Hey Hags, we have a whole bunch of new dog lovers here to hate your canine cooking ways! Once again, after this column ran in The Times there was a flurry of letters from dog lovers who took it seriously, and wanted to string poor Hags up from the nearest yardarm. This seems like a good time to [...]
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A day in the life of an Occupy Wall St. Participant
November 11, 2011
Hags to me and asked me to forward this to Brendan but after watching it I think it deserves to be posted. It’s well worth watching. (Warning, explicit language at the end. Margaret, cover your ears, I don’t want your delicate conservative ears.)
Bob Rae’s economic speech: We can’t take prosperity for granted: leadership in turbulent times
November 10, 2011
Bob Rae’s speech to the ‘Economic Club of Canada’: The theme of my speech is simple and direct – much public policy debate seems to assume that Canada can take its prosperity for granted. Politicians squabble about how to divide up the cake. The truth is that you need to bake a cake first. The [...]
Lorraine Harris, 2011 Bernice Adams Award winner for music
October 25, 2011
Lorraine Harris, 2011 Bernice Adams Award winner for music is getting ready to take her musical career to new levels with the release of her 2nd CD. Her first CD, Knock, was a huge success. Two of her songs were released on a compilation CD, “Lift Jesus Higher,” along with a video, “He’s The One.” [...]
Iconographer Christopher Van Donkelaar: “Unorthdox” Artist makes own paint
October 21, 2011
You may not think a handful of dirt could ever be useful. However, to a local painter, this is a world of possibility. Iconographer Christopher Van Donkelaar appeared Thursday, Sept. 22 at the Cambridge Centre for the Arts, providing the audience with an in depth look into his fascinating method of painting. At first glance, [...]
Casting Spells in Hespeler
October 20, 2011
Halloween may be a fun time to get dressed up, watch scary movies, eat candy and party for the general public, but that’s not what it means to those who practice Witchcraft and/or are Wiccans. Halloween is much more personal for a Wiccan/Witch. “Some Wiccans or Witches celebrate the ancestors, some of them celebrate the [...]
Crocs
October 17, 2011
You should be put on a spit and char broiled if you wear Crocs…perhaps the ugliest footwear thrust upon us by flighty fashion gurus. Now, I’m willing to make exceptions for children…who look cute in them…but for anyone over fourteen, the wearing of such profanely ugly footwear should be tormented forever by having their butts [...]
Taking to the sky
October 9, 2011
Brendan is a second year journalism student at Conestoga College. When Scot was trying to come up with a good first assignment for him Brendan made the mistake of telling Scot he had never flown. As somebody who has never flown in an airplane, I was thrilled when word was mentioned that I would be [...]
NDP The Only Alternative For Cambridge: Liberals should vote NDP to defeat Conservatives locally
October 2, 2011
On October 6th Cambridge voters will have a unique and important opportunity to effect meaningful change in our community. Make your vote count. Vote for Atinuke Bankole, your NDP candidate to end the poor representation we have had locally from the Conservatives. Only Atinuke and the NDP can beat the Conservatives in Cambridge. Liberals haven’t [...]
Yes Virginia, There Is A Libertarian Candidate in Cambridge
September 29, 2011
Sometimes during my travels as a courier, I tune into the Kitchener Newstalk station. Which was the case one day last week. I quickly realized the regular host had been replaced by a guest host. He was interviewing Rob Leone, the Conservative Candidate in the upcoming provincial election on October 6th. As the Libertarian Candidate, [...]
We are not a Liberal, Conservative or NDP site. We are a Cambridge site.
September 28, 2011
We find ourselves making this statement time and time again. With the number of new readers finding us because of the election I’m going to do it once more, and hopefully we won’t have to do it again for awhile. The owners of the site, myself and Jimm Hillis, are political opposites, even with our choices [...]
Horwath Costing Error Risks Firing of 850 Nurses and Home Care Workers
September 26, 2011
Toronto – – With just a few days left in the election campaign, Andrea Horwath has released the costing implications of her election promises. That costing includes a significant error that, if not corrected, will lead to the firing of 850 front-line nurses and home care workers. Buried in the NDP costing document is [...]
A party worth talking about
September 24, 2011
The missus and I have always enjoyed a good party. Last weekend we went to the lovely engagement party of our good friendLorraineand her feckless fiancé Chuck To qualify as a successful party the “craik” (pronounced crack) must be good. For you foreigners and other non-Irish, craik has nothing to do with drugs but everything [...]
Transition Cambridge Potluck and Movie Event
September 18, 2011
Transition Cambridge pretty much took the summer off but climate change sure hasn’t! For our September meeting, we have decided to try and get as many common minded people together as we can round up for a potluck lunch and movie afternoon on Sunday, September 18. The lunch will start at 12:30 pm and the [...]
The Fundamentals of Functional Training Techniques
September 5, 2011
If you are ready to get started on a fitness routine that will work all the areas of your body with the least amount of stress and strain as possible; you need to first know some facts. Once you are aware of what are the correct functional training techniques to use for your body, you [...]
A letter from Jack Layton (Left with his wife Olivia)
August 22, 2011
August 20, 2011 Toronto, Ontario Dear Friends, Tens of thousands of Canadians have written to me in recent weeks to wish me well. I want to thank each and every one of you for your thoughtful, inspiring and often beautiful notes, cards and gifts. Your spirit and love have lit up my home, my spirit, [...]
Anudder
August 19, 2011
I have fantasized about what it would be like to have a different wife. Now before you think I’m reading something risqué and suggestive again like the Songs of Solomon (I am), I should inform the reader that my fantasy is almost completely of a platonic rather than lecherous nature. I am now after thirty-odd [...]
Smoky Joes
August 8, 2011
Hespeler has always been a mix of the puritan and the perverse; I’m not sure what category this memory falls into but it may capture a certain feel of small town nostalgia. Smoky Joes Café opened in Hespeler when I had just turned sixteen owned I believe by some Jamaican Rasta ganja heads. Anyway, one [...]
The view from the bench
August 1, 2011
I sat on the bench at the mall, feeling tired and looking old. Damn but I’m sixty now…how did that happen? How could that happen? I patiently wait for Brenda who is in the Bay looking for bargains she doesn’t need…stuff we’ll both pass on to our kids or the Sally Ann. Quietly but with [...]
I resolve to work a little less and live a little more
July 20, 2011
I have been considering of late how we in Canada are told we must bridge the productivity gap between ourselves and the U.S; we are falling behind which apparently is hurting our standard of living. It seems Americans are more productive than us,work many more hours and thus are wealthier. Are they happier, however? I [...]
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