I got a call from the PMO's office recently that the prime minister wanted to have a top secret emergency meeting with me about a disastrous situation that was unfolding and he needed my help and advice. I thought somebody in the office was playing a prank on me, like the time when they had me go to Hamilton to interview a [...]
Did Ontario Premier Ernie Eves make a terrible goof when he canned Tourism Minister Cam Jackson recently for billing taxpayers $103,000 over 28 months, when high-living "Toronto boulevardier" Ernie's spending habits make Cam look like a tightwad? In February, I reported in great detail Ernie's love of milking the taxpayer - including his platinum MPP pension trough of $810,000 received in 1997. [...]
When is a gynecologist not a doctor? Answer: when he's an abortionist. A headline in the North York Mirror, Sunday, Aug. 18 stated: "North York doctor convicted of income-tax evasion" (see also the September Interim.) They malign every gynecologist and doctor in North York when they fail to mention that Joseph S. Lee is an abortionist. Lee, after being fined $64,200 for [...]
I was talking recently to Professor "Bernard Grumphoffer," a prominent biologist at a large, mid-Western university, who claimed that gay sex won't work. He said that a saw is not a hammer and a hammer is not a saw and everything has a primary purpose. Gay sex does not fit into that premise. (Professor Grumphoffer asked that his real name not be [...]
There must be a market for moral compasses because I gather so many big wheels at big conglomerates lately have lost theirs. Following is a short list of CEOs and conglomerates who have lost theirs. If you can't find a moral compass, send them a copy of the Ten Commandments. The Business Eleventh Commandment doesn't seem to be working for them. It [...]
Students, if you want a career in journalism, you should pay strict attention to what I'm going to say. It could make you another Izzy Asper or a columnist for a small pro-life newspaper. I used to think that Santa Claus was the biggest myth in the world. I was wrong; it's "freedom of the press." It is a total illusion. If [...]
In the recent federal and Ontario election battles, I had much more empathy for Stockwell Day than I had for Jim Flaherty, whose political position I felt was slightly to the right of Attila the Hun. Jim, unfortunately, gave the impression that if his aged mother was a bag lady he wouldn't have hesitated to hustle downtown and truck her off to [...]
I think everybody must have gotten a good laugh when they read the news story "Passengers halt flight," in the Toronto Star. Passengers on a charter flight from Italy to Cuba voted to turn back after noticing flames coming from an engine, overruling the pilot who insisted all was safe. Shortly into the March 3 Air Europe flight from Milan to Varadero, [...]
I knew the pro-choicers were in trouble when I got a phone call recently from Dr. Morgentaler. "Is that you, Idiothead?" he asked. "Morgy! My old friend, Morgy." "Skip the pleasantries," he said. "I'm calling you because I'm desperate for some answers." "Shoot." "Please don't use that expression." "Sorry. Go ahead." "What is this with all the candidates for the Alliance leadership [...]
There is a story going around that Ernie Eves doesn't like getting out of bed before noon. Ernie may have to if he wants to succeed his golfing buddy Ontario Premier Mike Harris, who is retiring. It used to be called "The Mike and Ernie Show." The rest were bit players. Ernie was the former finance minister, deputy prime minister and government [...]
There was a report in the National Post recently about U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan who are going into battle with a new camouflage face paint makeup conceived by Bobbie Weiner, who has a contract with the U.S. military. She is the Hollywood makeup artist who did the makeup for the floating bodies in Titanic. The results she achieves are frightening enough to [...]
Premier Mike Harris was on the phone! As soon as I saw that it was Mike, I regretted taking on the job of chief fundraiser and ticket seller for the Mike Harris Victory Retirement Dinner and Silent Auction at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. It had all the earmarks of a disaster - a real disaster. "Frank, how's the dinner coming [...]
The National Post had a great cartoon recently that revealed Canada's unpreparedness for war. A private in the Canadian Army said to another private: "The Canadian Army ranked 17th." The other private said: "17th! Say that's pretty good... who ranked 16th?" The first private said: "The Salvation Army." Canadians have always considered war an aberration or a luxury item we couldn't afford. [...]
We have a lot of heroes out there, but many of their names don't often hit the pages of the newspapers or even warrant 15-second clips on television. And I think at this sad time we should stop and honour heroes - big and small. There was young David Michael Barkway who courageously led a group of passengers on a hijacked passenger [...]
All newspapers have a "slant." It doesn't necessarily mean they get the facts wrong - it's just how they choose to interpret or misinterpret those facts for their readers. The pro-life movement is the biggest victim of news blackouts and censorship. Who do you think would get front page coverage - 3,000 pro-lifers in the annual March For Life in Ottawa, or [...]