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Hollywood glittered Sunday night as the movie industry celebrated itself in it’s annual Oscar night. The show, co-hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, is being widely panned as boring and predictable. The show was boring, the winners predictable. The top winners were:
Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
Best Actress: [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted 1 day ago
If you were wondering where the impetus for changing the words to the National Anthem came from, wonder no more. It comes from - ahem - Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth, who has been pushing the Prime Minister for a gender neutral anthem. And like all good social activists, she doesn’t actually take no for an [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted 3 days ago
Chuck Norris doesn’t sweat. However, his perspiration is the fountain of youth so Chuck Norris doesn’t actually have birthdays. Furthermore, Chuck Norris could drop kick time and sent it spinning backwards to whenever he wants, so aging isn’t really an issue with Chuck Norris anyway. And if he cried, his tears would cure cancer, so [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted 4 days ago
If Grandpa takes Grandma shopping and gets going more than 50KM over the speed limit, they take away his car and he faces fines in the thousands.
If an ex-MP gets drunk and has coke on his person, then hops in his car and drives 93 in a 50 zone, it’s a $500 fine for dangerous [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted 5 days ago
When Gerry Nicholls travelled to New Hampshire to save the Yanks from themselves, his “socialist free zone” website, LibertasPost got put on temporary hiatus.
Last week I received an email from veteran journalist Nate Hendley informing me he was taking over as the new editor at LibertasPost. Please continue contributing, was the gist of his email. I [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted 6 days ago
Some days you just feel old. My daughter is upset that they are going to change the anthem. I’m explaining, in my best “When I was a boy,” voice, nothing new.
As a lad I learnt the anthem thus:
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted March 4th
A steaming mad Councillor Paula Fletcher challenged a citizen asking questions at a budget consultation meeting Monday…
Challenged? She screamed like a petulant child at a taxpayer, concerned about ever more taxes. And the citizen was right, she damn well ought to be fired.
But don’t believe me, listen to the audio here.
Ladies and Gentlemen, your elected [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted March 2nd
Jack Layton is in the middle of the crowd when they cut to the camera at Wayne Gretzky’s pub in Toronto. A girls arm is in the way of the camera showing his always smiling face, and he moves the arm.
h/t Torontoist
At Home in Hespeler | posted March 1st
One likes to believe in the freedom of music.
Rush - Spirit of Radio.
A few weeks ago I was on about the resurgence of the LP, this week I’d like to take a moment to whine about an LP I can’t find. Canada’s Social Code has a new disk “Rock ’N’ Roll,” available in the usual [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted February 28th
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Actor “extraordinaire” and hot head regulaire Sean Penn could be facing up to 18 months in jail for assaulting a photographer last October in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood. This is Penn’s umpteenth altercation with photographers and he spend 60 days in jail in 1987 for assaulting [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted February 27th
I never got the criticism: Stephen Harper is a bully. What does that even mean? He steals Stephane Dion’s milk money?
Stephen Harper is a high achieving individual and as such, is in all probability somewhat difficult: demanding, intense and impatient of fools no doubt. But there is nothing unusual in that. They are all common traits in [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted February 23rd
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In an interview with Parade magazine, Elton John angered Christians by stating that Jesus Christ was:
…a compassionate super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.
US Christians are particularly angry, claiming labelling Jesus a “sexual deviant” is akin to labelling Elton John “fashionable.”
Other little know Elton John re
At Home in Hespeler | posted February 20th
I know, I know. Blogs. Bad journalism personified. Rumours treated as gospel, no fact checking. Dear God! Most of these people aren’t even professional journalists. Here at, say CanWest Global Media, we fact check. We run stories, not rumours. We are professionals, carrying out a task ethically and with dilligence. And if we say Gordon [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted February 18th
What are they teaching our children? And who put these people in positions of authority? People like, say Dr. Issac Sobol, Nunavut’s chief medical officer:
Some research in other jurisdictions have shown that flavoured condoms, coloured condoms are very popular with kids.
To be clear, he’s in favour of them. The same guy who comes into your [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted February 16th
The perfectly calculated, carefully manipulated political career of (TTC chairman) Adam Giambrone just became unzipped.
The Ward 18 councillor and declared candidate for mayor of Toronto has seen his ambition to run this city take a hard turn for the worse after he admitted he had an “inappropriate relationship with a young woman.”
Confronted by the Toronto Star after [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted February 9th
King Dalton the 1st today deeming the legislature unnecessary to the running of government, the members leisure more important than the people’s business, will prorogue the Provincial Legislature.
The Ontatrio MLA’s, who are currently on an extended Christmas to family day holiday, will appear for a sitting Tuesday where they will be told to go home [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted February 9th
Faced with increasing criticism after a spate of pictures and videos showing TTC employees not doing their job, operators at the public transit syndicate have decided to fight back:
This is a group where Operators can give suggestions on how to fight back to the recent photo and video harassment from passengers just looking to make [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted February 8th
I am becoming so sick of reading and hearing the Canadian media telling me that it really is none of my business where Danny Williams goes for health care with what is, after all, his money.
Danny Williams, and so many others like him, have spent their political career insisting that you, and I, cannot be [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted February 5th
Hey, look who’s been reading At Home in Hespeler:
Toronto Sun - Feb 2010: Don’t shoot the messenger, even if he is a groundhog.
At Home in Hespeler - Feb 2009: … How else to explain taking a bite out of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a weather ceremony yesterday. Of course, maybe he’s just sick of everybody [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted February 4th
…As long as spending is kept under control.
That’s according to Glen Hodgeson, chief economist as the Conference Board of Canada. Despite what opposition leaders and opposition media will tell you, this makes sense. I was never a fan of the stimulus spending. Became less of a fan as I spent hours this summer in stimulus [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted February 3rd
Prime Minister Stephen Harper dipped back into the Ontario talent pool and found himself a brand new Senator, Bob Runcimen. Which leads to the question, dear God Stephen, what are you thinking?
Stephen and Harper and I can agree on a few things: Laureen over (Ignatieffs wife) anyday; a Saturday night should be spent playing music, [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted February 1st
One likes to believe in the freedom of music.
Rush - Spirit of Radio.
Pictures from my youth. The family is gathered around the Christmas tree. It’s Christmas morning and wrapping paper is flying. A flat square, wrapped in red paper, gets passed across. There can be no mistaking what it is: a record. Twelve inches of [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 31st
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In one of those “I knew I’d type this one day” moments, Olivia Newton John is set to start filming a hockey movie in Toronto. Hockey: The Musical will star John, and singer Marc Jordan as hockey parents helping their son the star hockey player come to terms [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 30th
Hey Osama, that’s not global warming…
That’s the Americans knocking on your cave door.
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Hey Osama, that’s not global warming…
And those aren’t virgins.
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Does anybody remember when this guy was going to kill us where we live? Now he’s going to short our dollar and
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 29th
A TTC union reacted to the media firestorm over a napping collector yesterday by criticizing the rider who took the photo, even as a second photograph of another sleeping TTC collector emerged.
“It is very discouraging that the picture taker and, apparently, other customers made no attempt to determine of there was anything wrong with this [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 23rd
… Stephen Harper plays the politics of spite and spin, cynicism and apathy
Star Liberal candidate Ross Rebagliati to the federal Liberal caucus (Jan, 19, 2010).
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 20th
Memo to Ross Rebagliati
Something else happened (when Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff was giving a speech) at UBC. There was a protest, in the middle of the town hall. But Mr. Ignatieff didn’t lose his cool. He listened, addressed their concerns, and made no apologies. That’s how democracy is supposed to work. Can you imagine what Stephen [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 20th
Kevin Costner’s bio lists 45 acting credits. At his peak, he played Wyatt Earp, Jim Garrison (in JFK), Robin Hood and Whitney Houston’s bodyguard. At his best he was Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams, “Tin Cup” McAvoy and Eliot Ness. At his worst, he was mocked mercilessly for the hugely expensive, and disastrous Waterworld.
But [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 18th
Saturday Fluffernutter:Late Shift II; Tanner and Glover plead stupid; Teddy Pendergrass (1950- 2010)
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The Late Shift II: Conan the Leftoutinthecoldian - There really is one story in entertainment this week: Leno vs. O’Brien. In a redux of 1991’s decision to replace Johnny Carson with Jay Leno instead of heir apparent David Letterman, NBC announced is shaking up The Late Show, once [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 16th
If I recieved an email from info@email.liberal.ca that was politicizing the Haiti catastrophe, I would be all over the Liberals, so it seem fair to offer kudos to Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals for using their mailing list to send a message asking people to donate to Haiti relief. Equally, consider this At Home in Hespeler’s call to [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 15th
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 15th
Rather, it is about cultural sensitivity, social responsibility and common sense.
Back when the Sun was refusing to print the Muhammad cartoons - still haven’t shown any even though a Muslim fanatic tried to murder one of the authors of the cartoons last week - they gave a self serving defense. It is available in it’s [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 14th
The Province is appointing a crown attorney to proceed with criminal charges against the provinces top police officer:
The Ontario government is going ahead with plans to appoint one of its own Crown attorneys to prosecute Julian Fantino…
A provincial Crown will first address the matter in court on Friday morning.
Even though OPP commisioner Julian Fantino will [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 12th
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Jennifer Lopez is reported to be “upset with the academy” because she was not given an oscar nod for 2006’s El Cantante. Lopez starred in the movie alongside her husband Marc Anthony about the life of Puerto Rican salsa singer Hector Lavoe. According to the New York Daily News, Lopez [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 9th
John Tory has apparently decided not to run for mayor of Toronto in the upcoming municipal election. Reading the story, what struck me was the people who managed his previous campaigns:
Jeff Bangs, who managed Tory’s 2004 campaign for the Conservative leadership, decided to run former Liberal provincial minister George Smitherman’s campaign for mayor.
As well, Rocco [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 7th
John Paul Jones.
For the first time in what must be twenty years, I got a new record for Christmas. Pristine, in the package, never before played, the music was also new. What is old is new again.
Last year at this time, I wished for John Paul Jones “may your year be filled, and thus ours, [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 3rd
The time has come for OPP Commissioner (not retired) Julian Fantino to be summarily dismissed. The National Post is today reporting that Commissioner Fantino will have to face charges of influence peddling for a threatening email he sent to some Caledonia politicians regarding a protest march over the handling of a Native land claim dispute:
….Commissioner [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted January 2nd
I HEARD THE BELLS ON CHRISTMAS DAY
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
I thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along th’ unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted December 25th
It’s that time of year again, Christmas Eve, when At Home in Hespeler offers a small gift to my more progressive readers. It’s the fourth annual In The Workhouse Christmas Day.
In The Workhouse Christmas Day, by George R. Sims
It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse,
And the cold bare walls are bright
With garlands of green and [...]
At Home in Hespeler | posted December 24th
shovel it:
BRITAIN is heading for more snow storms and travel chaos as sub-zero temperatures grip the country.
The cold snap is set to continue for the week with conditions plummeting as low as minus 12 in some areas, says the Met Office.
Parts of Kent and East Anglia saw up to 20cm of snow last night
At Home in Hespeler | posted December 20th
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