In November 2017 The Bulletin ceased production of its monthly tabloid printed newspaper due to falling ad sales despite rising readership numbers. It continues online at www.thebulletin.ca as the community newspaper of Downtown Toronto. Sometime in the not-too-distant future, the ...
Read More »Four easy ways to exercise your creativity
Recently I was contacted by a reader asking me if I would suggest some exercises that he could use to think with more creativity. That request has inspired me to write about some fun ways that you too can exercise ...
Read More »Do you benefit from an expanded CPP?
As recently as June 2016, the federal and provincial finance ministers agreed to expand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). It’s so recent, in government terms, that many of the details of benefit entitlements, costs and investment criteria still aren’t known.expanded ...
Read More »Opening doors to innovative young Canadians
When parliamentarians return to their ridings for the summer recess, they’ll have many opportunities to congratulate this spring’s post-secondary graduates, proud of their achievements and eager to take their place in the workforce. Students with credentials from one of Canada’s ...
Read More »Ontario Liberals are incompetent and corrupt
Nearly 15 years of Liberal rule have made Ontario the economic equivalent of the Hagersville tire fire. The great flaming mass of Liberal incompetence has covered Ontario with a poisonous cloud of failure. Inflation-adjusted growth in Ontario is stuck at ...
Read More »Discomfort with death & grief a modern ailment
There’s an old story sometimes shared during eulogies about an elderly women planning her funeral. “Bury me with a fork,” she tells her minister. “Yes, but may I ask why?” he inquires. She explains that as a child, when the ...
Read More »Do you use products made with child labour?
You could be using products made by child labour and you wouldn’t even know it. A new gut-wrenching report was released today revealing that every year Canada imports around $34 billion worth of “risky products”—everyday goods with a high likelihood ...
Read More »What are you missing?
Fresh from making mud pies, Paul and I were coated in dirt from our elbows to our fingertips. We walked into the kitchen to clean up for lunch, where we found Rafe leaning against the wall, shaking, and crying uncontrollably. ...
Read More »Canada barely aids UN peace operations
According to Prof. Walter Dorn, National President of the World Federalist Movement – Canada, “Unfortunately, the dithering and delay by Canada is harming our reputation at the UN.” Dorn, a faculty member at Canada’s Royal Military College, is on leave ...
Read More »The anti-Assad gas caper
It was a clearly trumped-up (no relation, no pun) sarin scam to blame Syria’s Bashar Assad government for the alleged gas attack against Syrian civilians. There is a group of terrorists (known as “White helmets”) who are subject to U.S. ...
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