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Musings by Rod McQueen. 31 May, 2016. The morgue is dead. 21 May, 2016. Who was that unmasked man who beat up on MPs in Ottawa this week? 12 May, 2016. 8 May, 2016. Hope and, ah, hard work. 3 May, 2016. Barbarians at the gate. 25 Apr, 2016. Uneasy lies the head. 22 Apr, 2016. The Duke of Kent. 19 Apr, 2016. Bird is the word. Me neither. I’ve been a.. Page 3 of 70. Have my feed e-mailed to you. Grip, grin and grab. A season of lassitude. On Big country, small dreams. On A new face for The National.
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Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled | Musings by Rod McQueen
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Musings by Rod McQueen. Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled. Middot; April 6, 2015. It may have escaped your attention, but in Canada this is National Tartan Day, launched in 2010 by the Harper government to celebrate the contribution of Scots in Canada. I’m only speaking for myself, not the two million Canadians of Scottish descent, but I have to say this is about as silly as it gets. I attended a speech on April 7 given in Toronto by Keith Brown, Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities ...
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Musings by Rod McQueen. 29 Feb, 2016. A new face for The National. There’s a piece in the Globe and Mail this morning on the sports pages extolling the talents of a competitor, TSN’s Bob McKenzie, saying how solid his information always is. Setting aside the unusual pastime of a newspaper journalist complimenting a broadcaster, let’s focus on the praise. Solid. Shouldn’t every sportswriter have solid information? 22 Feb, 2016. A Week in My Life as a Psychiatrist. A week? 18 Feb, 2016. 15 Feb, 2016. You&#...
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Just asking | Musings by Rod McQueen
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Musings by Rod McQueen. Middot; October 6, 2014. Why can’t baseball players who win a big game or a best-of-something series devise some other celebration rather than dance in a circle with heads down and arms around each other’s shoulders? Whatever became of novelty songs? You know, like Bryan Hyland’s “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” or “The Little Nash Rambler” by The Playmates? What is it with Dracula and the many and various Vampires? December 14, 2014 at 12:12 pm. 8221; Louis, but...
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The pursuit of possibilities | Musings by Rod McQueen
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Musings by Rod McQueen. The pursuit of possibilities. Middot; August 8, 2015. Some people say success in life is about inheriting good genes, getting an education, finding the right partner or just plain hard work. While all of those contain kernels of truth, life is nothing without possibilities. I attended a 100th birthday celebration today for Helen Oldham. Her son, Peter, was my friend while we were both growing up in Guelph. The brand was unavailable in Canada, but my father went to Chicago on a bus...
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The road to immortality | Musings by Rod McQueen
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Musings by Rod McQueen. The road to immortality. Middot; July 14, 2015. One of the best definitions of immortality I’ve ever heard was told to me by Bill Mulholland, CEO of Bank of Montreal in the 1980s. “The question is, can you mass-produce? Do you want to achieve a self-perpetuating process, one that goes on after you walk out? The dining room revolution. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *. Notify me of follow-up comments by email.
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Flora MacDonald 1926-2015 | Musings by Rod McQueen
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Musings by Rod McQueen. Middot; July 27, 2015. The elegant obituary in today’s Globe. By Patrick Martin is a fine piece of work but I would pick a bone with the statement that Diefenbaker “told her how proud he was of her campaign” for leader. Such praise was unlikely from Dief who neither forgot nor forgave any enemy. After all, Dief revelled in describing her as “one of the finest women ever to walk the streets of Kingston.”. The pursuit of possibilities. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Grip, grin and grab.
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Slugging it out | Musings by Rod McQueen
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Musings by Rod McQueen. Middot; July 19, 2015. With the PanAm games more than half over, what will be the legacy beyond a few new buildings and some additional housing on the waterfront? Why not take this opportunity to change forever the traffic patterns that have been clogging Toronto by making permanent the temporary HOV lanes? Why not combine HOV and tolls? There’s at least one current private-sector proposal to build an HOV toll lane. During the Rob Ford administration another private-sect...
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Musings by Rod McQueen. 8 Dec, 2012. You can go home again. 3 Dec, 2012. Getting closer all the time. 27 Nov, 2012. 22 Nov, 2012. A woman’s work is never done. 16 Nov, 2012. A modest proposal improved. 9 Nov, 2012. Turning Magna into magnanimous. 4 Nov, 2012. The big screen beckons. 29 Oct, 2012. Stories we used to tell. Page 30 of 70. Have my feed e-mailed to you. Grip, grin and grab. A season of lassitude. On Big country, small dreams. On The future may (or may not) have arrived.
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Good will hunting | Musings by Rod McQueen
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Musings by Rod McQueen. Middot; June 30, 2015. Earlier this month I received a notice from the. Telling me there would be “a change in the terms and conditions” of my print subscription. Beginning on June 29, if I suspended delivery while away for a weekend or a longer holiday, I would not receive a credit for that period, I would continue to pay just as if I had received the paper. I was apoplectic. Ever since I could read, I’ve been reading the. Among the many photos Dodgson took in his lifetime, nearl...
