The shock and sorrow that greeted Jim Flaherty’s sudden death are a tribute to the genuine warmth he brought to the often cold and ugly world of politics. He deserves to be remembered for his grit, kindness and the twinkle in his eye. But his legacy was not what they claim. Click here to read the rest.

Heartbleed scares me. Internet weaknesses really are big news, unlike a lot of things that get headlines. So our reaction scares me even more. Click here to read the rest.

With Vladimir Putin drooling over the rest of Ukraine the plan seems to be to stick our tongues out at him. Laden with sententious rhetoric, to be sure. But we can’t shake our fist at him because we haven’t got one. Click here to read the rest.

Do we want a beau gallant as prime minister? That is the question now before us. Click here to read the rest.

Oh here’s a breakthrough in medical economics. Canada’s creaky, inefficient, prohibitively expensive free health care system would work better if people didn’t get as sick as much and when they did they got “safe, high-quality care when and where they need it.” Why didn’t I think of that… this time? Click here to read the rest.

With the PQ dusting off their threat to take their province and go straight home, I find myself dusting off some reflections from the last referendum crisis that still seem relevant. Including that people’s obsession with “Will Quebec go?” and “Should Quebec go?” should not stop us from giving some thought to the fact that, if it does go, it won't go far. Click here to read the rest.

Here’s a surprise. Ontario’s all-day kindergarten program to produce the creative, secure, early developing multicultural Wunderkinds of the future is in trouble. Cost overruns? Pedagogic issues? Um no. Seems they haven’t managed to build the classroom space on time. Click here to read the rest.

You know what I think we need in Crimea? Batman, that’s what. Dana nana nana nana… No, wait. It might be too much for him. We should get the whole Justice League or whatever that one is that had the Green Lantern. I always thought he was extra-cool. Click here to read the rest.