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War is over. Not.
Four weeks or less. Those are the words of President Donald Trump, two days after Israel and the United States started bombing Iran on February 28. That’s how long he said the war would last. “Four weeks or less.” As of today, 24 days - three weeks and a bit - have passed since Israel and the U.S. launched what they called a “decapitation strike.” On the very first day of the war, Israel and America scored an impressive victory: they eliminated the monstrous Iranian dictator,
14 minutes ago


The best live band in rock'n'roll
Seeing these Swedish maniacs yet again tonight. Still the best live band in rock'n'roll. The Chats are opening for them, and they're no slouches, either. See y'all there.
1 day ago


The Hidden Hand - in the National Post
Just saw this. My new book has been excerpted in The National Post . Grateful that they considered it worth a read. For anyone else wanting to read it, the hardcover comes out in a month.
2 days ago


Don Cherry isn't going to get the Order of Canada
In politics, there’s kicking a hornet’s nest, and there’s tripping over one. Typing up a column about Don Cherry’s suitability for the Order of Canada without being asked to? That’s kicking a hornet’s nest. But here goes. Everyone has an opinion about the former hockey broadcaster. Mine is this: he made hockey games entertaining. He did. Cherry was like Donald Trump, in that you never knew what he was going to say next. But, unlike Trump, Cherry didn’t seem to revel in being
2 days ago


Nazi images on the streets of Toronto
One sign shows a stooped and feral Orthodox Jewish man, wearing a kippah atop stringy, payot sidelocks, his eyes black like an animal. Another features the same sort of image: a weeping Orthodox Jew, his nose hooked and exaggerated, begging the United States for salvation. Behind him, another man waves around a sign bearing Israel’s flag, and the word ELIMINATED. A woman, her face visible, holds up a sign that reads in Arabic: “We will knock on the gates of Heaven with the
6 days ago


Mid-March musings, mainly.
2026 has been the longest decade in a Century. Here.
Mar 16


Pick a lane, Mark
Leon Panetta, the revered former U.S. Secretary of Defence, is speaking about war. “Leaders have to understand,” Panetta says in an interview. “That when you send people into war, you better damn well have a very clear mission for what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.” He pauses. “And, if you constantly change that mission…that really begins to screw up what soldiers are thinking. The reason they’re out there, putting their lives on the line. It begins to hurt your own
Mar 7


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