by James Di Fiore | Mar 1, 2020 | Opinions
I’ve never been one to hang my hat on an ideology. If I had to choose an ideology, it would probably be an incessant preference for moderation, and a centrist approach to governance. My detractors often label me a perennial fence-sitter, and to be honest, in today’s...
by James Di Fiore | Feb 20, 2020 | Podcast
Blackball founder James Di Fiore went on the Dean Blundell Podcast yesterday to discuss the death of Christie Blatchford, the ongoing wet’suwet’en blockades, as well as the Toronto Raptors and their playoff hopes. You can hear the entire episode HERE. NEW...
by James Di Fiore | Dec 13, 2019 | Opinions
Shhh…quiet. Do you hear that? It is the media walking on eggshells as they report the new saga of Jody Wilson-Raybould. You can hear the crunching from Vancouver to Toronto, without even trying. I’m not so inclined to do the same. Today Wilson-Raybould is...
by James Di Fiore | Nov 9, 2019 | Opinions
In 2014, Sam Harris and Ben Affleck locked horns on Real Time With Bill Maher over Islam, which Harris now-famously decried as the “mother lode of bad ideas.” During this tense exchange Affleck bristled, summoning a pillar of progressivism by feigning offence at...
by James Di Fiore | Oct 30, 2019 | Opinions
In my lifetime, and certainly in my time covering politics, I have never seen a political saga as transformational as the unceremonious removal of Patrick Brown as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Through the nastiness and orchestration, we can...
