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Friday Menu Good afternoon, I’m trying a slightly different approach today, providing a quick survey of articles we’ve recently put out, which might interest you, skipping – just this once – the snarky preamble. Bon appetite! Appetizer: For starters,...

As we approach the close of November, the breath of winter’s crisp night crystalizes, and a post-pandemic parliament looms like sinkhole waiting for unsuspecting traffic. All those free lunches must now find a benefactor other than my unborn grandchildren...

Good afternoon, Stuff my dad would have brought home in a tabloid… in the 70’s: With apologies – the kids are gone, and I’m all backed-up with dad jokes. It’s reported that sometime in the middle-ages a nun in a French convent began meowing one day for...

Go Boldly This week, the man best known as Captain James T. Kirk joined a small crew and boldly went to the sky inside a really and truly spaceship. The privately built, New Shepard spacecraft took the 90 year old William Shatner AKA “Geezer-pants,” over...

The leaves -- those bright, glorious hangers-on -- are making their way toward composting dirt, our potatoes are harvested, and our tomatoes are salsa for another day. The fall pause in stock values has… well, paused, for the week at least. Meanwhile...

The problem with the Chinese market, or any market, is when it isn’t one. By 1978, China’s determined effort at egalitarianism had resulted in tens of millions victims, all equally dead. Faced with starvation, farmers in the tiny village of Xiaogang gathered...

Happy election day. At the final whistle of my first official soccer game, the goaltender on my own team must have felt threatened by the new kid. He stormed over, unprovoked, and tried to bump me to the ground, announcing: “I knocked the wind out a guy...

By October 1, 1988, Justin Trudeau’s daddy had been PM for 13 of the boy’s 16 years. Reagan was US president, Thatcher was the UK Prime Minister, and on that very day Gorbachev was sworn in as the Soviet head of state. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called...

Good afternoon. The federal election is 17 days away, as the parties fall over themselves spending and getting up in our business. This week, our crack team at head office compiled a synopsis of major party platforms, which – if I’m honest – just made...