Posts Tagged: News, Politics, Events
Oh, for a silly hat of my own...
Posted by on Monday, June 16, 2003 in - 7 comments
While I do not now go to Court, I have been known to see a rounder off to jail, joined a judge in a chambers chat, plea bargained. But don't know if I could do it all with a straight face before a very serious man in a very silly hat. • Not quite as funny are the ideas that go on beneath the …
George's Tough Month
Posted by on Sunday, June 15, 2003 in - leave a comment
A czar? An ombud? Is he an imperial dictator stumbling in a democractic technological world or a new nordic-style Enemy of the People raging at a storm? George Radwanski, Canada's Federal Privacy Commissioner, speaks of scary things. He has also ticked off parliamentarians over his travel …
David v. Anyone
Posted by on Wednesday, June 11, 2003 in - 2 comments
The attentive reader will recall my passing reference to David Swick of last month. He is time and again amazing me with what one reporter can do with a thrice weekly column. His column today in the Halifax Daily News is local reporting at its best. A political blow hard opens his yap trap and …
The New Peace Is War
Posted by on Sunday, June 8, 2003 in - 3 comments
Aside from all the run-of-the-mill "surprises" about what has not been found in Iraq, what happened to all those virtually identical Saddams? I thought the place was rotten with them. If they found one, how would they know it wasn't Saddam? If they found one, wouldn't somebody squeal thinking they …
D-Day
Posted by on Friday, June 6, 2003 in - leave a comment
I was delayed on my drive to work this morning by a parade of soldiers in battle fatigue marching up Princess Street past Market Square here in Kingston. D-Day ceremonies. It reminded me that when I was a kid in the early 70's, Dad's church in the Annapolis Valley still had WWI vets. In Scotland I …
