THE ROYAL CANADIAN

THE 'ROYAL' CANADIAN.....the ravings of somebody who's been out in the 'Big White' too long.

Saturday, September 24, 2022

The On-Going Pandemics

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 In 2006 I was on a holiday  in Cancun Mexico when I saw, on a Mexican News channel that an outbreak of Avian Flu had been detected in a chi...
Friday, September 23, 2022

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 Lord love the proverbial duck,  as an American Caesar once intoned:  "I have returned!"  The last post I made was 'only' ...

Trying This on For Size Again

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It's been a while.   It's been experiential.   It's been an intermittent saga, tracing a convoluted trail to getting my Blogger ...
Saturday, July 07, 2018

Funny what happens when you don't Blog.

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I've been twittering a lot more lately and it has affected my blogging. Reading and commenting 134 characters at a time seems to have ta...

The Trumpest

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Big Donnie finds himself in the midst of a tempest he thought was going to go away. With the subpoena of the Trump Organization's files ...

Bruce the Ripper

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Torontonians are regaling themselves,  in shocked awe, that a 'serial' killer has been walking among them - possibly since he 'g...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Syriana - an Update

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It's hard to believe that in my last post more than three weeks ago, I commented that 'Afrin' - a Kurdish enclave in NW Syria - ...
Friday, January 26, 2018

This Was the Day It Was

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It was an interesting sort of day in our sad old world.  Some of us focused on Davos and the visual display of the Trump effect. That star...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Trumping America

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I got a look at a new documentary (October 2017) called 'Trumping America"  that tries to explain to the dense just WTF happened la...
Monday, January 15, 2018

America Goes to the Movies: 2017

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'Tis the Awards season again and America gears-up for its annual tribute to what used to be called the 'land of celluloid' and n...

Hawaii's Big Skeer

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Saturday morning last , or at least 28 minutes of it, must have been a real 'doozie' for those Hawaiians, and tourists,  who weren...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

The Best P'leece Force

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As the 'big stick' of Canada's National Police forces hangs up his 'Sam Brown and six gun'  (and takes the spurs home fo...

What Kind of Dope Am I?

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The IOC has labored and Dicky Pound and the 'Royal Canucks' have taken a stand. The IOC 'hearts' Russian athletes, they abho...
Friday, November 17, 2017

The Maidan Snipers : a smoking gun.

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One of the things that has yet to happen in the new, rebutylhydrated EUkraine is the trial of some Berkut riot police accused of 'inhuma...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Maple Flavoured War Stories - Remembrance 2017

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One of the interesting things about wars, as they recede into history, are the 'accretions of valor' they pick-up from those who, ap...

It's ALL in the PRESENTATION

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Anthony Bourdain would be the first to tell you that the quality of any meal starts with what it looks like on the plate.  Some meals that h...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Syria: Another stinking pile of Democratic Doo Doo

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The truth about Syria is emerging and will one day - it is to be hoped - see the perpetrators of a staged revolution hauled before the World...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

'Bang' to the Nth

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There are places on Earth where violent men with guns are a regular fact of life. We like to think that 'those people' in 'those...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

North Korean Tourism

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Them 'dedly' Norks. Some screwballs can visit North Korea - talk to the locals and even act silly  - without falling afoul the ...
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