“The “Freedom Convoy” that converged in Ottawa on Jan. 28 began in response to the federal government’s move to require Canadian truck drivers crossing the U.S. border be fully vaccinated to avoid testing and quarantine requirements, but has evolved into a protest of all public health measures aimed at fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizers say they will not end their protest until all measures are dropped.” Ottawa Citizen, Feb 13, 2022
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Roxanne Tellier – What Price Freedom and for Whom?
Posted in COVID 19, Family, Health, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Ambassador Bridge, “Bearhug, “Memorandum of Understanding, B.J. Dietcher, Canada, Canada Unity, Canadian, child endangerment, COVID 19, Daniel Bulford, DBAWIS, ex-military, February, Freedom Convoy, Georgia Herring, human shields, hygge, James Bauder, Kayla Burgess, lockdown, M.O.U., Martin Broadmann, Ottawa, pandemic, Pat King, Putin, RCMP, Roxanne Tellier, Russ Boswell, segarini, Tamara Lich, Tom Marazzo, Tom Quiggin, veterans, Windsor on February 13, 2022 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – Into the Home Stretch
Posted in COVID 19, Family, life, music, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Big Pause, Canada, COVID-19, DBAWIS, Devil’s Advocates, Fourth Wave, Grossmans, Happy Pals, lockdown, Motown, NIMBY, normal, public health crisis, Roxanne Tellier, schoolkids, segarini, Summer Blonde, the home stretch, Tommy Roe on August 1, 2021 by segariniOkay – who stole July? It was just here a minute ago! In truth, I barely recognized it, under all that rain, but I know I saw it!
Continue readingRoxanne Tellier – What a Difference a Year Makes
Posted in COVID 19, Family, Health, life, Opinion, Review with tags Afghanistan, Africa, Australia, Canada, CERB, COVID-19, curfews, DBAWIS, Delta variant, Dollarama, Dr Fauci, India, lockdown, non-essential goods, pandemic, PPE, segarini, stay-at-home orders, Tellier, Tokyo Olympics, U.S. Surgeon General, Uganda, what a difference a year makes, World Health Organization on June 27, 2021 by segariniOn January 25th, 2020, a Toronto man returning from Wuhan, China was the first presumptive COVID-19 case in Canada. By March, with the disease raging across Canada, the World Health Organization had declared COVID a pandemic, the NBA, NHL and most other sport leagues had suspended their seasons, while the Olympics were officially postponed to 2021, the Juno Awards were cancelled, Parliament went on break, and schools began to close from coast to coast.
Continue readingPat Blythe – Christmas lockdown…..other stuff and music
Posted in COVID 19, Family, Health, life, music, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Bob Segarini, Canada, CDC, Covid, COVID 19, DBAWIS, Diane Brisbois, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Ford, lockdown, lockdown Peel, lockdown Toronto, luvthemusic, New York Times, non-essential, Ontario, Pat Blythe, Paul Magdar, Retail Council of Canada, Trudeau, Yahoo Finance on November 25, 2020 by segariniThis whole COVID thing is getting long, tiring, confusing and extremely exasperating for most of us. People start to rebel like children in a sandbox who don’t play fair. They confront each other in anger like the bully in the schoolyard. In many instances we seem to live in a rather thoughtless society whose three favourite people seem to be me, myself and I. It doesn’t seem to matter what part of this mudball we inhabit, everyone is infected…..not by the virus, but by fear, bad attitude, frustration, annoyance, (add your own descriptive here). Information, misinformation, ignorance, conspiracy theories, protests and riots, the numbers are over/under inflated/aren’t real….the list goes on. It doesn’t really matter what you believe, it’s affecting all of us. COVID fatigue is real and should have been considered by minds much greater than mine, long before now.
Roxanne Tellier – Lockdown Letdown
Posted in COVID 19, Health, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags America, anti maskers, Canada, covidiots, DBAWIS, dysfunction, FOX, G20, Group of Twenty, Heather Cox Richardson, hoax, leadership, lockdown, Lockdown Letdown, pandemic, public health crisis, scofflaws, segarini, Tellier, Thanksgiving, Typhoid Mary, USA, YouTube on November 22, 2020 by segariniI don’t want to play ‘Pandemic’ anymore. I really don’t. I’ve had enough of not seeing my friends and family, of scarcities and lineups that make me feel like I’m in post-Communist Russia, and of people being cranky. I’m sick of worrying about if there’s enough of this or that and if not, how to figure out when and where to get more, and I’ve had it with not being able to just go out to restaurants and socialize like normal people… I’ve had enough.
MUSIC IS DYING 2 – LIFE’S WHAT YOU MAKE IT by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags 1980s, B-level, Bob Segarini, Danny K, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, first gig, Great Depression, Harem Scarem, Haywire, Jaimie Vernon, Killer Dwarfs, live performer, lockdown, Moving Targetz, music, no compromise, Shakers, Spare Parts, Swindled, Syntha-Light Sound, The Swindle, Trooper on September 28, 2020 by segarini
The very first live gig I ever played was 40 years ago this month – September 19, 1980 – with a band called The Swindle (we’d switch drummers and become SWindleD a year later). We were a bunch of barely passable punk rockers from Scarborough who were too young to play clubs. What does one do when you’re underage and need to get your rock on?