If you don't have kids, you are missing out on something more than merely procreating, or bleeding money, or any of the other challenges and triumphs that come with being a parent. Namely, we are living in a golden era of kid movies and TV, and it isn't even close....
Many of us remember the crystal-clear-yet-somewhat-embarrassing moment when we caught ourselves struggling to see a nipple on a scrambled pay-per-view channel broadcasting an adult film. Or, we can still feel the weird adrenaline rush when we found our dad’s playboy...
I’m old enough to remember when death had the final word. Last week, a motion by Paul Ainslie (Scarborough-Guildwood) to rename the Centennial Park stadium in Etobicoke after the late Rob Ford received public support from Toronto mayor Olivia Chow, and every...
You might have been one of those kids who, especially in hindsight, had the TV as your babysitter. I was. And that wasn’t automatically a bad thing, especially if your babysitter was Mr. Dressup. That’s why I couldn’t help but get choked up while watching the Prime...
It happens every…single…time. The other day my news feed was littered with stories about the public inquiry into the Emergencies Act declaration. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had just wrapped up his testimony, and his critics were livid. People who hate Trudeau, and...
Mike Terrigno, the Calgary-based restaurant owner who admitted in an email that he urinated on items belonging to fixer-turned-whistleblower David Wallace, sent this writer another email last night to inform me that he was suing David Wallace for defamation. He did...
In 2010, writer Martin Patriquin wrote a cover story for Maclean’s Magazine that claimed Quebec was the most corrupt province in Canada. The piece was immediately controversial. Then-Premier Jean Charest had just wrapped up two days of testimony at an inquiry into...
New York Attorney General Leticia James’ quarter-billion dollar lawsuit against the Trump Organization came with the following caveat; every member of the Trump family was given a court-ordered financial monitor. The purpose of the financial monitor was to make sure...
Streisand Effect, anyone? It recently reported that Jesse Brown’s Ratfucker pod series had resulted in a lawsuit against Brown’s company, Canadaland Inc., and David Wallace for libel. The owners of Shane Homes, Shane Qenzel and his mother Edith Wenzel, who were...