Back in the 1970’s I lived for a time in Oxford, England. While there I supplemented my lack of income by working as a bookkeeper/receptionist at a boat yard located on an idyllic little spot beside the Thames, just outside the city. The yard rented canal boats for those that viewed drifting around the inland …
Category: Politics
Vive le Québec libre!
Kanadoodle's federal government spends about 2.4 billion dollars a year to promote bilingualism and ensure that everyone in Kanadoodle has a right to be misunderstood in either the French or English language (and that doesn’t even count the added consumer costs of bilingual product labeling). As a result, and in true Kanadoodle fashion, this has …
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 …
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 …
SUCH A WEEK
For the most part, our glorious leader, Dustbin Truthless, the Prime Ribber of Kanadoodle, is sitting back and smugly smiling at the antics of the opposition as they try to get some traction out of the latest political scandals. First there’s the Minister of Deference, Hardhit Sandbag. According to Erring O’Fool, leader of the Consumptive …
Richard's Left Bank 