I’m just back from a speaking engagement at Confederation College in Thunder Bay, where among other things, I learned how important the Toronto streetcar deal with Bombardier is to that northern city. It will provide up to 4,500 badly needed jobs for at least five years.
Some of those who will get a paycheque for building streetcars at the Bombardier plant in […]
There are a lot of similarities between the protests underway in Iran by people opposed to the outcome of last week’s election, and the pockets of protesters in the East Germany city of Leipzig, who 20 years ago morphed into an unstoppable force of half a million people and growing. They were opposed to Soviet communist control of East Germany in […]
1) Michael Ignatieff is not as desperate or as impatient to become prime minister as his predecessors Stephane Dion or Paul Martin were, both of whom were blind to the will of the people as a result of their raw ambition.
2) Ignatieff is less likely to risk overreaching for the prize he knows he will likely get when the time is […]
Have you noticed the number of high profile Americans who have dropped in lately to pick up some extra cash? It’s almost a stampede, which is another indication of how much better this Country is weathering the recession than the U.S.
Where did former President George W. Bush deliver his first “speech for money” as private citizen George? At a private luncheon in Calgary for 1,500 who paid big […]
The wife of a good friend of mine died last week from lung cancer at age 58 following a year of expensive treatment and a lot of prayers. She was not a smoker. They enjoyed an extremely close marriage of 42 years so the loss is devastating to him. Like many, he’s wanting to channel his profound grief into […]
One of the best ways , perhaps the only way to get the attention and action of Government through public protestation is by first getting the public to ” buy in ” to the cause, or perceived injustice. Governments at all levels operate in a vote economy so in most cases, but not in all, […]
This is one of my favorite weeks of the year, an annual ritual that grounds me like no other. Fishing in the first week of May on Georgian Bay, where the rainbow trout and salmon play along the shallow shoreline from the time the ice is out until the lilac blossoms fade just ahead of the Victoria day weekend, is […]
The stock market rally of the last four-five weeks was beginning to make people feel as good as the warmer spring weather, but I sense a return to uncertainty or resignation as this week comes to a close on the heels of a few economic developments that signal the worst may be yet to come.
The Bank […]
Oh, what a beautiful weekend this is shaping up to be, the best since sometime last September or October — how are ya diggin’ it? And what are you going to do with what you haven’t been able to since last year?
The spring in our step is the release of a pent-up coping mechanism that gets […]
Despite my Anglo sounding last name and the fact that I was born here in Canada, I am of Italian descent and was raised in the bosom of the Italian (mothers) side of my family, including my grandparents, who immigrated to Canada from a small mountain top village in the southeast of Italy. The town is called Pisticci and […]
