In the early part of last year, when one of my friends who was working on George Abbott’s leadership campaign called to say how much he appreciated my perspectives through the campaign, I laughed. “Why are you laughing at me, Al? That’s not very nice!” he said. “Because if you and the Falcon people had [...]

It speaks volumes that the Republican nomination is so hotly contested: everyone knows its winner will stand against the most monumental failure since Jimmy Carter–and therein lies the allure. What if the President falters badly, can any Republican get elected? Even the worst of the Republican candidates are skilled debaters and very fast on their [...]

Journalism, when practiced with principles, is one of the finest crafts. There is no other vocation which affords one the opportunity to provide the public their inherent right to know–what in these days, perversely, has become a gift. Along the way, you earn your right to tell a story and your reputation builds. Or, you [...]

Amid the celebrations, typically Canadian, of the slap on the wrist the Shafia family murderers received yesterday, no one, as yet, has addressed the elephant in the room. How could this have happened in Canada? Oh, we’ve seen crimes of this kind before. A rabid Sikh renegade killing his wife and pretending through crocodile tears [...]

Welcome to ‘Black Friday’. No, the market hasn’t crashed–yet… There is no update to the ‘Batman’ series. No national mourning. Giorgio Armani isn’t switching from earth tones. The day of the euro-trash suit isn’t about to return. Instead, the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation, in the always missing wisdom of their perpetual fight with any non-NDP [...]

What a travesty the mill fire has been on the tight-knit community of Burns Lake. Many of the native aboriginal people of the area were employed there and will surely suffer as a result of the devastation. So what does the Premier do? She hikes her high heels up there and stands for some shameless [...]

There was a tremendous methodology–and intelligence  to Muhammad Ali’s ‘Rope-a-Dope’. If you let your opponents fire their best punches early, and you can sustain the hits, then knocking them out becomes routine. Even top contenders lost badly. Amazingly, Smokin’ Joe Frazier (a far more devastating puncher than Ali–but not better boxer) fell pray to this [...]

Imagine, if you will, a Massachusetts politician so dizzily wealthy that the common folk can’t relate to him. How does a quarter of a billion dollars grab you? Someone who has served his country by committing to the support of charity work like no other; someone who has redefined political leadership in his state; someone [...]

John Adams, one of the fathers of American confederation, once remarked about a fellow progenitor, Thomas Paine, that “…without the pen of the author of ‘Common Sense,’ the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.” Mr. Paine, who emigrated from England in 1774 to fight for a revolution which few truly understood, wrote [...]

Let me tell you about a guy named Merv Adey. He’s one of my long-time and most loyal readers. He leans left, I don’t. We’ll agree on some things. but not all–far from it. His background is completely different from mine. In point of fact, we don’t have a whole lot in common. But his [...]