Politics
Not to show my age or anything, but there used to be a time when people with great intellects dominated public discourse on the right. Milton Friedman, William F. Buckley Jr., Florence King (her back page column in National Review magazine was, by its own self, worth twice the subscription)
Urbanism
I love speed cameras because they make people angry for getting caught doing the wrong thing. Yet they are easy to avoid, unlike a speed trap on the highway. They don’t move, for one thing. And they’re not hiding. There are several big signs announcing their presence, and
Urbanism
It was just an irritated tweet of the kind I throw out into the world every single day. But this one hit a nerve. Why we always do the wrong thing is beyond me. https://t.co/NrCiqIEz8u — (Mx) Brigitte Pellerin, they | them | iel 🏳️🌈 (@bpellerin) January 26, 2023 At the
Urbanism
It was an email I’d been expecting. We all knew Catherine McKenney would take a little time to rest from the gruelling mayoral campaign and come back with a different project to carry forward their vision of what a good city looks like. The announcement happened at Impact Hub
Gender
Among the missteps I’ve had the misfortune of taking in my life, two years as morning face on the brashly conservative (or, rather, Conservative) Sun News Network has to be way up there with getting bangs when what’s-his-name dumped me. You can see that profound unhappiness reflected in
Politics
Some people are aghast that the leader of his majesty’s opposition gave a talk to a group that denies the many documented evils of residential schools. The fact that this news is coming out mere days after reports suggesting ground penetrating radar had identified 2,000 “areas of interest”
Gender
I don’t know how I managed to miss this piece the first time it ran but here I am with a vengeance. Tom Blackwell, writing in the notoriously TERFian National Post (I mean, it publishes Barbara Kay, for fuck’s sake), clutched some nasty stinking rotting pearls at the
Urbanism
My column this week is about smells and how we’d describe Ottawa with our noses. I offered a few suggestions and asked readers to submit their own. We had some fun on socials — with many picking up on exhaust pipes, pets, the smell of pet waste in the spring
Politics
“I don’t like rage,” said the leader of the official opposition, Pierre Poilievre, the exact same Pierre Poilievre who got elected leader of his party by the very rage he’s now denouncing. He’s like Judas Iscariot, minus the charm. I suppose it was to be expected. He’
Urbanism
It started innocently enough with a Boxing Day 10km run I thought would be decent enough given the time elapsed since the December 23 storm. I’d gone out the day before for a jolly 6km, and the sidewalks then were very messy. Surely one extra day would be enough
Politics
I could have written this column and included ten times the number of examples of antisemitic incidents taking place in this city just this year. I picked the most recent and the most egregious, but they are all equally bad and worthy of condemnation. Antisemitism is at the intersection of
Gender
My good friend Jess sent me a message asking how much she’d have to pay me to write about a tweet my old bud Charles Adler wrote about Pierre Poilievre’s disastrous polling among women. You know me, I can’t resist a good bargain. Charles says that during