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I’m not sure how many people outside of my generation have any idea what a hootenanny is, but way back near the dawn of time, young people which at the time was us used to gather with musical friends and … Continue reading →

If you check the recent comments in this blog, you will notice that a person hiding behind the name, Mabel Blow, concludes his/her comment with this specific threat: ‘I’m going to be pushing the city to sell Lansdowne’, (should the … Continue reading →

Yesterday, the Friends of Lansdowne held their third cabaret and fund raiser at the Mayfair Theatre for their legal case against the city’s privatization of Lansdowne Park.  It was a happy and exuberant event with lots of confidence expressed in … Continue reading →

I need a majority.  These four words were repeated endlessly by Stephen Harper during the last election campaign.  He needed a majority for building pipe lines to Louisiana, China and to gut environmental legislation like the Fisheries Act  - that … Continue reading →

It is a curious thing when a fist fight seems civilized, courteous and brave while the political fighting seems vicious, mean and cowardly.  There was something old fashioned and dignified in the Trudeau/Brazeau boxing match for cancer.  Both men had … Continue reading →

You can understand why Paul Dewar’s ‘family first campaign’ is strong when a city family of four with a household income of $50,000 has difficulty making rent, child care, car care, food, clothes, family celebrations and looks down the road … Continue reading →

Thomas Mulcair is clearly a talented politician but like so many other NDP leadership hopefuls, he’s like a deer caught in the headlights at the thought of being the next Prime Minister.  As he said in the last debate, he … Continue reading →

In 1680, a poet named Tom Brown composed a little, nursery rhyme that starts ‘I do not like thee Doctor Fell, the reason why I cannot tell’.  Unlike Tom, I know exactly why I don’t like Stephen Harper and it … Continue reading →

All of the roads into the City of London (the central core of the much larger metropolis) are protected by a rampant griffon. We tend to hear more about the congestion charges than we do rampant griffons, but they have … Continue reading →

After the horse and cart, the first mechanical invention was the bicycle and its magical pedal, chain and gear system. It remains the most efficient human movement machine ever invented. Nothing else has occurred to the human mind that can … Continue reading →