The passing of an icon. What more can one say?
Filed under: Politics | Tagged: Death of Edward Kennnedy, Lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy | Leave a Comment »
University students will be back in their classes in the coming month and most will be worrying not just about grades, but about how to to pay off their student loans after they graduate. In our family, we’ve tried to use education savings plans for our late arrivals. Our first generation, however, didn’t have that advantage. [...]
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The slow and difficult process of counting votes is underway in Afghanistan following an election that is said to be a test of the West’s determination to build a viable regime that will be able to fend off future Taliban attacks. The expected charges of vote-rigging are flying, as reported here. And out in the deserts, thousands more [...]
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Update: (Aug 21) Ms. Mohamud and her lawyers have launched a lawsuit against the Canadian government seeking $2.5 million in damages. I’ve been trying to concoct in my head a scenario that would explain the outrageous treatment of the Canadian citizen, Suaad Hagi Mohamud, who our government threw in jail when she showed up [...]
Filed under: Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged: Canadian High Commission Kenya, Liliane Khadour, Passport pictures, Raoul Boulakia | 2 Comments »
It is truly the “dog days” of Summer when your TV screen is filled with endless repeats. Repeats that no one really wants to watch anyway, compared to the better uses we can make of our time. But this Summer, the re-runs are more prolific than ever on CBC-TV. What really hurts is that they [...]
Filed under: Broadcasting, Culture | Tagged: Boy in the Picture, Canadian Pacific Railway, CBC budget, CBC re-runs, CBC repeats, CBC-TV, Edward Mallandaine, Last Spike, The Iron Road | Leave a Comment »
The city is in turmoil. By the city, I mean all cities affected by the economic trials of the past year, which is just about every place with a population of more than a few thousand. I’m in Kingston, Ontario, this Canadian Civic Holiday weekend. A charming historic town of 115,000, it’s sustained by a big [...]
Filed under: Culture | Tagged: abandoned cities, Maclean's magazine, Most livable cities, Toronto civic workers' strike | 3 Comments »
