Frank Kennedy
Written on 29 May, 2003 at 13:07 in
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"Hello!! Is President Bush there? It's de Prime Minister of Canada calling! Jean Chretien ... Yes C-h-r-e-t-i-e-n. Yes, dat's right. I've been waiting for three hours."
"I'm sorry, but President Bush is having a state dinner with Tony Blair, the prime minister of Great Britain, and he doesn't want to be disturbed. They're celebrating."
"Yes, I can hear the noise."
"President Bush will call you when he's free?"
"He said ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2003 at 11:56 in
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It is not often that a lowly Interim columnist gets invited to the swearing-in of a new Canadian Supreme Court Justice at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. Prime Minister Jean Crouton and Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson were there, along with a large number of tuxedo-clad middle aged men.
I was ill-prepared for the arrival of the new Supreme Court appointee, Madam Lucille Edwards. She was wearing black leather boots ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Mar, 2003 at 7:11 in
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I had a horrible dream recently. Readers know that that is not rare for me. I dreamt that Paul Martin, a willing successor to Jean Crouton, had disappeared on a trip to Bermuda in his private jet, leaving no trace. When the news broke, I was privileged to be standing in Jean Crouton's inner office in the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, totally invisible to everybody.
Into the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2003 at 11:23 in
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I'm going to ask our readers to vote for the stupidest thing done by either a living member of Parliament, senator, politician, bureaucrat, lawyer or judge in 2002. I calculate that we should have some 3,000 submissions, so it is not going to be easy picking the stupidest thing - but it should be a lot of fun.
To aid readers, I ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Jan, 2003 at 12:33 in
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Doreen Beagan
The Ontario government is aware of two abortuaries that are run out of doctors' offices in Toronto in violation of a pledge that Mike Harris made to the voters June 2, 1995 when he was running for premier of Ontario the first time. Despite that Harris pledge seven years ago, the Tories have failed to close them down.
But first, let's go back to the 1995 election. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Dec, 2002 at 14:12 in
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Frank Kennedy
Queen's Park
I got a call from the PMO's office recently that the prime minister wanted to have a top secret emergency meeting with me about a disastrous situation that was unfolding and he needed my help and advice. I thought somebody in the office was playing a prank on me, like the time when they had me go ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Nov, 2002 at 7:14 in
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Frank Kennedy
Did Ontario Premier Ernie Eves make a terrible goof when he canned Tourism Minister Cam Jackson recently for billing taxpayers $103,000 over 28 months, when high-living "Toronto boulevardier" Ernie's spending habits make Cam look like a tightwad?
In February, I reported in great detail Ernie's love of milking the taxpayer - including his platinum MPP pension trough of $810,000 received in 1997. (His pal, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Oct, 2002 at 14:09 in
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Frank Kennedy
When is a gynecologist not a doctor? Answer: when he's an abortionist. A headline in the North York Mirror, Sunday, Aug. 18 stated: "North York doctor convicted of income-tax evasion" (see also the September Interim.) They malign every gynecologist and doctor in North York when they fail to mention that Joseph S. Lee is an abortionist.
Lee, after being fined $64,200 for failing to report ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Sep, 2002 at 9:01 in
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Frank Kennedy
I was talking recently to Professor "Bernard Grumphoffer," a prominent biologist at a large, mid-Western university, who claimed that gay sex won't work. He said that a saw is not a hammer and a hammer is not a saw and everything has a primary purpose. Gay sex does not fit into that premise.
(Professor Grumphoffer asked that his real name not be used because he ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Aug, 2002 at 14:26 in
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Frank Kennedy
There must be a market for moral compasses because I gather so many big wheels at big conglomerates lately have lost theirs. Following is a short list of CEOs and conglomerates who have lost theirs. If you can't find a moral compass, send them a copy of the Ten Commandments. The Business Eleventh Commandment doesn't seem to be working for them. It is: Greed's ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jun, 2002 at 8:00 in
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Frank Kennedy
Students, if you want a career in journalism, you should pay strict attention to what I'm going to say. It could make you another Izzy Asper or a columnist for a small pro-life newspaper.
I used to think that Santa Claus was the biggest myth in the world. I was wrong; it's "freedom of the press." It is a total illusion. If Sharon's boys dropped ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 May, 2002 at 13:07 in
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Frank Kennedy
In the recent federal and Ontario election battles, I had much more empathy for Stockwell Day than I had for Jim Flaherty, whose political position I felt was slightly to the right of Attila the Hun. Jim, unfortunately, gave the impression that if his aged mother was a bag lady he wouldn't have hesitated to hustle downtown and truck her off to the local ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Apr, 2002 at 10:06 in
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Frank Kennedy
I think everybody must have gotten a good laugh when they read the news story "Passengers halt flight," in the Toronto Star. Passengers on a charter flight from Italy to Cuba voted to turn back after noticing flames coming from an engine, overruling the pilot who insisted all was safe.
Shortly into the March 3 Air Europe flight from Milan to Varadero, Cuba, the 250 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 2002 at 9:26 in
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Frank Kennedy
I knew the pro-choicers were in trouble when I got a phone call recently from Dr. Morgentaler. "Is that you, Idiothead?" he asked.
"Morgy! My old friend, Morgy."
"Skip the pleasantries," he said. "I'm calling you because I'm desperate for some answers."
"Shoot."
"Please don't use that expression."
"Sorry. Go ahead."
"What is this with all the candidates for the Alliance leadership race announcing that they are pro-Life? I'm having ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Feb, 2002 at 11:33 in
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Frank Kennedy
There is a story going around that Ernie Eves doesn't like getting out of bed before noon. Ernie may have to if he wants to succeed his golfing buddy Ontario Premier Mike Harris, who is retiring. It used to be called "The Mike and Ernie Show." The rest were bit players.
Ernie was the former finance minister, ... (Continue reading)
