The Supreme Court of Canada judges have been described as tin-pot dictators who want to rewrite Canadian laws to align them with their own biased opinions. "Sexual orientation" is a fairly recent homosexual buzzword thought up by the homosexual public relations department and makes no more sense than "heterosexual orientation" would. Yet the judicial activist Supreme Court of Canada overruled Parliament and [...]
Stalin would feel right at home with our electoral system. It can be bought, twisted and manipulated, as Ontario demonstrated recently. The truth is that people who don't vote are telling all the politicians, "None of you is worth getting off my duff to vote for!" (I'm quoting a disgruntled voter at the door.) But those people are voting. They're sitting on [...]
It's not often you find a trade magazine, the current National Post Business magazine, detailing a hilarious collection of goofs and mad goings-on in the staid business world. You have Allan Markin, chairman and co-owner of Canadian Natural Resources, taking a leave of absence while suing his stepson for $2 million dollars for allegedly taking possession of Molly, the family Dalmatian. (Heavens, [...]
My cousin, Bertram, hails from Massachusetts and recently joined me in Ottawa for a sightseeing trip through our Parliament buildings, to compare how we run our country with how the Americans run theirs. Bertram is a political junky who lives, breathes and talks politics. But his knowledge of politics ends at the Canadian border. My job was to enlighten him about the [...]
My cousin, Bertram, hails from Massachusetts and recently joined me in Ottawa for a sightseeing trip through our Parliament buildings, to compare how we run our country with how the Americans run theirs. Bertram is a political junky who lives, breathes and talks politics. But his knowledge of politics ends at the Canadian border. My job was to enlighten him about the [...]
Premier Ernie Eves was sitting dwarfed by his big desk at Queen's Park recently, while anxiously awaiting the arrival of his top bureaucrat, known unaffectionately as "Slippery Sam" Slocum. Then, into the room barged Slippery Sam, announcing, "They're here! The election committee has arrived." "Show them in," said Ernie. Into the room bustled a motley crew of yuppily-dressed people who seemed overly [...]
Get with the program, Jim Jim Coyle, a popular Toronto Star columnist, a longtime acquaintance, an occasional reader of my column and a defender of mine at Queen's Park, recently wrote a tirade against the Pope's stand on homosexual and lesbian "sexual-union play acting." (H&Ls mistakenly call it a sex union even though it is a physical impossibility. Study the human body, [...]
I had another one of my famous nightmares. I was sound asleep when NDP federal leader Jack Layton appeared on my TV at the end of Toronto's annual "gay pride" parade recently to announc his latest brainstorm - that he will pressure the federal government into renaming Toronto, "Toronto Sodom City." The original Sodom had a tragic history connected to it, Layton [...]
I was talking to the wife of a long-time Tory friend of the family, who was angry with the treatment her husband "Jimmy" got from the Ernie Eves government. The Citizens for Lifelong Learning program was cancelled abruptly after the spring program this year by the provincially appointed supervisor of the Toronto District School Board, Paul Christie, and David Reid, director of [...]
Satire, according to the New Collins Concise English Dictionary, is described as occurring when "topical issues, folly or evil are held up to ridicule." And also "the use of ridicule, irony, etc. to create such an effect." One of the readers of my column (or perhaps my only reader) recently wrote in complaining about me badmouthing Jean Crouton. She implied that I [...]
"Hello!! Is President Bush there? It's de Prime Minister of Canada calling! Jean Chretien ... Yes C-h-r-e-t-i-e-n. Yes, dat's right. I've been waiting for three hours." "I'm sorry, but President Bush is having a state dinner with Tony Blair, the prime minister of Great Britain, and he doesn't want to be disturbed. They're celebrating." "Yes, I can hear the noise." "President Bush [...]
It is not often that a lowly Interim columnist gets invited to the swearing-in of a new Canadian Supreme Court Justice at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. Prime Minister Jean Crouton and Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson were there, along with a large number of tuxedo-clad middle aged men. I was ill-prepared for the arrival of the new Supreme Court appointee, Madam Lucille Edwards. She [...]
I had a horrible dream recently. Readers know that that is not rare for me. I dreamt that Paul Martin, a willing successor to Jean Crouton, had disappeared on a trip to Bermuda in his private jet, leaving no trace. When the news broke, I was privileged to be standing in Jean Crouton's inner office in the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, totally [...]
I'm going to ask our readers to vote for the stupidest thing done by either a living member of Parliament, senator, politician, bureaucrat, lawyer or judge in 2002. I calculate that we should have some 3,000 submissions, so it is not going to be easy picking the stupidest thing - but it should be a lot of fun. To aid readers, I [...]
The Ontario government is aware of two abortuaries that are run out of doctors' offices in Toronto in violation of a pledge that Mike Harris made to the voters June 2, 1995 when he was running for premier of Ontario the first time. Despite that Harris pledge seven years ago, the Tories have failed to close them down. But first, let's go [...]