NORTH POLE — Merry Christmas to everyone, and best wishes for a peaceful day and year for all.
Our hearts and prayers are with our troops overseas, their families at home, my friends around the world and the family, whom I do not know, two blocks away whose home burned tonight.
God bless.
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 – Friday’s Globe and Mail carries a front page story by Campbell Clark that presents what I believe is the most credible scenario explaining the disconnect in Canada’s Foreign Affairs ministry on the Afghan detainee issue.
While most other journalists have concentrated on titillating “he said, she said” stories playing up every minuscule difference of […]
TORONTO – Just in case you missed it, dear Coffee readers, Toronto’s lame duck mayor David Miller has launched a class-action slander at the Copenhagen Climate Shindig. Claiming to speak for “all Canadians” he’s announced how “embarrassed” we are to be Canadians. Not to put too fine a point on it, allow me […]
TORONTO – I have remarked in the past that the only thing that makes Pakistan’s incompetent politicians bearable to the average citizen there, is the sure knowledge the democratically elected legislators are entirely irrelevant to real life in the beleaguered nation. The Army runs the country and the Army, by and large, is competent. […]
TORONTO – Was pleased to hear CFRB’s Bill Carroll raise the issue of the City’s new “TTC tax” on condo developers this morning.
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 — Ah, yes. My Monday morning Java, fresh in hand, I sit down to look at the papers and… what? Could it be? Yes. The Toronto Star newspaper wants me to stop buying newspapers.
The entire front page of the Toronto Star today is devoted to a multinational editorial headlined: […]
TORONTO – As I was going through past blog entries and tagging them with regional indicators… so you, gentle reader, can search for entries relevant to, say, “Tajikistan” or “Canada” or “USA,” I came across an entry from the last Canadian federal election campaign.
In it, I noted Ontario Liberal Finance Minister Dwight Duncan’s then comment […]
TORONTO – Yesterday, Canada’s Prime Minister was publicly rebuked by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao for prioritizing human rights above corporate profits. This bit of laughable political theater in China turned outright bizarre by the time news reached Ottawa, where opposition political leaders dutifully lined up behind the Chinese dictatorship to wag their professorial index […]