Jul 27 2020
July 2020 With the “Defunding the Police” movement gaining traction in many cities, the municipal council in Berkeley, California, announced back in March it plans to look at forming a special traffic enforcement department that will use unarmed city workers to conduct traffic stops, instead of police officers. Back in March, the municipal council in Berkeley, California, …
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Jul 25 2020
July 2020 Premier Doug Ford recently criticized the dramatic increase in parking rates for municipal lots and street parking along the waterfront in Barrie to $10 per hour, calling it price gouging during a pandemic. As a Barrie resident, I’d like to offer some context to the issue. Part of the reason the waterfront parks …
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Jul 21 2020
July 2020 Toronto Mayor John Tory is definitely one of the most likable politicians out there. However, I think his proposed Rail Deck Park, a plan to build an approximately 20 acre park atop the rail corridor rail corridor between Bathurst Street and Blue Jays Way, in downtown Toronto, should be put on ice, perhaps …
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Jul 16 2020
Published in the Toronto Sun 17 July 2020 Trudeau’s race relations. Oy vey! The jokes just keep writing themselves when it comes to Justin Trudeau. In reaction to a disgusting incident on 5 July at a T&T Supermarket in Mississauga, where a 48-year-old male, identified by Peel Police as John McCash, launched into an almost …
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Jun 20 2020
June 2020 The age-old question has been does watching too much TV rot your brain? In light of the most recent shooting death of a black man in Atlanta, 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, by now former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, who is now facing 11 charges, I do have to wonder what the effect cop …
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Jun 10 2020
June 2020 Every so often you hear the argument that the rich should pay their “fair share”, but you never really get an answer to the question of how much is enough? It’s too easy to claim that the rich don’t pay enough tax because of the size of their bank accounts. Do you want …
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Jun 08 2020
June 2020 Author’s note: I wrote this one back in February 2020, but it sat in the vault until now. During the last federal election in Canada, I found myself engaged in many discussions on line, attempting to debate some pretty hateful Liberals who see anyone who is not a die-hard, drink-the-Kool-Aid supporter of their …
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Jun 04 2020
June 2020 Police deserve better training and benefit of the doubt In light of the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Toronto, Ontario, on 27 May 27, there are again calls from mental health advocates that police receive better training when dealing with those in a mental health crisis. Some will argue that police should be …
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Jun 04 2020
June 2020 The crowds that packed Trinity-Bellwoods Park on May 24 may have been committing a careless act (future infections from the participants will tell), but in way I can hardly blame them. Firstly, we have been receiving so mixed messages, outright flip-flops and blatant disregard of “the rules” by our political leaders, that it’s …
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May 22 2020
May 2020 While we likely will never stop trading with China, I think we seriously need to question why we rely on them so much for a lot of the merchandise in our stores, and other needed items like medical supplies and pharmaceuticals. Now, I do understand why so many of the things for sale …
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