These are a just a few of the newspaper clippings about my grandfather that were dropped off to me this week. As some of you know, I have been on a search for the last few years for any information I could find about him. John A. Ferguson, Jack to his friends, went overseas in [...]
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 [...]
One of our interns, Brendan Daley, has been covering the Occupy Toronto movement for school. My disdain for the corporations who determine what is news, and what we should know, is well known. The new paper seems to fit perfectly with what the protesters are saying, and so I asked Brendan for his stories to [...]
Today I find myself able to really relax for the first time in almost a year. I did nothing today; the first Sunday I’ve had off in almost a year. I think I am where I am supposed to be. Sometimes an artist is driven by a force, a compulsion, an irresistible need to create [...]
That night I didn’t have a husband to tap awake, to make turn on the light, to assuage my fears and help me go back to sleep. No, I had to lie there, praying to God that I’d quickly go back to sleep and awake the next morning to sunlight streaming in my window. For [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As Mike Cahil submitted a column yesterday explaining why Liberals should vote NDP, and I’m offering this in rebuttal. This is my opinion, but it is an informed one. As the Conservatives are blowing blue smoke and sprinkling kidinky dust, they are trying to split the vote on the left so we’ll once again have [...]
I wrote this two weeks ago and, if anything, the polls are tighter now than they were then. Rather than repeat myself on every single post it’s easier just to bring this back up. Once again people, we are looking at a minority government, let’s pick the person who will do something for Cambridge. I [...]
I remember last year, near spitting up my glass ofShirazwhen I heard the McGuinty deficit was forecasted at 25 billion. I mean it takes prolific stupidity to attain a tally that large. AndDaltonwas the guy who went ape-crazy over a modest Tory deficit about four or five billion. How will he kill the debt? Oh [...]
The Ontario leaders debate showed Tim Hudak clutching the same old talking points – the ones he has made up. So, to save some time here are the some fact checks on Hudak’s fantasies, smears and lies. eHealth: Hudak says $1 Billion was wasted on Liberal consultants. TRUTH: The Auditor General says Hudak is “going too [...]
Meanwhile Cambridge MPP skips the vote altogether Cambridge – The need for a reliable and effective MPP here in Cambridge can no longer be ignored. The primary issue at the doorsteps, coffee shops and markets is the expansion of Cambridge Memorial Hospital. In July 2011, the Minister of Health was in Cambridge to officially announce [...]
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