I am not easily inspired by public marches and demonstrations. Too much time has passed. Too many things have happened. Too much water has gone under the bridge and after a time you think that nothing changes and that, while there are political changes and elections and promises, everything gets
You know the only people who really seemed to care about Justin Trudeau getting dressing up as Aladdin in what was an Arabian Nights themed costume party seem to be white politicians running for office and a news media starved for a story.
Now I had this piece half
When I was “coming of age” so to speak politics was played a little bit differently … or maybe it wasn’t.
We were a Liberal family. That means we had a known affiliation to the Liberal party. That was true until I was into my twenties and Smallwood was turfed
Canadians are off to the polls again in a federal election and it’s great because I love elections. It was part of my work but now it’s a great spectator sport. My voting pattern is odd and uncertain. Little events will sometimes just move me in a certain direction.
Political
It’s amazing to me how so many odd things happen or don’t happen because we live in a democracy. Governments don’t always take the best course of action because we have become slaves to “the tyranny of the majority”.
In other words, our elected politicians sometimes do things they know
I didn’t know Larry Dohey well but our paths did cross given the nature of our interests and work. A couple of times I spoke with him over the course of his time at the Basilica and later when he was archivist at The Rooms. We weren’t friends but rather
Things are getting back to normal in Dildo. It was a wild ride as the little Trinity Bay community was front and centre on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. It was a moment in the sun for Dildo and the town made the most of it.
Prominent in getting Dildo into
This is an op/ed piece that wouldn’t have been written a year ago. You would have thought me quite mad to have even opened the subject. I am not the first to do this but the question has already been raised about what will happen if Donald Trump refuses to
I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about the future. If my ‘best before date’ was different perhaps I would because there are dark clouds on our horizon. Threats to our ravaged environment are obvious, as are political and social threats in a world rapidly dividing into an ‘us
Somebody in some cubicle in a federal government department had the whacko idea of building a fence on Signal Hill and blocking the view of part of the St. John’s Harbour.
Who knows what lies in the hearts of government’s minions at all levels? Perhaps it was meant to drive
My mom used to use the lovely expression “too foolish to talk about”. Sometimes in the middle of expressing opinions about what radio commentator John Nesbitt used to call “the passing parade” something jumps out at me that needs to be referenced as more than a difference of opinion. Something
Ernest Hemingway said that “all stories end in death and he is no true storyteller who would keep that from you.” So it is I had to come to terms with putting our aged cat Boots “to sleep.” About a quarter of the world’s cats are called Boots. Another quarter