At last, now let the real season begin
It’s been a long dry spell for sports – a Marx Borthers so-called Super Bowl, a good Grey Cup after a Marx Brothers season, overhyped US semi-pro (i.e.) college football and basketball tournaments,...
View ArticleSecurity bordering on oppressive
Congratulations to the Boston Globe for publishing an article with the above title that underlines a festering problem which has only begun festering more in the 6 years of the Obama regime. It is yet...
View ArticleA Home Run from Justin Trudeau
Why it seems just yesterday that Canada’s premier Prime Minister of the Twentieth Century, Pierre Trudeau, managed to produce two sons on different Christmas Days and the country watched the first of...
View ArticleTrudeau hits the ground running
Now comes the hard part for young Justin Trudeau. Canada seems to be breathing an audible sigh of relief today as he presented the new cabinet of the Justin Trudeau regime. Young Trudeau sports a...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Countries
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that his election pledge to accept 25,000 refugees from Syria by the end of 2015 will have to be altered with a new deadline of March 1, 2016 in...
View ArticleAnother Tale of Two Cities
So the statistics are now in for homicides in North American cities in 2015. Here are a couple for readers to consider. Baltimore, a US city has a population of 622,000. Vancouver, a Canadian city,...
View ArticleAmerica or is it North America the Beautiful?
Well, let’s see now. First there were several Republican candidates in the United States of America’s primary drama, led by the indomitable Donald Trump, who suggested that it would be a bright idea to...
View ArticleMerkel, Clinton and Trump
On October 9, 2008 the day of the second US presidential (so-called) debate in Missouri, Angela Merkel was in Mali, making the very difficult trip to a country torn in half by east/west political and...
View ArticleNow you CETA, now you don’t
Picture this scene. You are sitting in the splendid bier garden in front of the splendid Jagdschloss on Rotkreuzplatz in splendid Munich on a splendid June afternoon, minding your own business while...
View ArticleDeath of an Everybody Man
It has been an awful week for Canadians. On the day before their US neighbours made a mysterious and potentially threatening choice of a leader, Leonard Cohen died in Los Angeles, and on the next day,...
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