Heat Screed

On Tuesday here in Toronto it was the heat, the unbearable hellacious inferno heat. Unrelenting in its hold on you. Stultifying to the degree that it wasn’t comfortable sitting outside even after the sun went down. You want to stroll out for some ice cream? In this weather?! kind of heat. Continue reading

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