But, as Gadhafi’s regime collapses, spare a thought for Christoph Halens, a Canadian reporter who went to Libya in 1987 — and never came back. Spare a thought for Halens, who was murdered by the Gadhafi regime in April 1987.
For simply doing his job.
Heading West on I-90. Dozens of power line trucks and National Guard humvees heading the other way.
This weekend, we are supposed to be right around where it’ll be hitting. Query: is it for real, or more US-style hyped broadcasting?
Hoo, boy, I don’t know where that zany Tory brain trust is going next, but hang onto your hats for more hard-hitting hilarity on the campaign trail.
Thing is, Smith and the likes of Chumley and the other Tory MPPs all sound like narcoticized parrots, repeating the mantra that McGuinty is the “taxman,” “he’s gonna raise taxes,” “taxes, taxes, taxes…”
“Daddy, why do sky divers bother to wear helmets?”
Anyone? Anyone?
Someone I like, and their pithy observation about Blatchford’s disgraceful attack on someone who can’t defend himself.
“She’s got a face like a hatchet,” they said. “And all she knows how to do is swing a hatchet.”
Others, it seems, agree. Me? I think she’s Doug Collins, without the Holocaust denial.
Brian Topp is someone I and many others admire very much. He is one of the sharpest minds in Canadian politics.
But reports of his possible ascension to the now-vacant NDP leadership were, to say the least, premature. (And, Brian would himself say, unseemly.)
So I’m glad the stories are being nipped in the bud. There’s time for some of that stuff, but not now.