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#463047935 / gettyimages.com Watching W5 on Saturday, and its fawning hour-long profile of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, I was brought back to a time in the 1980s when Tom Hayden was running for state legislature in California. Hayden was a famous 60s radical, then married to Jane Fonda, who was trying to rehabilitate his image, to make himself seem more palatable to voters. Getting him elected wouldn't be easy -- Tom was a bad guy in his youth -- so a gaggle of Democratic political consultants were enlisted to undertake a renovation of sorts, putting putty in the cracks of the foundation, giving him a new high gloss coat of paint. The media campaign included television ads, and a glossy brochure entitled Tom Hayden, Growing Up in America. The brochure featured sad images of racism, segregation, shootings of presidents and preachers. It was meant to explain how Tom Hayden and his politics had been shaped by events in America. Not his fault. He was a...

  I'm not sure who is more excited to see Oprah -- Graham Richardson or Jim Watson. They were both gushing about her on the news yesterday. Our metrosexual mayor was even proudly showing off a Sens jersey with a big O on it. Looked like a big fat zero to me. The stories in the media are completely over the top this morning. Twitter is, well, atwitter, with news that a group of "foreskin" activists are planning to protest her visit because at one point, she supported a cosmetic company that used baby foreskins to create cosmetics. Ewww. This story appears to be somewhat bogus. While the company has admitted that baby penis cast off cells were used in the original research, it states in a press release that it does not use them in the cream itself . They were being used as some kind of plumping agent, perhaps. Ewww. I'm not too concerned about this story, as I am Pro foreskin removal. I had both my boys' chopped off. I have no use for foreskin. A...

As if the CTV National News wasn't fabulous enough, there is word this morning that Seamus O'Regan will be joining the program starting Monday. Apparently, he will be doing a regular segment spotlighting other fabulous people. Like Ben Mulroney. Okay, Craig Oliver isn't replacing him, but he should be. Ginger needs a new gig to take him into his 90s, and a stint on AM would supplement the Old Age Pension quite nicely. I mean nobody ever leaves CTV, right? Uncle Lloyd is still doing standup at W5, never quite answering the first W. Why? Rod Black checked out of the AM Soundstage a few years ago, only to be resurrected at CTV covering the lycra and lace figure skating circuit, surrendering his God given good looks and talent for a gig comparing cod pieces to pantyhose. Seems to me that the last one who got out alive from CTV was Norm Perry. Unless you count all those CTV rejects in the Senate. And poor Craig, well, he's too friggin' old for t...