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The underreported part of the DNC email scandal is that it occurred, apparently, because Russian operatives hacked the DNCs. Clinton campaig...

Over the last decade or so, every time there's a WTO meeting or G8 summit, a lot of protesters show up to bring attention to some very r...

I wasn't eligible to vote on Britain's exit from the European Union, and I'm not sure how I would have voted. My head said Remai...

This used to be a line of mature trees alongside a pretty railway line. Now there is a hideous raised rail bed of gravel, structures every 5...

Ten years ago I wrote a post about a performance of Ibsen's Ghosts at Stratford ( link ). The production was powerful, tragic and grim -...

I came to Houston this weekend to see a new production of the opera Siegfried by the Houston Grand Opera. It was stunning – breathtaking – ...

My friend Kate is currently in a 500 km boat race called the Ngalawa Cup in the Indian Ocean - sailing a dugout canoe with outriggers and a ...

My mother, Helen Ellis, died this morning. I am using this space to post information, and will update it as I have more. Several people h...

Years ago when Parliament was looking into Brian Mulroney's envelopes of cash from an arms dealer, I followed every minute on TV. I was ...

Today is the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which struck on August 29, 2005. In the days following the hurricane, I copied messages ...

This year's Hamlet, directed by Antoni Cimolino, makes sense. I say that as the highest praise. I've seen the play many times and it...

Friday night at 7:30 the audience was seated in the Gambrel Barn in Elora. Onstage were the Elora Festival Orchestra, Elora Festival Singers...

Back in 2011, the Record asked me to write an op-ed about the LRT ( link ). I outlined my major problems with the LRT proposal, including: ...

Not since "Did you get pears?" have I been so entranced by a Mad Men line. Don Draper's ex-girlfriend, Rachel, appears in D...

I'm not against the globalization movement. More trade is occurring, so we need safeguards to protect less powerful countries from more ...

This is my official endorsement for the Waterloo Liberal Riding Association candidate to stand in the next federal election. I'm rooting...

The Ion LRT is going to take three long years to build, three years of construction and traffic jams, three years of mud, three years of inc...

Forget the eye glasses, the arm band, the watch, the ring. What I want is a smartphone in a narrow stick about 18" long, and I want the...

Here are some photos of the blizzard that rolled into Buffalo a couple of days ago dropping five feet of snow in one day. I've seen simi...

At the remembrance day ceremonies in Ottawa, CBC interviewed a guy dressed like a soldier. Later on CBC discovered that the guy was not real...

[ This post is inference and speculation based on reports that have not been fully vetted (especially the claims in the @BigEarsTeddy accoun...

“Happy Monday!” he gushed to me in an early morning tweet. He told me that he wanted a family and that I was “the one”. He was smitten with ...

He was a homeless, mentally ill drug addict. He had a single gun, an old hunting rifle that held seven bullets. He had four bullets left whe...

Taxi drivers are saying that they are risking their lives to pick up and drop off passengers outside the new high rises on King Street nort...

Some photos of Waterloo Square yesterday... that's BEFORE the surrounding streets are shut down for extended periods to build the LRT. W...

So Canada is the alleged victim in another Olympic figure skating scandal, this time in ice dance. There are the usual calls for ending all ...

Artists create ice sculptures while people skate in the background, at Winterloo 2014 today: I like community events that are community ...

I take my chili seriously. One of the nicest things anyone ever did for me occurred a number of years ago when a colleague brought a contain...

CBC coverage of the Olympics has been fantastic. I don't have TV reception in my home so have been watching events via olympics.cbc.ca ....