Category: Editorials

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away

TORONTO – For eight months Donald Trump has been kicked around by mainstream media – here, there and everywhere. There has been so shortage of diatribes, warranted or not as he slowly but surely is beating back the seemingly unstoppable counter culture movement of this decade. In the process, he has given life to a methodology in decision-making that harkens back to a rationality that questions the wisdom of “change for the sake of change”. 

CORRIERE CANADESE / Piste ciclabili e traffico: il paradosso dell’Ontario

TORONTO – ’’Ma esattamente, cosa fanno?’’. Ho sentito per la prima volta questa espressione pronunciata dallo stimabile ex sindaco di North York e successivamente primo sindaco della città [amalgamata] di Toronto – Mel Lastman. Era “sorpreso” che l’allora ministro federale responsabile per gli anziani e l’edilizia abitativa si presentasse a Toronto per discutere gli obiettivi politici comuni tra i due organi legislativi, anche se si trattasse di un rapporto tipo topo ed elefante in termini di dimensioni, portata e risorse… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

Bike lanes and traffic, welcome to the Ontario Paradox

TORONTO – Just what do they do? I first heard this expression uttered in a fashion that only the redoubtable former mayor of North York and subsequently first Mayor of the [amalgamated] City of Toronto – Mel Lastman. He was “surprised” that the then Federal Minister responsible for seniors and Housing showed up in Toronto to discuss common policy objectives between the two Legislative bodies, albeit a mouse and elephant relationship in terms of size, scope and resources.