“It was almost a blur, the two men flying up the street: a former prime minister and the Man in Motion moving together, followed by dozens in fluorescent yellow windbreakers.

Jean Chrétien pushed Rick Hansen part of the way up Elgin Street in downtown Ottawa, sometimes even jogging, as part of a 7,000-strong relay to raise money and awareness for spinal cord injuries.”

Swear to God: if some of us somehow persuaded him to run again, he’d kick Stephen Harper’s ass. And you know I’m right.

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One hundred bucks for whomever sends me the Rob Ford tape! No questions asked!

UPDATE: Okay, this is getting expensive – the ever-news-hungry Ladurantaye at the Globe has said on Twitter that he’s tripling my offer.  Holy smokes! This is getting expensive – or, at the very least, not unlike Fleet Street before the NOTW implosion.  In any event, I will top (not by much) whatever Ladurantaye offers.

After all, it’s a tape that will help to defeat Rob Ford in the next mayoralty race, so it’s worth the investment, wouldn’t you say?  Adam V. or Josh M., care to participate, here?

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The CBC comedy troupe made a mistake by ambushing Rob Ford at his home.

Toronto voters made a mistake by electing this idiot as mayor.

(…then again, his mere existence helped elect a lot of Ontario Liberals in urban centres, so he’s not all bad.)

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Here, much delayed, is the Court of Appeal decision, in which we won, after 15 long years.  I’m going to be in Ontario Reports! Woot!

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All of this PC caucus-in-shambles stuff has me remembering just a month ago.  Ah, fun times…

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• Ford ambush follow-up: It made him look like a sympathetic figure, per yesterday’s posting.  Yep.  My question: why does the Ottawa Citizen – which serves, um, Ottawa – think this story about the Toronto mayor is a big deal?  Another question: why do people interview Nelson Wiseman all the time for his political insights? This is the guy – along with the provincial trial lawyers’ chief, who told me my “boy” was in trouble – who said McGuinty was as good as gone.  So why keep asking him to predict stuff?
• Frankly, my dear… So Frank Klees is running; it doesn’t mean he’s going to win, right?  What’s noteworthy, here, is that both Hudak and Horwath ordered their MPPs not to run, while McGuinty said (per the Parliamentary tradition) that MPPs can decide what’ll happen on their own.  Whether Klees wins or not, one thing is plain: the Opposition leaders aren’t leaders. They’re weak: as one conservative commentator has declared: “It’s a huge loss of face for Hudak.”
• Qadhafi’s execution: I’m glad Barack Obama has said what needed to be said: the death of the Libyan strongman happened, and Qadhafi himself created the circumstances that led to it – but filming it on cell phone cameras, and broadcasting it, was wrong. And, moreover, it probably engendered sympathy for the former dictator.  Never speak ill of the dead, we Irish are taught – and, similarly, don’t film indignities done to the dead.
• Gun registry gone: I’m a gun owner, as revealed previously, and I wholeheartedly support registering it – as I do my bike, my dog and my car.  Now that the registry is on its way to being gone, our murder rate – particularly in domestic violence situations – will go up. And the Cons will be held to account for that.  Guys like me will be making sure of that.
• Winehouse R.I.P.: At the time of her death, I speculated that her demise had been hastened by junk.  I was wrong.  It was alcohol. Same church, different pew.  It’s a sad loss of life, either way.  I wish she hadn’t done it to herself.
• Don’t Walk This Way: sorry, I just can’t help myself.  And Stephen’s tumble gives us an excellent excuse to play the best-ever Aerosmith song!

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Members of Parliament, and provincial Parliaments, should be permitted to decide who should preside over their debates as Speaker.  Only rookies like Andrea Horwath and Tim Hudak would ever tell their caucus members how to vote in something like that.

So, it’s come back and bitten Hudak on the ass. It amuses me no end, as you knew it would.

But do you, or I, know who MPPs will pick to be their Speaker?  Nope.

And that’s as it should be.  Members will decide, without the likes of Horwath and Hudak bossing them around, and that’s how it should be, too.

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I did CBC’s Day Six, many days ago, and then forgot.  Someone just posted the link to the interview/debate on my Facebook page, so here it is, in case you are interested.

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I don’t support Rob Ford, and I do support the CBC.  But this after-dark ambush by CBC – particularly with children involved – was dumb, dumb, dumb.

They owe the Ford family an apology.

(And it isn’t the first time they’ve done dumb stuff like this.)

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Gathered near the White House fence, the expatriate Libyans sang and chanted and laughed, celebrating the demise of Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
Some waved American flags; others wrapped themselves in the new flag of Libya. Their joy was infectious.

It was Thursday night, and Gadhafi — the homicidal tyrant who had ruled Libya for more than 40 years — was indisputably dead. For the Libyan celebrants, it was almost too good to be true. They hugged each other and whooped. Only a couple D.C. police officers loitered nearby, barely paying the Libyans any attention.

I was there with 45 Grade 7 and 8 students from a Toronto school attended by two of my sons. We were there on a field trip, and running into the Libyans at the White House was a wonderful surprise.

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