Saturday, February 29, 2020

Flushing history down the memory hole

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Simon Tisdall, foreign affairs expert at The Guardian for over forty years, has a scary headline for you today;  "The West ignores the ...
Friday, February 28, 2020

You know it's a serious storm when they shut down the cop shop

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At the height of the blizzard yesterday the OPP closed their offices in  Wiarton and Chatsworth.  That would be a great time to rob a bank, ...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

The "Big One" blows in

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Just a few days ago I was thinking, golly, I'm gonna have to put the snow-blower away soon and get out the lawn-mower. Turns out that wa...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Mohawks with AK-47s preparing to take back Canada?

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Leave it to Quebec Premiere Francois Legault to pour gasoline on the smouldering embers of Justin's reconciliation initiative. Accordi...
Sunday, February 23, 2020

The civil war Canada could still avoid, if we're lucky

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I caught part of the CBC program Cross-Country Checkup this afternoon, and it confirmed what I already suspected. The topic was the Wet'...

Fear and loathing in the CBC cafeteria

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You have to give credit to the boffins who run the CBC. They have demonstrated great progress in making Canada's airwaves more inclusive...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Illusions, confusions, delusions, and hallucinations

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(note downward spiral implied in title) It's been a seriously strange couple of weeks here at Falling Downs. The Farm Manager finds ...