October 2009
William Watson: Worthwhile Quebec initiative.... →
Nanny-state Quebec takes baby steps towards user fees as Jean Charest makes a possible move for the Conservative leadership By William Watson
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f you’re like me, you hate reading…
Terence Corcoran: Ontario’s iron-fisted energy... →
Consumers will pay for subsidies, protectionism, and guarantees By Terence Corcoran
A t the G20 Pittsburgh summit, Canada endorsed a commitment to end
subsidies to fossil fuel…
Kevin Libin: Is Stelmach under siege →
CALGARY — Leading Alberta’s Progressive Conservative party was once a position anyone would envy. Each day a new wheelbarrow piled high with cash came wheeling in, all of it waiting to be…
CIFF Day Five: Extremely Good Advice - No Heart... →
We’re mid-way through the Calgary International Film Festival, and the best parties/screenings/sightings/gossip are yet to come. Some visiting filmmakers, however, have already discovered…
Don Martin: Eight things Ignatieff should do →
When a party leadership begins, in the words of a former top Conservative, “to circle the toilet bowl,” it takes imaginative moves to reverse the flow and stay above the, um, water. …
September 2009
Kelly McParland: Liberals lose the plot on Suaad... →
Dan McTeague, the Liberal party’s consular affairs critics, has a pretty odd view on the Canadian justice system. Today McTeague issued a release attacking the Conservatives for waging…
From Jonathan Kay's archives: Priestly 'celibacy'... →
The breaking child-porn scandal regarding Raymond Lahey, former bishop of Antigonish in Nova Scotia, sent me down memory lane to this column …
Jonathan Kay National Post Friday, March…
Michelle Obama's Charybdis moment →
You think Barack Obama is overexposed?
At least he goes on serious or semi-serious news programs and discusses actual policy. Even David Letterman asked him about health care and racism.
Mixed Media: Tate Modern gets visit from police... →
In art and culture news today:
• An award-winning Winnipeg artist’s incendiary installation has found a permanent home in which to burn: The Art Gallery of Ontario announced Wednesday that it had…
Toronto's M.U.C.K. Film Festival rolls out the red... →
Movies of Un-Common Knowledge: It’s the theme, and the name of, Toronto’s newest film festival. Wisely staying out of the way of Toronto’s other film fest, the M.U.C.K. Film Festival &…
Matt LeBlanc to play a sitcom actor in a new... →
Matt LeBlanc, of Friends/Ed/Joey fame, is teaming up once again with Friends creator David Crane as well as Mad About You producer on a new sitcom called Episodes.
The half-hour sitcom,…
Digging Roots, Buffy Sainte-Marie lead nominees... →
Digging Roots and Buffy Sainte-Marie lead the way as the nominees for the 2009 Aborginal Awards were announced Wednesday in Hamilton.
The awards will mark their eleventh annual ceremony at…
Timewaster of the day: Arial vs. Helvetica →
Typography purists generally treat consider Helvetica-knockoff Arial the same way an exterminator looks at cockroaches, something to be eliminated without prejudice. But how many of these type snobs…
What's stats got to do with it? →
Canada’s black book is up for grabs. The annual Canada Year Book is Statistics Canada’s most popular and best-selling publication, keeping Canadians up-to-date with over 31 topics, including…
Climate policy bust →
The Copenhagen meeting in December from which a successor to
Kyoto was meant to emerge will obviously be a bust. The G20 has at
last caught on that the global economy doesn’t really need…
Manna from heaven →
The combination of strong demand, low interest rates and
great refinancing opportunities are manna from heaven for corporate
treasurers.
Barbara Kay: The Jewish enemy within →
Here’s a first for me: a citation from
the Koran in support of an historically unhappy truth about my people.
Surah 59:14 says of the Jews: “There is much hostility between them:
Their…
Adam Daifallah: The Liberals' slow, painful... →
Of all the traits common to successful
Liberal leaders from Laurier to Chretien, the most vital is competence:
being a good manager of the country’s affairs — or at least appearing
to be. That…
Matt Gurney on Roman Polanski: A rapist, sure, but... →
Full Comment brings you a regular dose of international punditry at its finest. Today, talented journalists — plus Whoopi Goldberg — chimed in from around the world on whether or not Roman…
Do you think the Toronto Star's Christopher Hume... →
Back in August, I awarded Christopher Hume of the Toronto Star a prize for lunatic overstatement when he wrote about Suaad Hagi Mohamud, the Canadian mother who spent two-and-a-half…
So Ignatieff, do you still think Harper's trip to... →
A few days back, when Stephen Harper came back from his White House visit with Barack Obama, Michael Ignatieff dismissed the trip as “amateur hour” foreign relations — in large part because…
Lorne Gunter: A revolution based on a lie →
Thursday will mark the 60th anniversary of communist rule in
mainland China. To mark the occasion, the opinion pages of the National
Post present a week-long examination of communist China’s…
Terry Glavin: What we must promise Afghanistan →
It is heartening to see that the consensus of silence that has united Canada’s political leaders on the Afghanistan question is at long last receiving some public notice. The sound of crickets is…
George Jonas: I'm a liberal. Ignatieff is not →
Last week Rick Salutin used the word
“Narcissieff ” to describe Canada’s Liberal leader, Michael Ignatieff,
in a column. Warranted or not, it struck me as scraping the bottom of
the barrel. Are…
Kelly McParland: And the Garth Turner award goes... →
This week’s Garth Turner Prize, awarded whenever I feel like it for political cement-headedness above and beyond the ordinary, goes to… (drum roll please)…
Gordon Landon!
Gordon is…
Chris Selley's Full Pundit: Canada is big. It's... →
Now, let’s play the feud! Two thoughtful
columns about Canadian politics, and three about what Denis Coderre
hath wrought. In the Ottawa
Citizen, Fen Osler Hampson
looks
back fondly…
Raphael Alexander: Big Hypocrisy in Ontario's... →
Give me your best Dr. Evil voice now: Ontario is going to sue Big Tobacco for “$50 BEEEEEEEELLION DOLLARS.”
Tobacco companies are the last refuge from which government can squeeze…
Kelly McParland: Yo Blair! I didn't pay for this. →
If you want to meet a confirmed capitalist, talk to a reformed left winger.
Bob Rae is the MP for Rosedale, the wealthy downtown Toronto enclave where the average family income is close to…
Palin's 15 minutes running out fast →
The New York Post reports that Sarah Palin’s effort to cash in on her moment of fame are running into rough waters.
Palin’s bookers are said to be asking for $100,000 per speech, but an…
Ruby Dhalla's free money for elderly immigrants →
There’s been some web traffic on a Liberal proposal to allow elderly immigrants to qualify for the Canada Pension Plan after just three years in the country. It’s usually…
L. Ian MacDonald: Ignatieff endangers foundations... →
For Michael Ignatieff, September has been the
cruellest month, and can’t end soon enough. But the potentially fatal
political wounds he has suffered this month are entirely self-inflicted.
…
Recap: Dexter, season 4, episode 1 →
Mini-Review: Dexter’s back with the family plus baby, still wants to kill and can’t sleep. Angel and Maria are doing it. John Lithgow was naked. A lot. Recap: It’s hard to believe this is…
The Thom York/Flea collaboration you've been... →
Thom Yorke is taking a little break from his day job to take some of his solo music on the road.
His band, which will be playing two dates in Los Angeles next week, will include, among…
Gonzales takes on the Blueprint 3 by Jay-Z: If... →
Gonzales is an expatriate Torontonian living in Paris and back in North America for a slew of shows. He’s most famous for helping Feist find her groove on Let It Die and his own solo…
Recap: House M.D., season 6, episode 2 →
Mini Review:
Here’s a little story about gourmet pain management, being your own boss and a screw-up to boot, dick jokes and the hubris of geeks. Medical mystery included.
Recap: Show…
Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis star... →
Back in the days before DVD gag reels, the studios used to issue all the bloopers fit to view on an annual blooper reel. Here is one from 1937, featuring Humphrey Bogart, George Brent, Bette…
Frank Black, Andy Yorke and Mark Mulcahy discuss... →
The Post’s Ben Kaplan on the new Mark Mulcahy tribute project:
Frank Black is in London about to play four sold-out shows with the Pixies, but what’s on his mind is Ciao My Shining Star, a…
CIFF Day Four: Money, Movie Stars, and My Suicide... →
On the ten-year anniversary of the Calgary International Film Festival, I put ten questions to executive director Jacqueline Dupuis. Here’s what she said: NP: First of all, is CIFF…
Recap: Heroes, season 4, episode 3 →
The Post’s Michael Bolen recaps last night’s Heroes: Mini-review: Tedious episode sets stage for future disasters. Claire lets a friend in on her secret, Peter befriends new villain…
'Kate Plus 8': Jon Gosselin fired from TLC reality... →
Jon Gosselin may be making a reality show out his personal life, but he’ll no longer be on a real, organized reality show.
TLC, has announced that effective November 2, the former husband of Kate…
G20: Bureacratic megaproject →
The electoral victory of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and
the rise of Germany’s pro-business Free Democratic Party with 14.5%
of the vote, is being hailed by some as perhaps a bellwether shift
to…
Iran as vital as banks →
The G20 in Pittsburgh issued an accord last week that was the
financial equivalent of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
$1T cash hoard →
With a record trillion dollars of cash sitting on the
sidelines in Canada, and 10 times that much in the United States,
it’s arguable households aren’t taking enough risk to get a decent
return on…
Paul Russell: The week in letters, featuring Judy... →
Every week, the Post receives hundreds
of letters to the editor, providing a snapshot of our readers’
collective state of mind. In the column below, our letters editor
highlights some of the more…
National Post editorial board: There's no logic in... →
We suspect few Canadians share our
enthusiasm for the squabbling that has broken out over the harmonized
sales tax. That’s because any discussion that revolves around something
as dull as a sales…
Joshua Kurlantzick: China a global power at last →
Oct. 1, 2009, will mark the 60th
anniversary of communist rule in mainland China. To mark the occasion,
the opinion pages of the National Post present a week-long examination
of communist China’s…
Dana Stevens: Michael Moore — a clown for social... →
If you already dislike Michael Moore,
Capitalism: A Love Story (Overture Films), his latest documentary/
provocation/performance-piece/decoupage project isn’t likely to win you
over. And if you…
Dan Arnold: Alberta's Wild Rose looks for a leader →
I like following leadership races, maybe even more than general elections. The candidates are less well know, the dynamics are more intriguing, and the results are less predictable. It’s great…
Raphael Alexander: All hail Barack the Divine →
The principal of the New Jersey elementary school
where young students were videotaped singing about President Barack
Obama is not sorry about the video…
Steve Janke: Coderre pulls the rug from under... →
At some point, the people who gush about Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff, ignoring the horrible polls and the
snickering from the ranks of Canada’s media pundits, will have to admit…
