Downing's Views
Blog URL http://blog.johndowning.ca/
Located Toronto, Ontario Canada
Tags Politics, Toronto, Canada, Toronto Sun, Cottaging, Israel, Trent River, Ontario, Journalism
John has been an author, reporter, editor and columnist. He has made regular appearances on radio and TV. His main field is politics but he has written about everything under (and in) the Sun.
Latest Blog Posts
- SNAPSHOTS: GAYS TO HEALTH CARE TO BEARS on Nov 13, 2009
Not Recommended For The Politically CorrectGeorge Smitherman is so gay, he flaunts his husband. And it will cost him because when Torontonians vote for mayor, without PC watchdogs in the little booth, suburbanites far from the gay haunts of Wellesle...
- REMEMBERING THE TERROR OF THE BERLIN WALL on Nov 7, 2009
Before The Cold War Became LukewarmThe 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall becoming a footnote in man's inhumanity to man has been detailed for all who don't have a clue about just how large it used to loom in the politics of Europe, indeed the world...
- R.I.P. BERLIN WALL, BUT REMEMBER THE TERROR on Nov 7, 2009
Getting Accustomed to MurderI was startled to find inside the detailed media examination of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall that many younger Germans really didn't think it was that big a dealIn the 1960s, the Wall was evil. It fi...
- WHAT THE QUEEN AND DUKE SAID TO ME on Nov 6, 2009
Everyone Would Benefit If We Scrapped Royal Tours ...And RoyaltyA female reporter gushed the other day about how Prince Charles had actually LOOKED right at her and SMILED. I hope this was all just irony or sarcasm attacking royal tours in Canada. Bu...
- THE MYSTERIES OF BUREAUCRATIC BUILDING on Nov 5, 2009
Part Four: The Great Cottage RenewalOur histories are filled with the lore of buildings, whether great castles or log cabins. Can you imagine trying to build one of those today, whether castle or cabin, without the permission and the endless forms of...
- I MAY BE THERE NEXT WEEK on Nov 5, 2009
Part Five: The Great RenewalSo I have the building permit in the window, the contractor and I have agreed to a price of around $50,000, and both of us have a clutch of drawings. The ship is launched for the new addition. But watch out for the reefs.
- MANY A SLIP BETWEEN PLANS AND OUR LIPS on Nov 4, 2009
Part Two: The Great Cottage RenewalDeciding to expand a cottage is like deciding to get some more room in the marriage bed.At the start, maybe even for a few years, you can put up with so little space that you have to plan ahead just to move a chair.
