Please see me after class.

Andrew Potter over at ThisMagazine’s blog has kindly graded Canada’s national columnists. You can’t accuse him of suspending his judgement in favour of ideology; Andrew Coyne and Margaret Wente each get a B+. Which makes me think — maybe what...

Binge on advertising, purge Campbell

Tired of their members being used for punting practice by the Campbell Liberals, several public-sector unions have taken on the Premier’s addiction to TV ads with — you guessed it — a TV ad of their own. It’s on the air from Dec. 1 to 7, but...

Lament for a notion

From Paul Wells’ Nov. 15 entry, taking a swing at a speech by Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Lucienne Robillard: I am not going to sugar-coat the formidable task facing anyone who straps on the hip waders to stroll through the river of jargon that follows. I...

Black Mamba strikes again

Oh, how sharper than a serpent’s tooth is the ungratefulness of a lowly employee?The Chicago Sun-Times has reprinted an exchange between Conrad Black and Roger Ebert. The gist of it is unremarkable: Ebert tells his publisher he’ll join his fellow Guild...

Jon Stewart, patriot

If you’re following the U.S. election blogiverse, you probably already know this. For everyone else, here’s the skinny:The past week’s online buzz has been dominated, not by the latest focus-tested-to-death charges from the Kerry and Bush campaigns,...
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