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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 Posted in Politics, Society | No Comments »
Something evil slithers this way, a creeper that saps our strength and strangles the promise of Canadian peaceableness. Only Ottawa, blessed by uncommon insight, can rescue us from the enemy. ... Read more..Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 Posted in General, Humour | No Comments »
[caption id="attachment_1668" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="Weh-Ming and I (left) discussing the lighter points of heavy equipment"][/caption] A few winters ago, in a fit of Christmas cheer, I offended the gods of common ... Read more..Monday, November 28th, 2011 Posted in Politics, Society | No Comments »
Canada’s self-proclaimed national newspaper has seen the enemy and he is handcuffed to a tent of Turkic design, in a downtown Toronto park, bleating, “I can’t leave, because I don’t ... Read more..Monday, November 28th, 2011 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
If the court of King Arthur had been peopled by economists, the Holy Grail would have been something called “productivity” – a concept no easier to locate, it seems, than ... Read more..Thursday, November 24th, 2011 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
The word on the street, where the gold that runs through the arteries of global finance gets spilled every day, is that it’s a great time to be a Canadian. Sure, ... Read more..Thursday, November 24th, 2011 Posted in Economy | 1 Comment »
Glinting in all its sun-slapped glory, the vintage corvette stood sentinel over a three-room beach shack where empty beer cans served as ashtrays and pay-per-view regularly improved the sporting life ... Read more..Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
When NDP MP Pat Martin from Potty Mouth, Manitoba, invited a certain Twitter correspondent to dine on his Fruit Of The Looms last week, he merely confirmed what millions of ... Read more..Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
If you’re tired or poor or worse – one of the huddled masses yearning to breathe free – you might want to leave these tidbits off your residency application as ... Read more..Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Posted in Humour, Politics | No Comments »
Every so often, my generally stern and sober-minded wife can be a truly wicked wag. Upon hearing the news, this week, that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the “Butcher of ... Read more..Thursday, November 17th, 2011 Posted in Economy, Environment | 2 Comments »
A made-in-Canada technology that uses propane to extract natural gas from sedimentary rock without fouling water tables or harming the environment in any other discernible way is one of those ... Read more..