So, Justin Trudeau. See that? Say his name, and lots of people get upset. Happens every time. I saw the former Prime Minister this week in Ottawa - or at least I think I did. I was passing through the capital and decided to stop in at my favourite Chinese place for lunch. Place was packed. Long wait. No time to wait. So I decided to make use of the washroom before hitting the road again. As I did so, I passed a table where a fellow - who looked very much like Justin Trudeau

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The best daughter in the world and some (now) old guy, behind my parents' place and beside the Bow River in Calgary, almost 30 years ago. Tonight, she is having her engagement party!

The purpose of propaganda, Aldous Huxley once said, is to make one set of people forget that another set of people are human. That has been Hamas’ purpose, as well - aided and abetted by Iran, China, Russia, Qatar and a ghastly array of antisemitic NGOs, charities and non-profits throughout Western democracy. To demonize, isolate and ultimately erase the Jewish state. At the same time, the propaganda campaign’s goal has been to persuade the gullible that Jews are fascistic,

When I was in Reykjavik I got up in the middle of the night and this what I saw: Iceland's offering of proof that God exists, everywhere/everyone else notwithstanding. It's big. Maybe I'll sell it. Dunno.

Half the Democratic Party look antisemitic. The Republican Vice President sounds antisemitic. Things like that don't happen by fluke. In my book The Hidden Hand, I argue it is a direct consequence of a global propaganda campaign to isolate and delegitimize the Jewish homeland and Jews themselves. More coming in my Postmedia column this weekend.

“You had one job.” In mainstream culture, the first known use of the phrase happened 25 years ago, in a remake of the comedy heist film Ocean’s Eleven. The character played by Don Cheadle and his team of robbers set off some explosives to open a big safe. The door pops open, and a delighted Cheadle dances into the vault. As he does so, an alarm goes off. Says an irritated Cheadle to his colleagues: “You tossers! You had one job to do!” That, or “you had one job,” entered the

Use your thumb for the clouds, my Mom said. It was the pandemic. My life had blown up, I was living with two labs in an old farmhouse on an island, and nobody was allowed to go near anyone else. I didn’t have another book in me. My band couldn’t get together to play. I had given up writing for newspapers. So, I decided to paint again. An ex hadn’t let me put my art up on the walls, so I stopped painting. But now the ex was gone. So I dug out some paint and brushes and sat dow

Lee and me in London, December 2025 I met Lee G. Hill in the first week I was at St. Bonaventure Junior High School in Calgary. That was 50 years ago. We became friends right away - along with Dan Nearing and Pierre Schenk and Pat O'Heran and Bill Corcoran and others - because we liked a lot of the same things. Beatles, movies, counterculture stuff. We were misfits, I guess. We started something called the Non-Conformist News Agency, which we used as vehicle to satirize every