Knee Replacement Recovery, 24
Saturday: Today, October 11, was the last day for this year’s Farmers’ Market, and it was a good last day for the market, weather-wise. I used to really enjoy going…
Musings
He’s home
This is me interviewing Dani Miran, father of hostage Omri Miran, in Hostages Square for our documentary The Campaign. Omri was in the first group of hostages released. So happy…
Knee Replacement Recovery, 23
Got up to another unseasonably warm October day here: 29C, the third hot day in a row. But tomorrow it’s predicted to fall to 16! I dropped by the local…
Knee Replacement Surgery: Recovery, 22
Today, I drove to a small, dead-end street near the trail where we parked, so we could walk Bella on the trail at the western edge of Harbourview Park. We…
Knee Replacement Recovery, 21
Thursday: I started the day with a 20-minute pedal on the stationary bike, then the first of my three exercise sessions, and a 600 m walk — shorter than usual…
Ex-Brit Army commander: Qatar had it coming
Richard Kemp is a retired soldier, but he still talks like one in active service. Speaking to a crowd of attentive listeners at the Toronto home of former Canadian Senator…
Fifty to one: Hamas vs. Israel in the information war
Fifty to one. Fifty to one: that is the estimated ratio of “pro-Palestinian” to “pro-Israel” online content. If you think you are seeing far more material favouring the Palestinian side…
Mohamad Fakih doesn’t belong in the Order of Canada
No one would really care about Mohamad Fakih, if it were not for that little enamel pin on his lapel, and the letters – “C.M.” – he always seems to…
WAKE UP
Those are the opening words to Spike Lee’s Fight The Power, one of the most important movies ever made. It’s about racist hate and violence, and how quickly it can…
Richard Lloyd plus some geriatric punks!
Come by! I’ll buy you a drink!
The oppressed become oppressors
What happens when the oppressed become the oppressor? Because – make no mistake – that’s what has happened since October 7, 2023. At the start, the pro-Palestine contingent protested the…
Knee Surgery, Day 6
Aficionados of slow food, mindfulness, and slow thinking should add knee surgery to their list of life-focusing activities. It certainly makes everything move more slowly and deliberately. One does not…
Knee Surgery, Day 5
Accomplishments come in little packages. Last night, I managed to get myself up and into the bathroom to pee twice, without having to wake Susan up to help me get…
The Jew hunters
Meet Davide Mastracci…Jew hunter? Mastracci is the opinion editor at something called The Maple. It publishes opinions with titles like these: “Israeli Products Should Have No Place In Canada” “Genocide…
Knee Surgery, Day 4
The other thing you lose with mobility is dignity. And that loss can affect you deeply, albeit not physically, but certainly a blow to your morale and ego. We are…
Knee Surgery Day Two
Well, I’m back from the hospital following my knee surgery. It was a “Total knee arthroplasty (TKA), also known as total knee replacement,” described as a “surgical procedure that involves…