Canada
My Post Election Analysis and Rant
My take on the recent 2021 Canadian Federal Election. Should this election have been called given the ongoing pandemic?
What I’m Watching this Month and How We Got Here
Do You Remember When? I’m sure most of us remember when watching television was, well, boring. Before cable, whatever was broadcast over the airwaves, is what you got. If you lived too far from the broadcast source or had a crappy antenna, you were often limited to one or two television channels and on some […]
Getting Rid of Panhandlers
Crime in Ottawa No doubt if you live here in the nation’s capital of Ottawa, you have seen them on the main thoroughfares throughout the city. They walk up and down the medians and when the light turns red, they step out onto the roadway and walk from car to car with their Tim Horton’s […]
Should You Buy a Guitar Online
Shopping for a New Guitar So, you’ve been considering purchasing a new guitar and the one you want isn’t available in local music stores, but you have been able to find it online at various outlets. Should you pull the trigger and just go for it and submit your payment and have the guitar sent […]
The Day After
Legalization is Finally Here Well, here we are the day after marijuana became legal in Canada. We have been inundated for the last several months on how the legalization of marijuana was going to make Canada the much better place it was always meant to be. Personally, I think that is a major load of […]
NAFTA Deal Reached at the Last Hour
11th Hour Deal Well here we are at the beginning of a new month. It’s hard to believe that it is October already and this coming weekend is a Canadian Thanksgiving. I had a post all written and ready to publish last night concerning the North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations and that Canada had […]
Toronto Shooting Leaves Two Dead
Mass Shooting in Toronto Much like in the United States, Canada’s larger cities are starting to see much more gun violence than they saw even 5 years ago. Handguns are starting to be used more and more and the shooters are firing off rounds and not caring where they end up or who gets hurt […]
My Summer Music and Book List
Summer is Here We have almost burned through the first full month of summer. Here in Ottawa, we’ve been breaking heat records when it comes to consecutive number of day’s with temperatures above 30 degrees Celcius. As is often said when it comes to summer heat, it’s not the temperature, but the humidity that hits […]
Justin Is at It Again
Did He or Didn’t He It was recently reported that our infamous Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau was involved in a groping incident that took place almost 20 years ago. Just to clarify, he was the groper and the woman who says the incident took place was a reporter at the Creston Daily Advance, a newspaper […]
Canadian Politics
An Afternoon of CPAC I decided this afternoon that I would turn on CPAC and watch some coverage from our House of Commons proceedings and see how the world of Canadian politics is progressing. Many years ago, I used to tune in when I had nothing else to do just to learn about our parliamentary […]