Sweet Baby Suet
I am overwhelmed, and frustrated, by this pandemic and our utter failure to see the peril looming on our Holiday Horizon if we don’t smarten up, fast. It seems we’ve come down to thinking, “What if we just go ahead and have a little, bitty get together. You know what I mean, just an afternoon […]
The Desperate Measures Fund
Frustrated with its lack of success in seeing conventional methods eradicate COVID-19, the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau is said to be eyeing new funding, to the tune of $50 million, for alternative approaches to the neutralization of the coronavirus. Known among insiders as the “Desperate Measures Fund (DMF), it will make funds available to […]
The Peppermint Schtick
Before we’ve even reached the halfway mark in the month of November some folks are going on about the “Christmas” versus “Holidays” malarkey. Come on. No one, not even the P.C. Cops, is telling you the use of the word “Christmas” is against the law. Oy vey! Is this really about political correctness or are […]
The Long Wait
Gee willikers, that was the longest five days I have ever experienced. From Tuesday evening until Saturday mid-day, from the time the polls closed until the media called the race as won by Joe Biden, the wait was excruciating. After I concluded on Tuesday at just before midnight that nothing was going to be decided […]
Stop, what’s that sound?
Stop. What’s that sound?” A massive, collective sigh of relief? Does peacefulness have a sound? I don’t think in all of my years I’ve ever been so distraught and focused with regard to politics, especially the politics of the United States of America. I know what happens to our southern neighbours has an impact on […]
Imagining the Cube
If I hadn’t already made my fortune as a weekly columnist with the Wellington Times, I would like to have made it as an inventor. But not just any inventor. No improved industrial sludge separators or high efficiency potato peelers for me. I would prefer to have invented a toy. But not just any toy. […]
This, that and the other thing
November first. Yep, here we are rushing toward the end of 2020. You know, 2020, the year we woke up all excited about this, that and the other thing? We were barely into February we found out “the other thing” would just about the only “thing” we’d have on our minds for the rest of […]
Ditching the Ranked Ballot
Let’s get right to the big news. Doug Ford and his Ontario Conservative crew are planning to repeal paragraph 3 of subsection 7(3). I know; it’s a shocker. That would be the paragraph and subsection of the Municipal Elections Act that allows a Municipality to hold an election using the ranked ballot system of voting. […]
Bookmarks and other treats
To paraphrase a good friend, “It’s a sad day when the garden furniture gets put away for the winter.” Maybe she feels the way I do about the changing of seasons, this year. It feels as if we didn’t really have enough summer and here we are, knee-deep in fall. This summer afforded us an […]
Partiendo el pan—breaking bread
It’s late on a recent Wednesday afternoon when I climb the stone steps near a building appropriately known as the Ridge, a structure that is the heart of the Closson Chase Winery. On the lower level, the grape harvest is pressed and prepared to be aged for later savouring. The upper storey, my destination today, […]