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by Ruth Ellis Haworth

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Watergate 2016

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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...
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Friday, July 01, 2016

Where have all the anti-globalization activists gone?

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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...
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Saturday, June 25, 2016

Another View on Brexit

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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...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

LRT in Waterloo Park

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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...
Monday, June 06, 2016

The pros and cons of getting drunk at the theater

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Ten years ago I wrote a post about a performance of Ibsen's Ghosts at Stratford ( link ). The production was powerful, tragic and grim -...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

The Rape of Brunnhilde

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I came to Houston this weekend to see a new production of the opera Siegfried by the Houston Grand Opera. It was stunning – breathtaking – ...
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Saturday, January 02, 2016

Viva les Piratas Canadienses!

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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 ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Memorial for Dr. Helen Bridger Ellis

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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...
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Saturday, August 29, 2015

In a PM, Character Matters - Be Wary of Mulcair

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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 ...
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Katrina remembered

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Today is the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which struck on August 29, 2005. In the days following the hurricane, I copied messages ...
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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Review of Hamlet (Stratford 2015)

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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...
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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Elora Festival - Bach B Minor Mass (review)

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Friday night at 7:30 the audience was seated in the Gambrel Barn in Elora. Onstage were the Elora Festival Orchestra, Elora Festival Singers...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Berlin Wall in Waterloo Park

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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: ...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2015

I'm supposed to tell you you missed your flight

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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...
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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Peace, Order and Good Government

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I'm not against the globalization movement. More trade is occurring, so we need safeguards to protect less powerful countries from more ...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Let's send Bardish to Ottawa!

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This is my official endorsement for the Waterloo Liberal Riding Association candidate to stand in the next federal election. I'm rooting...
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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Horrible Regional Signage is Causing Construction Chaos

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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...
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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Wearable tech

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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...

Buffalo's wall of snow

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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...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

It was a joke, ya dummies

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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...
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Sunday, November 02, 2014

Framing sadism

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[ This post is inference and speculation based on reports that have not been fully vetted (especially the claims in the @BigEarsTeddy accoun...
Saturday, November 01, 2014

Ain’t love grand

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“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 ...
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Saturday, October 25, 2014

Terrorism, really?

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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...
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Monday, September 01, 2014

King & University: a traffic problem?

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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...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Waterloo Square Withers

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Some photos of Waterloo Square yesterday... that's BEFORE the surrounding streets are shut down for extended periods to build the LRT. W...
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Monday, February 17, 2014

Another Olympics, Another Scandal

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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 ...
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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Winterloo

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

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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...

Olympic Update

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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 ....
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