Category Archive: Original Writing

Be careful what you wish for

February 2021 For those who still think it’s a great idea to de-fund the police, or even disband their police forces, Minneapolis City Council recently decided that disbanding their police force would be a bad idea, less than a year after the June 2020 vote. The inconvenient truth is that since that vote, crime in …

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Just when you thought Trudeau’s incompetence couldn’t get any worse

February 2021 Just when you thought Trudeau’s complete failure to secure a reliable vaccine supply couldn’t sink any lower, he found a way. Trudeau has stated Canada would be getting vaccines from COVAX, a mechanism designed to ensure third-world countries could get access to the vaccines for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Virus. Although there …

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The CERB program has proven that a minimum basic income is a bad idea

February 2021 The Canada Emergency Relief Benefit (CERB) program, introduced by the Canadian government on 6 April 2020, was a necessary program, meant to compensate Canadians who lost their income due to the government mandated shutdowns due to the rising infections of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Virus. Unfortunately, the $2000 a month taxable government …

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Roadside attractions – The Varney Big Chair

February 2021 The small village of Varney, Ontario, an unincorporated village within the Municipality of West Grey, is known for two things: the Varney International Speedway, a 1/4 mile high banked short track motor racing oval, and the Varney Big Chair. The Varney Big Chair is a massively oversized Muskoka Chair (also known as an …

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A boondoggle in the making? – Hamilton’s cancelled LRT project may be coming back to life

Published in the Toronto Sun, 16 February 2021 Re: “Ford promises $1 billion of your money for Hamilton’s LRT disaster,” (Brian Lilley, Toronto Sun, 13 February): Brian is right that the Hamilton LRT is a project that’s not wanted. Even my Liberal-supporting mother, who was raised in Hamilton and is a graduate of McMaster University, …

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Giant Snowmen take over Barrie

February 2021 While winter after the joy and colour of Christmas can be pretty dreary for some, for others, it’s the time to get creative. Two Barrie families have built giant snowmen in their front yards, much to the delight of area residents. Chad Hanna built a 17-foot-tall snowman on the front lawn of his …

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You can’t check out any time you like, and you can never leave (until the government lets you)

February 2021 Canadian civil liberties seem to be under attack with the announcement that quarantine hotels have been established to “detain” those returning to Canada who don’t present a valid, negative test for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Virus. I have mixed feelings about the idea of quarantine hotels. With the CCP Virus still ravaging …

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Video should have spelt the end of the Cherry Beach Express

February 2021 The Cherry Beach Express is colloquial term, referring to an alleged practice by Toronto Police officers of escorting undesirable people/criminals late at night to Cherry Beach, an underpopulated area in the Port Lands of Toronto, where rough justice at the end of a billy-club would be administered. This practice dated back to the …

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A shocking video has Barrie Police under scrutiny once again

February 2021 Barrie Police has attracted national attention in recent days, with the news of an as of yet unidentified Barrie Police officer (I’ll refer to as Officer BP for now) involved in the arrest of 20-year-old Barrie resident Skyler Kent. Kent reportedly attracted police attention when he rode his skateboard through a red light, …

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Cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline shows why Canada needs to build more of our own pipelines to tidewater

February 2021 As he promised in the American general election last year, newly-installed President Joe Biden made good on his promise to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline, an oil pipeline that would have taken Canadian bitumen from Alberta to refineries on the U.S. Gulf coast. Cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline shows why Canada needs …

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