Musing from the Deep

Politics

  • Affordable Care vs Canadian Universal Health Care

    no doubt that the stories we hear about the ‘failings’ of our system are true, yet I hasten to add that I believe they are in the minority Continue reading

  • The Sixties Scoop…

    My wife and I are the parents of an adopted First Nations Child whose adoption took place within the time-frame of the legal action against the Canadian Government titled The Sixties Scoop. Details of the class action suit can be… Continue reading

  • How Would You Like That Delivered?

    Canada Post, in its wisdom, has chosen to phase out home delivery of snail-mail and replace that system with curb-side Post Office boxes. While I believe it is an ill-advised change it will have little effect on me. I live in… Continue reading

  • Farewell Mr. Mayor…

    Two stories have been dominating Canadian news of late; the run-up to the Presidential nominations in the States and the death of Rob Ford, ex-Mayor and Councillor of the city of Toronto. Both stories have all the elements required to… Continue reading

  • So, You’re Electing a President…

    It seem months have gone by with Canadian news stories about the upcoming Presidential elections in the USA. The fact is we have almost as much coverage of the American electoral system as we do the Canadian system at election… Continue reading

  • Truth in the News Media…

    Last night I watched a YouTube video clip titled “The most honest three and a half minutes of television, EVER” posted by James Bouder. ( http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=16K6m3Ua2nw&feature=youtu.be ) It is an excerpt from the beginning of HBO’s The Newsroom Season 1:… Continue reading

  • Dilemma of Olympic Proportions…

    We recently returned from a trip to British Columbia to visit our eldest son and his family. The opportunity to be with our son and his partner and our granddaughter was the draw. Neither of us was really excited about… Continue reading

  • Reeee-session…

    We live in a resource based community. The two major industries are pulp and gold. Mining, because it is an extractive industry has a finite life. When the gold runs out, the industry is gone. Our  community has been anticipating… Continue reading

  • I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more…

    Daily we are hearing more and more in the news media that Prime Minister Harper is going to call a fall election. So here we go again with the expense and hype of an election before the term of the… Continue reading