Mark McMorris and the Road Back to the Olympics
I watched our athletes march into the stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea, this morning.As always it was a proud moment, and I'm looking forward to cheering for all of them.But…
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Fort McMurray and the Early Christmas Presents
It's been seven months since the wildfire they called "The Beast" came roaring out of the woods and threatened to consume Fort McMurray.It was Canada's biggest story of the year,…
My Tribute To Those Who Fly At Night To Save Lives
These ORNGE air ambulances are a familiar sight in my neighbourhood, taking off or coming into land at the Toronto Island Airport.And I like having them around, because my heroes…
The Heroic and Very Canadian Struggle to Save Fort McMurray
When I saw the pictures of what the fire they called The Beast had done to Fort McMurray, at first I was shocked by the devastation.Stunned at the sight of…
How You Can Help Save The Lives of Those Who Would Save You
I don't usually run public service announcements on this blog. But because my heroes are healers not killers I'm going to make an exception.And ask you to please help spread…
Kevin Page and the Many Victims of the Con Regime
For five long years Kevin Page was the Parliamentary Budget Officer, and in many ways the conscience of the Con regime.They hated the way the way he stood up for…
Stephen Harper’s Hugely Embarrassing List of Canadian Heroes
Historians will no doubt have a hard time trying to explain how so many Canadians were fooled for so long by Stephen Harper, in the horrifying years known as The…
My Tribute Video to Some Real Canadian Heroes
It's not easy looking for heroes in Harperland.Everywhere I look all I see is corruption and scandal.Grubby politicians and small greedy people.But of course there are real heroes out there.And…
Harperland: The Horror and the Beauty
One of the worst things about living in Stephen Harper's monstrous Canada, is having to spend so much time writing about the crimes of the Con regime.The vile acts, the…
Stephen Harper and the Con Pit Bulls
When you stare at the public face of Stephen Harper's sinister Con regime, what you see is horrifying enough.A tired, morally corrupt regime, that is willing to lie, muzzle people,…
Stephen Harper, the Scientists, and the Spaceman
It could have been a truly great occasion.A group of Canadian kids getting a chance to talk to a real Canadian hero, Chris Hadfield.But of course he HAD to be…
Stompin’ Tom Connors and the Con Stooges
It was a wonderful Canadian moment.One of my Canadian heroes, Romeo Dallaire, talking about another of my heroes, the late great Stompin' Tom Connors.Telling Evan Solomon about the day when…
When the Cons Try to Cover Up Murder
His name was Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener. He was a Canadian peacekeeper who was killed murdered by the Israeli military in 2006.Now the Canadian military, and the Harper government, are…
Remembering Jack Layton: One Year Later
I was sorry I couldn't make it to this tribute to Jack Layton. And that I didn't get a chance to scrawl a message on that huge wall at City…
Norman Bethune and the Ghastly Cons
I wasn't planning to write about this storm in the twittersphere. Because what can you say eh? Except that it's obviously summer. Tony Clement is a shameless idiot. Ezra Levant…