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I agree 101%. Those bullet points are well worth remembering. My wife has a sister who moved down to the U.S. while in her early 20s and became a citizen there decades ago. She is now as pro-Trump as my surviving U.S. relatives and has basically cut off contact with us over her obsession with...

I can’t begin to fathom how Americans (which include most of my remaining U.S. relatives) can still support Trump. It was one thing for them to have elected him in the first place. But now that his derangements have become part of his administration’s policies, he is still basically riding...

My father-in-law was in the SDGs, second wave (I believe) at Juno. In the last year of his life he moved to Sunnybrook from a retirement home on Kingston Road. Once he got there he was sorry he waited so long as he was treated wonderfully by the staff and was able to talk about old times with...

We visited Bény-sur-Mer cemetery where my father-in-law was able to pay his respects to his buddies who are buried there. He told us stories about each man he knew and, in some cases, precisely how they died. Quite a humbling experience. In his last few days of life at Sunnybrook Hospital in...

I remember taking my father-in-law back to Juno Beach on the 51st anniversary of D-Day (June 6, 1995…we were unable to make it for the 50th). It was his first time back to Europe since the war. I forget the name of the beachside road that connects the various landing zones, but I remember...

Sorry, FB, that should have been addressed more to Eaglelord

I disagree with you on many things but I’m totally with you this time around. I don’t think EVs are necessarily the best way to go in the long term. I would like to see more development of hydrogen vehicles. And trains? I’m with you on that. Both regionally and nationally we need more. My...

If the CPC could shed itself of the far right elements and get closer to its originally near-centre position then it could once again be a serious political power.

I had expected that, given the amount of time Poilievre and the CPC have had to respond to the various various crises over the past few years, we would now be seeing a more comprehensive, believable platform.

The NDP used to be known for supporting workers, largely union workers and mostly on the basis of wages and benefits. Over time, as unions lost the power they once had in elections, the NDP worked at shedding its image as a socialist-type party. They began to focus increasingly on what we now...

Yes, you do…you vote them out of office. Otherwise, we can respectfully agree to disagree.

The point of my sarcasm is that both government and business need checks and balances to limit their power. As Lord Acton said, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Trump’s lies have Americans thinking that they will be much better off financially because of him...

As if business is the saviour of the world? If so let us bow down and pray right now that business will consign all government to the fiery depths of hell.

A Russian constitution?

There have always been people like MTG, Trump, Boebert, Gates et al. What we haven’t seen until relatively recently is such a vast number of Americans who look up to people like them and seem to hang on every word they utter. I’m wondering if those Americans who enable them fit any of the...

Trump’s Easter message just goes to show the extent of his derangement, especially his fixation on Biden and past “wrongs”. The fact that Americans are not overwhelmingly disgusted at his rantings, especially at Easter, shows the state of America’s very sad decline. And as that decline...

Willy Loman?

Until they can occupy a closer-to-centre position, the CPC is more likely to see even more defeats. The LPC seems to out-maneuver them every time. Once Trudeau resigned and Carney replaced him, the CPC seemed to be unassailable. But they blew their huge lead in a matter of weeks. So was it...

The problem with U.S. subsidiaries is that they take Canadian talent and then transfer them to their U.S. head office or subsidiaries. It’s the nature of the beast.

Too bad the disgustingly woke CBC has failed to present some of Canada’s exciting history, both good and bad, to Canadians.