Nobody has mentioned that Andrew Potter is blog-sitting for Andrew Coyne right now. His opening salvo yesterday? A post about how badly the Leafs suck, and why this must be so. Interesting approach, Andrew. No doubt looking to be provocative. Have fun over in Coyne’s playhouse… More »

Today’s Media Scout from Maisonneuve has an excellent summary of the other Western Standard story Albertans are talking about. The one where columnist Ric Dolphin quotes an unattributed source — a friend of Ralph Klein’s — making disparaging, racist remarks about Klein’s wife. The quote, one of two anonymous comments, help Dolphin paint a picture […] More »

Look at the lion cub! Look at the puppy! Puppy love! Hello Kitty! From the San Diego Union Tribune: Cairo, an Italian mastiff puppy, was introduced as a playmate to 10-week-old Koza, a lion cub whose twin died, at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. The idea is that lions are social animals, but there […] More »

Dan Savage must be a regular viewer of The Colbert Report. In his latest sex column, Savage warns Canada’s Conservatives that they are “on notice” — a favourite warning of TV’s Stephen Colbert. The reason for the warning? Savage wants to stick a Canadian politician with the honour of being “santorumized,” or having his or […] More »

So it seems Ezra Levant’s Western Standard will boldly go where the ROC’s mainstream media have refused to go (other than editorially) and will print the controversial Danish anti-prophet-Mohammed cartoons in their upcoming issue. While you’re waiting for your copy to arrive by mail, or searching for your newsstand copy (futilely, at many indie bookstores), […] More »

— Lawmakers in South Dakota overwhelmingly approved legislation Thursday that would prohibit almost all abortions in the state. House Bill 1215 passed 47-22, after representatives voted against inserting amendments that would exempt women impregnated as the result of rape or incest. The bill, which now goes to the state Senate, makes an exception if the […] More »

Okay, the title of this posting is intentionally provocative, but the intent is pure. In my job I am so enmeshed in the current copyright reform process in Canada (hell, there is a meeting of the Creator’s Rights Alliance going on down the hall from me right now) it is sometimes hard to pull back […] More »

It’s not often the left gets a chance to celebrate its successes, so I thought it might be nice to point out the achievement made by environmentalists this week with the announcement that two million hectares of B.C.’s coastal rainforest have been protected. The Great Bear Rainforest, as it is known, has been the subject […] More »

…or, “Ladies Mags earn the right to be a little self-righteous”. I’ve interviewed a lot of aspiring magazine professionals in my time and thanks to a legacy of This Magazine editors I’ve learned a very effective interview technique to end on a relaxed note: “What magazines do you like to read?” JulieC and I often […] More »

So Prime Minister Stephen Harper can’t find an elected Conservative to run the Ministry of International Trade and picks instead a Liberal. Does that mean all those former Reformers were just not good enough? Looks like it. I’m actually surprised he didn’t talk Belinda back over the line. Now THAT would have been a story. […] More »

By now you’ve all heard that the Iraq war protestor and mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, Cindy Sheehan, was ‘escorted’ from the crowd attending Tuesday’s State of the Union Address in Washington — you know, the one in which American President George W. Bush tried to make a distinction between responsible criticism and […] More »