If someone in the PMO paid off a big chunk of my mortgage, how much would you trust my coverage of politics? Now, what if they did it for a legislator? It's wrong, totally wrong. And dangerous to our Constitution. Click here to read the rest.
Now the opposition are having fits over the Harper administration ... Not really necessary to complete that sentence, is it? But I'm thinking about them being shocked and appalled at Tory MPs wondering how history is taught in Canada. Click here to read the rest.
At last the Americans managed to get rid of the corpse of Boston Marathon alleged bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Somebody furnished an unmarked grave. But the whole issue makes me think we’ve gone nuts. Click here to read the rest.
Despite its laid-back, progressive reputation as the environmentalist 'left coast', full of hippies and unionists and aboriginal activists and public servants, British Columbia is Tory territory federally. And not Red Tory either. Just one more way the province is different, and alienated from the Canadian mainstream. Click here to read the rest.
You know what I hate about politics? OK, that could be a well with no bottom. But a bucket borrowed from the late Daniel Boorstin just helped me haul up an especially slimy lump from way down deep. Specifically, Raymond Betts and Lyz Bly’s A History of Popular Culture describes a term Boorstin coined in the 1960s, “pseudo-event,” meaning something enacted for the sole purpose of being reported. Click here to read the rest.