Must have been a slow news week

Nothing much in the weekend papers. Former G-G Adrienne Clarkson got a bit of self-serving twaddle into the Globe and Mail explaining why we should be grateful that she’s still sucking hard on the government teat almost fourteen years after giving up that sinecure.

Elsewhere in the Globe we learn that the US will “temporarily allow” eight countries to continue buying Iranian oil after the new US sanctions kick in tomorrow. The wanton twattery of a bunch of American exceptionalists in DC presuming to dictate to the world who can and who cannot buy Iranian oil passes without comment, naturally.

Things are pretty thin in the Sunday Star as well. Drake claims he was racially profiled at a Vancouver casino. Really? My hunch is that casinos are more interested in credit score profiling than racial profiling, but whatever.

The weekly NYT International Weekly makes the case for Colorado Governor Hickenlooper, a made energy industry bumboy from the get-go, taking a run at the White House in 2020. Seriously? I write more insightful shit than that.

Both Kristof and Stephens have op-eds that don’t mention Donny J, to my considerable surprise. Maybe Sarah Kendzior is onto something…

Picked up a Toronto Sun just to see what the semi-literate folks are reading these days. With Remembrance Day around the corner, we’ve naturally got the predictable jingoistic claptrap about how the bold Canucks punched above their weight in the WW I.

What a concept, that WW I. The royal families of Europe had some differences. They’re all related anyway, so you’d think they could sort things out with a family picnic or something, but no. Millions of working class schmucks on all sides had to make the ultimate sacrifice. We remember their sacrifice every November 11. Their naivete and gullibility, along with the craven cynicism of those who sacrificed them, we prefer to forget.

Further in we get a few accolades for Doug Ford’s war on the poor with his Making Ontario Open for Business Act. But even that isn’t enough for guest columnist Peter Gossman, who is pleased to inform us, via a quote from another PostMedia title, that “…oil, gas, and coal remain the fuels of the future.”

Gossman also informs us that he’s “…opening a new plant in the US instead of Ontario.” Well, good riddance, then. The few dozen minimum wage jobs he’s going to create won’t be missed.

Pres of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce Rocco Rossi gets a guest column too, although it’s largely incoherent. Since it’s in the Sun maybe the readers won’t notice. His members are experiencing both a labour shortage and a skills shortage, so the Ford government’s war on the working poor is going to create a lot of jobs…

Or something.

The Sun still has their Sunshine Girl, but she’s near the back of the paper now. Used to be on page two or three if I remember correctly. That was a great gig for the photographer back in the day, at least till he got charged with attempted rape or something. I think he went to jail for a spell. Today’s Sunshine Girl, Lavender, “is a Sagittarius who is all about Sunday, smiles, and sunshine.”

Good to know!