1. Politics

Who wants to be the next mayor?

It’s election season in Ottawa — you may have noticed the signs going up recently — and I sat down with Mark Sutcliffe, Catherine McKenney and Bob Chiarelli to get a sense of their

Puisqu’il faut dire quelque chose

It should be possible to respect certain elements of a person’s life and not otherwise care very much about who they were. Queen Elizabeth never wanted that job. Which, by the way,

Playing poor

UPDATE, a day later: It turns out most people have mixed feelings on this issue. It’s good to direct attention to legislated poverty but nobody likes performative activism, poverty porn or political

The problem with targeted violence

I haven’t said a whole lot about the sudden and frankly puzzling (to say nothing of stupid) firing of Lisa LaFlamme. Mostly because enough people are rising to defend her and I