TORONTO – Toronto’s public transit system (known as the “TTC” for Toronto Transit Commission) is in such a state of turmoil that only a radical, can’t-even-see-the-box-from-here approach will fix it. At present, it’s a middling-good, ad-hoc network of buses, electric streetcars (as pictured), light rail and subways operated by an aggressively unionized cabal that […]
TORONTO – Common sense is sorely lacking in the media hoopla and political response to the latest failed attempt to bring down a civil airliner. Perhaps it’s time to look dispassionately at the challenge and identify some potential responses that might help.
Christmas Day Recap
For those of you living on Mars: On December […]
TORONTO – The January issue of Golf Digest is on the newstands now and it is a fine illustration of the perils of magazine publishing and its long lead times. The cover story (illustrated above) is 10 tips Obama can take from Tiger. Ahem, as they say in the biz.
“Ahem,” […]
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 — Canada’s minority Conservative government is slugging it out on multiple fronts with the country’s Official Opposition party (the Liberals) over whether or not the government is covering up something in Afghanistan. In an absurdity that could only happen in Canada, the alleged cover up appears to involve something that was (a) never done […]
TORONTO — This just in… Michael Jackson is still dead. Meanwhile, in the first news story that threatens to knock MJ off the tabloid covers, Tiger Woods is still not talking about his mysterious midnight meandering early Friday morning that ended with him briefly in the hospital and, less briefly, on every newscast in […]
TORONTO — My apologies to my international readers: this post is entirely Canada-centric. Then again, my American friends may find the current war between Canada’s cable TV providers and its major TV networks strangely amusing, in a “WTF goes on up there?” kind of way.
The background (in case you’re not Canadian, eh?)
Canada’s TV industry is […]
TORONTO — First, let me say that my thoughts and prayers are with the families of those killed and wounded in yesterday’s horrific shooting incident at Fort Hood in the U.S. Second, let me say how disappointing it was watching the “insta-news” media machine grind through the day.
Much of what I’m going to cover in […]
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 […]
TORONTO — I have written before about the strategic savoir faire of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Saturday’s attack on the headquarters of the Pakistan Army in Rawalpindi may prove to be the single biggest strategic blunder by the Taliban’s wing in Pakistan.
Pakistan is the Army
And, the Army is Pakistan.
The government in Pakistan is inept, corrupt […]