A Whole New World
I’m looking for the positive spin-offs of the election results. …
Politics
Justice and Revenge
It took nearly a decade but the air is just a little bit fresher this morning knowing that Osama Bin Laden isn’t sharing it. …
Good Friday, Earth Day & Advance Polls Open
I’m not a religious person so I plan to spend today in this way: …
Debating Election Options
If only Jack Layton wasn’t a socialist he would have my vote. I find him likeable, credible and he had the best zinger of the English-language leaders’ debate. …
The Week That Was
It didn’t take London Mayor Joe Fontana very long to mess with his top election pledge. …
Not the Life for Me
One of Derek’s friends jokingly calls me Your Worship. …
Sex as a Weapon
It happens every year. Someone takes umbrage over the Everything To Do With Sex Show, speaks out about it and brings the show more free publicity than organizers could ever hope for. …
A Sacred Site
A battle in New York City over whether a Mosque should be built near the Ground Zero site is polarizing opinions of the people there. …
The Wacky Week That Was
We are having major issues with our Internet service provider. Uploading a blog normally takes about 90 seconds. Today, more than an hour! I love you dearly, faithful reader, but I’m not willing to go through this again! So if this page goes a little quiet it’s because Rogers hasn’t fixed whatever it is that’s going on. (I’m about to make a phone call!) I gave up trying to upload a photo. So…if you hear a smashing sound it’s me, on our modem, with a sledgehammer. (Anyone who has ever had Internet issues like this can surely understand the frustration!).
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I Doth Protest
We saw and heard it all over the weekend: the peaceful protests and the self-described anarchists called the Black Bloc, as the G20 leaders came to Toronto. …
Several Steps Over the Line
Quebecor has announced it’s putting together a sort of Fox News North – a 24 hour TV channel because, my inner sarcastic voice says, the other ones have worked out to be soooo popular. …
No Second Chances at a First Impression
A former city councillor and MP is taking another run at Anne Marie DeCicco-Best to become Mayor of London. I wish him a swift and decisive defeat based on one small incident that occured more than two decades ago. …
Innocent Questions, Part 906 of an infinite number…
Why is it the people with the least amount of power wield what they have with an iron fist? …
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Foul Mouthed Maven
A 200 year old female senator is in the headlines for telling aid groups to “shut the f*** up!” concerning their complaints on the Harper government’s foreign policy concerning abortion. …
Tastes Like Chicken
A city councillor in London wants to make it legal to raise chickens in residential back yards. …
Snacking Emergency
It’s not my proudest memory. Back when I was working at CKNX radio in Wingham management brought in a smoking ban. I smoked then. I smoked when I wasn’t even actually smoking, that’s how devoted I was to the habit. I protested the ban saying it would lead to – and this is embarrassing – dizzy spells and feeling ill because I wasn’t getting my regular infusion of nicotine. I wish I was kidding. That was my defence and I lost, rightly. (My apologies to then-GM Al Skelton for the time I wasted being such an idiot!) …
Something to Think About
Discussing religion is always dicey.  The fact is, no one can really, truly answer a lot of important questions about the universe and our role in it. But many people are unable to acknowledge that and some see any discussion of religion as an attack on it. …
Money Money Money
Two lottery winners emerged in London this week. …