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It will not come as a surprise to anyone who sees and hears TV or radio that the island of Newfoundland, and a chunk of Labrador, is in a time zone of its own — Newfoundland Standard Time. The island is three and a half hours from Coordinated Universal Time (CTU) or what used to […]
(May 13, 2015) Not having had a podium finish all year, Red Bull Team Principal, Christian Horner, has defined his team’s season thus far with his non-stop whinging about the inferiority of the Renault engine. It culminated with him saying after the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday that, because of Renault, the 2015 season was […]
Prologue Elizabeth May’s intention in her speech to the Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner on the weekend was to run with some edgy humour. She’s totally capable of it. She can be funny and she is smart. Sadly for Ms. May, it came across as all edge and no humour. Your Working Girl can empathsize with […]
Please believe Your Working Girl when she says from the bottom of her heart that she is not trying to tell you what to do. She doesn’t give out fundraising tips anymore. She finds there are enough fundraising how-to books in print to choke a horse. In them, you will find the latest instructions on how to […]
(March 13, 2015) We’re off to the races again! Thank goodness. While the temperatures are still freezing in Eastern Canada, in our imaginations we can bake in the sun at the Australian Grand Prix on the weekend. For those of you who haven’t been paying too much attention since I wrote my F1 season wrap-up […]
Yesterday, I wrote a blog about Jesse Brown, the Batman journalist flying all over Gotham demanding we listen to him about the state of Canadian media. Fine. I’ll listen to anyone for a few minutes and I think the points he’s making about needing better media critique in this country are good ones. But the problem […]
In the 1989 movie, Blaze, starring Paul Newman as Earl Long, the “finest governor of the great state of Louisiana” and introducing the incredible Lolita Davidovitch as the burlesque-dancing love of his life, Blaze Starr (not her real name), there’s a scene in which Blaze’s mother imparted a few words of wisdom to her daughter just […]
On Thursday, January 8th, a woman waited on a cold Toronto street for former CBC host, Jian Ghomeshi, to emerge from a court room and, amid people making catcalls, she shouted “castrate him,” according to the Globe and Mail. On Wednesday, two “Muslim extremists” barged into an editorial meeting of the French satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo […]
… Greenpeace In an effort to bring attention to climate change at a U.N. conference on that topic held in Lima, Peru from December 1st to the 14th, a contingent of Greenpeace campaigners trampled through the Nazca Lines, a United Nations World Heritage Site, causing potentially irreparable damage to the ancient and vulnerable archeological location. […]
I was at Loblaws in Toronto today—the massive Loblaws in the former Maple Leaf Gardens which has a red dot commemorating centre ice in aisle 25—and saw the biggest food bank food drop-off bin I’d ever seen it my life. The bin was there so people could throw food bank food, presumably food bank food […]
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