Who is Mitt Romney?
Mitt Romney’s favourite game is flip-flops and he constantly changes his position on numerous issues that it is hard to tell who this guy is. The best description of him…
2012
4633…News Flash: Romney Against Gay Marriage
It is in every newspaper on the planet this morning. Every newspaper on the planet also reported the following: The sky is blue. Water is wet. The Toronto Maple Leafs…
Accepting Failure in Afghanistan
We went in full of self-righteous anger, the images of jetliners flying into office towers burned into our brains. The idea was to eradicate al-Qaeda and topple the Taliban government…
Mom’s workhouse: How one woman put 11 kids to work for the greater good.
This Mother’s Day will mark the 27th straight without a mother to celebrate. That’s almost half my life without a mother, and you’d think that the memories of her would…
May 13: Acadienouvelle
About a week ago, a reader asked me to comment on the quality of Acadienouvelle. So, on a Sunday morning, here’s a general impression. The standard of journalism is clearly…
4632…Today Is A Bad Day To Die
As if there was ever a good day. Actually today, yesterday, last week were bad days to die for your family. Pourquoi you ax? Becuz today is Mother’s Day and…
Let’em Eat Cake
When the going gets tough, the tough tell the weak to “shove off.” Apparently overlooking the fact that Britain is officially in a double-dip recession and wracked with unemployment, the…
Reappropriating Mother’s Day
Forget Hallmark and Big Flora — Mother’s Day is (and always has been) for radicals: Mother’s Day began in America in 1870 when Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mother’s Day…
When Does An Assembly Become Unlawful?
Because we were rather busy yesterday preparing a small celebration marking my sister-in-law’s retirement at an enviably young age, I am just getting caught up on my Saturday newspaper reading.…
Lessons From Europe
Tony Burman offers some important insights into the current situation in Europe. He suggests that there are similarities between 1912 and 2012: No inkling yet of the Great Wars to…
How can members represent their constituents?
We here, along with a number of other concerned Canadians have been pointing out the escalating decline of our democratic institutions, our access to accurate and timely information, the increasingly…
Coastal discouragement
Before being elected government in 2001, BC Liberals promised to appoint an independent inquiry into the “mismanagement of BC Ferries.” That promise, like many others made by Gordon Campbell, fell…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul…
I Need A Million!
John Baird helped out the Canadian Federation of Chabad Lubavitch by helping them get 1 million dollars in federal money. The money that went to Chabad was out of a…
No Nature-Deficit Disorder For Conor In Fredericton,The Green City
Conor enjoying some time at the Saint John River All photos were taken within a short walking distance from our home in Fredericton, New Brunswick The Green City My younger…
Happy Mother’s Day
I came across this speech that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave after receiving an award form a New York Women’s group on Thursday and it seemed like a good…
Ethnic Cleansing, Divine Opposition to Student Strikes, and Other Media Myths
I have avoided weighing in on the Quebec student strike until now, mostly because I don’t live in that province and I didn’t really feel I had anything substantial to…