In today’s Sun: the Chretien-Harris prize fight

The original.  The 2010 version.  Don’t try this at home, kids, without adult supervision.

“As the assembled Conservatives watched, horrified – and as the many more Liberals present looked on, delighted – Chretien slapped the fabled “Shawinigan Handshake” on Harris.

The devilish move, from which few ever recover, traces its origins back to February 1996, when Chretien was wading his way through a crowd in Hull, Que., and a group of anti-poverty protesters mobbed him.

One of the protesters, Bill Clennett, tried to block the prime ministerial path.

Big mistake.”


A great way to start Christmas week

Pulling into the Canadian Tire near my office this morning, and a guy slams into my rear bumper and quarter panel. Interestingly, he doesn’t have his insurance information on him. I am now at one of the three “Accident Support Service” offices in the City of Toronto.

Three. For a city of five million people.

Whatever Christmas spirit I possessed is now fully gone.


Just now at the Monarch Tavern

So there we were at Charlie and Tenio’s annual Gentlemen’s Lunch, having a festive time, and all of a sudden – what to our astonished eyes should appear, etc. – a nasty political scrap over by the bar!

I am reliably informed the fellow from Northern Ontario was not victorious.

photo © WK