eddiecanuck
Sep 11, 20202 min read
Nine/eleven
It is hard to believe that it has been 19 years to the day since the world centre went down. It is even harder to believe that the chaos...
It is hard to believe that it has been 19 years to the day since the world centre went down. It is even harder to believe that the chaos...
Before last weeks Trumpalooza, aka the RNC, I had been kinda worried. I thought the US was struggling with an almost out of control...
It is hardly profound to suggest that the current political situation in the US is a mess. The occupant of the White House is a slug,...
If you lived where I live you might be comfortable with the above claim “It's OK etc”. In Niagara where I live we are averaging 1.6...
How are CNN and the CBC the same? It is a trick question. They are not. CNN has oodles of money and nothing to say, the CBC has so...
These are unquestionably ironic times. Every day brings something ironic into focus. Three ironies come to mind today. The first is that...
Just returned from a visit to Quebec. Not the germy part but an isolated part near Mt. Tremblant. Still made me a bit nervous but it...
In the call for unity it is common to hear slogans such as "we are all in this together"....so true and "we are all in the same boat"...
So he says, “ I don't care what you say it is my constitutional right to not wear a mask” which I think is kinda funny since he is a...
For me it has been three months. I was a bit late to join the party or the non party if you like. When I returned it was theoretically...
In the last while, I have from time to time been entertained and helped along by the decrease in privacy engendered by social distancing....
Ontario will soon move to stage two of the unlockdown but not where I live. In Niagara there are roughly 500 thousand people spread over...
When I was a lot younger...as in when I was a soprano, I was member of the Christ Church Cathedral boys choir. Mercifully, neither the...
Until recently my life and that of many others consisted of sequences of activity followed by what we might describe as terminal or...
Aside from the much mentioned observation that Dogs love having people work at home and cats seem to disapprove, the local dogs have been...
This is the two-four weekend in Ontario. When I was young, the 24th was known as Empire day or simply the 24th of May. It was a date...
The first concert I remember attending was a Little Richard Concert at Memorial Arena in Victoria, BC, late 1956 or early 1957. The...
It is snowing! Not a blizzard mind you but snow and this is the ninth of may. That is a bit much. We are experiencing yet another POLAR...
In the spring of 2017 I was having some circulatory issues that interfered with riding a bike. I could not handle head winds or hills,...
As we roll over from April to May many of us will receive pension checks or pay checks. Unfortunately many will not. Our positive bank...