1. Politics

Pierre the Grinch

I get it. It’s been a busy week, and there’s the holidays around the corner and those damn sugar cookies sure ain’t gonna bake themselves. But I need to ask

Shhh, and no spitting please

In my Ottawa Citizen column this week I discuss the role we’re asking public libraries to play when we cut services elsewhere and generally privatize everything. This was prompted by a news

En anglais my foot

English will follow French and be different because whenever we speak of solitudes in this country we have to talk differently depending on the audience. Since many of my readers understand both Canada&

Oh look, a P3 that works!

In my Ottawa Citizen column I discuss a successful public-private partnership I discovered when I took up ultimate. Domes in Ottawa are a rare example of something useful that was done right and

Pierre Poilievre, political chicken

Many long moons ago I was employed as a talking head (“personality,” we used to say) on talk radio. My job was to report on, analyze and comment on the news, mostly political