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Stephen Harper has the answer to the environmental crisis - potpourri. It was his wife's idea, really. She came into Stephen's favourite living room on Sussex Drive one day to discover that the dog had "made a mistake". While one of the staff had cleaned up the mess, a not-very-nice smell still lingered in the air. Not at all suitable for the Leader's home. More ... In his best-selling book, Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden wrote that, "A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory." Obviously, Golden wouldn't have any idea who Liberal Leader Stephane Dion is, but the thought is eerily descriptive of Dion's ongoing inability to turn what he claims is his political vision into any kind of concrete action. More ... Racism in Ontario, which many believe is declining, is hanging in tenaciously, even finding new targets, and Ontario's Liberal government is not doing all it can to counter it. No new statistics have been released to show whether racism is on the rise, but there are plenty of examples indicating it is alive and kicking. More ... So I'm sitting in this meeting one afternoon last week and it's not too bad, as meetings go. I've got a comfortable chair, the speaker's not putting me to sleep and best of all I've got a cup of good, hot coffee steaming in my favourite double-walled stainless steel travel mug. It's sitting on the table in front of me. More ... "April is the cruellest month", said T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land (1922). In that poem he depicted, says Karen Armstrong in A Short History of Myth (2005) the spiritual disintegration of Western culture. This month income tax returns compound the misery. More ... On a trip to Australia to attend a niece's wedding, Anne and our oldest son were surprised to note the high proportion of homes with roof-top solar panels. Obviously Australians had found an energy source other than fossil fuels to meet their heating needs. That was 20 years ago. I am hardly aware that such technology has as yet reached the Ontario scene. More ... 100 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 2, 1908 • The roads were bad - very bad - and notice of the meeting was rather insufficient. The Temperance people expected the attendance to be very small indeed and the enthusiasm lacking, but delegates came from practically all parts of the county to their annual convention, held in an almost-full Shelburne town hall. More ... If you read the small print on a $20 bill you will find a quote from Gabriel Roy, saying, "Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts? More ... Last week I had an opportunity to have coffee with a men's study group. The speaker was Wendy Gritter. She is the director of a Canadian organization called New Direction. It is a conservative Christian group set up to minister to gays and lesbians. More ... The Cenotaph was removed for restoration On Wednesday April 2nd by Smith Monuments of Toronto. Branches 233 in Co-Operation with the Town of Orangeville and Mayor Rob Adams have been working diligently on this project. The total estimated costs are $54,700 depending on the repairs needed to the Brass Soldier on top of the Cenotaph. More ... |
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