David Letterman, noting Yoko Ono’s 78th birthday last week, joked that she celebrated by breaking up The Jonas Brothers. Back in the twilight of sixties, perhaps early seventies, a much-appreciated Christmas gift (namely for my older brother Craig but which the rest of us took full advantage of) was a record player. Not just any [...]
Bixi Originally uploaded by Kenn Chaplin Bixi is the name of the private,not-for-profit outfit which rents bicycles at highly visible stands throughout Montréal. By buying any of a variety of memberships, residents and tourists alike can pick up a bike within a short distance of almost anywhere and drop it off at another such [...]
I say, “Bien oui!” to The Yes Men! Copenhagen Spoof Shames Canada; Climate Debt No Joke The Yes Men Punk Canada Who Are The Yes Men and Why Did They Punk Canada at Copenhagen Like Rick Mercer and This Hour has 22 Minutes, there’s a lot more truth than spoof in the treatment of Canada’s [...]
As Toronto continues to welcome more and more residents to downtown high-rises and neighbourhoods the hazards and inconveniences of the Canadian International Air Show mount exponentially – to which the show responds, trumpeting the economic benefits. Note the sponsors. It is one thing to honour grandfathers and great-grandfathers with fly-pasts of World War II planes, [...]
As I watched this very interesting report on The National the other night I was reminded of a wildlife corridor project a lot closer to home, whether I consider home to be Toronto, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec or Perth, Ontario. It’s called A2A – Algonquin to Adirondacks Conservation Association. A look at the map on the website [...]
The Green Party began running a series of ads today to be broadcast through to the end of the campaign, this as Harris/Decima released poll results for September 29 – October 2 showing that, in Ontario, the Green Party is tied for third place with the NDP at 17 percent (and higher in some areas, [...]
Warning: According to my blog stats this is my 666th post. Please proceed with caution. The next time you are idling in a drive-thru, wasting gas the price of which has you so hopping mad, think of the unsuspecting ducks, migrating as they do this time of year, who unwittingly drowned after being bound and [...]
- On a mild night like this open windows let in the din of my downtown neighbourhood – the occasinal siren, the shouts of bar patrons on their way home, the hourly gong of the Old City Hall clock, the honking of cars and the TTC: the Toronto Transit Commission’s streetcars squealing on the turn [...]
From the CTV report I have posted the stupidest of the viewer comments. Thankfully there were many, not shown, who were better informed. (It seems that several dinosaur fossils are out of the tar for the weekend.) laureen this is so silly I am going to turn on every light in my house from 8-9 john in [...]
I’ve been asked lately, particularly by members of the NDP, why I have switched to the Toronto Centre Greens after many years as an active New Democrat for whom I even considered running this time last year. Recent polls show many others, some of whom I have mingled with at Green Party campaign functions recently, [...]
