Kid Kodak, Ego Maniac
Their friends, your money
Steyn not-online
BCL noticed that Mark Steyn hasn’t been around for quite some time, and started asking around.
As I recall, there had been some indication, some months ago, that the U.S.-based writer was facing some health challenges in his family. I fired off a note to him at the time, offering best wishes, etc. I didn’t get a reply, but I hope that whatever challenges he was facing at a personal level have been resolved.
Oh, and just to be clear, I still disagree with just about everything he says, particularly the Islamaphobia.
What an Ontario PC government will mean
Higher drug prices, among other things.
Further glimpses into that firm’s approach, and the Ontario PC’s priorities, here and here: “Rothmans also hired Crestview Public Affairs, a lobby company founded in 2004 by Mark Spiro, a Conservative insider and former campaign manager for Ontario Conservative Leader Tim Hudak. Around the time the health minister told her provincial counterparts she was quashing the new labelling initiative, Crestview Public Affairs made a flurry of new registrations on tobacco-related topics.”
In today’s Sun: the NDP leaves the door open
The Saskatchewan socialist icon was, among other things, the founding father of the movement that would ultimately become the NDP. Prior to his death in 1986, the Baptist preacher — and former leader of both the NDP and its predecessor, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation — was a giant on the Canadian political landscape.
He was also a socialist, and no big fan of Liberals. So what would the prairie Goliath make of his part’s doings in Vancouver over the weekend?
You may have heard: At their confab in B.C., hundreds of the party faithful surprised everyone — me, included — by doing the unexpected. Instead of passing a resolution removing the word “socialist” from the preamble to the NDP’s constitution, they let it stand. And, most surprising of all, the NDP declined to reject future discussions about a merger with the Liberal Party of Canada, too.