Leadership

— 08.21.2011 07:36 PM

In addition, he won’t fire thousands of nurses, close thousands of hospital beds, shut down 28 hospitals, defund abortion, support the war in Iraq or put prisoners in parks.

Tim Hudak, meanwhile, did or wants to do all of those things.

One guy is a leader, the other is a smirking frat boy who couldn’t manage a Walmart. You choose.


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In today’s Sun: the mistaken broadcaster

— 08.21.2011 12:00 AM

I am different from my colleagues in other ways, too. For example, I do not call CBC “the state broadcaster,” like everyone else seems to around Sun News. It’s not as if they got a memo from Kory Teneycke and Luc Lavoie to always refer to the CBC as “the state broadcaster,” by the way. It’s just everyone calls it that, except me.

Most of the time, Sunnies are just doing that to poke fun at Mother Corp. because the Mother Corp. takes itself too seriously. It needs to laugh at itself a bit.

Last week, however, quite a few people – me included -were laughing at the CBC, and not in a good way, either. Last week in fact, the CBC became a laughingstock, even among latte-sipping, secular humanist One-World-government types, like me.


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Do you want all three levels of government run by the same party?

— 08.20.2011 06:15 AM

Stephen Harper, Rob Ford and Tim Hudak do:

Time will tell how Harper’s summer call for the completion of a Conservative trifecta in the October provincial election — by painting Toronto, Queen’s Park and Ottawa Tory blue — will resonate in the ballot box. But there is already no doubt that his comments have illustrated how essential a piece the Ontario vote is going to be in the Canadian puzzle of the next four years.

The October 6 vote may be the most important Ontario election in recent history. It will determine just how much of a free hand the Prime Minister will enjoy to put his Conservative stamp on Canada and the federal government.


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Tales from my nasty past

— 08.18.2011 04:23 PM

From Sam Sutherland’s much-anticipated Canadian punk book, I surmise:

“With increasing local media attention, word-of-mouth gigs regularly draw hundreds of kids. Bars that had previously ignored punk begin to take notice. The first Calgary one to offer punk a home is on the main floor of the rundown Calgarian Hotel that caters to the local King’s Crew Motorcycle Club and First Nations population. It’s a dive somehow eking out an existence on a seedy block of an otherwise upper-class town. Located downtown on Seventh Street S.E., hard-drinking punks of the Calgary Hotel have the run of the bar’s back room for whatever riotous noise they want to make, so long as they bring their own PA, and patrons at the front don’t get too freaked out by the influx of underage, short-haired military-looking goons.

“Our first show, this little guy comes up and stares at us for a song, and we just keep playing,” says Kinsella. “Finally he walks away, and our manager walks up to us and says, ‘Do you know who that was? That was the head of the King’s Crew.’ Apparently some of the bikers were pissed that we had taken over their bar. And he was deciding if we were going to live or not.”


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More Ontario NDP craziness

— 08.18.2011 07:07 AM

From the watchful Sun:

On Tuesday, Terry removed a picture of a T-shirt he had posted to his site in January 2010, which featured the Vatican coat of arms and text reading “Pope Dev I Touched Me Praise Jeebus”.

Terry says he would understand if someone was offended by the image, even though he never intended it to do so.

“I’d respect that. That’s their choice. It’s obviously my taste in humour,” the father of two said. “I’ll admit, that one’s a bit off-colour,”he said. “I’ll admit that. I would say I respect your position on that and I’m sorry if I offended you by that.

 


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