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Friday, January 7, 2011

Stephen Leacock and Humour

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 2011 Humour in a world of waning beliefs remains like Hope still left at the bottom of Pandora’s box when all the evils ...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Random thoughts on a January 6th

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2011 QUOTE OF THE DAY Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by f...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Tribute to T.S. Eliot

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2011 I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. - T.S. Eliot From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [1917]...
Monday, January 3, 2011

J.R.R. Tolkien and The Hobbit

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MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 2011 In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an o...
Friday, December 31, 2010

Mark Twain and New Year's Resolutions

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2010   Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with...
Monday, December 27, 2010

Marlene Dietrich, passionate foe of Nazism

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2010 Ameica took me into her bosom when I no longer had a native country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am Ger...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

CHRISTMAS BIRTHS AND DEATHS

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2010 QUOTE OF THE DAY For unto to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. ...
Friday, December 24, 2010

Clement C. Moore : The Reluctant Author

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FRIDAY,  DECEMBER 24, 2010 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a ...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Alastair Sim and Scrooge

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2010 Every year at Christmas, I watch Scrooge , the 1951 classic starring Alastair Sim.  It has become a Yuletide t...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

A Dance in the Snow

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2010 A DANCE IN THE SNOW   Well we danced in the snow, my love and I On a windswept night when we were still youn...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

NUMBER 16 EXCLUSIVE : Don Cherry, Mike Harris and Rob Ford meet at a pub

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2010 Number 16 has another exclusive for you.  On December 9, 2010, Joanne Madden published transcripts of a phone ...
Friday, December 17, 2010

The Wright Brothers

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FRIDAY DECEMBER 17, 2010 The chilly December day two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraptio...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Farewell to the Canadian penny?

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2010 See a penny, pick it up And all the day, you’ll have good luck I was taught that little ditty as a child. ...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

George VI, The Accidental King

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2010 QUOTE OF THE DAY A fool must now and then be right, by chance. - William Cowper From Conversation {1782},...
Monday, December 13, 2010

Emily Carr

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2010 QUOTE OF THE DAY It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should ...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

The Last Executions in Canada

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2010 "Some consolation." - Ronald Turpin’s terse reply after being informed that he and Arthur Lucas w...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Tribute to John Humphrey

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2010 There is a fundamental link between human rights and peace. There will be peace on earth when the rights of all a...
Thursday, December 9, 2010

Number 16 EXCLUSIVE

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2010 Number Sixteen has obtained secret tapes of a private telephone conversation between Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and...
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Remembering John Lennon

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2010 I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak all ...