BC Provincial Cowardice in the Face of Almagamation
0Victoria, BC. Home of 13 communities, three hundred and fifty thousand people, seven different police forces and thirteen fire departments. Yup. 7 police and 13 fire departments. An amalgamation of the 13 aforementioned communities should have happened years ago. The polite types suggest the provincial …
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Cycle Observations on a Victoria Day
Hopped on the bicycle to ride down to Canadian Tire today: Saw one fellow sitting on a downtown sidewalk, with his hat on the ground in front of him, hoping for donations from the tourists. Very close to him was a busker, ‘earning’ her donations. …
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Digestible Chunks
Hiya Reader! Henceforth, the CommonDawg posts will be shorter and hopefully, more to the point. We are all busy with, it seems, less and less time to sit down and enjoy the pleasures of reading fantastic articles like mine. Please let me know what you …
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I Lament the Porch
I do. I lament the porch. Or rather, I lament the passing of the use of the classical porch versus the purely decorative ones we see now.
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Belly to Belly
So here’s little Jimmy working at the Winter Olympic Games in Whistler. I’m employed as a media liaison guy with Olympic Broadcasting Services. One of the menial roles I played was to work in the ‘mixing zone’, where the athletes come through after competing, to …
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Cellular Shopping
So there I am standing in a Whistler supermarket. I turn down the international foods aisle or whatever they call it, and it is packed! Oh. Did I mention that this was Easter weekend? As I worm and dodge my way down the crowded aisle, …
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What Are The BC Liberals Thinking?!
The BC Liberals have fallen into the Guergis-Jaffer trap. That is, they started to believe their own press. Whereas Helena Guergis and her husband epitomized ‘entitlement’, the BC Libs have long thought themselves ‘omnipotent’. I call it the ‘we are so far ahead of the …
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Why Am I Paying For Helena Guergiss SUV?
It flabbergasts me that in today’s age of ‘pay-down-the-deficit’ via reduced services and cut-backs, that we still have our Canadian cabinet ministers driven around in high-end vehicles with chauffeurs! Today’s Globe and Mail has a story how Ms. Guergis’s husband, Rahim ‘Under-a-HUGE-cloud’ Raffer is accused …
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Canadas Taliban Prisoners, A Tempest in a Political Teapot
The opposition parties of Canada must be rubbing their hands with glee, as the Afghan prisoner debate goes on, and on and on . .. . . Do any of them REALLY care what happens to Taliban taken prisoner by Canadian soldiers? I mean, if …
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iPadification
I so do not agree with Queen’s University professor Sidney Eve Matrix, when she says that “these devices are an extension of our ‘digital selves’” and that “People really use such brands (ie. iPad) to communicate their ambition, their values, their identity”. Say WHAT?? …
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