Technology has improved. You can get good-quality pictures of anything, these days. 

And showing up on the same day as all that media coverage?

Not smart. 

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It was Anarchy in TO last night at The Garrison: before a sold-out crowd, the Violets and SFH (and Emma, and crew) onstage together for a shambolic, crazed version of ‘Invasion of the Tribbles.’ It was one for the ages. (Bjorn and Steve Deceive, you were missed.)

 Left to right: Chilli, moi, Sam, Niblet, Pete. Pic by Lala.  

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If you were planning on buying your ticket at the door for tonight’s show, sorry to say but it’s SOLD OUT. For those who got a ticket, see you tonight at The Garrison. PATV is on at 10, us at 11, and the Palma Violets at midnight!

  

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Check it out. Unbelievable.

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Check this out. Was pinging around Twitter last night:

 

If it’s true – and I don’t know who the pollster is, perhaps Ekos – it means Team Trudeau needs to take a long look in the mirror. And make changes. 

UPDATE: And here it is.

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…when we open for Palma Violets on Friday night! Just imagine: you could be in the same room as us!

And this one goes out to star LPC candidate, Bill “Open Nomination” Blair!

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Maybe it’s because it’s been a while since my book on this income inequality thing. Maybe it’s because the Occupy kids have moved on. Maybe it’s because I’m missing something. 

But saying this: “Benefiting every single family isn’t what’s fair.”

I don’t see what’s wrong with that. 

Sure, Justin Trudeau has made some verbal flubs. Sure, he isn’t as polished as Angry Tom, or whomever. But saying the 99 per cent deserve more benefits from their government than the one per cent? I don’t see that as a mistake. 

I see that as good politics. 

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Wow.

“The federal Conservative Party says it won’t participate in the traditional leaders’ debates run by a consortium of broadcasters including CBC, CTV and Global and will instead accept up to five independently staged debates in the run-up to the fall federal election.

The decision by the Harper Conservatives appears to deal a serious if not fatal blow to the near-monopoly that broadcasters such as CBC have had in determining how federal political leaders square off before national votes.

Conservative campaign spokesman Kory Teneycke said the Tories have already accepted proposals for two new rival debates – one organized by Maclean’s magazine and its owner Rogers, and the other by French-language broadcaster TVA.

The Conservative decision now puts pressure on other federal political parties to follow suit.

The NDP said they have accepted the TVA and Maclean’s debate invites, as well as one put forward by an initiative on women’s equality called Up for Debate.”

Some of us predicted this a while ago – but now it has actually happened.

What does it mean? It means the Tories – and, I suspect, the Dippers – believe that Justin Trudeau is not going to do very well in those debates.  That he is going to make a mistake. That it is going to be, as one Grit recently said to me, “two men and a baby.” Why else make such a dramatic move, were not that the case? Why else do it, if you didn’t already know the Grit team is nervous?

To those of you doing Trudeau’s debate prep? No pressure, but the future of the Liberal Party of Canada depends on you, pretty much.

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I actually debated him once or twice.  He kicked my ass, I think.

Didn’t agree with him on most things, but respected him on all things.  A great Canadian.

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Said no front-page headline ever, anywhere, BECAUSE IT ISN’T NEWS.

Sometimes, we are a ridiculous country, cf. here and here and here.

And media wonder why Stephen Harper never attends the thing anymore. Wonder no more, etc.

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