Spot on Alex; and, I don't see the situation getting any better in the need to medium term. The myopic Carney government seems to be hell-bent on escalating the chaos.
The best Canadians can hope for is an early defeat of said government and an ensuing election of a Poilievre lead Conservative government.
Thank you Peter! I hold out hope for less-terrible-on-purpose. And the further away that we get from the lie that was "elbows up" the easier it will be to force some domestic progress.
But yes, only an election will truly give the level of relief that's sorely needed.
My head hurts after reading this Alex, but please continue to provide such compendious commentary.
Yesterday morning, while parked out front of 55 Bloor Street West, I watched a tall young black chap plug his cellphone into the power socket at the foot of a sidewalk tree. He sat down on the bench beside it, then lit up a small metal pipe and exhaled a plume of gawd-knows-what. Feeling an urge, he then wandered over to the glass walls of the LCBO and relieved himself. Folks (young and old) strolled past and a few averted their eyes. As the stream flowed down across the sidewalk towards the street, I thought how the tone of Toronto had changed during the past decade. Some of the city's new residents are demonstrating behaviour that is indeed foreign. I'm pissed off.
Ted! Even I had to look up compendious. You really are our resident thesaurus. (Side note, an expert linguist should really be called a 'Thesaurist'.)
"Demonstrating behaviour that is indeed foreign" is also one heck of a line. Sorry that's such an evergreen experience. It's remarkable that we've settled on life as an open-air toilet. Much to fix.
They are, with the caveat that the one on the right has a sense of humour and levels of high-intellect, which is why it can also so enticing to lost young men.
That hard left is just turning out Gaza floatillas, the worst of anti-civilizational excess, and recruiting dysregulated N-95 wearers at this point.
The amount of far-right provocateurs, often anonymous, who are high-functioning autistic super geniuses, who in any other era would be leading a spy agency, is frankly astonishing.
Alex, you do good work and we continue to support your efforts financially. You can feel the tension growing in Canada and I am afraid that the powers that be will only inflame it further. I couldn't help feeling as I read that we are essentially screaming into the void. T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men is a more appropriate to our times.
Robert this is greatly appreciated. I have an additional feature coming on this dynamic later that I worry about. Tensions are definitely rising. Those not interested in getting to solutions, quickly, really give away what they're after.
Terrific choice in poetry there (minus the unfortunate appropriateness of the subject matter).
Spot on Alex; and, I don't see the situation getting any better in the need to medium term. The myopic Carney government seems to be hell-bent on escalating the chaos.
The best Canadians can hope for is an early defeat of said government and an ensuing election of a Poilievre lead Conservative government.
Cheers.
Thank you Peter! I hold out hope for less-terrible-on-purpose. And the further away that we get from the lie that was "elbows up" the easier it will be to force some domestic progress.
But yes, only an election will truly give the level of relief that's sorely needed.
My head hurts after reading this Alex, but please continue to provide such compendious commentary.
Yesterday morning, while parked out front of 55 Bloor Street West, I watched a tall young black chap plug his cellphone into the power socket at the foot of a sidewalk tree. He sat down on the bench beside it, then lit up a small metal pipe and exhaled a plume of gawd-knows-what. Feeling an urge, he then wandered over to the glass walls of the LCBO and relieved himself. Folks (young and old) strolled past and a few averted their eyes. As the stream flowed down across the sidewalk towards the street, I thought how the tone of Toronto had changed during the past decade. Some of the city's new residents are demonstrating behaviour that is indeed foreign. I'm pissed off.
Ted! Even I had to look up compendious. You really are our resident thesaurus. (Side note, an expert linguist should really be called a 'Thesaurist'.)
"Demonstrating behaviour that is indeed foreign" is also one heck of a line. Sorry that's such an evergreen experience. It's remarkable that we've settled on life as an open-air toilet. Much to fix.
Discussed horseshoe theory with my older son at nauseam. I hope it sticks. Both extreme sides are equally vulgar.
They are, with the caveat that the one on the right has a sense of humour and levels of high-intellect, which is why it can also so enticing to lost young men.
That hard left is just turning out Gaza floatillas, the worst of anti-civilizational excess, and recruiting dysregulated N-95 wearers at this point.
The amount of far-right provocateurs, often anonymous, who are high-functioning autistic super geniuses, who in any other era would be leading a spy agency, is frankly astonishing.
Alex, you do good work and we continue to support your efforts financially. You can feel the tension growing in Canada and I am afraid that the powers that be will only inflame it further. I couldn't help feeling as I read that we are essentially screaming into the void. T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men is a more appropriate to our times.
Robert this is greatly appreciated. I have an additional feature coming on this dynamic later that I worry about. Tensions are definitely rising. Those not interested in getting to solutions, quickly, really give away what they're after.
Terrific choice in poetry there (minus the unfortunate appropriateness of the subject matter).
"The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms"
Thanks for this Alex. Beautifully said. The antisemites make our side look SO bad. It’s depressing.
Kind of you, Liz! Hard to believe that resurgence on the two ends of the horseshoe. But I suppose every near-century or so...
Troubling. Working to try and cast that nonsense out.