I shall wear my trousers rolled. Dare I eat a peach, etc.
There’s all kinds of fun political stuff happening, and it’s exciting and positive and great.
But you know what preoccupies me, today, at this moment? Daughter is in Halifax, seriously considering Dal for next year. Assorted sons, meanwhile, hitting me up for dough for dances and girls and suchlike.
This is all happening too fast, thank you very much. Someone make it stop.
I’ve been hearing about this all day, and now I’ve finally read it.
You will remember it for a long time. I hope Ann Coulter does.
A federal politician doing what federal politicians are supposed to do: you know, be leaders. Promote tolerance. Oppose division and nativism. Show courage.
Stephen Harper and Thomas Mulcair? They’re cowards.
(Now, prepare for the braying and screeching of Con and Dipper trolls, who will say: “We shouldn’t needlessly antagonize the separatists!”)
During a visit to Quebec City, the Liberal leadership candidate was asked by reporters about plans by the new Parti Quebecois provincial government to create a new Bill 101. The government calls the matter urgent, following census data that suggests a decline in francophones’ demographic weight.
Trudeau’s response: the PQ’s language policy is unnecessary and counter-productive.
His remarks come as a new poll suggested a Trudeau-led Liberal resurgence in Quebec, a province the party once dominated under his father.
His opinion on language also echoes the position of his father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who brought official bilingualism to Canada and criticized the French-only policies of the PQ.
The younger Trudeau says adding teeth to Quebec’s Charter of the French Language risks reigniting old battles.
The new Parti Quebecois government has vowed to strengthen the law, saying it needs to protect the French language and culture. It campaigned on a promise to extend the law to junior colleges and smaller businesses. In the wake of this week’s census data, it calls the matter urgent.
From the ever-resourceful Steve Ladurantaye, who got me to subscribe to the Globe again: here.
Sam Sutherland’s much-anticipated book about Canadian punk rock, which I stayed up reading way too late last night, is crucially important. And not just because I was part of the first wave of Canadian punk, or that he writes a bit about the Hot Nasties herein.
It’s important because Sutherland captures the cultural significance, dare I say it, of Canadian punk. He researches, and he interviews dozens of people, from coast to coast: the result is a book that covers territory no one else has before. (My book on punk, Fury’s Hour, was about more than just Canadian punk, and was more focused on the philosophy of punk.)
Great writing, great insights. Get it, maaaaan.
I know judges. I have worked for and with judges. I have appeared before judges.
Judges don’t like supplant the peoples’ judgement with their own. Even when the facts and the law clearly point them in that direction.
So, if that’s the reality in the case of an election won by two dozen votes (Opitz), it is almost certainly going to be the result in the case of an election won in a landslide (Ford).
Judges, however much conservatives cynically suggest otherwise, consider the peoples’ will to be supreme.
…that I never thought I’d live to see grown men saying the things they’re saying about rape.
Some days, there’s so much evil in this world, you just don’t know what to say. This is one of those times.
