May 14, 2012 Monday A Day Late And A Flower Short I don’t know about you, but yesterday was one of my best Mother’s Days yet!  We got to celebrate my wife and my mother. Both were in attendance and neither makes many demands on any of us.  My wife just wanted to see her boys.  They obliged.  Saturday on the road for Read more | Post your comment

May 10, 2012 Thursday The Left wing European wave is lapping onto Canadian Tory shores While reporting on 680 news the astonishing victory over Nicholas Sarkosy earlier this week of French socialist leader Francois Hollande, I added the colour line that " It would be like Thomas Mulcair beating Stephen Harper here in Canada " . Hollande's victory was remarkable because Read more | Post your comment

May 09, 2012 Wednesday Pick One! It is a dark and dreary day.   There’s nothing like an ominous sky ready to dump its contents on the streets, when the shortest distance between you and your car at the end of the day is a construction zone.   The workers in Hall’s Lane are now installing a pool.  Read more | Post your comment

May 09, 2012 Wednesday The best goalie EVER He's been there and done that.  He didn't "buy" the t-shirt, or the hat - but he was surely given one a few times. How many?  Three to be exact.  In 1995, 2000 and again in 2003 the New Jersey Devils won Stanley Cups and the backbone of those victories was none other than Martin Brode Read more | Post your comment

May 08, 2012 Tuesday What's a Fan To Do? Now that my beloved Red Wings are golfing, my Stanley Cup loyalties are split.   The Los Angeles Kings are home to Mike Richards, arguably one of the best Kitchener Rangers to don the jersey.  Phoenix has Mikkel Boedker.  The New York Rangers have Steve Eminger, New Jersey has Da Read more | 1 Comment

May 08, 2012 Tuesday Mothers.... Today, Save the Children ranked Canada as the 19th best place in the world to be a mom, Norway comes out on top when it comes to our health, education and economic status. From Wikipedia: A mother (or mum/mom) is a woman who has raised a child, given birth to a child, and/or supplied the ovum that u Read more | Post your comment

May 07, 2012 Monday In The Zone. You can no longer get here from just about anywhere.  The construction zone that is our part of downtown Kitchener has more barricades than available intersections.  It was quite a circular route I took to get to work this morning.   The Halls Lane project is way overdue, and I&r Read more | Post your comment

May 03, 2012 Thursday The Transplant Trot There's been much talk  this week about organ donations. Today, the province is ready to get more us on board with the idea, with a direct ask coming our way the next time we line up to renew our driver's license. This week,  Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg announced a new way to use the power Read more | Post your comment

May 02, 2012 Wednesday Northdale By The Numbers. If the neighbourhood known as Northdale is to achieve future success, it could cost City of Waterloo taxpayers at least 11-million dollars.  I say at least, because that’s the number revealed last night and nothing comes in at cost or below.  At least not in these terms.  If we, Read more | Post your comment

May 01, 2012 Tuesday First Quarter Re-cap We are now into the 5 th month of the year.  Let’s try and re-cap some of the issues we’ve tried to deal with in the opening quarter.  RIM comes to mind.  There was lack of snow, concerns about the LRT, pothole season, the provincial budget, the federal budget and being co Read more | Post your comment