So grateful to all of you who have picked up the book and helped spread the word. Pretty cool to be on the Canadian and main non-fiction lists, I gotta say.

Twenty years. Twenty years ago today, Daisy Group opened for business. I was nervous as Hell on that day, and on the days leading up to it, too. I had four little kids and one big mortgage, and I couldn’t afford to fail. I’d been a journalist at the Calgary Herald and the Ottawa Citizen, a partner at a Bay Street law firm, and Special Assistant to that Jean Chrétien guy – but there’d always been someone else responsible for the payroll. Not me. So, on May 1, 2006, I becam

Someone on Twitter pissed me off. She seemed to believe all Liberals are Jew-haters, forever, and only the Conservatives are good and decent. I pointed out a few facts. • Dief attended Klan rallies • Stanfield was a supporter of a Holocaust denier • King called Hitler a "sweet man" • Douglas championed Nazi eugenics It's all in my books, cited. And too much more. They all suck on this stuff. They all have documented bigotry in their histories. I know a little about the subjec

Anniversary of this. An important victory for the truth. Kristin Raworth is a woman who works for the Alberta government and who used to follow me on Twitter. About two years ago, Raworth publicly tweeted at me that she had been sexually harassed by Kent Hehr, a Liberal member of the federal cabinet who represented a Calgary riding. I quickly got in touch with Raworth privately, and cautioned her that she was making a serious allegation and that she needed proof. She insisted

One year ago today, Mark Carney’s Liberals won a majority government. One year later, there has been a lot of analysis about what Carney has accomplished in that year, and what he hasn’t. It’s a mixed bag, with much of the commentariat adopting a wait and see attitude. Voters, however, are pretty enthusiastic: Angus Reid’s pollsters say Carney is approved of by 60 per cent of Canadians, which is only a bit less than Jean Chretien was, a year in. Abacus says 54 per cent of Can

Good morning. Fascinating grouping. Universe balances out, I guess.

If you are a normal human, you are looking for ways to be immortal. You paint paintings. You sing songs. You build buildings. Some people run for high public office; they figure they’ll be remembered that way. Same with people who become soldiers, or athletes, or priests or rabbis or ministers, or teachers, or whatever. If they’re any good at it, they’ll be remembered for a while. Maybe a long while. Lots of ordinary people have kids. That’s one sure-fire way to be kind-of im