The world became an even more fragile place in 2011. Good didn’t often trump evil. We endured war, pestilence, disease, murder, uprisings, Charlie Sheen and Kim Kardashian–since we’re to include all major disasters, even the insignificant ones. Well, you know what I mean… Picking the top news stories of the year wasn’t easy. There were [...]

To my Dear Readers: I could think of nothing more appropriate than these words below–penned by Longfellow, as I thumbed through a favorite anthology of poems and short stories late last night. Thank you for your wonderful wishes, both on this blog’s comment section and privately by email. I’m sorry I won’t be able to [...]

Forum Research and Angus Reid, both of whom are often off (AR in particular has biased pollsters working for them) have recently released polls that have left the mainstream press with tongues wagging, as they scramble to explain that the ‘Christy Clark Experience’ is about as authentic as a Kardashian wedding. And about as acceptable [...]

Some time ago, in remarks that spawned outrage in the chattering classes, I stated, with considerable validity, that the CBC was (and remains) a culturally corrupt organization that often commits to viral conflicts of interest–and federally, spiteful hitjobs on anyone, at will, and with no regard for collateral consequences. I concluded, therefore, that they should [...]

I’m sorry, off the top, I know many of you are pushing for me to deliver more stories, particularly those with more revelations on ‘Basi-Virk’ but it’s not going to happen any more swiftly, regardless of prompting, so please be patient. I’m tired, it’s been a very good run, again, this year and I need [...]

In the latter part of the 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, Atticus is resigned to the fact that his arguments in support of Tom’s undeniable innocence have failed–as the all white jury convicts an innocent black man, despite clear evidence to the contrary. He folds legal briefs into a [...]

What can be said or written about Jean Chretien’s legacy as the most unaccomplished prime minister in modern Canadian history that hasn’t already been noted? He ruled Canada for a decade simply because his opposition was divided by an oppressive, vain imp name Presto! He balanced Canada’s books because his finance minister picked the flowers [...]

If you’ve never seen a woman attired in hijab (head scarf), niqab (veil) and burka (full ceremonial dress), it’s a rather menacing, hostile sight–if not a degrading one. I’m unsure which God mandated that women cover themselves so thoroughly, so ridiculously, but whichever one it was, he’s a hypocrite, since there is nothing on this [...]

I awoke to a splitting headache Saturday morning. I couldn’t sleep most of the previous night. This happens when there is too much going on; when you have an elderly father whose health is failing and doesn’t understand he’s not young anymore, plus a sister in hospital wailing in pain. On my way to breakfast, [...]

I’m going to make this quick simply because I need to upgrade servers AGAIN, and I’m not sure how long I’ll be on again. 37,000 of you were reading the Kieran pieces at once, along with another 55 who were scouring all the ‘Basi-Virk’ pieces, including the BC Government server which spent 18 hours straight [...]