October 2009
National Post editorial board: Living large in... →
Back in the heady days of 2005, while campaigning to become Prime Minister, Stephen Harper partially defined himself as the Tim Hortons guy. Just your average Canadian. Liked hockey, the Beatles and…
Robert Fulford: The Jewish James Bond →
Daniel Silva, an American who has written a dozen successful spy thrillers since he became a novelist in 1996, likes to put his own pro-Israel views in the mouths of his characters. The…
David Frum: Demonizing food corporations won't... →
If you were born in the 1960s, really it’s amazing you are alive today at all. You grew up in an era of lethally dangerous cars and driving. For every mile driven in 1965, the odds of being…
Don Martin: The BlackBerry stays in the trunk →
The red-and-blues flashing in the rear-view mirror put a quick halt to my distracted driving. The suspicious police officer stuck her nose inside the car window, sniffing for a telltale…
National Post editorial board: Europe's green... →
European leaders agreed yesterday that developing countries should get at least $80-billion a year from wealthier countries to help them cope with the impact of climate change. The decision was…
George Jonas: Saving the Canadian Human Rights... →
Richard Moon is the law professor retained last year by the Canadian Human Rights Commission to write a report about the regulation of “hate speech” on the Internet. He didn’t strike people as a…
Q&A with Lee Eisenberg, author of Shoptimism →
Lee Eisenberg’s previous book exploring the financial planning industry, The Number, was a bestseller. Eisenberg was the editor-in-chief of Esquire (back when it was good) and later, the…
Steve Murray's Halloween tricks →
Our Eating In columnist, Bonnie Stern, and bad advicist, Steve
Murray, have joined forces to provide recipes for delicious treats and
disaster respectively. Read Bonnie’s contribution here.
Patheon girds for battle →
For those who like a good battle, mark down Dec. 15.
Beware the tail of the black swan →
For investors, the scariest costume this Halloween could be a
black swan. Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in his 2007 best-seller,
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, reminded us
that…
Throttled →
Two blockbuster CRTC decisions rocketed through the news cycles
over the last several days, rattling the windows of the Canadian
telecom scene but leaving barely a trace of impact on the rest of
us….
Flaherty's trick still no treat →
The timing was impeccable. Three years ago today, on the
spookiest Halloween ever for investors, Jim Flaherty, the Finance
Minister, knocked on our collective door and yelled: “Trick or
trick.” The…
A pending inquiry threatens to damage the legacy... →
By Megan O’Toole Bitterness filled the air as hundreds of citizens packed a meeting of Mississauga council this week, an unusually fierce demonstration of solidarity. Residents openly pointed…
Gary Clement's Week in Review: Oct. 25 to Oct. 31,... →
Click to enlarge
National Post editorial board: The rumours of our... →
From the Editorial Board For the past two days, Canadians have been subjected to a barrage of media reports predicting the imminent closure of the National Post. Television and radio, and some…
Recap: FlashForward, season 1, episode 6 →
Chris Knight recaps FlashForward, episode 6:
Show in 140: Lost meets Crash as everyone on Earth (but particularly L.A.) gets a glimpse six months into the future, tries to plan lives…
Other than that genocide stuff, he was a great... →
The Telegraph reports that Fritz Darges, the last SS adjutant to Adolf Hitler, died recently at age 96, leaving behind instructions for his memoirs to be published posthumously.
The…
Liberal donations drop with the polls →
Jamie Carroll, former Liberal party national director, today in National Post:
While the party’s national director, Rocco Rossi, did a fantastic job
of converting high poll numbers into big…
Twitter fight! Heritage Minister James Moore... →
All tweets from today:
rickmercer: I heard from Ross Rebagliati. He applied to participate but was not invited to be part of the torch relay.
(and later:)
Wacky separatist grievance #24,632,246/B →
CBC reports:
A Quebec sovereignty group wants Prince Charles to apologize for the cultural genocide of francophones in North America. In an open letter to the prince, which was released to…
Hillary goes to Pakistan, takes no guff →
Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a regular dose of international punditry at its finest. Today: It took Hillary Clinton to say what much of America has been thinking for some…
Dennis Hopper fighting cancer →
Actor Dennis Hopper has prostate cancer and has cancelled plans to travel to Australia so that he can keep his treatment appointments. E! Online reported:
“We’re hoping for the best,”…
Chris Selley's Full Pundit: Nice bank you got... →
“Citizen
journalists,” and the other kind Colby
Cosh in
the National Post,
and the
Ottawa
Citizen’s editorialists,
applaud Canadian Journalists for Free Expression for bestowing…
World's least-surprising news flash →
Gee, the Iranian government has repudiated a deal it agreed to just a week ago.
What a surprise.
You mean we shouldn’t trust Iran any more?
New York Times:
WASHINGTON — Iran told the United…
Tim Mak: Conservatives in lead in battle for GOP... →
The special election for New York’s 23rd congressional district has been elevated from a ho-hum race for an obscure corner of the country into a fierce battle pitting Republicans against one…
Recap: Survivor Samoa, episode 7 →
Mini-review: The Galu guys elect Shambo leader to win her trust. Russell makes a secret alliance with Laura. Foa loses both challenges and chooses trust over competitiveness at Tribal. …
Dan Arnold: Dion walks again →
The common opinion when looking at opinion polls seems to be that 40 is a magical number where majorities become possible and leads become “commanding”. Is this true? Well, it depends on the map,…
Canada's scariest film ever →
To mark Halloween, Britain’s The Independent suggested a list of the 10 scariest films ever made.
In No. 1 spot they picked The Shining, the 1980 Jack Nicholson movie. Also in the top 10 were…
That guy who was elected with Obama is less... →
Even with so many candidates to choose from, this must be among the most pointless polls ever taken.
A series of recent polls reveals that Vice President Joe Biden’s popularity has…
L. Ian MacDonald: Ambushed by a sleaze storm →
The real test of any mayor is how well the city is run,” The New York Times editorialized the other day in endorsing Michael Bloomberg for a third term as mayor of New York.
By that standard,…
Jamie Carroll: From one chief of staff to another →
You think it’s easy being chief of staff? As one of the nine people to have occupied the job of chief of staff to the leader of the Official Opposition since January 2006 (that’s right: nine), I…
Lorne Gunter: Don't believe the gun registry hype →
If you hand out enough parking tickets, occasionally you’re going to nab the odd car thief in the process. But it would be wrongheaded to imagine you could make a dent in the total number…
Chris Selley: Heckle all you want ... so long as... →
You may not be surprised to learn that Jack Layton believes sexism is rampant in the House of Commons. “During Question Period, we have been witnessing undeniably sexist heckling from members of…
National Post editorial board: The real cost of... →
It’s fascinating to see the reactions to the new TD Bank report about the costs of meeting the Conservative government’s greenhouse-gas reduction targets for the year 2020. According to economic…
Trailer Tracker #35: It’s complicated →
The holiday season brings more tales of marital woes played for laughs.
Chris Knight examines the marital strife in Serious Moonlight, Did You Hear About the Morgans? and It’s Complicated.
Muddled models →
When the TD Bank’s Don Drummond agreed to spend $110,000 on a
study of the impact of climate change policy on Canada, what he had
in mind was to elucidate the regional impacts of such policies….
Manager sued over fees →
A $19-million lawsuit has been filed against Richardson
Partners Financial and Clarke A. Steele, one of the firm’s
investment advisors, by a group of clients, many of whom are
elderly.
Jack Mintz: Economic growth today — the mastodon... →
Why is climate policy so evasive? It hurts the economy today, but only benefits us much later
By Jack M. Mintz
A few years ago, I participated in a panel regarding carbon…
Peter Foster: Muddled models →
The UN will send billions to the Third World in carbon credits. Remember Oil for Food?
By Peter Foster
W hen the TD Bank’s Don Drummond agreed to spend $110,000 on a…
Kevin Libin: Carbon report’s bloody portent →
Those 200 protesters who disrupted Question Period this week demanding the government pass Bill C-311 — setting strict targets for reducing carbon emissions — showed how dearly some people…
John Ivison: Government emits foul gases over... →
Don Drummond would be well-advised not to give up his day job as TD Financial’s chief economist to try his hand at politics.
Mr. Drummond was curious about the regional economic impact of…
Ang Lee to direct Life of Pi film →
Ang Lee will direct the film version of Yann Martel’s hit novel Life of Pi, reports Digital Spy. “I think I’m going to do Life Of Pi,” the Oscar-winning director of Brokeback Mountain and
Maria, Maria! The Sound of Music one year later →
After winning the coveted role of Maria Rainer, in Toronto’s production of The Sound of Music, Elicia MacKenzie and Janna Polzin have spent night after night keeping the hills alive with the…
Guardian art critic says nice things about Toronto... →
Perhaps this is a sign of our mindset retaining resolute traces of the colonial outlook — OK, it certainly is — but darn it feels nice when a prominent Brit says something complimentary about our…
Watch this: Kasabian Football Hero →
What do you get when you cross indie Brit rock with Guitar Hero and freestyle footballers? Kasabian Football Hero, one of the most awesome music promo videos on the Web right now:
Beyond libel chill comes libel frostbite →
Britain has always been notorious for the flabbiness of its libel laws, but this story is particularly chilling.
What part of "get vaccinated" don't people... →
As usual these days, Skeptic North gets the issue right.
New York gets the best mayoralty a billionaire can... →
Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a regular dose of international punditry at its finest. Today: Michael Bloomberg has been mayor of New York for two terms and got city council…
David Frum: Pissing on Catholics is still okay →
In last Sunday’s Curb Your Enthusiasm,
Larry David accidentally urinates on a picture of Jesus. One splash
remains in the form of a tear under the image’s eye. When the
homeowners, devout…
Raphael Alexander: Welcome to the Olympics.... →
’When a reporter asked
Gordon Campbell whether he might consider donating some of the 3,000
tickets to women like Barbara Wagner, a gold medalist for Canada in
figure skating in 1960,…
