Albert Camus, the French humanist, wrote, “There is only one true philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.” Pliny the Elder had said earlier, “Admit the miseries ...
Read More »But Roosevelt knows how to be president!
72 years ago I arrived in Boston. I’d been accepted as a student at The Harvard Medical School. That night a full moon shone on the school’s white marble buildings, an awe-inspiring sight I’ve never forgotten. I recently returned for ...
Read More »Upstream vs. downstream
Deb asked me, “Would you like to come over to my house tonight and learn about a business opportunity?” I’d met Deb on a church trip, and had been crushing on her for weeks. She could have ended her question ...
Read More »Ford must immediately kill Wynne’s carbon tax
“I’ll put more money in your pocket.” It’s a promise that Doug Ford made repeatedly during the campaign, and now that he is taking the reins of power, it’s a promise he needs to follow through on. Ontario has become ...
Read More »Social media use for news is falling worldwide
FROM WWW.EDITORANDPUBLISHER.COM After years of growth, the use of social media for news is falling across the world But messaging apps are picking up the slack, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism finds in its 2018 Digital News ...
Read More »Bought something good, now feel better?
On Toronto’s 2018 Buy Good Feel Good Expo BOUGHT SOMETHING GOOD AND NOW FEELING BETTER? The people in the pictures at right are all of a certain age, chat happily, hold hands, scan an art display and likely will purchase ...
Read More »Wynne endangers us yet again
The media, NDP and Green Party are remarkably unaware of what should be their major election focus. The Ontario government is committing an act that is essentially eco suicide. The 100-year-old scientific research facility in Angus, Ontario. (See link1 link2) It’s ...
Read More »Axe Pickering nuke soon: NDP & Greens
Ontario Clean Air Alliance sent an all-candidates questionnaire to the leaders of the four major parties running in the provincial election. They asked their positions on closing the Pickering Nuclear Station, and on water power imports from Quebec. The NDP ...
Read More »10 more years of Pickering nuke hazard?
Does the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) care what you think about keeping the aging Pickering Nuclear Station running for another 10 years? Their actions strongly suggest they don’t. The CNSC has quietly arranged for hearings on the Pickering licence ...
Read More »Trudeau fails to protect Canada’s immigration system
Justin Trudeau is failing to protect Canada’s immigration system. While thousands of people follow the rules and wait in the proper lines, sometimes for a very long time, to come to Canada legally and join our Canadian family, Justin Trudeau ...
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