A taste of Sunday’s column: on Canada’s Jewish leadership

Something I have wanted to say for quite some time. I’ll have plenty more to say on Sunday:

“…Historically, Canada’s Jewish community’s lobby efforts were always smart. The Canadian Jewish Congress on the centre-left, the B’nai Brith on the centre-right, and the Canada Israel Committee (CIC) handling “international” issues. Then, in 2011, these organizations were effectively destroyed to create something called the Council for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA). CIJA then promptly transformed itself into a propaganda arm of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Full disclosure: I was proudly on the board of the CIC for a while, but became incensed when I learned that Canadian far-right Muslim-haters were being feted in Israel, and travelling there with CIC leadership. My experience was not unique. Many progressives have watched, in despair, as Jewish leaders have moved ever farther to the right.”

March 2010: Kathy Shaidle and Canada Israel Committee VP Sara Faber-Freedman on flight to Israel.


There is nothing on Earth I hate as much as the Miami Heat and LeBron James. Nothing.

Nothing.

I watched every minute of the Celts-Heat game on a JetBlue flight from Florida to New York, and then drove back to Toronto with the kids, getting in late, late, late.

My detestation for James and the Heat kept me awake.  They are the most loathsome and dislikable bunch of pricks to ever don a professional sports uniform anywhere, ever.  Did you see James yelling at his coaches in the second half? His self-congratulation? This jerk is more arrogant than North Korea.

I pray for great disaster to befall the Heat.  Pestilence, floods, locusts, angels of death. My God, do they ever deserve it.


Bela Lugosi’s DUI

The worst part about this story is, of course, that anyone would still get wasted and get behind the wheel:

Peter Murphy, lead singer of 1970s British goth-rock band Bauhaus, was being held in lieu of $500,000 bail after allegedly rear-ending a vehicle in Glendale, police said.

An eyewitness followed Murphy, 55, from Saturday’s crash at Central and Goode avenues in Glendale to the 3400 block of Barham Boulevard in Los Angeles because “he was afraid [Murphy] would kill someone with his driving,” according to Glendale police.

Murphy, who was in a Subaru Forester, reportedly struck a Mercedes about 11:48 a.m. Saturday at the intersection, then drove around the vehicle and entered the 134 Freeway, police said.

The second-worst part is that the lead singer of Bauhaus drives a Subaru Forester.