Railforded

Pretty much a month late, and in the early morning of the third day of a blistering hot long weekend, the Ontario minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Steve Clark, did as close to the right thing as he’d left himself the option to do by resigning his cabinet post. Continue reading

Bleeding Out

One sign that a political scandal is careening beyond the control of even the savviest of comms machines?

Sitting down to write about it and you don’t even know where to start.

Good god. There’s blood everywhere! I can’t even tell where it’s coming from. Continue reading

Afterglower

With Olivia Chow elected to be the next mayor of Toronto, surely we can write the final chapter of the interminable, meandering, wholly unsatisfactory, What was it even about? book of the John Tory era. Can’t we? He’s done, isn’t he? The rock has definitively crushed him in his one last attempt to roll it up the hill of relevancy. Hasn’t it? Continue reading