No one expected much to happen at the first court date in Joe Fontana’s fraud and breach of trust case and it didn’t. Â But the mini-shit-storm that erupted on Twitter was a lot of fun to watch and it had nothing to do with the case itself! Â …
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I talked to a local gun expert on Thursday. The interview was the “pro gun” part of our show, The Big Picture, as we looked at both sides of the gun control issue this week in the wake of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Â …
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Well, I had a post up here about our city’s Mayor being a bit of a douchenozzle for keeping his counsel and not saying anything until charges by the RCMP have finally forced him to. Â …
If you’re in trouble and you’re getting bad advice, you tuck your tail under and you hide. Â …
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The following is my deep, heartfelt comment on the result of the US Presidential election. …
London’s Mayor is in a real pickle.  A couple of weeks ago allegations surfaced that in 2005 Joe Fontana, when he was an MP and senior cabinet minister in Paul Martin’s government, used a Public Works cheque to pay for his son’s wedding reception. …
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I remember when this letter arrived at 680 News. Â I was speechless. Â I had announced on air that I was leaving and although the few times when I had met the Premier over the years he had always claimed to listen to us, this letter made it real. Â …
London has a city councillor who has come forward to make the one who lobbied on behalf of backyard chickens seem calm and rational. …
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Sobering thoughts for a Sunday. Â Mr. Morcos was a happily married man of 54 who took his own life this spring. Â He had Huntington’s disease and having watched his father deteriorate with the progressive illness he knew, and he had told those he loved, that he wasn’t going to experience the same fate. Â …
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So London’s Mayor, Joe Fontana, is taking some heat for telling our university football team, the Western Mustangs, that hard work is bullshit. …
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More labour unrest is in the offing at college campuses over 28 issues including the instructors’ displeasure at being told how to teach.  Public school system teachers are miffed at being told they have to sign a contract that freezes their wages for 2 years and stops them from banking any more vacation days to cash out at retirement. MPPs are headed back to work Monday to debate the bill. Employees at the Big Three are holding out for a share of profits now that things have turned around and there actually are profits they say should be shared. …
As we toured the Titanic exhibit at the Luxor in Las Vegas we couldn’t help but notice an interracial couple among the photographs of passengers who were on board the famous ship. What must life have been like for them back in 1912?  Surely there’s no way they could have escaped prejudicial comments and other foolish and unfair reactions to their different races. I looked at them with awe. They must have been resilient and in love. …
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