For me, no single performer sparks warmer childhood memories than Dick van Dyke. We watched him in black and white as Rob Petrie and then, my dad took me to my first movie to see him in technicolor as Burt in Mary Poppins. Thank you, Mr. van Dyke, as you begin your 101st year.

Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Irish-born Father of Confederation: “We should strengthen the faith of our people in their own future….This faith wrongs no one; burdens no one; menaces no one; dishonors no one; and, as it was said of old, faith moves mountains…”.🇨🇦

I am saddened to learn of the passing of my long time on-air partner and friend meteorologist Peter Coade.He was a broadcasting trail blazer and forecaster in the style and tradition of his mentor Rube Hornstein. Did I mention his sense of humour? Rest easy, Peter.

Donald Trump wants domination not “deals” and cannot be trusted. My latest “Murphy’s Logic” commentary for CTV Atlantic.

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Those who wish to express their democratic outrage at the notion of a person becoming Prime Minister of Canada without the benefit of a general election would do well to first familiarize themselves with our party and Westminster parliamentary systems. We are not a republic.

The government of Canada should ask our head of state, the King, to forcefully respond to President Trump’s insults to our nation and our leaders. The denial of Canadian sovereignty, is a denial of the King’s sovereignty.

The bombastic, theatrical public bullying of the president of a sovereign nation today by the President and Vice President of United States of America, is unbefitting the successors of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Reagan, the Bushes, et al. Sirs, this is not “The Apprentice”.