Last week I wrote about local bullies, and those that terrorize the citizens that elected them locally and nationally. More often than we might have thought, those elected bullies, unsated by the billions they suck from their people’s coffers, opt to extend their reign indefinitely. When they do so, they morph from being barely restrained autocratic bullies, into full-fledged, unrestrained, dictators.
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Roxanne Tellier – The Right’s Woodstock Moment
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags anti vaxxers. Canada Unity. Parliament, BizarroWorld, Bob Rae, Canada, Canadian, Confederate, convoy, coup, COVID-19 pandemic, DBAWIS, democracy, Don’t Tread on Me, Emergencies Act, Festivus, Governor General, Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, Nazi, Ottawa, People’s Party of Canada, PM Trudeau, Religious Right, Right Wing, segarini, Tellier, Tin Foil Hat Brigade, truckers, Ukraine, United Nations, Woodstock on February 27, 2022 by segariniOn the surface, what the Canadian truckers hoped to accomplish during their protracted occupation of the Nation’s capital was comprehensible. In the beginning, we, the audience, and they, the truckers and their camp followers, could take as the stated purpose of the convoy and protest a common ennui and a genuine wish to end the most onerous and rigorous of the precautions levied during the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue readingRoxanne 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 segarini“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
Continue readingGRAN’S CANADA HIGHWAY – EPISODE 3: LOADED TO BEAR by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in Family, life, Opinion, Review with tags Alberta, British Columbia, Buick Invicta, chuck wagon, DBAWIS, Don Valley Parkway, Don't Believe a Word I Say, driving, GPS, Highway 12, Highway 400, Highway 401, Highway 48, Hogtown, Lake Superior, Luggage, Mapquest, Markham, Montreal, Ontario, Ottawa, Port Arthur, road map, Rocky Mountains, Segarini Jaimie Vernon, Toronto, Trans-Canada Highway, Vernons on July 13, 2020 by segarini
In 1965, Canada was well on its way to making inter-continental travel from sea-to-sea-to-sea a lot more enticing and convenient. The Trans-Canada Highway had linked the otherwise awkward and barely passable sections of Lake Superior in Ontario and the Rocky Mountains between Alberta and British Columbia. And so, my grandparents decided to take a little trek out of province to see that the world didn’t end in Port Arthur, Ontario (merely life as we know it).
Roxanne Tellier – Guns Guns Guns
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, Review with tags Alberta, assault weapons, bears, Canada, Charter Rights, DBAWIS, Doug Ford, egg nerds. April, Gun Control, Guns, Jason Kenney., Justin Trudeau, Michigan, militants, Netflix, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Ottawa, pandemic, Portapique, quarantine, segarini, Stephen Lautens, Supreme Court of Canada, Tellier, whataboutism on May 3, 2020 by segariniMay 1, 2020: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced a ban, effectively immediately, on some 1,500 makes and models of military-grade “assault-style” weapons in Canada, including the popular AR-15 rifle and the Ruger Mini-14 used to kill 14 women at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique in 1989.
Peter Speaks for Old Straight White Men – Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That
Posted in Opinion, politics, Review with tags Ava Young, Boston, Burdizzo, Canada, Canadian Armed Forces, David Murphy, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Home, John Damien, monowhales, New York City, NYPD, Ottawa, Peter Montreuil, Pierre Trudeau, RCMP, Robert Segarini, Royal Assent, Stonewall Inn, Toronto on June 13, 2019 by segariniRecent events have meant that the column which I was going to write today will appear next week. In it, I will praise the arrival of summer, talk about some upcoming music and events and introduce you to a budding Young filmmaker.
Today’s column is being written from the perspective of an old, white, straight man, which is the only perspective that I can speak from with any authority.
Peter Blount Oops and Blonde…James Blonde
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags "Cry Me A River", Billy Gibbons, Boney M, Colin Kaepernick, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Facebook, James Blonde, Julie London, Montreal, Nike., Ottawa, Peter Montreuil, Philadelphia, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Robert Segarini, Toronto, Windsor on November 23, 2018 by segariniLast week, I wrote about music. This week will be more of the same….but differen
Billy Gibbons of “Z Z Top” fame has released a solo album, and is touring in support of it. He booked an opening act (Benton Blount 1)) and the tour began. Everything was going smoothly……..but then came the mid-term elections. Shortly after voting, the “opening act” went on Facebook and posted a picture of himself wearing a MAGA hat, holding food from Chick fil A and wearing an “I Voted” sticker.
Roxanne Tellier Last One Out, Turn Off the Lights
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Alberta, Bob Segarini, Brent Hultquist, Brian Masse, Canada, Canwest, CBS, Comcast, cream, David MacMichael, DBAWIS, democracy, Dennis Miller, Disney, Don Wanagas, forbidden foreign ownership, Freedom of Speech, Gin Bourgeois, Golden Tree Asset Management, JaceTraz, James Rooke, Jansen Richard, Jeff Healey, journalists, KarolyneLaFortune, leMeow, Mel Lastman, News Corp, newspapers, Only Café, Ottawa, Pat Blythe, Paul Godfrey, Postmedia, Quinns, Relish, Roxanne Tellier, Sam Taylor and the East End Love, Snow, Sun Media, Thomas Richard MacGillivray, Time-Warner, Toronto Sun, United States, Viacom, Voice of the People, Who, Winter on February 7, 2016 by segariniThe Canadian relationship with winter and snow is a lot like marriage; some love it, and look forward to their time together. Others tolerate winter, but spend a lot of time apart during cold patches. Still others grumble, but it’s a loving martyrdom that takes the good (skiing) right along with the bad (shoveling.)