Dear Readers; This morning’s news has got me so confused that I am actually dizzy. Somehow I feel just like I did that morning so many years ago when I found out that the NDP had won the election here in Ontario. Sick! ———————————————- NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair, left, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper are [...]

Dear Readers; The younger net surfers have a certain vocabulary, so I think it’s about time we middle-aged and older folks have our own symbols too! WTFA: Wet The Furniture Again WTP: Where’s The Prunes? WWNO: Walker Wheels Need Oil GGLKI: Gotta Go, Laxative Kicking In ATD: At The Doctor’s BFF: Best Friend Farted BTW: [...]

Dear Readers; After years of trying, Nik Wallenda finally got permission to walk across the Niagara gorge on the Canadian side. Nik had originally wanted to walk across the river itself between Canada and the United States, down by the Rainbow bridge, but problems arose when he didn’t have any place to put his passport [...]

By Jessica Murphy, Parliamentary Bureau OTTAWA – Canadians would pick a tax hike over waving goodbye to freedom 65 when it comes to pension reform, a new survey suggests. A poll by Abacus Data indicates 57% of Canadians support keeping the age of eligibility for Old Age Security at 65 even if it means cutting [...]

By Julie Bort | Business Insider Walmart wants to transform itself into a social media retail mega player and it’s backing that desire by investing millions of dollars into its young, little-known development lab, @WalmartLabs. Born in April with the $300 million purchase of Kosmix, @WalmartLabs today announced its fourth acquisition, a mobile app company [...]

Word out of Ottawa this afternoon is that a compromise deal has been worked out with all the “Occupy” demonstrations across Canada. Rather than a hit and miss strategy in different cities, and with different organizers, the Federal government has arranged to consolidate and concentrate all the ‘occupy’ groups into one coherent entity that will [...]

Dear Reders; They say a month is an eternity in politics, and by that criteria the past month has not been too kind to the NDP! ———————————————- OTTAWA – A new poll suggests the tide has turned on the NDP’s orange wave in Quebec. The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey indicates the NDP’s support in the [...]

Dear Readers; Seems a 42 year old guy with diabetes had a temporary blackout and now some of the left wing nuts are calling for everyone with diabetes to be banned from driving. These people would then be unable to drive their six year old kids to the school. (The reason they would have to [...]

By Mark Dunn, Senior National Reporter From now on, if you want to become a Canadian, you’ll have to show your face. Under sweeping regulations that take effect Monday, Muslim women will have to remove their niqabs or any other face-coverings such as burkas before reciting the oath of citizenship to become Canadian, QMI Agency [...]

Dear Readers; I have to admit that I’m a big fan of Ezra Levant. Ever since I first saw him on Michael Coren’s show a few years ago his comments on political and social issues are insightful and astute with a minimal amount of hyperbole, so when I read his comments on the Keystone pipeline [...]

Dear Readers; Some people work real hard for any recognition or awards that they get. Others just seem to come by them naturally. This guy obviously didn’t put a whole lot of effort, or thought, into what got him the award for “Asshole of the Day!” ——————————————————— A  man is facing multiple charges, including Impaired [...]

Dear Readers; We have talked about this on numerous occasions, but since I heard an interview with the Niagara Cops on CBC radio today, it brought all the old fears and memories about our upholders of justice back, so I think I need to warn everyone about the police department’s agenda once more! This cop [...]

Dear Readers: Last year in Britain something happened that didn’t get too much press over here, but was a harbinger of things to come in North America from the Muslim community. Since November 11th, (Remembrance Day in Canada and Veteran’s Day in the States) is a commemoration of all our soldiers killed in wars around [...]

By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN, QMI Agency The problem with complex issues is that they’re, well, complex. Take the stand of Tea Party protesters against Big Government and the Occupy Wall Street crowd against Big Business. Many Tea Partiers condemn Occupy Wall Streeters as dirty, communist-loving hippies, while many Occupy Wall Streeters accuse Tea Partiers of being [...]

The mayor of St-Theodore-d’Acton, east of Montreal, says he left the rock on his ex-wife’s driveway as a birthday present. (Courtesy: Voix De L’Est) The Canadian Press ACTON VALE, Que. — Quebec police are investigating after a small-town mayor reportedly dumped a gigantic boulder onto the driveway of his ex-wife. The mayor of St-Theodore-d’Acton, east [...]

When Canadians look at their American neighbours, they no longer gaze with envy at a powerful greenback, a low unemployment rate or deep pools of capital sloshing around an entrepreneurial paradise. By LES PERREAUX, The Globe and Mail Canadians now look south with something closer to pity. A poll conducted for The Globe and Mail [...]