(Port) Coquitlam Odysseus

Image of Capt. Bews parachuting down after ejecting via CTV, with a credit to “Kurt’s Kustom Photography.” I am quite in awe of the ability of the military engineers to design the system that allowed Capt. Brian Bews to pull this off: [video removed from Youtube] While the AP video above is best, the video [...]

I think the recent protests by the Tamil Tiger-supporters in Canada are absolutely appalling. Their claims that their flags are not terrorist flags are sophistry; their use of babies and children on the Gardiner expressway recalls the use of child soldiers and suicide bombers by the Tamil Tiger terrorists. I am dismayed at the calls [...]

Is it just me, or are there more articles on Mulroney than on Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla these days? What’s the point of crucifying a 70 year old man for a minor political-financial scandal that occurred decades ago? The Mulroney case is about the distant past before Prime Ministers Harper, Martin, Chretien, and Campbell; the [...]

Since my favourite political blogger the Phantom Observer has not (yet) observed anything about this latest CBC story on Mulroney’s alleged dealings with a German national by the name of “Karlheinz Schreiber,” I thought I would put out my two cents. Essentially, what happened is that Schrieber, fighting extradition to Germany to face charges of–as [...]

Canadian Penny The CBC has a very good feature article on the government’s possible intentions of doing away with the penny. The article points out that the Dominion of Canada had never minted coins of less value than one cent. (Note: there are colonial half-cent “semi-regal” issues and half-penny legal-tender bank tokens.) With inflation factored [...]

“Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.” – Edgar Watson Howe I came across this quote the other day, and I think it applies to Canadians, also. The reference to private language schools is meant to recall my recent post on a piece of pseudonymous writing on a Vancouver private [...]

One of the good (or bad) points about being a returned expat is that now federal politics interests me to the point where I have to blog about it somewhat more frequently than I have been doing. What to make, then, of this expulsion of Joe Comuzzi, MP for Thunder Bay, from the Liberal caucus? [...]

The above categories I put in place to indicate a general overview of what I intend to blog about in this site. The title of the blog is half-reflected in the url, and should hopefully mean that when I give the blog a new theme at some hypothetical point in the future, I won’t have [...]