Last month, the world lost a true hero in Rosa Parks. But as our editor, Emily, pointed out, you wouldn’t know it from reading today’s Canadian newspapers. It was fifty years ago that Parks refused to give up her bus seat, prompting her arrest, a reaction of outrage from the black community, and the birth […] More »
In presenting his party’s platform yesterday, Gilles Duceppe said he wants Quebec to have its own hockey team in international competition. If ever there was a reason to worry about the Bloc Quebecois, this is it. I’ve often wondered how Team Quebec would fare against Team Canada, and I daresay it wouldn’t be pretty. In […] More »
Here’s a bizarre report on the contentious Liberal riding association meeting in Etobicoke Lakeshore last night, in which Michael Ignatieff was acclaimed over the protests of two local Liberals who also sought the nomination, but were apparently not allowed to stand on the ballot. Check out the full story in the Toronto Star. A couple […] More »
The 2005 Canadian Blog Awards are being voted on right now, with dozens of nominees in 15 categories. Nominees who have been mentioned here at Blog This include: Inkless Wells, Warren Kinsella, mblog, Calgary Grit and Antonia Zerbisias. My own personal favourites include Torontoist for Best Group Blog and Daily Dose of Imagery for Best […] More »
Day one of the campaign aaannnnd… the Tories would re-open the debate on same sex marriage, according to this front pager in the Globe this morning. Try, at least, to win, Mr. Harper. Not that I want you to win, but for your own sense of pride, please try to win. More »
Today’s MediaScout column from Maisonneuve magazine implores the country’s news reporters to resist the urge to perpetuate a negative campaign this winter: “MediaScout would like to issue a challenge to each and every journalist who will be covering this campaign. If you actually care about the interests of Canadians, if you actually value the role […] More »
I just caught Deb Gray, Carolyn Parrish, Daniel Turp, and Buzz Hargrove doing the usual partisan panelist thing on The Current. The winners: Grey and Turp. Loser: Parrish. Huge loser: Hargrove. Turp won largely because his favoured party, the BQ, is sitting at 53% in the Queb polls and is going to come close to […] More »
Please use the comments section of this post for all Grey Cup wooohooing. You may also use it to wooohooo w/r/t hockey results, non-confidence motions, and any other pressing matters of local, national, or international importance. More »
Oh boy, and I live in this riding. Looks like Harvard boy Michael Ignatieff is being parachuted into Etobicoke-Lakeshore by the Liberals. Hmmmm, I was walking the lakeshore just yesterday and I DID see an ominous black helicopter hovering, but thought nothing of it at the time. From a press release on Warren Kinsella’s blog: […] More »
Cap in hand, Vancouver Olympic organizers are considering going to the federal and provincial governments for more money to build Olympic venues. Like many large projects in B.C., it looks like this one is going to go over budget… and it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s late, too. Here’s my favourite quote from the story: […] More »
Black, who in a speech four years ago called his Canadian citizenship an “impediment to my progress in another, more amenable jurisdiction (Britain),” now contends the government should grant his request because his parents were born in Canada. I say let him have his citizenship back. In fact, I say appoint him to the Senate. More »