people who are reputed to hold cabinet jobs

The minister of Canadian Heritage — for that is indeed what she is, and we forget so easily, yet we mustn’t — will be at the National Ballet School tomorrow, just down the street from the sprawling headquarters of the mighty Rogers communications-and-blogging empire, to announce funding to 16 arts organizations. We get to spend the night speculating madly about what constitutes a fund-worthy arts organization for this government.