I used to read the comics for laughs - now I read items from our courts. Just recently a juror who helped acquit Shannon Murrin of first degree murder in British Columbia was visiting him at his home in Newfoundland. Police noticed 49-year-old Kathy MacDonald smiling at the suspect during the trial. Ignoring the advice of Murrin's lawyer, because the case was [...]
I called Premier Mike Harris recently, and was shocked when the premier himself answered the phone. "Mayor Harris here! Er ... I mean Premier Mike Harris here." "Did I hear you say 'Mayor Harris'?" "Yeah, I just fired Mel Lastman and I guess I'm now the mayor of Toronto." "Why are you doing this?" I asked. "I'm trying to save money! There [...]
Talk about running a bulldozer over an egg carton - that's what the mainline media has been trying to do to Aid To Women. They've blown so much money on ink kicking around the Aid to Women Hallowe'en box project that I'm thinking of taking up a collection in the office to help them out. (I'll start it off with a bent [...]
There is a politician at Queen's Park whom they say has never let a pork barrel pass him by in his life. But it is not just politicians who have their arms deep into the pork barrel - they are joined by lawyers and recently retired Queen's Park bureaucrats who are now slobbering consultants. Last of all, but not least, are hungry [...]
Can anything stop Rev. Ken Campbell on his mission to put God back in the public schools, and restore the historic theistic principles that made Canada great? Certainly not prostate cancer! Who else but Ken Campbell - aware of his condition - would take a Paul Revere-like solo 16-day, 5000-mile foray to Saskatchewan during the September provincial election to take on seemingly [...]
We have a problem in Canada and I may have the answer to it. We have a scarcity of medical personnel who are willing to work in Baffin Island and places further north. (Above the tree line.) I have nothing against Baffin Island. It may be a nice place to live if you've been pushed around on a subway all your life. [...]
A full-length column in a recent edition of the Catholic Register newspaper spells out how far one Catholic hospital has fallen in its enthusiastic adoption of the "gay" agenda. St. Michael's Hospital proudly announced that Toronto's Gay Pride Week, June 20-27, which culminated in an obscene "Gay Pride Parade" was "sponsored in part this year by St. Michael's Hospital." This was the [...]
I was sitting in a University Avenue courtroom in Toronto a few years ago at a murder case. The prosecution wanted to introduce another witness. The judge glanced at a clock on the wall, saw that it was 4:00 p.m., and asked, "How long will the witness be?" "Oh, Your Honour, I would say a good half hour." The judge banged his [...]
Before I get around to kicking our judges all over Ottawa and elsewhere for the weird rulings they come up with, I have a gem of a true story to bring you from a trade magazine called Coverings. Clara Null of Oklahoma City, Okla. remembered one of the worst days of her life. She said, "The washing machine had broken down, the [...]
They say that some of the best confidence men in the world are not in jail but can be found in the editorial offices of the biggest newspapers in Canada. And if they can't be found there, they can be found in the backrooms of political think-tanks when an election is brewing. These con-men are so adept at wrestling truth to the [...]
Choosing a Government (CAG) was produced by the Social Affairs Commission of the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops. It came out in June 1998 and has been widely distributed and is now being studied in various parishes. This 12-page booklet addresses politically-correct concerns that are almost all endorsed by major and some minor political parties. The booklet forgets that there are concerns [...]
I finally have figured out who I'm going to vote for in the forthcoming Ontario provincial election. Right now, it's downright dangerous for taxpayers walking by Queen's Park because they're liable to be knocked down by the bags of money being thrown out the doors to pay for pre-election propaganda masquerading as informational ads. If I can't find a Family Coalition Party [...]
I read a news item recently that amazed me. Former Saskatchewan cabinet minister and convicted wife killer, Colin Thatcher, had to return his horse which he had been riding on the maximum security prison grounds when some envious person blew the whistle on him. I always thought that our judicial and prison system were heading towards the dumpster but I didn't think [...]
I bet faithful readers want to know what the dirty five-letter word is. My wife Ileen was doing a crossword puzzle recently and she asked me for a five-letter word meaning "biased." Instantly, I replied, "CBC TV. See if that fits." John Grierson, the Englishman who invented the "documentary" back in the 1940s, is famous for making Adolf Hitler "dance." Hitler was [...]
Garth Drabinsky was on the phone! Why on earth was he calling me?, I wondered. I said to him, "I don't think we've met, Mr. Drabinsky, but I was down to your office a few months ago to try to get a donation for Campaign Life. Your secretary had a big picture of Henry Morgentaler over her desk, and she told me [...]