Nov 27 2022
November 2022 Re: “No More Masks” (The Hamilton Spectator, Letters to the editor, 24 November): If you want to keep wearing a mask for the rest of your life, go right ahead. You don’t need a government mandate; just wear one if you want, but no one should be forced or shamed into wearing one …
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Nov 14 2022
Published in the Toronto Sun, 19 November 2022 So let me get this straight: Toronto council has accepted the cost of $6.3 million to re-name Dundas Street and Yonge-Dundas Square? Is Mayor John Torry going to tell us with a straight face that this will be money well spent and that there is nothing more …
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Nov 12 2022
November 2022 Not that I want to knock CUPE of their smug high-horse (OK, I do, but I still have a point), but a little context to Premier Doug Ford’s pledge to revoke Bill-28 is needed. CUPE turning this into a David & Goliath victory, but I’d like to argue that Doug Ford decided to …
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Oct 30 2022
October 2022 Parents of school-age children can now breathe a sigh of relief that Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce has announced legislation to force a contract on CUPE workers and end any strike action before it even begins. Read the room CUPE; now is not the time for a strike. Parents are tired of the …
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Oct 24 2022
October 2022 With an apparent lack of self-awareness, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is “Shocked! Shocked, to find that” the RCMP is displaying a lack of transparency by choosing not to release the badge numbers of the officers who cleared the protesters from the Ambassador Bridge blockade in Windsor last February. That’s the same Marco …
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Oct 06 2022
October 2022 We’re told that gas-powered cars are bad for the planet, so we all have to drive electric vehicles. We’re told that plastic shopping bags are also bad for the environment, so we have to use re-usable bags. electric vehicles have their own environmental issues, as do re-usable bags, which also have sanitary issues, …
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Sep 27 2022
September 2022 For the first time, I agree with something the President Joe Biden has said, that being that the COVID-19 pandemic is over. This is some long overdue common sense, something that our own Prime Minister Blackface could emulate. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the COVID-19 virus is gone. There are many viruses …
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Sep 22 2022
Published in the Toronto Sun, 30 September 2022 Re: “City hall quickly yanks vax campaign,” (Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun, 22 Sept): As Brad Ross puts it, it’s always a good idea to ensure that your communications are “…effectively reaching the right audience with the right message.” That’s great, but how about doing exactly that, …
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Sep 17 2022
September 2022 With the recent deaths of Constable Andrew Hong of Toronto Police and Constable Travis Gillespie of York Regional Police, it’s important to remember that there may be people, both police officers and civilians, who may be having a hard time dealing with their deaths. Friends and family need to watch for this and …
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Aug 22 2022
Published in the Toronto Sun, 24 August 2022 Re: “Firing anti-racism group took too long given trainer’s racist comments,” (Brian Lilley, Toronto Sun, 22 August): If I didn’t know better, I would have sworn that this column was from satirical news sites like “The Onion” or “The Babylon Bee.” It’s cases like this that highlight …
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