Happy change of clocks weekend. Happy up to 50 cm of snow weekend, too. Fifty! That is 20 inches! Sunday, day of thrown out backs. And one less hour to get over it.  •  Chantal Hebert, still channeling Rene Levesque's shrug, has a good column in The Star on the unfortunately named NAFTA-gate …

Who the hell decided leap day gets added to February? Why can't we have an extra long June? Why can't we have two Christmas Days? No, February that sucky whiner of a month needed the extra day. So here we are. Not in March.  •  Update: corroboration Cadmanesque? Are we now going to question a …

This weekend needs it's own name - the last weekend of February when there's still a crud-dispensing storm or two floating across the continent just those jerks in grade six holding you down giving you a cherry belly. Cabin Fever Weekend. What to do? Wash the car in your shorts despite the sleet …

Three faces of angry  •  What a gorgeous photo atop The New York Times's report on the Clemens testimony before Congress yesterday. The night's sports talk radio was hot with the response of fans as to the treatment one of the greatest of all time received as well as the treatment one of the …

I don't know if Justice David Jenkins was a Grit or a Tory in his pre-bench life but he is a fine judge. He sat on the hearing I was involved with which led to the recognition that political discrimination had to end in Canada's last hold out for Victorian values, Prince Edward Island. I think my …

All my life I had been looking forward to January 2008 and now it's gone:  •  Dirt coming.  •  The Hall of Fame Game at Cooperstown was announced this week and it will be the last. Here's what it looked like in 2006.  •  Google's losing ad money and Yahoo's about to be bought out. It's over. Back …

I met a person whose body and chattles weighed in at under six pounds this week. Amazing stuff people. Like carrying a shoe around. What else did I notice this week?  •  When some kid does her masters thesis on me, there will be something of a puzzle to solve so I better help her out. Yes, that is …

This is almost as sad as neo-cons crying about being brought before a human rights tribunal to answer to a complaint rather than fighting for liberty's cause with a little pep and vim. Nothing sadder than a vimless neo-con unless...  •  “"It’s not about Tony," he said, his voice even, flat. “You …

Folk say this is about privacy but it is really about taboos. Without open records, this can happen:  •  “ "I was recently involved in a conversation with a High Court judge who was telling me of a case he had dealt with," Alton said during the Dec. 10 debate. "It involved the normal birth of …