MONTREAL – A group of 23 bilingual municipalities has asked the Quebec Superior Court judge Silvana Conte to suspend several parts of the province’s 2022 language reform, arguing that the application of the law – which overbearingly imposes French – will cause them “serious and irreparable damage”. →
TORONTO – Had I been a Canadian political figure in the 1950s, I would have bought the rights to the song Casetta in Canada, Sanremo Festival, 1957 and invested in its distribution among nations and peoples desirous of a better life elsewhere (here to be specific). Our country would have been overrun with immigrants characterized by their optimism, drive and grit, just like the protagonist in the song.
TORONTO – Lamborghini loyalists have etched into their repertoire of Ferrari jabs the famous words of Frank Sinatra: “You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody”. It’s probably no coincidence that Sinatra also said, “the best revenge is great success” – an adage that fits the Lamborghini/Ferrari mythos as well as any. Referencing of course the alleged insult Enzo Ferrari hurled at Ferruccio Lamborghini before the latter dedicated himself to building “a GT car without faults, the perfect car”.
TORONTO – The forced survival of the minority government led by Justin Trudeau, after NDP took away its support, could cost Canadians a lot: to be precise, 16 billion dollars. In fact, this is the cost of the request that the Bloc Quebecois made to the Prime Minister, in exchange for the support that would allow him to remain in the saddle. →
TORONTO – I am not a card-carrying member of any political party, although that was not always the case. Having said that, I admit to being intrigued by a “seemingly out of the blue” proposal, initiative, plan…the reader can fill in the blank… by Ontario’s Premier, Doug Ford. To my mind, he set the agenda for political debate (cause and consequence; need versus desirability, etc.) by proposing a feasibility study for the construction of an east-west highway under the existing Highway 401that connects Brampton to the Metro Zoo – an approximately 60-kilometre stretch through the geographic middle of the GTA.
