Political junky that I am, I can’t get enough of the analysis being generated in the aftermath of the Alberta election, which saw Premier Alison Redord and the Progressive Conservatives defy virtually all the polls to beat Danielle Smith and her Wildrose Alliance party. It’s truly...

I know that Yom Hashoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day – has come and gone for another year, but I want people to see this video. It was produced entirely by Matthew Pollock, 13, a Grade 8 student at the Toronto Heschel School (and one of Primo’s best...

Alberta, it turns out, isn’t the out and out redneck haven that some of us easterners might have thought it was. And it looks like Alberta’s Progressive Conservative dynasty will live to fight another day. I was going to write about how Premier Alison Redford and...

When Rob Ford ran for mayor of Toronto in 2010, after other more moderate and polished conservatives declined to throw their hats in the ring, there was a lot of hyperventilation on the part of lefties and progressives. After all, here was a guy who as a...

Ever since I can remember, I’ve read and loved newspapers. I got hooked on the comics pages when I was 5 or 6, migrated to sports, and then graduated to the rest of the paper. My parents subscribed to the Toronto Star and the weekly Canadian...

During economic downturns, people have a tendency to turn on one another. We blame victims and eat our own. I’ve been alive long enough to have seen it more than once before. It’s wrong, but I get it. The urge to help one’s fellow human during...

As my beloved Raptors wind down yet another lost season, and with the Leafs mercifully having been put out of their misery a few weeks ago, it’s time to turn my attention to the sports of summer. Here in Toronto, that means Blue Jays baseball –...