Let me relate what I think is an important story about my “Saul on the road to Damascus” conversion moment on matters technological. Like yourself, I had concerns about techno advances in our society and the fact that it is costing jobs. That was until last week.
Circumstances put me
I wasn’t really surprised that Don Cherry got himself fired. He self destructed on national television last Saturday night. As soon as I heard the words “you people” in his rant against low Armistice Day poppy sales I knew he was in trouble. “You people love, ya come here, whatever
I bought an ornament for our Christmas tree this week. The first of the season. I didn’t mean to. I was out to a “box stores” looking for a hinge but inside the store Christmas had taken over.
The place was filled to the hatches with Christmas stuff although it
“Ye know not the day nor the hour.”
The quote is from the Bible and refers, not to the nights of political long knives but rather, the Second Coming. All that as introduction to the idea that for three of the national leaders of Canada’s political parties the future is
You know there are worse things that could have happened than electing a minority Liberal government. It is first of all a strong minority. Just a little help for the Liberals on individual policy issues from the New Democrats or elsewhere and they are fine.
There will be of course
It has been marvellous to see the winds of change blow through St. John’s City Council. The moratorium on massage parlours is over. Council has finally moved away from the ridiculous position of trying to legislate morality. The moratorium was not the work of this council. This council is largely
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