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Yesterday at the BRIT awards in London, after a lovely obituary by Annie Lennox and Gary Oldman, who accepted the rare BRIT Icon Award on Bowie’s family’s behalf, 19-year old singer, Lorde—a young woman David Bowie called the “tomorrow” of music—walked out to centre stage and, backed up by Bowie’s long time touring band, sang Life […]
I don’t want to write this blog. I telling you I don’t. I’ve got a so-called life and stuff to do. And, honestly, I don’t have any particular axe to grind. But with the Goodwill debacle I posted about on Sunday still on my mind, ACCOUNTABILITY on my top-ten word list this week, and the […]
Retail is tough. The margins are narrow. Sales dip in January. Rents in Toronto are high. Donations are not what they used to be. Goodwill faced these problems and more. They tried to make it work, but couldn’t. It’s hard. That could have been the tsk-tsk sad story we’ve been following this week. But it’s […]
December 3, 2015 We’re all Cleveland “Indians” now. In an announcement that surprised no one, Mark Shapiro (sha-PIE-row), Blue Jays president and former longtime employee of the Cleveland Indians, hired his former number two guy, also a longtime Cleveland employee, Ross Atkins, as the Blue Jays new General Manager, bumping longtime Jays employee, Tony LaCava, […]
November 19, 2015 Newfoundland and Labrador Loses its Troubadour Ron Hynes, Newfoundland’s “man of a thousand songs” passed away today at the Health Sciences Complex in St. John’s, the result of having had cancer. Moments after his death was announced, the power went out in downtown St. John’s, the result of a hydro pole catching […]
November 13, 2015 Syrian War Stakes Out a New “Theatre” At least 128 people died and many more were critically injured tonight, as IS (Islamic State) claimed responsibility for coordinated attacks in Paris. The events have resulted in Facebook becoming the largest funeral parlour in the world where well-worn expressions of grief rub shoulders with personal […]
My dad was a story-telling man who served in World War II, and who told no stories about the war. Save one. The topic of conversation was actually about how hard-hearted some people can be, and he was using the story as an example. When he finished, I understood a lot more about why he […]
November 7, 2015 Indonesian Forest Fires Illustrate How Profiteers Use World’s Atmosphere As Their Own Personal Sewer The CO2 emissions from the deliberately set Indonesian forest fires have reached 1.62 billion megatons (1620,000,000,000,000 tons), with Indonesia now taking the 4th largest CO2 emitter spot from Russia. The CO2 emissions from the fires will soon equal […]
October 25 2015 WHALE-WATCHING BOAT SINKS, CLAIMING THE LIVES OF FIVE, ONE MAN STILL MISSING The sinking of a whale-watching boat off the coast of Tofino, B.C. today leaves three men and one woman dead, and one man missing. Riding in a small boat on a large ocean for the bliss of seeing one of […]
Mark Shapiro will become the President and CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday, November 3rd , taking over from longtime President and CEO, Paul Beeston, an old-school baseball guy, whose soft spot for the fans I have personally experienced more than one time. Shapiro, apparently pronounced sha-PIE-row, is coming to Toronto after 24 […]
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