rosie dimanno

Corrupt language corrupts minds: Police are civilians, under control of civilians

One of the bees in my bonnet has long been the misuse of the term civilian to describe people who are not sworn police officers. I wrote the post below…

Fidel’s Legacy

Lorne December 12, 2016

Although the Toronto Star is my newspaper of choice, there are times when I strongly disagree with its content. Recently, its most prolific writer, Rosie Di Manno, wrote a series…

The Police – Reluctant Learners In Our Midst

Lorne February 22, 2016

In many ways it is regrettable that the police apparently are not Spiderman fans. If they were, perhaps they would understand an early and painful lesson learned by Peter Parker,…

CAMH asks staff to mail patients’ cigarettes back home

opseudiablogue April 30, 2014

Ah, Rosie. Toronto Star columnist Rosie DiManno recently used her shotgun style prose to take the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to school. While addiction is part of…

Little Did They Know

Lorne January 18, 2014

My son alerted me to this video from 1981. After watching it, be sure to read Rosie DiManno’s observations about workplace leave-taking, the second part of which deals specifically with…

How Does The Progressive World Respond To This?

Lorne January 11, 2014

I sometimes wonder about whether the term progressive calls up some kind of a stereotype. When people think of progressives, do they have a picture which I would consider reasonably…

A Lion In Winter

Lorne December 16, 2013

Like a bloated, aging and wounded lion who realizes his hold over his pride is at an end, Conrad Black is lashing out. Still licking his wounds from lacerations received…

The Virtues Of Restraint

Lorne October 22, 2013

I suspect if teachers were to be completely completely honest, almost all would admit that at some point in their careers they felt like lashing out, either verbally or physically,…

Sunday Morning Links

Greg Fingas August 18, 2013

This and that for your Sunday reading. – Not surprisingly, this week’s revelations about Pamela Wallin have set off plenty more discussion about what’s wrong with the Senate and its…

Pondering Pam Et Al.

Lorne August 14, 2013

It was a comment yesterday that The Mound of Sound (a.k.a. The Disaffected Lib) made in response to a cartoon I posted depicting the much beleaguered Senator Wallin that made…

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Joseph Stiglitz comments on the wider lessons we should take from Detroit’s bankruptcy: Detroit’s travails arise in part from a distinctive aspect of…

Police Power

Lorne August 9, 2013

While the title of this post may seem a bit of a tautology, since the power of police on the streets is obvious, there are other arenas where they wield…

Rosie DiManno and the War on Marijuana

Simon August 8, 2013

Oh no. How much more can I stand? Not the Great War on Marijuana. Again.First the Harper Cons come out sounding like something out of Reefer Madness. Now here comes…

Legalization Of Marijuana – The Need For A Vigorous Debate

Lorne August 7, 2013

I believe the sterotype is that as we get older, our views become more entrenched and conservative. In my own life, I have found the opposite to be true. When…

Sammy Yatim: One More Word

Lorne July 31, 2013

While I can’t promise this will be my last post on Sammy Yatim, I do want to direct you to Rosie DiManno’s column and a few comments from The Star’s…

Murder By Police?

Lorne July 29, 2013

Rarely at a loss for words, I find myself in that state as I think about Sammy Yatim, the 18-year-old killed just after midnight Saturday night aboard a TTC streetccar.…