CBC spoof of SUN TV ad
Remember that promotional ad for the new SUN TV news channel? Well, a CBC show has come up with a satirical spoof of the ad: I have to admit, I laughed out loud -- it was pretty funny. It's good...
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Frances Russell, the Marci McDonald of the Winnipeg Free Press
This Pulitzer Prize shoo-in by Frances Russell tells an interesting story. Russell was writing about SUN TV, the proposed all-news channel by Quebecor. She starts: The plot for Fox News North, the tag...
View ArticleJohn Stossel's Fox News Channel Fourth of July special
Yesterday Fox News Channel aired a one-hour Fourth of July special. One of the segments was on freedom of speech, and John Stossel, the host of the show, interviewed me for it. Here's the segment as it...
View ArticleMichael Ignatieff praises China, criticizes Canada's human rights
Here's my Op-Ed from today's National Post, on Michael Ignatieff's repulsive speech in Beijing: Speaking false praise to power Michael Ignatieff used to take a tough line on China's dictatorship -- not...
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The truth about Omar Khadr
Here's an op-ed that I wrote about Omar Khadr for the Sun newspapers. Instead of the junior high yearbook photo that most media use (it was provided to them by Khadr's mother -- seriously), here are a...
View ArticleWho does the Toronto Star consider to be the "fringe"?
As I've written before, watching the mainstream media criticize Quebecor's proposed SUN TV news channel is like a Rorschach Test: given that the proposed channel hasn't broadcast a single minute yet,...
View ArticleRandom House starts apologizing for Marci McDonald's errors
The first letter of apology has been issued by Random House's New York head office, as a result of Marci McDonald's countless errors in her bigoted book The Armageddon Factor. Most of her factual...
View ArticleHe's in love
Read this out-take from Ignatieff's bus tour. Let us put aside, for a moment, the strangeness of Ignatieff using a rural bus tour to announce arts funding (clearly the man went off script). Instead of...
View ArticleHe's in love
Read this out-take from Ignatieff's bus tour. Let us put aside, for a moment, the strangeness of Ignatieff using a rural bus tour to announce arts funding (clearly the man went off script). Instead of...
View ArticleMel Gibson
Is there anyone of us who, if our worst moments were secretly caught on tape (and then edited to make them especially unappealling), would come across much better than Mel Gibson did? I know; Gibson...
View ArticleOn Conrad Black
I've written about Conrad Black's prosecution a few times in various publications. Here's something I wrote for Canadian Lawyer magazine a while back that I think is relevant today: Role reversal and...
View ArticleTo hell with the long-form census
I can't dig up my original 1996 Sun column wherein I announced my refusal to complete the long-form census that year -- the online archives I can find don't go back that far. But I'm sure I made the...
View ArticleWhat kind of Ignatieff is Michael Ignatieff?
I don't know about you, but other than learning more about the census, the most interesting thing in Ottawa is getting to know what kind of Ignatieff Michael Ignatieff is. What kind of Ignatieff is he?...
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Ali and his amulet
I wrote at some length about Ali Tahmourpour in my book, Shakedown. That's him at the left, proudly displaying an amulet that he claimed he had to wear as an RCMP cadet, as part of Islam. Of course,...
View ArticleShould we build a mega-mosque at Ground Zero?
Here's my latest Sun column. I'd love your comments. Monument to jihad I’ve got this great idea: Let’s open a shooting range next to the L’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. What, too soon after the...
View ArticleWill your daughters play with "Burka Barbie"?
Here's my latest column in the Sun: Time to face facts on burkas Some 54% of Canadians want to ban the burka, the head-to-toe shroud worn by a tiny minority of Muslim women in the West, but the common...
View ArticleIf politicians designed a car...
...it would look just like the Chevy Volt. Oh -- they did. And it does. Here's my latest column for Sun Media: Taxpayer re-Volt GM — that stands for Government Motors now — has announced a car that...
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Prosecute Greenpeace
I love free speech, even for nuts like Greenpeace. But committing crimes to raise money is not free speech. And that's what Greenpeace does. They're not shy about it -- quite the opposite. They...
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Omar Khadr threatens his guards with vengeance
On Monday, the judge hearing Omar Khadr's murder trial in Guantanamo Bay ruled that Khadr's taped confessions can be admitted at trial. Canada's little terrorist is as good as done. But what remains to...
View ArticleWho decides who gets to come live in Canada?
Who do you think should decide who gets to come to live in Canada? Should it be the criminals and terrorists who smuggles hundreds of people to our shores? Or how about three Supreme Court judges, back...
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