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Teachable moments from the living dead
What accounts for the unrelenting zombie craze that finds perfect prime-time expression in the American Movie Channel’s The Walking Dead and in the distraught, if otherwise perfect, visage of Brad...
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Partygoer Rob Ford overstays his welcome
Ford Nayshun ahead. . .Lock up yer daughters Hog Town On any given day, I drink a glass of wine with supper. I do not show up at office parties in any state other than one of profound and sober...
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Musings on an approaching birthday
As the dreaded anniversary of my first appearance on this sullen orb approaches with all the inevitability of a shale gas protest, I resolve to experience that which has, so far, eluded me, lo these...
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One nation united in logical impairment
When the Great Rending of Canadian culture occurred is hard to say, exactly. It’s easy to locate the momentous event in one of the terms of office enjoyed by Stephen Harper and crew of grumpy old men...
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Conrad and Rob hate the press. Alert the media?
What goes up…needs hot air On the subject of embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, Conrad Black – former guest of the U.S. penal system, former millionaire newspaper-chain owner and current television...
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Politicians say the darndest things
If only fatheads could float far away They don’t really mean the nonsense that, so often, trips off their tongues. They just libel can’t help themselves. Theirs is less an affliction than an...
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Exporting Canada’s bad boy image
No one’s coming up smelling like roses these days If I didn’t know better, I might say a certain collusion is afoot in the Great White North, where our national reputation was once as pristine as the...
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Mayor Rob Ford’s unerring instinct for survival
Like the proverbial cat of lore, though a conspicuously rotund one, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is possessed of nine lives – one for nearly every fatal blunder possible in the brutal cosmos of elected...
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All hail our towering examples of public service
We are, in every way on every day, blessed in this country to count among our citizenry the finest class of politicians and civic leaders humanity has ever seen fit to produce. Of course, we dare not...
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The Big Smoke is now under Bruce management (sort of)
I never really got to know my distant cousin John Tory. Though we share an antecedent (my great-grandmother, Sarah Jane Tory Bruce was his great-great-aunt. . .I think), he became a wildly successful...
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