterday in a rage about interference in Toronto Centre Rosedale's selection of a

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The thing about tories is they can't stand the truth, as witnessed by the two morons who responded to yesterday's deluge of bad news for them. The fact that they responded with not one single point to refute the article says it all - when you can't deny the message, try shooting the messanger. Well, tough, girls. If you didn't like yesterday's column, today's is even worse for you.Here, in the

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This Star editorial says it all.Stephan Dion is letting Harpoon and his band of slime ball slugs get away with the worst government we have had in Ottawa since John Diefenbaker. Harpoon's rancid record reeks of rotten right wing drek. On top of all the sins outlined in the Star article, Harpoon is refusing to let two candidates run for the Party because they have strayed from Party policy. One

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The question? Name a dinausor and an idiot who together are the Ontario Liberal government's best friends.Snobolen - you remember the guy who created a crisis in education so he could fix it? The yahoo who roamed around Wyoming riding cows while being paid to be an MPP who was supposed to attend sessions at Queen's Park? The guy who can't pass an IQ test when they give him all the answers? Yeah -

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David Miller got his new taxes yesterday.With a lot of trade unionists and other supporters filling the galleries to give the pro mayor side some spine, the land transfer and car taxes went through.Someone was quoted in the Toronto Star as asking why he should have to pay car taxes so that peoiple in the outlying areas can come in to Toronto for free and clog our roads? Damn good question and

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Tell me I heard it wrong. Tell me Harpoon is not building a press centre, to be controlled by government in order to allow the government to control all aspects of the news! At how many millions? I thought only in George Bush's America would people lie down as doormats. Who knew Canadians would turn the same blind eye to the same kind of crap here that they have spent eight years living through

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As expected, McGuinty romped home with a solid majority. As expected, John Tory fell on his sword, or his sword fell on him - whichever.By election night the only really interesting question was whether Tory could defeat Kathleen WYnne in Don Valley West. Wow!!! Beat him? She bloody buried him.I am not surprised. Wynne is probably the most underrated politician in the province. Four years ago the

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So who the hell is Mike Van Soelen? This is the name to call if you want to get more information on just about the most desperate press release we've seen yet out of the Tory Tories.Van Soelen issued a press release today claiming Kathleen Wynne has "shunned Dalton McGuinty" by "erasing any trace of Dalton McGuinty from her campaign literature."You can't make this up folks - it's so stupid no one

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Back in April, John Tory looked like a probable future premier. People liked him and trusted him and his judgment.Where did it all go so wrong? Tory came into the leadership riding a white horse, representing truth, honor, fairness, and square shooting. We could trust this clean cut boy scout with our future, secure in the knowledge he would always do what was right and decent and sensible and

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So let's talk about broken promises.The man whining the most about broken promises is John Tory. So let's see how he's doing in keeping his own promises.When John ran for the leadership of his party he said he thought there needed to be a new civility in the way politicians conducted themselves.That would be nice.So how's John doing? 1. He's been impugning the Premier's honesty for months,

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John Tory did his best last night to present Dalton McGuinty as a man with no plan. Coming from "One note Johnny", it didn't cut much ice with viewers.Tory's major challenge is that he has one central campaign idea: he'll divert funds from the public education system to fund private religious schools. That's an idea that has infuriated about 70% of the voters. As one old geezer wheezed yesterday

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Man o' man - if every PC supporter I've talked to does what they say they will do, some Liberal candidates in this provincial election will win in gigantic landslides. Others will just win as Tory votes melt like the snow on a hot June day. Funding private religious schools has cost Tory hugely. But then the doofus goes and questions the integrity of teachers administering the provincial tests,

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Dalton McGuinty announced Wednesday his government would introduce all-day kindergarten for students who need it.John Tory announced Wednesday he'd allow publicly funded private religious schools to teach creationism.Tory, in scrambling ignominiously back from the brink of the chasm he has put himself on, grumbled that his education policy is only a quarter of a page in a 52-page document.You

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Unbelievable.Yesterday John Tory accused teachers and school boards in Ontario of rigging the provincial test scores.What an extraordinary thing for him to say. With not one shred of proof, not one iota of evidence, he has just called everyone in education a bunch of lying, test-rigging cheats.This nice man, who promised us he was different? Mike Harris' soul mate. Both are mean, dismissive and

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The holidays were great, thank you for asking, but nothing much has changed, I see, over the last couple of weeks in Ontario .The Tories are holding firm to their promise to fund private religious schools. How stupid is that, especially since John Tory's former boss, Premier Bill Davis, managed to rile the hell out of voters when he extended public funding to Catholic secondary schools? What

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The Grump is heading out on holidays, and damn well about time. Time to get away from all the political crap, cosy up to a nice fishing hole and live as the good Lord intended.For the next couple of weeks I don't intend to lift anthing heavier than a beer or a book. I'm going to fish, play poker with my pards periodically and mostly just take it slow and easy.I hope you all have a great time. I

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So three American states are considering making sex perverts use green license plates on their cars. Ohio, Alabama and Wisconsin say they are considering such a law because it is a public safety tool.I don't why the Yanks are so timid. Why don't they just paint a target on a guy's face and back and leave it at that? Why futz around with green license plates? Natural selection comes into play in

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Hands up if you need proof that politicians either lie through their teeth or are so dumb they can't make decisions the guy in the street could make in his sleep.Take the Arar case. It is clear beyond doubt that CSIS officials were fully aware that the US intended to send Arar off to a foreign government where he would be tortured. A Canadian agency allowed a Canadian citizen to have his rights

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That's all we need. Some whacko movement to get bloggers into a union, get health benefits, press credentials etc.Story in today's Toronto Star lays it all out on page 2. It appears to be a movement arising more from the American left than the American right. No surprise there. But some people are actually taking it seriously. The president of the National Writers Union, a local of the United

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The Iodomo summer safari commercials. The dork in the beard has to have the worst voice anywhere on the tube. I’m looking for a leather sofa right now – and although Idomo was on my list of stores, it ain’t no more. The possibility I might run into this twit settled that issue really quickly. Likewise, I’ve never gone to Bad Boy – it was bad enough we had Lastman as a mayor for a gazillion years.

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I accidentally tuned in to the Mike Coren show tonight. It was a fluke and I was on my way to a baseball channel when suddenly Peter Kormos and Kathleen Wynne and this swarthy looking character in a blue suit, blue shirt and blue tie, filled the screen. Turns out he's a Tory - his gang colors gave him away!I have managed to remain out of the orbit of Tim Hudak. He belongs to the troglodytes in

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John Tory, the leader of the big blue machine, who's running against Kathleen Wynne in Don Valley, should ask Wynne to recommend a political science prof to him who could teach him about who does what.John ran off at the mouth several days ago saying Dalton McGuinty is to blame for the hand gun problem because he hasn't taken enough steps "to stem the flow of illegal handguns into Canada from the

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John Tory has been uncharacteristically silent on the the great cookie caper, otherwise known as the less than smart statement from Warren Kinsella that MPP Lisa MacLeod probably wished she were home baking cookies rather than being forced to share a stage with Randy Hillier. Hillier, of course, is the misogynist dinosaur who's the right wing Tory candidate who repulses and terrifies many Tories

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Geeze what a week. Could have done without most of it. Time for some laughs. Herewith, some I've enjoyed, starting with the cartoon above, which made me laugh out loud. Happy Saturday/Sunday from GrumpyAn English professor wrote these words:"A woman without her man is nothing" on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.All of the males in the class wrote: "A woman,

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So Mike Colle has resigned and the provincial auditor found he was not corrupt or dishonet but he was lousy at process.Thank heavens for that. I'm fed up to the teeth with dishonest, lying, amoral politicians. We have more than enough of them and it's good to know Colle isn't one of them.Mike isn't the sharpest mind at QP, by a country mile. But he is a decent man who has served his community

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As the Afghanistan debacle sinks ever further into the quamire, Harpoon's questionable judgment and political posturing is coming home to roost. That's the growing realization of many Canadians, except, of course, the right wing nuts the CBC has on its At Issue panel. David Bercusson, a silly, pompous political teacher at the U of Calgary, deer in the headlights Kady O'Malley of Macleans, Don

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Things are going from worse to absolutely rotten for John Tory.Put in a huge bind by Mike Harris' education philosophy (and any linkage between Harris and philosophy is an oxymoron before you even get started) and the rabid determination of the radical right wing that still holds his Party in a vice grip, Tory has searched desperately for some way out. Education remains an issue of overiding

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Memo to David Miller - downsize your ginormous council. It is the absolute definition of disfunctional. Why do you need 44 councillors? Ridiculous. Everyone else, MP and MPP, and even school trustees for cripes sake, represent an entire riding. How come you bozos need 44? And school trustees, who have more work to do than most councillors, make do in Toronto with about $20,000 for a part-time

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A note about loss: Toronto suffered two gigantic losses this week when Ed Mirvish and Bluma Appel died. Although very very different individuals and personalities, they had this in common - both were immensely generous with their time and their talent and their money; both were always about other people and their community and not about themselves; both were classy individuals who made everyone

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Some days you just know the universe is going to dump all over you. You can feel it in your bones and you know sometime today, somewhere, you're going to take a shit kicking.I was trolling through my Ottawa Citizen edition from Saturday (July 14 this year, smart ass, and who sez ya gotta read it immediately? Where is that written?)- so Saturday's edition and damn if I didn't come across John

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John Tory made a fascinating statement today. Standing in front of a school in Mississauga he declared: "Not too long ago, many of us remember our local schools doubled as important centres in our community. Countless Ontario adults remember going to Boy or Girl Scout meetings, neighbourhood events or things like that at the local school."That we did John. But you must have been out of the

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News of Belinda Stronach's battle against breast cancer became public today. Surgery is now behind her and Grumpy joins all Canadians in wishing her a complete victory over the big C. The reports that have been made public make her chances look very good thus far. Stronach has taken her shots in the public arena and done so without complaint. When she ditched the Tories and joined the Liberals,

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Four years ago a shining star, now an object of derision, David Miller need look no further than the Support Our Troops decal debacle at Toronto City Hall to understand why he will be a two-term mayor and no more.In a breath-taking display of crass politics and weasel words that only Olivia and Jack could outdo, Miller turned 180 degrees in less than 24 hours from a determined decision to strip

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Stephen Harper's completely inept bunch of pinheads needs to be shown the door and the sooner the better for all Canadians.For years people have assumed Harper was bright - rigid and red-necked and to the right of Ghengis Khan but still reasonably bright. On the evidence he is not. No one can be called bright who tolerates ministers who are not on top of their brief. Check MacKay admits 6 Afghan

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Harpoon - get your boneheaded defense minister on a leash. Pay the funeral costs for Lincoln and Laurie Dinning's son who was killed in Afghanistan. Your cheap penny pinching minister has stiffed grief stricken Canadian parents and left them with thousands of dollars of funeral expenses your "NEW" government promised to cover. It's bad enough Canadian men and women are dying in a war the country

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The Harpoon is at it again. A story in the May 28th edition of The Hill Times, outlines the ham-handed heavy-fisted efforts of Prime Minister Harpoon to muzzle the press. Threats to arrest them. Turfing print journalists from a helicopter and allowing only a couple of photographers along on the visit to Afghanistan.Nothing new - just the same old snot nosed sneering at everyone who doesn't fawn

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A 15-year old youngster lies dead tonight, shot and killed in a Toronto high school.Ten years ago, when that young boy was starting elementary school, Mike Harris was gleefully putting the boots to education in Ontario. Stripped from school funding were all the frills like community service workers, youth workers, conflict resolution workers. In its place we got zero tolerance. Kid's a problem?

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Has anyone ever bothered more people and got up more noses recently than Warren Kinsella?If you read some of the blogs you’d think this guy was evil incarnate. So he sues people. When was that no longer a right for Canadians who feel they’ve been unfairly besmirched? So he’s outspoken. I support anyone who blows the whistle on anti-Semites (no, I’m not Jewish), racists and other scum bags who

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I think Stephane Dion should be pressing for a federal election as soon as possible. Why?1. The Tory's are turning everything they touch to rat poop.2. Harper has lost so much credibility he's pulling the old "fly to the front lines and be photographed with the troops." Didn't work for Bush and won't work for him.3. The party is mired in scandals - not outrageously big ones, just the kind that

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Linda Frump's ga-ga interview with Peter MacKay in Saturday's National Pisser should be mandatory reading for all journalism students. It's a perfect example of what happens when your political philosophy collides with reality and your philosophy carries the day. Her puffball questions are an embarrassment, almost as big an embarrassment as the young man himself, who is clearly in over his head

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Olivia Chow's latest political claptrap landed in mailboxes this weeks. It is a "special federal budget edition" that has 5 pictures on 4 pages, all of her. Mixed in with her unbound and shameless ego are ludicrous claims about Chow "in action" and her great contribution to Canadians. On page 2 she warns advertisers to "Leave our kids alone." Never having met a bandwagon that she doesn't leap on

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In response to questions about the Tory ad for a candidate in the Kingston Whig Standard, it was rerun beside a front page story on May 9 by Brock Harrison. The ad ran in the paper on April 18 on page 14, lumped in with car ads, mortgage ads etc. The ad is headed: The Progressive Conservative Party of Kingston and the Islands and it continues "Would like to hear from people interested in running

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He's a liar, he's a bully and now we find out Steven Harper's a goddam cry baby who stoops to using Canadian troops killed in Afghanistan as political protection for himself. Yesterday in Petawawa Stephen Harper told military families and personnel that heroism in the war has been overshadowed by the squabbling in the Commons and he made the unbelievable claim that "“Last month, nine soldiers

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How did a nice guy like this ever get saddled with the likes of Randy Hillier and Frank Klees, to name only two?How did an intelligent guy like this get saddled with promises to fund private schools while cutting taxes and promising to do more for public education?How did a guy like this end up calling a press conference on community safety in Thorncliffe Park in Toronto and one cop, one black

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Quebec politics is not for the rational or healthy. The PQ (translation - the Pretty Quirky Party)has now thrown another leader overboard because it couldn't stand the truth. Nothing more to be said about this sorry assed gang of right wing nutbars.In Ottawa, Stevie Wonder has the RCMP clap irons on an employee in the environment ministry and haul his ass out the door and into the street. Why?

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Tiny Tim Peterson didn't make much of an impact in 3.5 years at Queens Park and he's a 15-minutes-of-fame footnote for leaving the Liberals and slithering over to the Tories. This is not an A list politician. You won't find him on B or C lists either. And the betting here is he won't make a Tory cabinet either, if there is one.Question is "who needs a white male having a mid life crisis because

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A couple of weeks off and everything goes to rat poop. Garth Turner is a Liberal. Stephen Harper thinks there will be a testimonial for him by environmentalists in 10 or 15 years. Jack Layton thinks the NDP will win more seats in the next election. The Tories think negative ads about Dion 15 months before an election is a good use of money. Somebody has been spiking the water with goofy dust.Have

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TWO GREAT ANNOUNCEMENTS this week so how good is that?First, Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled a $2.5 million pilot project Thursday aimed at monitoring and documenting wait times for childrens' surgeriesThe next day, the brain dead minister of public safety, Stockwell Day, announced the federal government is investing $431 million over the next five years to reinforce border safety.Now

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Warren Kinsella wrote yesterdat about Saddam Hussein's hanging and how he couldn't tear his eyes away. He also puts forth the fact that people stop to look at accident scenes and that Youtube is proof positive that people are not repelled by violence, but are, rather, attracted to it.I like Warren. He's astute, literate and a keen observer of human behaviour. I think he is right about what he is

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The world's oldest newspaper stopped printing January 1, 2007 and henceforth will be published only on the Internet. The Post Och Inrikes Tidningar, the official Swedish publication for bankruptcies and corporate and government announcements, has been published daily since 1645. The former paper can be found on the Web site of the Swedish Companies Registration Office. Publishing for 362

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Happy New Year all.This being the time of looking ahead, I thought I'd add my two cents worth to predictions as to what 2007 will hold.1.The Leafs will not win the Stanley Cup, the Raptors won't win the NBA and the Jays will not win the World Series. The Argos will not win the Grey Cup either. 2. The environment will continue to dog Harper and be a strength for Stephane Dion. But since3. there

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With Christmas and Boxing Day behind us, I was musing on what lies ahead politically, although first I found myself constantly thinking back for context. It struck me, in particular, how many false political cliches continue to breath in the face of irrefutable proof that they are wrong.For example, the Tories are good managers of both government and the economy. People on Bay Street are bred

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I am decidedly not grumpy about the Queen. Watched her Christmas message today and thought it was good sense well said. Then tonight I watched the BBC production of The Queen at 80.Imagine at the tender age of 25 ascending to the throne of England and the Commonwealth and promising always to do your duty and to devote your life to the service of the Commonwealth. And 55 years later, she has kept

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Leah McLaren has a column in the Globe and Mail. Time was, when the Thompsons ruled the roost, the Globe knew how to get a dime's worth of value out of a nickel. Bell Globemedia pays McLaren, so we can now say they know how to take a nickel's worth of nothing and pay in the high 5 figures for it. And if she gets in the six figures, sell all Bell and Globe stock immediately. Latest example was her

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Best comment seen on a blog this week - "Stockwell Day, the first Minister of Public Safety to lack a cerebral cortex." By The Frog Lady, who's wicked posts often are hysterically funny. And if that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about Stock, nothin' will.Not worth the effort: The crazy rants of Samantha Burns. She's right. She's crazy and she rants. Neither funny nor insightful nor

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Let me declare up front I don't much care for hockey. I gave up on the pro game sometime during the nauseating reign of Harold Ballard and I've never been back. While Sandra Schmerler was alive I watched women's curling and it was like taking a hot shower with sweet smelling soap. Watching athletes dedicated to their sport, busting their butts to win and playing with class and good sportsmanship,

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Jennifer Bernier has issued a strong statement in French saying she did not write the email I received yesterday, that she does support Jack Layton and that she is the victim of identity heft. OK. I'll buy that. If I'm Jack, I'm still worried. Some savvy cookie is out there raining on my leadership parade._______________________________________________So the pistol packin' Vancouver school

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Interesting email today from Jennifer Bernier, President of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue NDP. She wants Jack Layton gone and a new leader chosen in the next five months to be ready for the next election. Why?1. Loss of credibility2. Scripted leadership3. No lasting campaigns4. Issue-less elections5. Ineffective Opposition6. Uninvolved membership7. New leaders emerging8. Dion9. Centralized

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Well, Harper is now trumpeting an elected Senate. So the election will be held when?Geeze, is there no end to the crap from this guy? He can't do an elected Senate without a constitutional change but that doesn't stop Harpo. Screw the details and crap all over the legalities, what Harpo wants bosses all.Never mind we haven't the foggiest idea how such a change would impact on our government. Two

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Interesting news yesterday. Williams-Sonoma, Dell Computers and Victoria's Secret all announced that they will use more paper in their catalogues that is either recycled or from sustainably managed forests. Dell has already hit its 2009 target of 50% recycled content in its marketing materials.Victoria's Secret promises that by the end of 2007 its more than 350,000,000 catalogues will contain at

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I like him. No his English is not great. But he's endearing. And earnest. And attractive. And smart. Very smart. Doggedly determined. What's not to like?He is not charasmatic as Trudeau was but as Trudeau fit the 60s, Dion fits the 00s. Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green Party, gave him high praise yesterday, saying he was not part of the Liberal scandals and that if the ReformTories try to

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Stephan Dion. Well why not? He won it fair and square and save me from these 30-year-old and up children moaning about how they will never recover their shattered illusions. What the bloody hell - isn't there a grown-up index people have to reach before they're allowed into the process?For weeks the papers have been full of speculation about Kennedy and Dion meeting and Rae and Dion meeting and

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Nice win by Glen Pearson and an excellent showing by Elaine May in the London Byelection on Nov 27. It's foolish to read much into a byelection but a win is always better than a loss. If the byelection means anything it probably means:1. Canadians are fed up with negative Nellie's, negative campaigning, and the bashing of individuals and groups. 2. The New Democrats have past their best-before

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Michael Chong resigned his federal seat today as Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of Sport.The young MP from Wellington-Halton Hills quit rather than support the government's motion to recognize the Quebecois as a nation in Canada.In words that may someday be as famous and as widely quoted in this country as Kennedy and Lincoln are quoted in the US, he said: "To me, recognizing

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That's the title of an HBO documentary I stumbled last (Friday) night. It is an incredible story about how the Black Box voting system, powered primarily by boxes from Diebold Corporation, have completely screwed up voting results in the US, including electing Bush twice when he probably lost both times.It is a chilling tale and the most remarkable part of it is that many people are aware of the

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What in the world can one say about Stephen bloody Harper and his unbelievable Quebec is a Nation motion? A lot of words and phrases come to mind, most unprintable. He and Ignatieff - where do these arrogant pricks come from and why us, oh Lord, why us? Why not visit them on the US where they would be an improvement - a huge improvement - over Bush. But why us? Is it because we aren't voting in

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There is something truly offensive about the revelation last week that the Prime Minister's communications director has asked staff in all ministers' offices to rate their boss on his or her ability to handle communications.People have leapt to the defense of Sandra Buckler, the staffer who ordered the spy job in which everyone involved in the secret evaluation was to report directly back to her.

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Joe Fontana's seat of London North Centre is up for grabs in the byelection set for November 27, 2006. Dianne Haskett, the Muslim-hating, homophobic former mayor who has just returned from six years of worship at the knees of Bush Republicans in Washington, is running for the Conservatives. Is it too much to hope that a city with a great university and that has been represented by honorable

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