TORONTO – History – Canadian and otherwise – is replete with personalities who left an impact, made a difference good or bad. How that legacy is retold is more often a reflection of the values of “story-teller’s values” than it is of the objective assessments of those personalities. I have witnessed few, if any exceptions. Even, as in the case of t →
TORONTO – Three out of four Canadians would support a national energy corridor and a pipeline from Alberta to eastern Canada, even if there were environmental and Indigenous land claims concerns along the way. And three-quarters of Canadians would oppose a potential economic union with the United States and a single dollar modeled after the European euro. That’s according to a series of new polls by Nanos for CTV, conducted among 1,001 Canadian adults between Feb. 28 and March 5.
TORONTO – It is sometimes beneficial to recall that other people, other cultures, impact on our experience. Special Alert: someone had the audacity to live Life before we decided to be born. In the early 50’s, the television stations beaming their programs out of Buffalo New York into Southern Ontario, as a public service to combat crime and mayhem, were in the habit of interrupting all programming with a public service message that went :”It’s ten o’clock [PM], do you know where your children are?”.
TORONTO – Indecisive is a rather polite way to describe the 47th President of the United States of America. If I were to use how social media describes him, I wouldn’t be a nice guy. What can I say. After living in this nice country for 51 years now, a lot of that niceness has rubbed in on me.
KABUL (Afghanistan) – Its name is “BBB”, acronym for Brave Business in a Bus. It’s the first mobile incubator for female entrepreneurship in Afghanistan, and it was created by Selene Biffi, born in Monza (Italy) 42 years ago and founder of She Works for Peace (SWFP) which for over 15 years has been involved in projects related to education and the creation of employment for women and young people in Afghanistan.
