The assassination of Vladimir Putin
Every morning when I fire up my computer, that’s the headline I expect to see. Either that or “Vladimir Putin Assassinated.” Subhead: “Russian generals announce ceasefire, seek peace talks with Ukraine.” Maybe I am dreaming in technicolor. But perhaps this scenario is not as far-fetched as you might think. I summon Adolf Hitler to the…
Read MoreThe Sixties? I don’t remember a thing
“If you remember the Sixties, you weren’t really there.” Take it from me, those words ring true. I was there and don’t remember a damn thing. Which maybe explains why I am getting such a kick out of Ablaze: Ten Years That Shook the World by Peter Rowe. Anybody who WAS there will also tell…
Read MoreVictor Ramraj and the lost V.S. Naipaul
My FB friend Hal Wake invited folks to play this game called The One That Got Away. That sparked a memory which I shared on Facebook and thought, why not here? It concerns my dear friend Victor Ramraj, who had written a great deal about V.S. Naipaul. Vic was an English professor at University of…
Read MorePortrait of a CTV hero as a young man
Big shout-out to CTV’s Evan Solomon for doing such an outstanding job on the streets of Ottawa, covering the illegal occupation. The dazed and confused have been shoving him, spitting at him, calling him a Nazi. All because he’s getting right down into the front lines to show us what’s happening. Seeing him in action,…
Read MoreSaying BRAVO to ‘Just Watch Me’
I don’t know about you but I’ve seen enough of this Ottawa blockade. And so I write in praise of the federal government action. The Emergency Measures Act? I say YES! BRING IT ON! Some have asked: what does it change? What can those in charge do now that they couldn’t do before? What difference…
Read MoreWaking Canadians to an insurgency
Never mind those poor wounded souls vying for attention — the Bleating Sheep, the Dazed-and-Confused, the Vile Morons who bring their children to an insurrection. We’ve also got Puppet Masters funding operations from deep within TrumpWorld. We’ve got Homegrown Canadian Fascists running a well organized branch plant. And we’ve got a circle of True Believers…
Read MoreOttawa is a powder keg set to explode
Ottawa is a powder keg set to explode. That’s what woke me at 4 a.m. – that thought. To end the occupation, the army will have to confront the hard-core illegals. Why? Because this siege, this blockade, is NOT a protest over vaccine mandates. What we have here is an alt-right uprising – a wannabe…
Read MoreLost in the jingle-jangle morning of a genius
Wow, so reading this book whirled me away “through the smoke rings of my mind.” Away I went “down the foggy ruins of time,” remembering this one song from replaying it in west-end Montreal, a first shared apartment on Claremont Avenue, and that one from obsessing over it in The Haight, a walk-up crash pad…
Read MoreProviding for a multi-media extravaganza
Yo! Hey! Can anybody hear me? I’m shouting out from deep in this rabbit hole on website-building. I hate to say the C-word, but it’s happening. No more a swashbuckling writer, I have become a lowly CONTENT-PROVIDER. Tell the truth, I am having a blast. I’ve been contemplating the traditional Author’s Website. You’ve got the…
Read MoreCelebrating the Indigenous contribution
Season’s greetings and hats off to the folks at the John Rae Society in Orkney. They’re the ones driving the restoration of the Hall of Clestrain, original home of Arctic explorer John Rae. Having purchased the Hall and the lands needed to build an access road, they’ve both broadened and refined their original concept. They’re…
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