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October 19th LIBERAL PARTY OF CANADA COMES FROM BEHIND TO WIN A MAJORITY GOVERNMENT Political pundits are shocked, New Democratic Party (NDP) supporters are heart-broken and the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) are grinding their teeth as the Liberal Party trounced both parties to ride its way to a majority today. No word on the […]
It was fifty thousand fans who were yelling on their feet The accidental go-ahead run is nothing but a cheat! When it comes to the pride of country, we know we gotta fight. When it comes to the pride of baseball, forget the bromide “polite.” * Last night, twas the fans, not the team, who […]
A bit of poetry to sooth our nervous souls. Happy Thanksgiving, BTW. (It does, of course, remain to be seen how happy it can be.) A Ballad of Baseball Burdens by Franklin Pierce Adams (1912) The burden of hard hitting. Slug away Like Honus Wagner or like Tyrus Cobb. Else fandom shouteth: “Who said you […]
Lynton Crosby. Most of us heard his name for the first time in early September. He is a Lord Voldemort of political professionals, a master of the dark arts who specializes in ripping apart tenuous bonds between neighbours and there, in the vacuum, systematically works the “divide and conquer” algorithm until the big problem of […]
Indie songwriter, Ryan Adams, has “re-imagined” Taylor Swift’s entire last album, 1989, and now has seven tracks on Billboard Hot Rock Tracks, all Taylor Swift material. He has landed on the chart only three times in his entire 20-year career. Oh, by the way, he’s a big fan. Arthouse music critics are hopping on board […]
I’m not really anybody. For demographic purposes you could segment me as a 50ish single woman with two children in their 20s, a self-employed professional living in downtown Toronto. I have no pension, no big home to sell and no expectation of a family inheritance. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if that […]
If you’ve ever seen your father cry, you can probably still remember it. I saw my father, a war veteran who served on a minesweeper in WWII and who would be 93 this year if he had not drowned in 1985, cry exactly twice, although I don’t know if you could call it crying per […]
Baseball has its many charms whether your home team is winning or not. For the baseball fan, the season starts in April and ends in October, and during that time, someone’s home team somewhere is winning and, what with television and the Internet being what it is today, you can actually see the great teams […]
Ask anyone on the street the one thing they know about what makes a deserving charity and they are likely to say it’s the one is spending less on overhead, “like uh, 10 or 15 per cent or something like that.” Canadian charities are getting stuck with the number 15. A “good” charity doesn’t spend […]
Okay … I’m coming clean …the “Toronto fundraiser” mentioned in the headline above is me. And, as the headline suggests, I have written a novel. You can read more about it here. I thought the Working Girl blog would be enough rope for me. But no. Periodic 1,000 word essays just didn’t do the trick. It […]
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