Prime Minister Harper’s Mideast trip was going pretty well until I opened the paper and saw him handing Jordan about $100 million. Man. That’s one expensive photo-op. Click here to read the rest.

When I hear the constant fracas over energy policy in Canada, from pipelines to rising hydro bills to fracking to windmills, I want to nuke the whole discussion. No really. I want to settle it with nuclear power, the energy of the future in the past. Click here to read the rest.

“Pope hawks souped-up ride.” Man, we journalists live for headlines like that. Maybe we’re not alone. Click here to read the rest.

Oh, here’s a scary thought. It’s already 2014. I don’t even know what happened to the “naughts” or whatever we were going to get around to naming that decade. And now we’re a seventh of the way from the 20th to the 22nd century. Click here to read the rest.

With 2014 on the horizon, we can look forward to a year jam-packed with political failure and fatuity. Same old same old. But perhaps a couple of new year’s resolutions might help. Click here to read the rest.

It never ceases to amaze me how little politicians know about government. Take Canada Post ... please. Everyone was apparently caught flat-footed, or flat-brained, when it announced service cuts, price hikes and a huge unfunded pension liability. It’s a government monopoly. What were you expecting? Click here to read the rest.

Nelson Mandela was a great man. But he is not gone too soon; he had a long, full life. Nor is the world poorer without him. His deeds and example remain and if we cannot profit from them after so long the flaw lies not with him but with us. Click here to read the rest.

You know what I like most about government? Short list, you may be thinking. But about my favourite bit is where they punch you out and insist it’s a massage. Click here to read the rest.