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(May 13, 2015) Not having had a podium finish all year, Red Bull Team Principal, Christian Horner, has defined his team’s season thus far with his non-stop whinging about the inferiority of the Renault engine. It culminated with him saying after the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday that, because of Renault, the 2015 season was […]
Prologue Elizabeth May’s intention in her speech to the Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner on the weekend was to run with some edgy humour. She’s totally capable of it. She can be funny and she is smart. Sadly for Ms. May, it came across as all edge and no humour. Your Working Girl can empathsize with […]
Please believe Your Working Girl when she says from the bottom of her heart that she is not trying to tell you what to do. She doesn’t give out fundraising tips anymore. She finds there are enough fundraising how-to books in print to choke a horse. In them, you will find the latest instructions on how to […]
“CBC failed to provide its staff a workplace “free from disrespectful and abusive behaviour,” says the report of an independent investigator hired to examine the corporation’s handling of the behaviour of former radio and television host Jian Ghomeshi,” CBC reported on its website Thursday afternoon. Does anyone remember the name Ken Finkleman? He was also popular with CBC staffers. Here’s a Q […]
(March 13, 2015) We’re off to the races again! Thank goodness. While the temperatures are still freezing in Eastern Canada, in our imaginations we can bake in the sun at the Australian Grand Prix on the weekend. For those of you who haven’t been paying too much attention since I wrote my F1 season wrap-up […]
Yesterday, I wrote a blog about Jesse Brown, the Batman journalist flying all over Gotham demanding we listen to him about the state of Canadian media. Fine. I’ll listen to anyone for a few minutes and I think the points he’s making about needing better media critique in this country are good ones. But the problem […]
In the 1989 movie, Blaze, starring Paul Newman as Earl Long, the “finest governor of the great state of Louisiana” and introducing the incredible Lolita Davidovitch as the burlesque-dancing love of his life, Blaze Starr (not her real name), there’s a scene in which Blaze’s mother imparted a few words of wisdom to her daughter just […]
On Thursday, January 8th, a woman waited on a cold Toronto street for former CBC host, Jian Ghomeshi, to emerge from a court room and, amid people making catcalls, she shouted “castrate him,” according to the Globe and Mail. On Wednesday, two “Muslim extremists” barged into an editorial meeting of the French satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo […]
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