As Ian Sees It

   Today the Prime Minister asked the Governor General to dissolve parliament and call an election for April 28th 2025.  On April 28th I will spend most of the day on a jet with Carol and our oldest Granddaughter.  We will be on our way to Paris.  The city of lights.  Our granddaughter  is finished University this year and being a few years older than the other 10 people who call us Granny and  Grandpa we have the means and the health to do this for her now.   I have never been to Paris.  I am so excited I can hardly contain the inside squirm.   And being the lonely Liberal here in this corner of my home and native land,  I shouldn't really have to worry about an election the day we go to Europe.  But if you think Carol and I are going to forego our vote because it doesn't matter anyway,  well I can only assure you you are wrong.   Voting in a Canadian general election has never been more important.  Mostly ...

    We just watched the movie Conclave.   It was such a good movie with a cast that is kinda the who's who of White Male Hollywood.   I am all about inclusiveness, but it is a movie about the selection of the leader of the Catholic faith so........   In any event, I brought this up because I wanted to mention the role played by Stanley Tucci.  Tucci is one of my very favourite actors of all time.  He played Cardinal Bellini.  Cardinal Bellini started the movie as the favourite to become the new Pope.  He was adamant that Pope was a position he didn't want...... Until it appeared he wasn't going to be the Pope.  I know the feeling.   When I started blogging a decade or so ago,  I did so because I had been encouraged by several people who used to read my rants on facebook.  I rented blog space from a European company.  It was a pretty format, and I immediately started to amass a modest following.  As time went...

     It's been a while since I sat before my screen with the intent of doing little online therapy.  At a time when I may need it most,  I have been scared to commit my thoughts to words.   I have been scared a time or two in my life.  I am more a worrier than a scaredy cat.  And there has been some of that too.  So today, I am going to put some of my worries and fears into the air and see if that helps.  Bare with me if you will as there is an awful lot banging off the corners of my sometimes empty mind.      On this day,  March 3rd, 2005  in, of all places Mayerthorpe, Alberta, four young men were investigating a grow operation and a chop shop on a farm.  They were hunted down, and murdered in an ambush by a criminal with an assault rifle.  The likes of which our Conservative party wants to remove from the prohibited category.   In the meantime, Our Conservative Premier,  on this 20th annive...