Who Are These People? The 2022 Waterloo Regional Council Candidates Edition

For myself, Carin and anyone else who needs it, here is a rundown of who exactly is running for Regional Council in Waterloo Region in the upcoming municipal election courtesy of Melissa Bowman of Citified. With so many current Councillors choosing not to run again, there won’t be a lot of parking votes in familiar …

Extinguish This Foolishness

I’ve been meaning to say something about The Tyre Extinguishers for a while now. In case you don’t know who that is, it’s a group of vandals disguised as protesters who pop up in neighbourhoods around the world including several right here in KW and slash the tires on people’s vehicles, particularly SUVs. It’s a …

Make More Inconvenience

I understand wanting to be secure and prevent crime, but this seems a bit much. If you’ve gone to a Rogers store during business hours recently and were wondering why the door is locked, the company wants you to know it’s the result of a policy change aimed at preventing robberies and fraud. The Canadian telecom …

Don’t Make Me Tell You Again Again

Male with two lifetime driving bans caught driving again, say police Just going to go ahead and ask the obvious question here. How is it possible to be banned for life from the same thing twice? But perhaps more importantly, why? What good is it doing? Clearly not much. Let’s think about this a moment. …

I Love Seth Meyers’ Trump Impression

Perhaps there are people who do a technically better one, but Seth Meyers does my favourite Donald Trump impression. Admittedly I haven’t seen every Trump impersonator there is, but nobody I’ve seen does quite as good a job of capturing just how weird and out to lunch the guy can be. As an example, I …

The Sony CFS-C7 CHORDMACHINE

I have no idea what 1982 Sony was trying to create here. It seems a bit too sophisticated to have been intended as a toy, but nowhere near sophisticated enough to be taken seriously as any sort of musical instrument or recording device. It occupies a strange space somewhere in between, and therefore winds up …

It Sure Sounds Like The Ford Government Is Fixing To Screw Over All Of Our Education Workers

They haven’t come right out and said it, but you don’t just have the province’s education minister toss a column into a widely read newspaper especially not one with a conservative slant like the Toronto Sun that’s going to be sympathetic to an anti-union message without having some sort of inclination in that direction. Yes, …

Industria Pizzeria And Bar

Gill is back with another Hamilton area restaurant suggestion. This one sounds like it’s right in my wheelhouse. I must tell you about this excellent place downtown I went to last night.  It’s not only a pizzeria, but a bar.  Located at 69 John Street South here in Hamilton, Industria Pizzeria and Bar is definitely …

Gotta Fire ‘Em All

Sometimes I watch the news and I ask myself damn, what does it take for a cop to get fired? Christ, I’ve seen them straight up murder people who couldn’t have possibly posed a threat to them and get little if anything in the way of professional repercussions in return. But today, while going through …