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Mulcair is threatening to pull out of any debate that Harper ain't at.  Already, a tide of outrage is rising on twitter.  Democracy is being defiled!!! and so forth.  Mulcair would be wise to ignore it. Catering to that tiny sliver of the nation's citizenry  who are immersed in its federal politics is profitless.  Its like trying to service a few thousand high maintenance girlfriends. Exhausting, and a money sucker.  So how will this play to the wider audience of the unwashed and apathetic?   That is, the target audience?  Well, probably not badly.  Mulcair wants to be Prime Minister, not one of the also-rans.  So why waste time arguing with losers over scraps? Fight the guy you're out to replace!  That's the thinking behind the move, as far as I can figure it.  So: smart or stupid?  Right now I'd file it as dirty but effective. As for the LPC response, well I hope it doesn't involve whining about how unfair life is. ...

This has risks for all parties.  The risks for the 2nd and 3rd parties are obvious.  They might run out of dough.  But it also has a downside for the CPC.  More is not always better when it comes to bombarding the airwaves with attack ads.  Once you've reached the saturation point you're just wasting money  And, remember, these guys are terrible when they don't have a script.  Now they have twice as much script to write, and airheads like Kory Teneycke are going to be the auteurs.  

Ezra argues: There are tens of thousands of inactive lawyers like me in Canada. They include politicians like Peter MacKay and Thomas Mulcair. Sometimes these politician-lawyers are polite. Sometimes they aren’t. Two years ago, my fellow member of the Law Society of Alberta, an opposition politician named Rachel Notley, compared the Alberta Energy Regulator to a “banana republic”. It’s a quasi-judicial tribunal, like the human rights commission. But it’s unthinkable that the Law Society would have prosecuted her for being “discourteous” to a government agency. Because we live in a democracy and value public debate. A rebuttal from the proceeding transcripts: And on Ezra's various misrepresentations: For example Ezra claimed that Mr. Chak was a "Muslim immigrant ": And finally, my favorite bit from the decision: If I can I will upload the entire document later. And later is now now.

Ezra's back in Dutch with the Alberta Law Society for an alleged breach of their professional standards.  He writes in his own defense: To my knowledge the decision to prosecute me is unprecedented.  ...I’m not even a practicing lawyer. I’m a journalist who happens to be trained in the law.  Well, no, this is not the case.  From the proceedings of his appeal, some words from R. Sharma on behalf of the complaintant: I think he's referring to Lund V. Boissoin , which wound up in 2012 .

The world should have ended the next morning.  There was really nothing left to say, rock & roll wise.

@TheRebelTV @ezralevant @MarissaSemkiw First rat to leave the sinking ship. — Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) July 19, 2015

I was sitting in my favorite workin' man's pub in The Scar when it hit!  Sideways rain, hail, patio umbrellas falling over!  The works! Total fuckin' Apocalypse! Later, making my way South down Markham road through the wreckage, I saw this! This isn't the tree that fell at Lawrence and Scarborough Golf Club Road that everyone's talking about.  No!  This is ANOTHER TREE!  In a POORER PART OF SCARBOROUGH that the Media Party pays no attention to.  BUT TREES STILL FALL HERE!  whether the CBC or anyone else cares or not! And I actually sat down at the bus shelter that this tree had fallen on top of, and I could hear ominous creeking and cracking noises.  This sucker could give way any time!  And its laying across live wires, so innocent bus riders underneath could get crushed and electrocuted all at once!  OMG!!!  OMG!!!  OMG!!! But we're tough out here in The Scar , which we also call The Bro (for reasons I won't elucidate at th...

I wrote about this back in May.  I said: So there's an T.O. East End Newspaper called   Your Ward News .  From what I gather its mostly a direct mail affair; the publisher, a guy named Leroy St. Germaine, has Canada Post deliver it to folks down in Ward 31 (The Beaches).  It has apparently always been  a bit flaky/racist , but the last couple of issues have seen a guy named James Sears gradually taking over, until recently he was appointed "Editor in Chief". And he has taken the publication  "Full Nazi" :  articles promoting holocaust denial by old Heritage Front members; articles praising Adolf Hitler; articles promoting "white pride" . The works. Your Ward has published a few more issues since then, and it remains nasty stuff.  You can go look through the links above if you want; or you can read this post by WK, which shows a few of the worst bits.  One thing that's changed, though, is the space devoted to ads.  May had over two...

A stub of a story here: A report by a Mi’kmaq scholar denounces the controversial Mother Canada statue. The statue is part of a war memorial proposed for a national part in Cape Breton, N.S. Critics say the statue will pave over a pristine part of the Cape Breton Highlands. The Mi’kmaq say it will also pave over Aboriginal rights and title. The full study  here .  From it:  If the proposed Mother Canada development were to proceed, any future use of the area and any future exercise of any Aboriginal and Treaty Rights by the L’nu would be extinguished. This would have a tremendous impact on the aboriginal and treaty right of the L’nu to hunting, fishing, gathering of medicines and practicing their culture in a place that is clearly significant both culturally and spiritually for the L’nuk. And my favorite bit: • If the project is to proceed, a starting point in accommodating the concerns of the L’nuk people would be to change the design of the Mother Canada statue. Most L’...

Its' your time, CPC MP Wai Young.  5...4...3...2...

Was hanging around downtown today, and I will say that South American women really really know how to stuff a tight t-shirt.  That is all.

I think this graphic (which looks much better when you click on it) puts the whole "Mother Canada" statue debate in its proper perspective. Chris Selley is right!

No word of a lie, two of my biggest child-hood heroes were Bill Cosby and Woody Allen.  In grade four my teacher played an  LP of Cosby's stand-up routine on the last day before summer break because  he had nothing more to teach us and it kept us quiet.  That's what got me into him; I think it was The Chickenheart story.  So I bought a copy of "To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With" a week later (I was nine), and within a year I had collected all his LPs. Woody Allen of course I knew from his early movies, and later his New Yorker pieces.  He did stand-up a  bit as well, and I collected one or two of his albums, but it was never his thing. They were, I thought at the time, the two funniest men who ever lived.  I still think that.  And Cosby's racial philosophy was intriguing .  And Allen once wrote the truest thing anyone has ever said about the world of post-secondary education: "Don't take anything where they make you read Beowul...

If Greece says no, then expect negative growth in Canada for the remainder of 2015.  If Greece says yes, expect zero to negative growth in Canada for the remainder of 2015. If either Greece says no or Greece says yes, and Chinese stocks continue to tumble, expect negative to really negative growth for the remainder of 2015 and into 2016. Get out the old shot-gun, and be prepared to eat your boots for the extra calories.