From Auntie Antonia of the Toronto Star:Nobody should have been taken aback on Saturday to see some 150 stripped loins wheeling past Exhibition Place.It was at Coronation Park, just outside…
From Auntie Antonia of the Toronto Star: Nobody should have been taken aback on Saturday to see some 150 stripped loins wheeling past Exhibition Place. It was at Coronation Park,…
Skimming my home-town newspapers’ web sites I noticed that this is Prom weekend for some of the high schools in the area. Tomorrow is Father’s Day. I’m not sure if…
Greece faces the unenviable choice between accepting the terms of “the Troika” and facing the continuation and deepening of a socio-economic crises, which includes five years of negative growth, over…
…with the kids, Nana, Babs and Bjorn. To my great surprise, it’s been a torrential downpour since our arrival. Hill’s open, Shogun closed, old campaign office is now a Subway.…
Gord had better come back soon or this crowd in gonna get ugly. Real ugly. Crashing scooter and clashing canes ugly! One can feel the tension. Man. (0) Trashy, Ottawa,…
Stuart Mackinnon June 16, 2012 citycaucus.com The Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival brings paddlers on False Creek Why not enjoy the 24th Annual Dragon Boat Festival in all this…
If you are a religious person you know that life is sacred and only god can decide when and how you will die. You also know that god has a…
… at the Lightfoot concert. Some of the peeps in scooters were getting rowdy. Police weren’t called. (0) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
The latest Conservative scandal reminded me of another scam that has been around for a very long time. I wonder if there were badly spelled emails going around about it?…
Regular readers know that I hate the youth of today: the green hair, the piercings, the stupid beards,and the fact they listen to disco music again after my generation did…
On 15 June, our first day at the organized Rio+20 events, a group of about 30 Friends of the Earth International delegates headed out on a bus to Santa Cruz,…
Nothing succeeds like success, and nothing fails like failure. We Liberals have blown through four leaders in recent years (I count Bob Rae among the four because he has been…
Efficiency has no allegiances and your beliefs are meaningless if you do nothing about them. These are two messages for the federal Liberals in Canada and they come from Tea…
As usual, the mainstream media foams at the mouth about a possible snap election in Ontario, but barely reports on what’s in the budget itself. If it weren’t for the…
something sacred pulses in the bodies of the dancing children as their ribbons wind and unwind around the Maypole, as their feet so playfully touch, leave and then return to…
This was taken a few days ago, when the bee balm was just beginning to bloom. Now a wide swath of the little front garden is full of yellow flowers…
The Harper government decided to attack Thomas Mulcair on the issue of Canadian support for additional IMF resources to deal with the euro area crisis, implying that Canadian taxpayers should…
Just like Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Dalton McGuinty is cramming major changes into a bloated budget document, hoping to force the NDP into supporting his budget rather than risk another…
First, the news.Remember back to May 25 when the news was that the Syrian government had slaughtered a hundred civilians in a place called Houla? It was a big story,…
