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Saving Ontario Place

Concerned volunteers are now sending letters to key politicians to help save Ontario Place. Several months ago, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the closure of Ontario Place, which is a historical landmark. Plans are now under way to replace this public space with a privately run casino. Presently, a lot of concerned citizens are mobilizing to [...]

May 3, 2012 | Posted in Art,Articles,Creativity,Economy,Happiness & Well-being,Home & Family,Legal,News,Politics,Science,Sport | Read More »

Water? Drought?

I look with amazement at the news of drought conditions in Britain. A vast desert spreading before me with sand piling up against the Houses of Parliament. The Thames run dry, people with buckets scraping at muddy holes to survive until the World food programme drops sacks of food from Hercules planes. Lorries piled high [...]

April 22, 2012 | Posted in Articles,News,Politics | Read More »

Vatican Bank defends Cayman Islands banking

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican Business Conglomerate is now on the defensive in regards to the document leaks, concerning the Vatican Bank’s offshore Cayman Islands banking division. Quite recently, like clockwork online religious publications on the internet, National Catholic Reporter has a story titled Why the ‘Vatican Bank’ doesn’t exist, or in Catholic Culture has a [...]

March 30, 2012 | Posted in Articles,Economy,Essay,News,religion | Read More »

Kavoos Soofi: No more Deportations to Iran

A dozen Iranian Canadians meet in North Toronto. Amongst them is Kavoos Soofi, who was freed last Friday, February 10th, 2012. It took him a week to find the bail money, consisting of $50,000 promised, signed equity and $40,000 cash. Soofi stopped his hunger strike on February 4th, after he heard the authorities had cancelled [...]

March 6, 2012 | Posted in Articles,News,Politics | Read More »

The Rembrandt Mystique

Ninety times Rembrandt van Rijn asked the question, ‘Who is Rembrandt?’ And ninety times he answered himself for all the world to see. In commemoration of his 400th birthday on June 15, 2006, I spent the 4th of July with Rembrandt, another independent artist who valued his freedom. Criticized often for poor drawing technique, held [...]

February 21, 2012 | Posted in Articles,Creativity,Happiness & Well-being,Home & Family,News,Painting,Philosophy | Read More »

Man On Hunger Strike to Stop Deportation to Iran

Kavoos Soofi immigrated to Canada from Iran in 2004 through a student visa. It expires every 2 years. In 2006, he renewed his visa and applied for refugee status. He was rejected outright and appealed through PRRA, a form of a pre-risk assessment format. A few weeks ago, he went to get the results and [...]

February 3, 2012 | Posted in Articles,Legal,News,Politics | Read More »

CBC to film Swami Swindler MOW

It was announced in a CBC press release to be a partnership with Bollywood, who is co-financing the production. Expect them to go before cameras in July 2012 and be available for broadcast on CBC’s 2012/2013 season. Sources close to CBC brass expect more to join this cast soon but I am making this up [...]

January 15, 2012 | Posted in Articles,Entertainment,News | Read More »

The End is Nigh!

Will the 99% bring down capitalism? Protests on Wall Street and across America highlight the inequalities of life in a materialistic and financially centred society. Millionaires are common place, whilst Billionaires abound in this new world of the super rich. Protesters in London only managed to close St Paul’s cathedral, not the Bank of England [...]

November 8, 2011 | Posted in Articles,Economy,Happiness & Well-being,Home & Family,News,Politics | Read More »

A European Conundrum

I have been looking at the economic problems from a slightly different angle. Everyone blames the southern countries for all the malaise that exists, as they depend on tourism for a large proportion of their GDP, plus agriculture, and do not pay high enough taxes to cover expenditure. Where as the northern countries work hard [...]

November 6, 2011 | Posted in Articles,Economy,News,Politics | Read More »

Slippery Grease Or Slippery Greece

The experts are out in force today solving the Euro’s problem. It’s easy, just bankrupt all the Banks in Europe! But all the Banks in this mess are tied into sovereign debt to such a huge degree, that to save a relatively small economy like Greece the Politicians are prepared to kill off the financial [...]

October 30, 2011 | Posted in Articles,Economy,News,Politics | Read More »