At midnight tonight the clock will stand still. And the song will begin to play once more. A new year and a new era will begin. At midnight, as November 14, 1975, became November 15, Joni Mitchell’s “You Turn Me On I’m A Radio” became the first song broadcast on radio station CKCU-FM. It has […]
Just in case you are biblically illiterate (as much of the American church seems to be these days), Jesus wasn’t white, wasn’t a racist, didn’t carry a weapon and didn’t endorse political parties as the drawing on the left depicts. He did feed the hungry, as depicted on the drawing on the right. He had […]
More or less anyway. On Friday the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) announced that they were ending their two-week long nationwide walkout in favor of rotating strikes. I guess they realized most Canadians hadn’t noticed they weren’t getting any mail the past couple of weeks. You would almost think they didn’t want their jobs. […]
It’s funny how you can walk by something hundreds of times and not notice. Or maybe I did notice that the Confederation Building in downtown Ottawa is reflected in the glass of the building across the street, I noticed this on Saturday. Has me wondering what else I have been missing.
The headlines had it wrong. Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t taken off the air for anything he said about Charlie Kirk and his killer. It was his comments about Donald Trump that got him in hot water. When the news story first broke that the late-night talk show host had been taken off the air, I was […]
For almost two years, many of the leaders of Hamas have avoided the conflict in Palestine. The suffering of their people in Israel’s brutal response to their attack on Israel didn’t seem to impact them. That may not be surprising, given that Hamas’ leaders live in luxury in Qatar. Maybe if they had to share […]
I keep writing posts and not sharing them. Posts about international relations. Posts about domestic politics. Post about social issues. All with a somewhat negative slant as to the direction of our society, our nation, our culture. I have written a few travel posts that also haven’t seen the light of day. They just seem […]
I don’t think I need to add to this. And, sadly, it will probably have to be explained to most Americans reading this.
If you aren’t American you may be able to figure it out.
Am I the only one who has noticed that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sounds a lot like former Conservative PM Stephen Harper? Not in terms of his policies, but in his branding. Carney, who took over from the much despised Justin Trudeau, has taken to calling his administration “Canada’s New Government.” The Liberals have […]
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