Author Archives: rdavies

One of the last vestiges of Canadian history, culture, and sports. Decidedly unAmerican and fun to watch or attend.

-Thousands of surgeries cancelled/people declining and dying untreated, because of unvaccinateds filling up the hospital–people who were given carte blanche by UCPs.-Ignorant, two martini-lunch LaGrange in charge while Kenney and Shandro blithely holidayed for 3 weeks after declaring Alberta open … Continue reading →

Another stupid UCP idea: setting up drunks in 7-Elevens to mix with young kids coming in for Slurpees. What’s the idea there? Pick up a kid and a beer? Or when drinkers get intoxicated, have them wreck or hold up … Continue reading →

going to 3 holiday parties. The premier has “suffered greatly” and need to/is allowed to come up for air. Ah, the politics of personal convenience and “I’m all right, Jack” contrasted to the potential suffering and death of all you … Continue reading →

from a loose piece of a truck ahead of you, flying off and taking you out for good, as has happened to a nice young woman-mother lately. Imagine the very real possibility of being taken out by someone else’s carelessness … Continue reading →

now with the gang of 20 otters nearly killing a man out for a morning walk in Singapore. 26 nasty bites; he feared for his life; but survived/is ok after treatment. Yet another example of “fair” becoming “foul” in our … Continue reading →

A found picture and unsent note from Dean McKenzie, The Legend, in 1992. Spiritus (an Edmonton performance poetry trio): Dean on right, Glen Kirkland in the middle, and me on the left). Note: “Hail Spiritus! Its genesis takes on even … Continue reading →

Did ‘crazy gun-crazed America’ kill the harmless, pro-peace-Beatle trying to live quietly ‘like other/ordinary folks’ in the States? (John’s fatal error was in believing he would always be safe and unharmed in liberty-loving America. He likely didn’t expect that–simply because … Continue reading →

(picked up at Robert Frost Farm on a visit to Derry N.H. in the early 1990s; key lines of “The Road Not Taken”, one of the  most popular poems in English in the world)

to Edmonton city council stupidly wasting money putting down concrete blocks in cyclists’ lanes (that was the council’s stupid #1 priority once upon a time), then spending more dough to collect them after the cyclists complained. to the federal government … Continue reading →