My Opinion
Feb. 9/25. I just dumped a friend. She told me that I was jealous of Melania Trump. Huh? I have never gone Melania’s route, have never had botox or fillers or worn a Zorro style hat to hide my eyes. I have a breast half sliced off from cancer, I have male pattern baldness (and I’m not even male) that I have to hide with hair extensions, and I have a broken nose from a fall during a hike in the Cape Breton Highlands in 2018. Yet, let me announce for the record, I am not jealous of Melania Trump, and for all of the money in the world, I wouldn’t trade places with her. Would you?
Feb 7/25 Death of Newspapers in Canada
Gone are the glory days of a heavy newspaper being delivered to my door. They are now skeletons of what they were in the past. In a recent story I wrote for The National Post, I was told that I would be in the weekend section, but I was the weekend section. I’m not complaining by the way, just stating a fact. I think the Post does a great job and have always liked the paper. But I also wrote a piece for The New York Times. Now that Saturday paper at my door is heavy and dense, including three glossy magazines. The Times is not suffering at all, but the Canadian newspapers are. They’re basically going under. When I worked at the Post, editor in chief Ken Whyte, who hired me, gave me free rein to write whatever I wanted, sometimes up to four columns a week (I will always be grateful to him by the way), the paper was thick then, and now it is so lean. Everything will end up online soon, and I will miss the excitement of the news at my door in the morning. I already do…
Feb. 7/ 25
I am proud of Canadians and our reaction to the tyrant’s words and actions. I don’t believe that someone like Trump could ever be elected to anything in our great country.
Feb 4/25
I have added a section called New Stories. If you go back to the main page and scroll down you will see it. My latest is about a pedophile priest named Anthony O’Brien, now deceased, and never found guilty by the Catholic church. He stalked and terrorized me when I was between eight and ten years old, in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. I know I’m not the only one, and suspect there have been many victims from the East and as far as Toronto. I’ve always been afraid to tell the story but here it is. I gave the script to a Toronto newspaper a few months ago, but it wasn’t published, first time it’s being seen is here..I want other victims to know that they’re not the only ones victimized by this lunatic..one survivor I met was raped at knifepoint by O’Brien..sorry it took me so long to come to terms with this..
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