In our earlier days, we complained that covering Canadian politics had none of the glitz and glam of covering American politics. Americans have got no less than three 24-hour news networks covering quasi-celebrities fighting for the future of the Earth, while we’ve got a few sleepy hosers banging on their desks on CPAC2. The other [...]

Hey, remember this Angelo Persichilli fellow? He’s done roughly one notable thing in his journalism career, and that was writing a column where he made up a bunch of lies, slander and unverifiable claims. Now he’s complaining that bloggers are making up a bunch of lies, slander and unverifiable claims using this crazy new “internet” [...]

First, read the article written by this no-name, editorial-page space-filler, Angelo Persichilli, a man who makes up for his silly name with a God-given knack for juicy gossip! And by “juicy gossip”, I mean “making up shit”.
The premise of this world-exclusive scoop is that Bob Rae, Ruby Dhalla, Carolyn Bennett (who FOLLOWS MAPLERAG ON TWITTER, [...]

Alright, let’s break down the players in this story in case you’ve been in a coma for 23 years:
This Hour Has 22 Minutes was a popular CBC news-parody political-satire series. About 10 years ago. Apparently it’s still on! Honestly, have any of you watched 22 Minutes lately? It’s basically a horrible, walking zombie corpse of [...]

Sorry that we’re a few days late getting to this one – we were busy preparing for the important, officially-recognized federal holiday of Sir Wilfrid Laurier Day, which is a mere two days away dontcha know! – but Jim Coyle managed to puke up a pretty ridiculously over-the-top column in the Star a few days [...]