CBC News: Hudak OKs Hillier’s illegal use of tax dollars
It’s bad enough that Timmy Hudak did a dirty deal with a far-right extremist group to secure the PC leadership. Now he’s indifferent to the fact that Randy Hillier is using his taxpayer-funded website to prop up the candidacy of his pal Jack MacLaren against poor old Norm Sterling.
It’s against the rules, and it’s arguably breaking the law. BCL has more.
In today’s Sun: hypocrisy abounds
Some days, people in the Third World can be forgiven for being unimpressed with the rest of us.
Take the pro-democracy protests continuing to sweep the Middle East, for example. The way a few are going on, you’d think westerners were on the front lines in Tahrir Square in Cairo, battling the forces of repression themselves.
Instead of watching it, you know, from the comfort of their living room. On a big flat-screen.
Done With Dolls
Last week after SFH practice, we got together with the legendary Cam Carpenter at the Shanghai on Queen West, and he told us he had just come from seeing the most amazing thing: tweenish Toronto girls in a band named Done With Dolls. A bunch of record execs were there, dragged by their similarly youngish daughters, and Done With Dolls just blew the roof off the place. “The execs were just standing their with their mouths hanging open, not believeing what they were seeing,” said Cam.
It took me a while to track down this vid (and here’s another one!). If you’re not down with Done With Dolls after hearing their lyrics (about their lives) and seeing them (with braces, no less!) you have no heart.
I predict these girls are going to be huge, huge, huge. Just wait.
My God, I love punk rock
Jesus H. Criminy
Holy Christ. I didn’t take that Abacus thing very seriously until I saw this.
Theories? Fixes? Opinions? Comments are open.
Ontario’s Working Families
They’re back (they never went away, in fact), and their web site is here. Watch their space, starting tomorrow.
Tim Hudak’s Landowner Party certainly will be. Enjoy it, Rocco!
Robert Gordon
He’s in town, and I’m interviewing him tonight. Here he is ’79, with Link Wray, not long before their parting of ways. ‘The Way I Walk,’ was written by the legendary Jack Scott, of course – pride of Windsor, Ontario.
(BTW: YouTube forced me to link to a Google account before letting me access videos. That’ll cause a shitstorm, I reckon.)
Vince Carter, then and now
I’ll be at the game tonight, comme toujours, so I found Feschuk’s wonderfully-written column a great read.
Apart from the fact that Feschuk masterfully provides some insight into a great NBA enigma, it’s also evidence of my belief that sports writing is the funnest to do and read.