Author: Peter Lowry

It is a long way from Mar-a-Lago Resort in Palm Springs, Florida to roof-top dining in Calgary, Alberta. Nor is former president Donald Trump likely to be confused with Alberta premier Jason Kenney. They are just kindred spirits. It might be that Jason Kenney enjoys being linked to the much

The Ontario legislature is in session this beautiful weekend. Doug Ford and his conservative henchmen are attacking our right to free speech. They want to use the ‘Notwithstanding Clause’ of our constitutional rights and freedoms to silence third-party advertising close to elections. They do not like to be made to

Ontario’s new democrats see victory only in their dreams. They are at the fork in the road of Robert Frost’s poem: The Road Not Taken. It is not a question of which path offers the accident of Bob Rae’s NDP government of the 1990s. It is the reality of the

You ask where bigotry and intolerance come from. It comes from being different. Does what you are wearing define you? Does your language speak for you? Does your religion demand of you? The simple fact is being different can make you a target for intolerance and acting out. I was

Is it alright to debase and deface a statue? Are we all given the right to do thousands of dollars in damage to statues of people who are long dead? Does the original mould for Egerton Ryerson’s statue still exist? And surely there is a law against defacing public property

You are not supposed to snicker when a Trump supporter tells you his hero is going to win the presidency in 2024. Nor are you supposed to sound surprised when you are told that the supreme court might just re-instate him as early as this August. The only good news

Chantal Hébert of the Toronto Star is no William Shakespeare. A good writer but sometimes a bit too Quebec-centred, I was annoyed at her column the other day questioning why John A’s still on a pedestal. Sir John A. Macdonald is on a pedestal (actually, under a statue, it is

Having once worked for Bell Canada, you find out very quickly why Bell is among the most hated of Canadian companies. It is the arrogance. Bell Canada shares its arrogant attitude with other telecoms and communications companies. Whether you are dealing with Rogers, Shaw, Telus, or Bell matters little. There

The new look for Babel-on-the-Bay was not intended. Moving an 11-year-old website to a new server proved more difficult than expected. It took some very good computer professionals to get the job done. All I have to say is that we have come a long way from that first DOS

Why would that message pop up on your computer? You know, and I know, there is no such thing as free! It little matters whether the message was from Microsoft, Google or Apple. These companies all do it. In this case it was Microsoft. The company is the most arrogant

The one point that the Netflix series The Crown showed early and clearly was the terrible ignorance of English royalty. It is the lack of street smarts, the inability to draw on experience. And no wonder they find their lives so boring. There is too much they do not know.

Screw you Justin, and the horse you rode in on. You have lost all rights to the name Trudeau. You have belittled and betrayed your father. You have denounced Pierre Trudeau’s legacy. You have pandered to those small-minded, bigoted politicians in Quebec who want to keep their people imprisoned on

Our prime minister must realize that U.S. President Joe Biden and his secretary of state might be no more adept at dealing with China than Canada. To ask the president to add the two Michaels to the list of things for the U.S. have to do could be downright silly.