Tag: Musings

This, plus a lot of shuttered businesses still.

“Droll thing life is — that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself — that comes too late — a crop of inextinguishable regrets.” From The Heart of Darkness.

Sorry.

They live in interesting times, Ontario’s political leaders do. The Liberals need to accommodate the NDP if they want to stay alive. But if they give away too much, they risk being seen as weak, and having traded fiscal probity for self-interest. The PCs have relegated themselves to the sidelines,

I was taught by Jesuits. So was my Dad. Jesuits taught me about social justice, trade unionism, liberation theology, the power of words, fighting intolerance, and real liberalism. The new pope being a Jesuit? That’s a big, big deal.

[The scene: this week, in or near the hallways of power in Ottawa. Brad Lavigne, who helped propel the NDP to a historic victory, and Jean Chrétien, the winningest Liberal leader, are suddenly face to face. They shake hands.] Lavigne: Did you get a chance to watch the ‘Jack’ movie

Very sorry to hear he’s packing it in.

…did it really happen?

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Is this place coming back? As recently as two years ago, it assuredly wasn’t. The thousands of winter-weary Canadians who trekked here every March saw plenty of evidence to suggest the once-great United States had ceased to be great. It was in deep economic trouble. Florida’s

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Now, before you get all mad at me for having the gall to say nice things about the Jack Layton movie in these pages of all places, I respectfully suggest you get mad at Charles Adler first. After all, I merely LIKED Jack. Adler — the prairie arch-conservative and slayer

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A great appointment, and for someone I am quite fond of, too.  He will serve the country very well.

Worth keeping in mind, however, that this is the same guy who saw Rocco Rossi and Tony Genco as the start of a massive migration of Italian-Canadians to the Ontario PCs, and the end of the Ontario Liberals, too.

Yeah, we’re a world-class city. Yep.

Son One and I listened to the Toronto Star’s John Honderich on Metro Morning this morning.  He was on to provide the company’s spin on letting go a whole bunch of employees and cutting back at Canada’s biggest newspaper. Two things. First: and Son One said it best, as he

…but you knew that already. Please, please, please God, make him the Right’s standard-bearer in the next municipal election. Please.

Seein’ ‘em late tonight at the ‘Shoe, with Teenage Bottlerocket.  Ramonesy pop-punk perfection.

There are no bylines in the Toronto Star’s print edition today.  Journalists there have pulled their bylines, as their collective agreement permits, to protest cuts and layoffs earlier this week. You can debate whether it is an effective tactic or not.  Personally, I mourn for the loss of every newspaper