Let me get this straight: the prairies experience a turn in the weather cold enough to take the lives of a homeless couple (who asphyxiated from carbon monoxide poisoning while trying to keep a bus warm) and Edmonton’s response is to dispense second-hand mittens? Seriously? Are they serious? Meanwhile, Edmonton’s spanky city hall with its […]
The Alberta party line
These are mildly interesting times in Alberta, what with the resignation of King Ralph and the shuffling of candidates hoping to ascend the throne of the new centre of Canada. Albertans, though, seem not particularly interested in the outcome of the election, despite the fact that whoever is chosen by Progressive Conservative party members is […]
I remember
Today is Remembrance Day and, for better or for worse, I remember. I did not fight in any war but I remember how my Granny suffered all her life over the loss of her brother in the trenches of the First World War. I also remember my other Grandmother telling stories of doing without her […]
Hussein should not hang
Saddam Hussein should not be killed, and not for rational or political reasons but simply because hanging him will be barbaric and wrong. The rational debate centres around whether killing Hussein will reinforce rifts among Iraqis, further empower insurgent forces, and so on. Hussein’s own theoretical stance is that when you kill somebody, you had […]
We belong in Afghanistan
The Canadian Peace Alliance, Canadian Labour Congress, and Canadian Islamic Congress are wrong when they say that Canadians in Afghanistan are fighting an American war. Afghanistan is not Iraq — though that bloody civil mess is hardly a U.S. solo turn either. It was the British who decided it would be a good idea to […]
Sure, you’re a nation
So I am sitting on the couch with a fruity beverage, when my youngest daughter walks up to me with a bucket on her head and says, “I am a mongoose.” I consider this for a moment and ask, “Do mongooses wear helmets? Or is it mongeese?” “Mongooses,” she announces, not at all knowingly. “And […]
Fathers For Stupidity
Morons from a group advocating for fathers’ custody rights, Fathers For Justice, could not have picked a stupider place to lobby than the International Conference on Violence Against Women in Montreal. What could the two issues possibly have in common? How could one issue possibly impact another, unless the fathers in question meant to lobby […]
It’s enough to make you want to move to Egypt
So I’m sitting on the couch watching the goopy rain spatter against the living room window, a steaming rum-based beverage close to hand, wondering if I ought not to pack up the kids and move to Cairo. No slush. No pesky Foreign Affairs Ministers sniping at their ex-girlfriends. And no pinched-faced blond-ambition bimbos whining about […]
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