German Chancellor Angela Merkel doesn’t tend to get a lot of press in North America. In fact, if you only know her as the woman that Bush happened to grope on camera at the 2006 G8 summit, then I’m not going to hold it against you. But the eyes of the world are on her […]

Today on my lunch hour, I went down to the local Telus kiosk and hooked myself up with a new iPhone. It’s the first new phone I’ve bought in about five years, and it’s a serious understatement to say that phones have gotten a little more advanced in that time. There’s a bit of a […]

“How are you?” the cashier at Shoppers Drug Mart asked the guy ahead of me in line who was buying nothing but two twenty-four packs of toilet paper. “I’m happy now,” he said. “I’m happy now.”

Look, I know I promised that I wasn’t going to post anything during my honeymoon. But in my defense, it was my wife who pointed out that Rocco Rossi has officially withdrawn from the mayoral race. And to hear that his announcement followed the release of an Ipsos Reid poll that showed that Smitherman has […]

Kate and I are getting married tomorrow, and we’re leaving town the following day. We’ll be gone for a week, and unless there’s something really pressing that I’ve just got to tell you about, there won’t be a whole lot happening on this blog during that time. Wish us luck, and I’ll meet you back […]