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Sep 16th, 2013 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: In Brief
I can’t be the only person seriously irritated by Margaret Wente’s Toronto Globe and Mail column this past weekend – on “Barack Obama, the 98-pound weakling.” And the same thing goes for recent similar comments by Rex Murphy on CBC TV, and other like-minded true northern pundits. In Ms Wente’s case you could say it’s […]
Tags: Barack Obama as Canadian politician, Mackenzie King Model in Canada, Post-American World, US Syria policy Posted in In Brief |
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Aug 11th, 2013 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: Entertainment
TORONTO, ONTARIO STREETCAR SUBURBS, AUGUST 11, 2013. When I bought the Summer Issue of the New York Review of Books at my local magazine store several days ago, it came wrapped in a plastic bag, with a red and white seal on the outside saying “FREE 1963 premier issue reprint!.” Technically, the summer of 2013 […]
Tags: American intellectual history, Barbara Epstein, Central Park West, New York Review of Books, Robert Silvers, Toronto and New York Posted in Entertainment |
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Jun 21st, 2013 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: In Brief
Up here in the northern wilderness today marks both the summer solstice, or official start of summer, and National Aboriginal Day (Journée nationale des Autochtones). In the spirit of the season the Canadian House of Commons adjourned for its summer holiday early this year – two days ago. (“All parties agreed late Tuesday night to […]
Tags: California Buidget 2013 nbada, National Aboriginal Day, Ontario budget 2013, service states in Canada and US Posted in In Brief |
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Feb 24th, 2013 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: In Brief
It is not easy to know just what to make of the Canadian Office of Religious Freedom, whose establishment Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced this past Tuesday. Officially, we are just told that it is an organization “within the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, which will be dedicated to promoting freedom of religion […]
Tags: American Humanist Association (AHA), Canadian Office of Religious Freedom, Dr. Andrew Bennett, Humanist Canada, US Commission on International Religious Freedom, US Office of Religious Freedom Posted in In Brief |
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Jan 22nd, 2013 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: USA Today
TORONTO, CANADA. TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2013. According to mastermind Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), the official theme for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration yesterday was “faith in America’s future.” As elaborated on National Public Radio’s live blog: “Schumer says that ‘America always rises to the occasion. America prevails and America prospers,’ no matter the challenges.” No […]
Tags: Aboriginal Canada, Brian Slattery, Canadian Constitution Act 1982, new American patriotism, Obama second inauguration, United States and Canada Posted in USA Today |
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Jan 1st, 2013 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: USA Today
One of the many intriguing things about the year which has just ended is that it marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Marilyn Monroe, in the Brentwood neighbourhood of Los Angeles (more or less due north of Santa Monica), on August 5, 1962. Adding somewhat to this intrigue, in the no-man’s-land days between […]
Tags: Charlie Parker and Barack Obama, Marilyn Monroe and Barack Obama, Marilyn Monroe and Charlie Parker, Obama's new America Posted in USA Today |
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Oct 23rd, 2012 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: In Brief
As further evidence that “in some profoundly mysterious way … certain kinds of people more or less die together,” two interesting men born in Toronto in the early 1920s were sadly taken from us this past Friday, October 19, 2012. In the more widely covered case, yesterday visitors were “paying their respects … to Lincoln […]
Tags: Armadale Avenue Revisited, Ballad Of Old Rocky Nelson, Canadian poetry, Raymond Souster dies, The Colour of the Times, Toronto scene Posted in In Brief |
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Sep 21st, 2012 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: Entertainment
GANATSEKWYAGON, ONTARIO. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012. In my advancing age, it takes longer to catch up with the latest trends, racing by your brain at what sometimes seems close to the speed of light, etc. So my apologies for starting with a post on the Think Progress website from last Friday (September 14, 2012). It’s […]
Tags: Alison Pill, Alyssa Rosenberg, Canada weird, Go Topless, Heather Mallick, Jay Baruchel, Maggie Jordan, Vaughan Road Academy Posted in Entertainment |
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Jun 6th, 2012 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: Entertainment
Ernest Hemingway was one subsidiary subject that crossed my mind during the Spanish sections of our recent counterweights Western Europe conference circuit. That no doubt had something to do with the editors’ message of this past May 9 : “We go to Europe for inside story (back for Hemingway and Gellhorn on May 28).” [And […]
Tags: Clive Owen as Hemingway, Hemingway & Gellhorn, Nicole Kidman as Martha Gellhorn, Philip Kaufman on Charlie Rose, Spanish Civil War, The Spanish Earth Posted in Entertainment |
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Apr 27th, 2012 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: In Brief
I had just waded through an even two dozen articles on Michael Ignatieff and his latest thoughts about what Pierre Trudeau’s book of 1968 called Federalism and the French Canadians. (Well … that’s not exactly true : the first of the two dozen was actually an article by Michael Ignatieff himself – a review of […]
Tags: Canada and Quebec, Canadian politics, Ignatieff on Quebec independence, Quebec and Scottish independence Posted in In Brief |
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