Gearing up for the long weekend did not, I trust, make you forget to have a truly familial International Day of Families. What? You missed it? It was May 15. It must have been because the Governor General put out a press release. And if you’re around to read this column I assume you observed the spirit of Canada Road Safety Week. But I can still ask pointedly whether you knew, or cared, when it was.
Could anything be more gloriously fascinating than Canada’s new minister of state for sport? It sure beats worrying that our politics is a ghastly spectacle of empty ambition while Parliament no longer controls the cabinet which, in turn, doesn’t run the country any more anyway. Click here to read the rest.
Does it worry you that public employees are the largest major category in our economy? Do you think it places a burden on the economy and distorts our politics? Well, that was the good news. The bad news is how many people depend on a government cheque they didn't earn. Click here to read the rest.
Industry Minister Tony Clement looks especially silly stuffing straw into his beard and waving a pitchfork at gas companies. He must know better. Pity we don’t. Click here to read the rest.