November 2009
Wish List: From zero to superhero →
Like a streak of light, they arrive just in time! (For Christmas, that is.) Canadian company Cuffwear, the brainchild of ex-Bay Streeter Chris Zownir, has just launched a line of…
Herb Gray: "In good heart and sober confidence" →
Sir Winston Churchill spoke only once in our Parliament. It was to a joint session of the House and Senate in the House of Commons Chamber on Dec. 30, 1941. It was a few weeks after the Japanese…
Lorne Gunter: The police aren't always right →
One of the most frequently heard arguments in the past two weeks from supporters of the gun registry eager to salvage the federal firearms database is: If police chiefs and police…
Kate Tennier: Why does more classroom time... →
Although it may sound illicit, “moral hazard” is in fact a dry term used by economists to describe the phenomenon whereby an insured party’s behaviour becomes less vigilant due to the belief that…
Sniff Test: A Scent by Issey Miyake →
The Japanese designer Issey Miyake has a new women’s perfume, A Scent by Issey Miyake ($89 for 50ml eau de toilette, plus a full range of body products, at both Holt Renfrew and The Bay). The bottle is avant-garde, cut to look as if it’s a block of cut glass by artist Arik Levy. (Miyake can afford to be esoteric: his groundbreaking ozonic L’Eau d’Issey has been a bestseller since 1992.)
Congolese corporate responsibility →
The Commons committee on Foreign Affairs and International
Trade is this week holding further hearings on Liberal MP John
McKay’s private member’s bill, which would essentially give…
Geosam gets review on Cordy →
The combination of determination — plus a good argument —
has proven to be a winning formula for Geosam Investments Ltd., a
shareholder of Cordy Oilfield Services.
Peter Foster: Congolese corporate responsibility →
Bill C-300 would shake down Canadian resource firms, not help the vulnerable By Peter Foster
T he Commons committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade is
this week…
Too small to succeed →
U.S. banking’s problem is a fractured regional system of smaller banks. It needs big Canada-style institutions
By Derek Holt
E
xcessively vilifying Wall Street and calling for…
John Ivison: Weary of Teflon Man, Ontario voters... →
Andrea Horwath, the bubbly new leader of the Ontario
NDP, was asked recently what she considered Dalton McGuinty’s biggest
accomplishment. “He’s been Teflon for the last five years and it’s…
Don Martin: Jean Chretien's half-trillion-dollar... →
Parents spotting construction workers resting on shovels at road paving or bridge repair projects should alert their kids. Those paycheques are on their tab, plus a generation’s worth of…
Stephen Taylor: New Ignatieff aide has sponsorgate... →
“Everything old is new again” is the buzz
coming from Liberals and journalists in Ottawa. Peter Donolo’s the new
boss of the OLO shop (the Dunno-LO as one journalist told me weeks ago)
and today…
If Sarah Palin is so bad, why is her career... →
Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a regular dose of international punditry at its finest. Today: It’s hard to believe, but as recently as last year most of us had never heard of…
Lady Gaga gets snubbed by Grammys →
Lady Gaga may seem like the obvious choice to win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist come next January, but according to a report in Variety the fashion-forward pop star isn’t even…
Metrolinx hopes to emulate $2 billion money-loser →
We here at the National Post are in favour of private enterprise and view it as always a good idea when politicians or public officials turn to the private sector. So this is good news:
…
Kelly McParland: 'Policy implications' and law... →
The crucial word in this report on the lawsuit brought by an Ontario couple caught in the chaos of a native protest is in the very first sentence. The corrosive strain of living through…
Watch the men's fragrance commercial that's too... →
According to Cosmetics Magazine:
Coty Prestige begins shipping its latest fragrance for men this week
but they aren’t relying on television advertising to drive…
Bob Dylan's Must Be Santa video premiere →
Proving once again the age-old notion that it’s hardly a prerequisite to be Christian in order to throw a properly over-the-top Christmas party, Bob Dylan has made his return to the small…
Dan Arnold: 2008 Conservative breakthroughs →
A few weeks back, I posted on the ridings where the Liberals exceeded retrospective expectations in the 2008 elections (how’s that for a Rumsfeldian opening sentence?). Click on the link
for…
Bimbo eruption greets Gaddafi lecture on Islam →
Does life in Italy get any wackier?
Two hundred women answer an ad seeking attractive bodies in nice clothes, to attend a “party” and receive “gifts”. Probably just expecting the usual…
Raphael Alexander: A refugee too successful to... →
The effect of the broken Canadian refugee system is evident in the case of Miaomiao Wang, 26, a mother of two Canadian-born girls including one two months old, who faces imminent deportation…
Matt Gurney: French politician knows what's wrong... →
Ever wish you had a permanent scapegoat laying around somewhere, ready to absorb blame for all sorts of weird things? That sure would come in handy. Just ask this guy. His name is Eric Woerth,…
Chris Selley's Full Pundit: Harper derangement... →
Federal
politics super-smörg In
the Ottawa Citizen,
Andrew Cohen outs
himself as one of the brainboxes Citizenship and Immigration
Canada consulted in producing our new citizenship…
Terry Glavin: How does a Canadian say hello? 'I'm... →
Mitch
Miyagawa is my colleague and student at the University of British
Columbia. His family has now been thrice blessed with official
government apologies. In this month’s Walrus Magazine, …
Recap: Heroes, season 4, episode 10 →
Mini-review: Sylar gets back in his body but Nathan is still in
control. Tracy bonds with Claire and considers joining the carnival.
Mohinder makes a discovery about Samuel that almost…
Recap: House, M.D., season 6, episode 7,... →
Mini-review: Do. Not. Mess. With. House. He always wins. Always. Well, mostly, and sometimes the victory is pyrrhic. Recap: It must be porn week (on NBC it’s Green Week, so it is possible)….
Cory Monteith from Glee eschews those nasty... →
The last place you’d expect to find America’s most popular high school student is on the drums at the Gemini awards backing up Loverboy in Calgary. However, Cory Monteith, the 27-year-old Canadian Glee
Mixed Media: Lady Gaga does MOCA, NY's New Museum... →
In art and culture news today: • As The Art Newspaper reports, when you hold a fundraising gala for an art gallery in Los Angeles, you’re apt to play host to some…
Wish List: Cross your best friend off first →
You don’t have to be Paris Hilton to spoil your precious pet rotten. The Canadian belt brand, Brave Leather is introducing a new line of customizable collars for your furry little friends,…
Sniff Test: Ricci Ricci →
Ricci Ricci ($78 for 50ml, plus a range of bath & body products, at department and drugstores across Canada) is aimed at twenty-to-fortysomethings, on the heels of blockbuster 18-25…
Matt Gurney: How Halloween became a cultural... →
Four University of Toronto students
recently glided blithely into a ethnic-politics minefield when their
Halloween costumes triggered accusations of racism, or at the very
least, a serious error in…
Joe Schwarcz: An injection of H1N1 reason →
I think the time has come to panic. But not about catching the H1N1 “swine flu.” And not about the alleged risks of the vaccine that can protect against it. For the vast majority of people, the flu…
National Post editorial board: HST is a change for... →
We’re in favour of Ontario harmonizing its provincial sales tax with the federal goods and services tax. As hard as it may be to believe, we actually find ourselves on the same side of a tax…
Q&A with Twilight's Michael Welch →
Acting since the age of ten, it wasn’t until Michael Welch got a small role in a movie about vampires, that people really started recognizing his name. Playing the popular jock, Mike…
Dock Ellis' famed 'LSD no-hitter' gets retold in... →
Baseball season is as cold as a closing pitcher’s icy stare now, but here’s something to keep fans of the game’s peculiar and bizarre stories something to cheer about. Animator
Barbara Kay: Canada's new citizenship guide... →
Last week the Post published excerpts from the new guidebook issued by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship. I was asked by a…
Cirque's team is amazing →
Daniel Lamarre is president of Cirque du Soleil and spoke
with me recently about his company’s exciting partnership in Russia
and Ukraine with George Cohon and his son, Craig Cohon.
BCSC to probe MFDA →
Given the decision by the B. C Securities Commission to hold
a review, there is now no place for Larry Waite, chief executive of
the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada, the…
Ottawa's fruit-flavoured tobacco bomb →
At a news conference in mid-election campaign last year,
Prime Minister Harper held up flavoured tobacco products and
promised that, if relected, the Conservatives would crack down on
tobacco that…
Locked regulators →
The CSA wants to limit the benefits of electronic market making by banning zero bid/ask spreads
By Ian Bandeen
T he Ontario Securities Commission and its counterparts in other
provinces…
Terence Corcoran: Ottawa’s fruit-flavoured tobacco... →
New law threatens trade war and illegal smuggling boom By Terence Corcoran
A t a news conference in mid-election campaign last year, Prime
Minister Harper held up flavoured…
Don Martin: Liberals need to find new H1N1 message →
The H1N1 germs are still spreading, but the pandemic’s potential to cause political damage seems to have peaked.
The spectre of commuters wearing masks and arenas doubling as emergency…
The Posties: "Oh God, You Jonathan Kay" →
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Extremely Bad Advice: Bewitching Buddies →
My best friend for many years has a new girlfriend (it’s his
first girlfriend), and now I never see him without her. I don’t
particularly like her and would rather hang out with just him and
the…
Chris Selley: The mind of the ex-jihadi →
The Independent’s Johann Hari on Britain’s apostate Islamists:
From the right, there was the brutal nativist cry of “Go back where you came from!” But from the left, there was its mirror-image:…
John Ivison: McGuinty offers Ontario a drink of... →
It’s too bad for Dalton McGuinty that one of the
promises he didn’t break after the 2003 election was the pledge to ban
taxpayer-funded propaganda advertising.
The Ontario Premier brought…
Twilight's Robert Pattinson proves even vampires... →
Even vampires lose their car, as actor Robert Pattinson found out once — if not twice — earlier this year.
In the latest edition of Entertainment Weekly, the professional heartthrob and star of…
Recap: Dexter, Season 4, Episode 8 →
Mini-review: Dexter and Trinity go to Tampa. A suicide attempt ensues. Deb gets to finish what Lundy started. Recap: Well, it’s finally time to come right out and admit it: Dexter has fallen off…
Wish List: Treat their eardrums →
Hate trying to listen to your favourite tunes with earbuds that fall right out of your ears? Panasonic’s ErgoFit Noise Isolating Earbuds can help you listen in comfort, with the perfect…
Ethan Clow: Selling cures to the gullible in a... →
A couple weeks ago Vancouver hosted the Body Soul and Spirit Expo
at the Vancouver convention centre. For those who live in Vancouver or
know anything about the city this is no major surprise….
