The Outlander by Gil Adamson, House of Anansi Press, 2007 - It begins in the frontier west - the age of horse and buggy with a widow in flight. She’s young and on the run after having killed her husband. She’s barely keeping ahead of two armed and dangerous looking men – her brothers-in-law. We …
In Praise of Anti-Vaccers
I saw a posting a few days ago about someone in ‘Murica who had a serious medical emergency but couldn’t find a hospital to go to. There was no room for him as all the wards were full of unvaccinated people who had COVID. There’s a constant stream of news about the many people whose …
Election Kanadoodle – the Race Through Wonderland
It is an endless source of wonder that the media in Kanadoodle appears obsessed with having the voters elect either the Libelous or Consumptive Parties. In the current race, the two parties are neck and neck with the only role envisioned for the other parties is the possibility that they could step on those necks …
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And They’re Off – Part 2 – Election Kanadoodle!
The Consumptive Party has been pretty quick out of the starting gate with Erring O’Fool touting a set of campaign promises that makes Tinker Bell’s fairy dust seem inadequate. One million jobs in one year, tax free Christmas, huge increases for health care and a balanced budget. In the first place, we don’t know if …
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AND THEY’RE OFF!
Yes! Our glorious Prime Ribber, Dustbin Truthless, has dropped the writ and set the hot air election balloon flying over Kanadoodle. By the time the election is over, the average Kanadoodlian will have heard enough hot air to melt the polar icecap. Talk about global warming. As usual, anything promised during an election is about …
AFGHANISTAN – WHY?
Watching the news footage of the debacle unfolding at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan, I can’t help seeing it through a lens of historical déjà vu. US policy in China through WWII was aimed at training and equipping Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government so they could provide an effective counter to the Japanese in this theatre …
Barbarians of the Beyond
Barbarians of the Beyond by Matthew Hughes, Spatterlight Press, 2021 – available through Amazon Matthew Hughes has had forty-two stories published in science fiction’s premier platform, the ‘Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction’. In addition he’s published over thirty books, he’s won or been nominated for every fantasy and science fiction award you can think …
FIREFLIES AND CHOCOLATE
Fireflies and Chocolate, Ailish Sinclair, GWL Publishing 2021 (available through Amazon) In 1607 Jamestown was established and the early settlers soon began importing indentured European servants/laborers into the new world. The system of indentures in that period was similar to slavery, differing only in that those sold under indentures gained their freedom when they had …
I’m Sorry – So Sorry
Is there another country better at apologizing than Kanadoodle? Yup, up in the frozen north, we may huddle in our igloos and kick back the brewskies, but when it comes to a good frozen apology, there’s no one that can touch us. Just look at all the practice we’ve had in the past decade or …
The Not So Glorious Past
Canada, like any country, has its past glories to celebrate and some things that are a shameful black mark. The discovery of hundreds of unmarked children's graves on old residential school sites has brought up a dismal racist aspect of our past, part of which is still with us today. By all means celebrate the …
