To be fair to David Cameron, he isn’t the only world leader who’s stepped forward this month to call multiculturalism a failure. Nicolas Sarkozy of France did the same thing at a televised town hall meeting on Thursday. “The truth,” Sarkozy said, “is that in all our democracies we have been too preoccupied with the […]

A little while back, I mentioned that Kate had some big news, but she wasn’t able to share it because it hadn’t yet been made public. Now that it has, I’m happy to be among the first to publicly congratulate her. The CBC Literary Awards have been offered annually since 1979. The list of past […]

In light of all the hotly debated media issues that have risen to the top of the news in Canada lately – and in light of how bummed out I was to discover recently that an old media reform website of mine is now a shadow of its former self – I decided it was […]

Kate and I went down to Comedy Bar last night, as promised, to catch the first in a series of live tapings the Sketchersons are doing for Rogers TV over the course of the next few weeks. It also happened to be the first show my brother Jon presided over as the head writer, which […]

Speaking of David Cameron, did you hear his speech about the failure of English multiculturalism and the need for a stronger national identity? The BBC has the details. That’s a really alarming thing for a national leader to say in this day and age – and I’m not just saying that because I don’t want […]

I haven’t written much about Egypt over the past couple of weeks. I’m hardly an expert on its history, and I haven’t felt like I could possibly keep pace with new events and the pace of change in the region. But it wouldn’t be right to let a day like today go by without acknowledging […]

There’s definitely something ironic about an MP from the Conservative Party introducing a private member’s bill designed to deal with loud, obnoxious ads on Canadian television. But for the life of me, I can’t put my finger on it.

Speaking of climate change, did you know that the reason we started calling it “climate change” instead of “global warming” is because a pollster on the Bush administration payroll thought it sounded less severe? The man in question was Frank Luntz, a political consultant who specializes in helping his clients find the right words to […]

Adams Park was, and probably still is, a pretty good place to spend an evening in the suburbs when you’re too young to get into bars and there’s nothing better to do. Not that Scarborough has any good bars, of course, as we’d all find out in due time. But at that point, anything would […]

I’m coming to the table a few weeks late on this one, but isn’t it just a fancy, ostensibly literate way of calling the other guy Hitler? And really, can’t we do better than that? I actually rather like Glad Hand. It’s a clever strip, and at its best it makes a great point in […]