There’s good news and there’s bad news.
The good news: the Hot Nasties’ ‘Tribbles’ has been played by the Palma Violets at the biggest and best rock ‘n roll festival in the world!
The bad news: I haven’t done anything of cultural significance since I was 16 years old, when Pierre and I wrote that.
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They – a magazine based in the United States – haven’t forgotten her. The Nova Scotia Dexter government has, however.
Or wants to.
People ask me how I can write for a tabloid. I say: “How could I not?”
A classic, here. (And more on Egypt, and related matters, in this Sunday’s Sun column. Yes, a tabloid.)
Wayne Wettlaufer (yes, that is his real name), the pride of Kitchener-Centre. Somewhere, as we all shake our heads in wonderment, Leslie Noble is kicking a hole in a wall at PC HQ.
Who’s gonna win the most? Who’s gonna lose the most? Personally, I think by-elections rarely end well for governments, so the Wynne people need to lower expectations, in the way that Hudak and Horwath are busily doing.
Wynne’s assets? She exceeds expectations, and she can rely on a horde of government staffers to work those ridings during the political black hole of Summertime. Horwath? She’s still the most popular politician in the province, and she’s got this smart guy named Ramiro Mora helping her out. Hudak? He’s got Leslie Noble and Tom Long behind the scenes – and Noble and Long are two of the most strategic people in Canadian politics.
I don’t know most of the candidates in the by-elections – but I encourage the good people of Ottawa South to cast a ballot for my friend John Fraser, who is one of the hardest-working constituency people I’ve ever met. Decent guy and pretty smart, too.
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Spotted on a Sun News Network monitor, just as I was about to tape a hit on Brian Lilley’s show. Pithy – but, I think, true. Justin Trudeau could beat Stephen Harper.
If that doesn’t persuade Harper it’s time to go, nothing will.
Sharp political analysis, in three words or less.