Still thousands without power
Having our own furnace break down on the Sunday before Christmas, and anxiously awaiting the repairman at midnight as the temperature in the house dropped lower and lower, I could…
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Praying for peace
Pope Francis would have agreed with John Lennon (and Francis is likely the first pope since John XXIII who would have done so): Pope Francis, celebrating his first Christmas as…
Merry Christmas
“ And one more:
Playing politics while Toronto freezes in the dark
Toronto mayor-in-name-only Rob Ford is refusing to call what is happening in Toronto “an emergency”: Officials played down questions about why Toronto hadn’t declared a state of emergency. Mr. Ford…
Great line of the day
Dan Savage on the War on Christmas pity party: Sarah Palin and Bill O’Reilly and Fox News and the Family Research Council and the woman who allegedly punched another woman…
Oh, so its for my own good, is it? How thoughtful of you!
Canada Post CEO Chopra thinks I’ll be a happier, better person if I have to pick up my own mail. “The seniors are telling me, ‘I want to be healthy.…
Great line of the day
No More Mister Nice Blog is writing about the NSA scandal, and this is pretty much how I feel now too: At first I was an Edward Snowden skeptic. But…
Trending tonight on twitter
Twitter / Carolyn_Bennett: We love this photo … Ditto …:
Another great dog rescue from Eldad Hagar
A homeless dog living in a trash pile gets rescued, and then does something amazing! :I have such admiration for the Hope for Paws organization and for the Hagars.
The difference between Canada and the United States
So we were watching the “fall finale” of Almost Human tonight. Now, I like this new show. But I realized part-way through this episode that even though it is filmed…
Peter O’Toole
Peter O’Toole has died. He should have won the oscar for Lawrence of Arabia, except for his competition — in retrospect, how could the Oscar for 1962 not have gone…
Great line of the day
Andrew Sullivan writes about The Pope And The American Right and provides the best summary I have read lately about what has gone wrong with capitalism, American-style: … the way…
Quid quo pro
Even the Star Phoenix finds the timing of the Canada Post announcement more than a little suspicious: The Conservatives, after all, are leaving Ottawa with their ears still burning from…
I love flash mobs
▶ The USAF Band Holiday Flash Mob at the National Air and Space Museum 2013 – YouTube: ““ ‘via Blog this’
Solidarity forever
My reaction to the news that Conrad Black says he might endorse Rob Ford for mayor is: It takes one to know one. Honestly, Toronto, haven’t you reached your gag…
The creature that would not die!
The Senate expenses scandal is the Energizer bunny — it keeps going and going. Its Parliament Hill rock ‘n roll — it will never die. Its a Canadian T-Bird —…
You know what I’m not looking forward to?
It’s about ten weeks until the Olympics begin. And in that time, there will be ten thousand stories about how poorly prepared Russia is to host these games. To be…
Riders win!
Roughriders top Ticats to win 101st Grey Cup at home