Yes, You Have No Mail For the second time in a year there is a Postal Strike, if you consider the work slowdowns, the overtime ban and the refusal to deliver business flyers Canadians have every right to be frustrated. Canadians also have a right to have an effective postal service that does not…

Blackpink v Blackpink v the World The MTV Video Music Awards were handed out last Sunday night (September 7th) and it was lining up to be a battle of Blackpink vs Blackpink vs the World. Before I let you know who won lets give a lay of the land before the first awards were handed out. There were a…

The NDP are off and running and searching (for a Leader) The NDP finally officially started its leadership campaign with the new leader to be announced in the spring in Winnipeg.  Out of all the political parties in Canada the NDP seems the safest leadership for job security.  Recent evidence…

Premier Reads In my reading challenge for 2025, I’ve noticed that out of the 19 books I have read two books that were about a Prime Minister and one written by a Prime Minister. If I go back to last year, I can add two written about Justin Trudeau and John Ibbitson’s profile of the 13th and 14th…

As the US slaps a 35% tariff on almost everything not CUSMA related it is time for Canada to expand our trade horizons and slowly reduce our reliance on the US. I don’t know what the current government is doing about this, but I hope Carney, LeBlanc Freeland the rest are looking beyond the US.

Hey lovers of #TheGreatGatsby turns 100 years old in 2025. If you loved it, listen to this, I'm listening to The Daily | 100 Years of ‘The Great Gatsby’ on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/wlei/dir-wk5...

The unraveling of Justin Trudeau Who knows how the future will regard Justin Trudeau – but the present is having nothing of him. The election was going to go one of two ways, either a Conservative or Liberal win.  A Conservative win would have resulted in a swift repeal of Bills C-5, C-75, C-69…

Pleased to attend the Annual Meeting of the Taggart YMCA, a staple of our lives in #Centretown, and hear of the contributions the make to our community. #CentretownCCA #Ottawa

*I should add I didn’t have much time for reading until I was back home in Ottawa on May 2nd.

I started reading Mark Carney’s Value(s) during the federal election…happy to report I am less than 100 pages from completion!* Some pages of this book the eyes just glass over by the language used but I muscled through it all! It makes me wonder who exactly the target audience for Value(s) is.

#elxn45 Day Zero – Canadians Have Their Say Today’s post is how election day unfolded in Barrie South – Innisfil. Quietly watching the early votes after the polls closed at 9:30pm before heading to the Election Night Party I woke in a state of calm, different from the last 36 as each day had a…

#elxn45 The last week and a day! On the Elections Canada calendar it reads Day 8, eight days before the election on Monday  April 28th.  I wish I could say I was out playing games, going to see a live band or even going to see the Barrie Colts love in their 2025 playoff run.  I even missed going…

#elxn45 Wild Turkeys create havoc in the streets! Wild turkeys, that is the only news I can be sure of as my nose has been hard to the grindstone for the last week.  The turkeys were everywhere, crossing Huronia Rd and creating traffic havoc on Big Bay Point Road.  The turkeys may have even caused…

#elxn45: Week 1 Back to the Campaign Life Week one of the federal election has passed and this weekend and as I start writing this post we’re dealing with freezing rain and power outage! Like 2019 and 2021 I am in Barrie for the election working in the riding of Barrie South – Innisfil (formerly…

Jagmeet is so out of touch, he is not an underdog - he is so far down the NDP will be a foot note in this election. Media have to stop calling the NDP #underdogs #elnxn45

I’ve got a new post up on #RedHeartBlueSign, redheartbluesign.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/r...

At 11% isn’t time @jagmeetsingh.ca considers stepping down to save the @ndp.ca? I mean Trudeau’s numbers weren’t much better when he stepped down. #cdnpoli

My December #FaveFive is out! robsrecordshop.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/m.... #RobsRecordShop

I have read about, watched, followed and read books written by Jimmy Carter since 1976. He is the role model of a politician I follow. Honest to a fault and loyal to the promise of America when he served in and out of the #WhiteHouse this ‘76 election poster hangs in my office at work #RIP39

I’ve organized a summit of #SpeakersWhiskeys. I was pleasantly surprised to find there were still bottles of #SpeakerRota’s 2nd whiskey which has received very good reviews. Looking forward to tasting #SpeakerFergus’s whiskey. Reviews to come.

It’s been a minute since this episode was released - still good to listen the panel after the fact of the Freeland bomb.

Something new from me, what can we expect next from the PM? He checked off shuffling the cabinet earlier today. redheartbluesign.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/y...

This is one of the loneliest cabinet swearings in I have ever seen.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the House of Commons in such disarray. #FES

Read my latest on the Green Party of Canada and how they might perform better electorally. redheartbluesign.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/c...

Unpublished.ca contributor Rob Dekker asks: What’s wrong with the #GreenParty in #Canada? Why can’t they win? Having been a Green, I address the challenges Greens face in a First Past the Post electoral system… unpublished.ca/opinion/what... #cdnpoli