Ronald Searle died Friday, Dec. 30, 2011 at his home in Draguignan, in southeastern France. He was 91. When the news of Searle’s death was released today, Jan. 3, 2012, most of the world’s media paid tribute to Searle as one of Great Britain’s best contemporary cartoonists, the creator of the nasty girls at St. […]
Toronto Executive Committee will soon consider eliminating Toronto’s vital night public transportation service. (Robin Rowland) Memo to: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, the Executive Committee and TPS Chief Bill Blair The Toronto Transportation Commission calls the overnight bus service the Blue Night Network. But for more than 30 years the outbound buses that move out of […]
El Nina and the Pineapple Express brought heavy weather to Kitimat over the past few days. Neighours and friends say it is hard to remember so much snow in a few days even in Snow Valley, home of People of the Snow. I heard there were 30 centimetres at the local firehall overnight Saturday to […]
Back in the 1980s when I first embarked on historical investigations, the US State Department had its own analog, paper-based Wiki that covered almost every diplomatic dispatch going back centuries, millions of three by five inch index cards. And each told a story. It was amazing to go through those old cards to find what […]
Snow began falling in Kitimat, BC, for the first time this winter, at about 9 in the morning Pacific Time. and by the time the residents gathered 90 minutes later for the Remembrance Day ceremony at the cenotaph, it was still snowing. In Kitimat, children lay the wreathes for those who cannot attend, which is […]
The media has been in a big flap recently about the so-called mystery missile that a KCBS cameraman shot off the coast of California. The experts now say the missile launch was most likely a contrail of an aircraft, an optical illusion created by the setting sun, but as David Martin of CBS News […]
Two days after the G20 disturbances in Toronto, it is clear, just from the statements made by police (not demonstrators nor lawyers nor journalists) that there was a massive failure of intelligence by the Integrated Security Unit. That failure of intelligence lead to unjustified mass arrests, imprisonment, and according to a growing number of reports, […]
I’ve been pirated. Wow. Does that mean I’ve made it as an author? It appears that Google image search has changed its algorithm, because when I doing a search last night, a lot more of my photographs showed up. I was doing a routine check to see who had used legitimately, borrowed or stolen my […]
Here in Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has twice prorogued parliament to avoid political challenges, first the threat of a coalition of the three opposition parties and second a rather unsuccessful attempt to avoid nasty questions about the treatment of Afghan detainees. When Harper porogued parliament, all the government bills on the order paper died […]
I wasn’t assigned to cover the Olympic torch relay on the evening of Thursday Dec. 17, 2009, but ran right into it as I was heading from work to work out at the downtown YMCA. I got to College subway station and saw the crowd waiting for the torch. As I was preparing to make […]