Politics
OK. I tried to resist taking apart this ad that the party and its leader so proudly unveiled at the end of their Quebec City convention. I swear I did. I got very busy with Other Serious Writing and reading and parenting and I did something like 12 workouts since
Politics
Unlike so many weak-kneed losers bleating about their freedom like they’ve graduated from the Preston Manning School of Ineffectual Whining, when someone tries to silence me I just write louder. Because that, friends, is how you fight toxicity. By being right up in its face, disturbing its shit. I
Politics
This week I’ll keep the roundup a little shorter. I’m hanging out most unwelcomingly at the Conservative Party Convention in Quebec City and writing a longer piece about that. I will endeavour to make it entertaining and perhaps even funny but fair warning, some of this stuff is
Politics
My Ottawa Citizen column this week is on 24 Sussex, our official mojo dojo casa house (obligatory Barbie movie reference, more on which below), and why Pierre Poilievre should make history, in a good way, by giving up his own taxpayer-funded mansion. Continuing with our summer series of lovely and
Gender
My very good friend called this morning in relation to my recent Pride column and asked how I would solve the problem of a young kid who says they feel they’re a boy even though they were assigned female at birth. “This is not a problem,” I said. “I
Gender
In my column this week I amplify Fae Johnstone’s invitation to straight and cis-gender Ottawans to march in Sunday’s parade. I add a few choice words about the “parents’ rights” crowd, including this important bit: If your child is out and you’re the only one who doesn’
Urbanism
The last thing I expected to find in a suburb of Vancouver is affordable gentle density but that’s why they say you should travel. It truly does expand your mind. As my patient reader knows too well, I was in that city recently to attend the ultimate national championships
Urbanism
I spent most of the week in Vancouver and Surrey. If anyone I personally spawned asks you why I was there, please tell them it was to support my eldest (number 23 above) who was playing for the Saskatchewan team (Go Wheaties!) at the national ultimate championships. But really, I
Politics
Now that Facebook has started blocking access to news stories for Canadian users, I’ve decided to write a weekly summary of articles and topics I think my readers will value. Since it arrives directly in your inbox, it gets around the whole idiotic Meta ban. It doesn’t cost
Politics
Stephen Lecce, who is inexplicably Ontario’s minister of education, is currently fronting another one of those asinine “common sense” education reforms aimed at getting back to basics, because this government doesn’t want to be explicit about its desire to crush those pesky teachers’ unions that think they know
Travel
You travel enough along the 401 in Ontario and you start to see patterns. For instance, you notice the clothes worn by people who patronize the OnRoute rest stops along the way all appear to come from the same bins of faux athletic garments from Costco. Except for the truckers
Culture
Beloved and I were randomly walking around the Detroit Institute of Arts the other day and hitting a lot of religious stuff until, bam, my attention got grabbed, hard, by this painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, which is apparently super well-known especially by middle-school boys everywhere. Not being a