Nothing will change him

I'm talking about the drubbing the Republicans took in the U.S. midterms, which some think will chasten Trump.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  That's just not who he is. 

Trump will simply double down in anger and he has vast powers to do so.  He will continue to use executive orders and vetoes to reject anything Congress sends to him he doesn't fancy.

I wrote this blog yesterday and just look what was in 'The Globe and Mail' today, exactly what I said.

I mean, what has Trump to lose?  Nothing.  Even the governors, congressmen and senators kicked to the curb will be unable to prevail.  And if you think tariffs on Canadian goods will disappear anytime soon, I beg to differ.

Republican politicians who have cowered in silence for fear of upsetting the volatile applecart that is Trump's brain, may now band together and try to do something.  Afterall, they don't like losing either.  But whether it will do anything to help them, that's where I doubt it will.

And it makes me laugh to read and listen to all the "intelligentsia" who are rejoicing in the Republicans' thrashing, bleating about how everything will now flip.  It won't mean a hill of beans. 

So, that's my amateur couch psychoanalysis for today.

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I also want to say a word about the conviction of Russell Brand for sexual assault and rape.  Frankly, I think it was a kangaroo court of events and a farce about stuff that had happened 20 years earlier.  One woman initially accused him -- the same woman who kept willingly going back for more.  Then others piled on.  The fact that it took the jury so long to render a verdict is an indication there was disagreement about whether consent was provided. 

Famed attorney Mark Geragos says that the judge put his finger on the scales by often interrupting cross examinations by the defence and subtly siding with the prosecution.  "That's wrong," said Geragos. 

In testimony, his accuser actually admitted she had agreed to some types of sex, but not to others.  Hey, in for a penny in for a pound, in my view.  I mean, how realistic is it to pipe up in the middle of the party to stop something underway.  Not very. 

Sounds like the shellacking of those Canadian hockey players and the vilifying of Jian Ghomeshi 10 years ago by a woman who also claimed to have enjoyed the encounter and even went back for more.  Frankly CBC has never been the same without him.

I wonder what Justin Trudeau -- newly minted professor at Oxford -- is thinking of all this?  I mean, Brand's ex is his current squeeze and wasn't Trudeau the same guy who was accused of having sex with an underage student and then paying her a few million under the table to shut her up.  Did he go to jail?  No, he wasn't branded a pedophile.  The guy became the prime minister!

Trudeau at Oxford??!!!!!!  WTF??!!!!!  That's the end of that once-venerable institution.  How could they have appointed him to anything???!!!

But back to sexual assault and rape.  On that file, it's always a he-said-she-said deal.  That's why so few of us ever come forward.

He was right

I'm conducting my own ad hoc survey when I'm out-and-about and Don Cherry was right.  "You people" need to step up and pin a poppy on your lapel -- left side please, over the heart.  (All you sporting the poppy on the right, move it over please.) The "milk and honey" enjoyed by all those who came to Canada was hard-fought, hard-won and MUST be remembered and revered.

In the public thoroughfare, most ethnics I see are not wearing a poppy.  But then again, neither are many young Caucasians who presumably ought to know better. The folks wearing the poppy are mainly middle aged, white or older, i.e., the demographic who grew up respecting veterans and honouring their service.  This must continue.  

The evil lunacy of banning prayer during the official service is the latest move by Carney to destroy Canadian culture.  I cannot believe this will stand, but it will.  He has embraced wokery to the back teeth and in the process, is eliminating all we hold sacred.  And this from a "practicing" Catholic!

Much more has to be made about Remembrance Day and I'm out there doin' it.  I even bought a bunch of poppies and hand them out to everyone I see without one.  Most are shocked, but none are rude and accept the symbol with grace.

We will remember them.

Remember when we were young and November 11th was hugely celebrated?  My Mother and Aunts used to take us all to the Cenotaph in Ottawa for the packed service.  Never mind that we froze our tiny butts off, we had to be there, so we were.

My family has a history of serving and so does B's.  This is a time to "Never Forget".  The poppy was introduced by an American, Moina Belle Michael in 1918, but its use is not as prevalent there today as it was -- and certainly not as widespread and prevailing as it is in Commonwealth countries.  In fact, Americans do not recognize November 11th, but instead mark veterans' service on Memorial Day in May.  But mark it they do.

So, Don, thank you.  "At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them."  

I agree............

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 The New Misogynists:

Destroying Women’s Rights in the Name of Women’s Rights

Bill Donohue

November 6, 2026

Transgender mania ran into a brick wall when voters in blue states defeated attempts to have males compete with females in sports. But the ruling class is still resisting.

 

Survey data show that the American public overwhelmingly opposes transgendersism (gender identity), or the false claim that the sexes are interchangeable. They also oppose males competing against females in sports, and this includes women respondents. Yet those who run liberal organizations, including women’s groups, are still resisting. They want men to join women’s groups, the effect of which is to neuter their proclaimed mission. In short, they want to destroy women’s rights in the name of women’s rights.

I have a big problem with the testosterone advantage in women's sports. 

For example, last May, the House voted against legislation that would permit construction of a new American Women’s History Museum. Democrats voted against it because it would not allow men to be included; the bill specifically mentioned that the exhibit was open to “biological women.”

 

This issue highlights the division between the elites who run liberal organizations and the rank-and-file.

 

For instance, in 2023, the leadership of the Daughters of the American Revolution changed the organization’s bylaws to allow men to join, leading many women to quit. In 2022, the national leadership of Kappa Kappa Gamma changed its rules allowing men to join the sorority, leading to considerable infighting; it is now before the courts. 

 

Over the last decade, many U.S. sports organizations and governing bodies adopted policies that allowed male athletes to compete in female sports based on their “gender identity.” However, most of them revised their policies in the last year to comply with President Trump’s executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”

 

Additionally, the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) announced in June 2025, it too would comply with Trump’s executive order and all sports federations were required to amend their policies to ban men from competing against women.

 

The following are committed to destroying women’s rights.

 

National Organization for Women (NOW)

 

It claims to be “the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists” in the country. However, the organization has long sold women out in favor of transgenderism. NOW officially opposes “legislation that seeks to limit the rights of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people.” It also favors allowing males to participate in female athletics.  

 

 Feminist Majority Foundation

 

It claims that its mission is to advocate for women’s empowerment and equality, but in reality it advocates for transgenderism at the expenses of actual women. It explicitly supports “achieving equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and gender-nonconforming people.” It even argues that “Gender is not immutable or predefined, and trans women are women.” It falsely claims that sex is non-binary.

 

It supports “gender-affirming care” (i.e. chemical castration and genital mutilation) and promotes the lie that “it is medically necessary and lifesaving” for minors to undergo these barbaric procedures.

 

It also champions allowing males to compete in female sports. 

 

Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA)

 

It maintains that “only women are eligible to play in the WNBA,” but it still refuses to define what a woman is, leaving it up to interpretation.  

 

EMILYs List

 

It claims to defend women’s rights, yet it has donated to Rep. Sarah McBride (DE-D) and Delegate Danica Roem (VA-D). Both are men who falsely claim to be women.

 

National Partnership for Women & Families 

 

Founded in 1971 as the Women’s Legal Defense Fund, this organization focuses on “the lived experience of women and families, particularly those who face the greatest barriers to equity and opportunity,” but it also runs several initiatives for men who falsely claim to be women and other LGBT related programs.

 

American Association of University Women (AAUW)

 

It supports “laws and policies that protect transgender people from discrimination, including in participation in sports, and reject[s] the suggestion that cisgender women and girls benefit from the exclusion of women and girls who happen to be transgender.”

 

National Education Association (NEA)

 

In 2018, it issued a report offering legal advice to teachers on how to advance transgender rights. It falsely claims that “Not having their gender identity respected and affirmed in their daily lives will cause [trans-identified students] significant psychological distress.” It also supports letting males compete against females in sports.

 

United Federation of Teachers (UFT)

 

It supports transgenderism over the rights of women. The union argues that supporting transgender students and staff is a critical part of an educator’s duty to create a safe and welcoming environment. It cites the Trevor Project, a radical activist organization that promotes the discredited idea that children are more likely to commit suicide if their “gender identities” are not affirmed.

 

UFT supports putting sexually explicit material in classrooms to introduce children to transgenderism. It argues that males should be allowed to compete against females in sports.

 

American Federation of Teachers (AFT)

 

It also supports transgenderism. It opposes laws aimed at protecting children from this dangerous ideology. The union has even advocated for “gender affirming care.” It also supports men crashing women sports.

 

These are the new misogynists. They are actually worse than the misogynists of old because today’s variant claims to be on the side of women. They manifestly are not.

The Nerve of this person

Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak is now demanding that Carney hand over taxpayer money to close what she calls, "A First Nations infrastructure gap of over $375 billion in the next ten years."

Say what?! Nepinak said Canada committed to closing it by 2030, "That the budget must fund a plan with First Nations and that Conference Board research shows investments would create hundreds of thousands of jobs and return $1.82 per dollar."

The AFN’s own estimate was already $349 billion back in 2024 and has only grown. Ottawa has poured tens of billions into First Nations infrastructure, housing, and schools since 2016, yet the Auditor General found no meaningful improvement in housing conditions and warned the 2030 target is at high risk of failure.

Well, Cindy, Duh!

In spite of billions poured into safe drinking water, problems and poor infrastructure persist while Carney’s Liberals run deficits above $60 billion and pile on more debt. Why should struggling Canadian taxpayers fund another blank cheque when past spending has not delivered the results she claims?

There is also a secret slush fund that holds more than $3.3 trillion! You read that right, Trillion. I found out about it using my journalistic sleuthing skills and blogged it. If I can find it, so can mainstream media, but they're too lazy. (Also posted it again on fb, "More than $3 trillion".)

Well, Duh again.

At the same time she is demanding MORE MONEY, it has been revealed -- again -- that illegal the cigarette trade is flourishing:

Here's the reality.

Why doesn't Cindy work on cleaning up her own mess, instead of screaming for more money to waste.

Still happening in the reserves that straddle the Canada/U.S. border.  People need to be jailed.

Did it anyway

With approval from neither the EU, nor the Canadian Parliament, Carney went ahead and declared that yes, Canada would indeed become an associate member of that moribund, useless organization.

Thumbing his nose and giving the finger to all and sundry, he just does whatever he wants on any file.  It is outrageous.  

Who has given Captain Carney permission to do this?!

It is stupefying that our Parliamentary democracy -- and I use that word very loosely -- permits this demagogue to do what he fancies.  And, more importantly, to do what will benefit Brookfield.  

He claims it will add jobs.  It won't, but it will allow millions to flood Canada, with nowhere to put them.

I know I sound hysterical, but Canada is in deep do-do.  Frighteningly, no one seems to get it -- particularly the mainstream media and bamboozled consultants and lobbyists.  

This is the scary image I have of Carney signing us over to the EU.

Smugness personified

Mark Carney thought he was so brilliant, sneaking Canada into the EU by crawling under its hood and snapping a couple of wires.  But it backfired and he has been rebuffed by ruffled feathers around the European table.

So pleased with each other, but which one is the Cheshire Cat?

There was an excellent letter in 'The Globe and Mail' today, which succinctly encapsulates the messy hornet's nest in which we would be unceremoniously chewed up and spat out.  However, I predict Carney will still keep pushing to somehow horn us in.   

This is an excellent analysis of what we hope Canada will avoid.

Carney has maneuvered us as close as he can into the failing EU.  For the moment, we have been rejected, but you can bet he will keep hustling, shoving and squeezing his way in.  His only objective, as far as I can see, is to get himself elected president of the EU when he tires of the boring and tedious task of governing the annoying, lowly serfs of Canada.

For him, it would be business as usual.  Afterall, he ignores Parliament completely, which is exactly what membership does to the countries trapped in it.  It ignores the will of the people, making countries bow to the whims of European states with wildly conflicting objectives.  But, as I said, Carney is doing that anyway.

I pray people will wake up to this destructive egomaniac, but it may already be too late.

 

Tony Perry

When I walked into the kitchen, carrying a few plates after dinner, there she was guzzling a bottle of wine -- not bothering with a glass.

I am talking about Maria Perry, Matthew's grandmother and mother of Tony Perry, his uncle.  I had met Tony when my best friend, Suzanne Langford, married John Perry, Matthew's father, and I was Maid of Honour.  

Suzanne had met John when she moved to New York to model for the Eileen Ford Agency.  They married back in Ottawa and then returned to New York, where Matthew was born.  I was the first person she called from the hospital; I still remember our excited conversation!

Tony and I hit it off when we met at the wedding and became a couple, but not before I had come back from my long-planned trip to Europe with my cousin.

Tony on the right, Matthew on the left beside his father, John and Mr. Perry, centre. 

Tony hailed from Williamstown, Mass., where the wine guzzling took place the Christmas I had returned, but at that time he was living in New York City and was a member of expanded group, The Serendipity Singers, based there.  During that visit, Mr. Perry took us to his club, where we met his mistress and had lunch.  All very civilized, apparently.

While I was swanning around Europe, Tony wrote me dozens of letters, c/o the Canadian Embassy wherever we were.  When I returned, I hopped on a plane to New York, where Tony and I had a ball.

For some reason, I remember his address:  45 West Tenth Street.  He knew so many entertainers.  One night, he took me to a club where Neil Diamond was headlining.  Naturally, Neil joined us after each set.  Neil was a real charmer.  Tony was determined to marry me, even going so far as buying me a ring, below, but we drifted when I moved to Toronto and started climbing the career ladder in journalism.

Can you imagine a more impractical ring?  (I still have it, but never wear it.)

Nevertheless, he was persistent, I'll give him that.  I had mailed back the ring, but one night he knocked on my door in Toronto, where the group was playing, and handed it back.  That was a surprise, to say the least, but I realized I no longer cared for him, even though he was still very keen on getting me back.  

Out of curiosity, I googled him and found a video of Tony and John being interviewed on 'Ojai Valley News' on YouTube.  Man, Tony looked awful!  He apparently died in 2015 at age 78 in Ojai, California.  Tried to find a wife, or widow, but couldn't.  Did he ever marry after I turned him down?  I am sure he must have.

Tony, on the left, with John Perry, Matthew's father.

So, that's a little trip down memory lane.  Man, I am getting very lost in the memory weeds these days!

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This is how broken my old friend Suzanne is now.

The beautiful Suzanne Langford, with Keith Morrison, her husband, before Matthew's death.