Rob Ford’s fooliganism is a minor embarrassment compared with the nastiness that is Stephen Harper. Here’s a nice summary of last year’s behaviour, being shared around the world.
The sad thing is, it isn’t just a matter of turfing the Conservatives, although we have to do that ASAP. The damage takes a long time to undo. Ontarians are still suffering the effects of Mike Harris.
Month: January 2014
Hello from Canada's sunny south
Our niece Nicole posed for her mother Kathy, introducing Canada’s southernmost park, Point Pelée. They were there yesterday.
Danica has fond memories of the park from her girlhood days as a Windsor resident, but she has yet to take me there. Perhaps this year. Perhaps when it’s a little warmer. But it is beautiful in the wintertime, too, as Kathy’s photos show. The big one at the top was one of my favourites.
How corrupt are we, relatively speaking?
New Year’s Eve dinner conversation touched upon various scandals and misdeeds of Canadian governments at all levels. Lloyd Cooke, one of the participants and a worldly traveller, offers the above map to help keep us in perspective.
Not to say that we don’t have to remain vigilant and demand better of our elected officials, but we do squeak into the Top Ten for cleanliness. This year, let’s try to move a little higher.
Windows 8 users: It's not just you
Frankly, Apple’s iOS 7 has many interface shortcomings of its own, but Windows 8 has generated a lot more pain and hair-pulling. If you are a sufferer, the video explains at length and in detail, why Windows 8 is bad. You are not the problem and you are not a klutz.