Remembering my Dad on Remembrance Day
Here he is, age 20, at officer cadet training in the Summer of 1952. Front row centre. He went on to join the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps but the war…
Musings
Depression, anxiety and total honesty
Right here.
Dead Souls
Listened to Joy Division on the way back into the city yesterday. It was the right soundtrack for a cold and bleak November landscape. Played Dead Souls three times. What…
Alone
Kristof in the Times: We humans make a lonely crowd, and it’s killing us. Social isolation is more lethal than smoking 15 cigarettes a day, or than obesity, according to…
Where I was today
No one tried to kill me, so it was a qualified success. Had the pleasure of meeting rockstar journalist @kinsellawarren today. He made some excellent points on why we did…
Thirty years ago today
That was a good day. Who remembers?
Words to die by
“In politics, you can die 100 times.” – my guru, Alykhan Velshi. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 8, 2019
The Liberals had a caucus meeting, too
It happened yesterday. You didn’t hear much about it, because all the drama had happened the day before, with the seven-hour-long Conservative mass-suicide disguised as a caucus meeting. The Liberal…
A seven-hour caucus meeting creates seven big problems
The Conservative caucus met on Parliament Hill yesterday. Watching them from afar, it recalled a big therapy session. But without a therapist in charge. It went for seven hours, reportedly.…
A little media #TBT action
The hair: it’s thick and lustrous, no?
Turned off, logged out
I turned off Twitter and Instagram, and logged out of Facebook, last month. Click. Bye. Now, that was the first paragraph. In the second paragraph, you are perhaps expecting me…
That’s how you do it, Canada
You don’t hire him again. You suspend him. From CNN: A high school teacher has been placed on administrative leave in California after he wore blackface to school on Halloween,…
Leading by example
The Toronto Star has many excellent stories in today’s paper about lead in water pipes. It’s a must-read. Link to their web site here.
Gay kids, trans kids, are made in God’s likeness
…how could they not be? Read Rosie, who is at her passionate best, here. Oh, and she quotes what the Pope and the relevant Ontario minister have to say. Heed…
Good start.
Maybe it’ll even work. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is preparing to meet with opposition leaders as the Liberals start to map out how they will govern in a minority Parliament…
“Our culture is dying because we have no capacity for forgiveness or discussion.”
Cancel culture, so-called, interests me. Two reasons. First reason: Barack Obama decried it recently, and what he said made a lot of sense. Here’s part of what he said: “This…
Reality check: Scheer, Conservatives and homophobia
Some Conservatives want Andrew Scheer out. Fine. It’s their party, and they can have a fight if they want to. Whatever. But some of the Scheer critics are saying they…
Good on Paul Martin
He’s right.
Joey likes season two of Jack Ryan
He’s a spy lab.