From the city that actor Peter Ustinov described as “New York run by the Swiss,” the wonderful city to where I moved from my home in Palm Beach, Fla. in 1971 has been turned toward ruin. Everywhere you look Downtown ...
Read More »The OMB absolutely stinks of corruption
But maybe it’s not corrupt. Perhaps it just smells that way. Maybe OMB is just comprised of honourable men and women who aren’t trying to boost developers’ profits and are trying to build a picturesque new sky-high wonderland of cramped ...
Read More »There’s a rise in intolerant language and behaviour
Ever since the election of Donald Trump last November and the Brexit vote last June we have seen a rise in intolerant rhetoric, language and behaviour that wants to see the world divided between the good and the bad. This ...
Read More »Is the CETA free-trade deal treasonous?
I can’t help wondering whether it’s treason for a government to support a fascist so-called “free-trade” deal like NAFTA and CETA. I use the term “fascist” advisedly. As WWII Italian dictator Benito Mussolini defined the term, fascism is a merger ...
Read More »PR flaks are taking over journalism and it shows
The Great Depression of 2007-2017 proceeds unabated in February and journalism has suffered terribly along with many other professional crafts as the business cycle continues to tank. Once-successful businesses are shutting down and those that continue are cutting back. Jobs ...
Read More »Viewpoint: A watery new museum for lakefront Toronto?
Museums are again in the wind in Toronto. There has long been a need for a Museum of Toronto to locate large collections about the city’s history. That would attract mostly Torontonians. An even better variant on that would be ...
Read More »Why do Liberals tolerate influence peddling?
How did this become a Liberal thing? Selling influence with their government seems so Tory and yet the egregious, bald-faced sale of access to office holders infects Liberals, festering in both Ottawa and Queen’s Park. influence peddlingInfluence peddling It’s so ...
Read More »Will President Trump serve as a lesson to students?
After one of the most divisive political campaigns in American history Donald Trump became President Elect on Nov. 8. Pundits have been trying to understand how someone who appealed to the worst in our society; who invoked racism, sexism, misogyny, ...
Read More »Letter: The whole ‘justice’ system
To John Sewell and to the Ontario Premier: There has to be a TOTAL re-evaluation of the so called “justice” system! From the unidentified cops who hassle citizens, to the laws and the judges that let rapists off, to the ...
Read More »Letter: On the glamour contest that was the US election
I feel propagation of opinions like yours have put us in this frightening position. I trust you have not degraded the recent appointments to mere differences of opinion! But to look at the Clinton – Trump comparison where you somehow ...
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