RANTS

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

       –Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright (1732-1799)

1. Ottawa Bicycle Club 45th Annual Rideau Lake Cycle
2. Politics in Canada: Scandal at all levels of government
3. Press Conferences: What do you think of them?
4. Where is the middle class in this era?
5. Safe, quiet lakes: take the survey
6. My MPP told me to 'get a life'!
7. Ottawa: populated by Liberal elites and their media lickspittles!
8. Where the current media styles fail
9. CBO's 'Freaky Fridays' = Jumping the Shark?
10. I loathe Mother's Day!
11. What is wrong with universities?
12. Two contrasting stories in our local paper: a home...
13. What are your expectations of the healthcare syste...
14. Small plane crashes - do you really want to fly?
15. Outsourcing - at what cost?
16. RBC is outsourcing its IT work to India-based iGat...
17. Copyright laws and live performances
18. Algonquin Land Claims Ontario
19. Support your local musicians!
20. Hurry! Hurray hard!
21. Who is policing the police?
22. What is happening with CBC Radio and Television?
23. The 1% is getting a TV show on Zoomer's Vision TV!...
24. If someone has to proclaim that they 'are not ageist...
25. Raleigh bike manufacturer moves overseas
26. National Hockey League lockouts
27. Long-form census in Canada
28. What has happened to our great journalists?
29. What do you know about long-term care?
30. Do you have heroes in healthcare?
31. Law Commission highlights ageism in justice system...
32. Lyme Disease in Canada
33. Stopping the Illegal Export of Canadian Wildlife
34. Rant you this!
35. Why the government should block CNOOC takeover of ...
36. The price my generation paid for being female in the workplace...
37. Shooting in the forest
38. Search for lost Franklin ships launched in Canada'...
39. Traffic incidents freak me out
40. Summer on the roads
41. The Trouble With Billionaires
42. A few winter photos for fun & CBC rant
43. How easy it is to be Canadian!
44. USA Media influence on Canada
45. How many twitterverses can YOU recite?
46. Ontario Provincial Election, Oct. 6, 2011
47. Policing in Ontario
48. It's beginning to look like a lot...
49. Voting, lobbying and seeking an electorate
50. Fear mongering in the US; Obama labelled 'communis...
51. and still they fall in Bala
52. We're from away
53. Blogging bandwagon
54. Remember when?
55. To prorogue or reprorogue
56. CBC during the 'holidays'
57. journalism vs. americanism
58. H1N1 - Media Frenzy
59. Acronym soup
60. Thanksgiving
61. Fair Trade Coffee
62. Canadian complainers
63. Fall, fowl, & fog
64. Sign, sign, sign - sigh
65. Bala Falls - errors and lies
66. Fishing etiquette
67. Cottageocracy?
68. Parenting advice
69. Arthur Black & his rant
70. Weather coverage - a rant on disparities
71. Advertainment
72. Automotive Industry Bailout
73. Censorship
74. Framing happiness: our attitude
75. death and taxes
76. Drinking & Driving laws in Ontario
77. violence against women II
78. violence and recrimination
79. Copyright laws in Canada
80. media coverage
81. Fox News mocks the Canadian military
82. marketing strategies & target audiences
83. CBC budget cuts
84. The message in the bottle
85. reducing the gene pool
86. Hockey day in Canada
87. day care subsidies in Ontario
88. Cornwall drug busts & signs on lawns
89. An idle question...
90. biofuels and renewable energy
91. You're Welcome
92. journalists
93. Ontario Municipal Board
94. strategic voting
95. don't blame the US government
96. The New TV Season
97. Editorialising vs. Reporting
98. man-in-the-street
99. Guidelines or rules and laws?
100. Olympic Comments
101. CBC Radio
102. Journalists vs. Editorialists vs. Experts
103. Seniors Driving
104. Health Issues in Ontario