TORONTO — A new Toronto bylaw, passed Friday, could pave the way for a $1,500 per person tax to pay for Transit. Few people even noticed.
A small piece in Saturday’s Globe and Mail newspaper caught my eye. It didn’t make it into the Globe’s online edition, but the National Post covers it […]
TORONTO — Further to my post on Monday, I’d like to elucidate some of the “why” behind my unsolicited (and unrequited) advice to Tiger Woods. I advised then, and reaffirm now, that Tiger shouldn’t follow the reams of PR advice being proffered by experts in the media.
The show gets weirder
In a truly Alice in Wonderland […]
TORONTO Ontario’s public prosecutors have decided to make a public example of David Chen, who owns and operates a small retail store in Toronto’s Chinatown. His store, and many others on his block, has been repeatedly victimized by shoplifters, including one day last May when a shoplifter stole a number of potted plants from the […]
DUSHANBE — Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is in full backpedal mode, having withdrawn part of a stupid new bill that earned Coffee’s fourth Stupid Law of the Week Award.
As reported in the Globe and Mail newspaper, McGuinty will excise part of the legislation which banned more than one teenager in a car driven by a […]
DUSHANBE — Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty earns Coffee’s 4th Stupid Law of the Week award with his government’s proposal to defy Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms by banning legal behaviour by young adults.
McGuinty’s Law is, ostensibly, about minimizing deaths caused by drinking and driving. In order to do this, he proposes to make it […]
DUSHANBE — Okay. Maybe the evil-doer premier of Ontario is not really planning to ban all driving in Ontario. But, he should be.
You see, he wants to ban operating any gizmos that might distract a driver from, say, driving. Things like cell phones, GPS, BlackBerrys, PlayStations, DVD players, Pong games, laptop computers, blow dryers, portable […]
Would there be fewer fights in hockey if we armed the referees? Or, would it just make for more spectacular TV?
DUSHANBE — As I sat in the Irish Pub last night, defending the violence in Canada’s almost national sport in a discussion with fellow expatriates, it came to me that the most recent scandalous downfall of my […]
Careful what you eat! Vomiting on Windsor streets could become an offence punishable by fine. Until then, watch where you step…
DUSHANBE — As something of a Libertarian at heart, I thoroughly enjoyed this recent article on Canada.com about a pointless new law set for debate at Windsor’s city council (that’s Windsor, Ontario in Canada). In […]
A great deal of hullaballoo has been raised in the media lately about the government’s choice of words to redact from publicly released documents related to the Maher Arar case. When the report was released, a number of words were blacked out for “national security reasons.” An immediate hue and cry arose and allegations of […]
One of the great challenges that has bedevilled the various associations that represent corporate communications practitioners over the years I’ve been observing them, has been governance.
These associations, which include IABC, CPRS and PRSA, have long been criticized by members and industry pundits for poor governance practices. And, often with good reason. However, I will say […]