The View from the Firing Line

Well, the news from Ottawa these days is that, well, there is no news. Everything is at a standstill. PM Justin Trudeau has announced that, maybe, at some time, in the near future, he will step down as Prime Minister. Brings to mind a great quote from someone who, if...

The View from the Firing Line

Our Prime Minister has been working hard lately. Maybe he needs a holiday. Seems we have a border problem. President Elect Trump is upset with Canada over the flow of Fentanyl from Canada into the United States. All twenty kilos of it. The DEA report indicates that;...

The View from the Firing Line

Our Prime Minister has just returned from the sunny south and his meeting with the incumbent President of the United States of America, Mr. Trump. I don’t think he took his bathing suit or his surf board with him for this meeting. Our Organ Grinder did pack his...

The View from the Firing Line

Just before the U.S. elected Donald Trump once again, I said to my wife; “this will surely trigger a potential rush by anti-Trump Americans to emigrate to Canada”. Well, apparently, the rush is on! According to Cassandra Szklarski, in a Canadian Press article found in...

The View from the Firing Line

Well it is back in the news once again. A word that politicians keep kicking around and pointing fingers at one another in order to shift blame for this horrible word to the shoulders of the opposite parties. Is it one of the seven words you can’t say on television,...

The View from the Firing Line

Here we are in the last few days of October with Halloween fast approaching. The kids are all excited to get dressed up in their “scary” outfits and go out trick or treating throughout the neighbourhoods on the 31st of October. What is even, ‘oooh scarier boys and...