Bruce Dowbiggin

MLB has seen parity and proclaimed, “We don't give a damn!” Okay, they didn't say that. In fact they insist the opposite is true. They're all about competition and smaller markets getting a shot at a title. But as the 2024 offseason spending shows, believe none of what you hear and half of what you see in MLB.

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” This Ernest Hemingway gem from The Sun Also Rises has gotten a workout in this time of progressive econo…

After rummaging about for two months to no great effect the NHL has now embarked in its traditional Xmas break. Under the NHL's collective agreement, no one plays any games from Dec. 24-27. This comes after a roster freeze that forbids trading a player during said holiday season. The annual World Junior champions, too, doesn't crank it up till Boxing Day.

Idea for a hit Canadian show. Law & Order: Indigenous Victims Unit. The shows begin with a horrific crime reported by the Canadian media. Children murdered by priests and then buried in the dark of night with no markers. PMJT tells the world we are a genocidal culture. Media goes Code red. Statues of Canadian PMs past are toppled.

How shall we describe 2024, the year just past? How about the Year the Fever Broke?

“I started a joke that started the whole world crying”. The BeeGees Hands up all those who had Canada, Greenland and Panama as a parlay on their cards.

Canadians are still lamenting the pasting Team Canada absorbed at the World Junior Championships in Ottawa, won by the USA. Out of the medals, beaten by Latvia and Cechia, among others. There's talk about the ongoing problems of the development system and the people at Hockey Canada.

The recent appearance of Liberal-leader-in-waiting Mark Carney on the Daily Show has delighted a small segment of the Canadian voting pool and enraged a goodly part as well. During his nuzzle session with a highly uncritical Jon Stewart Carney announced that he was running to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader and then prime minister for however long that lasts.

Play this drinking game. Every time some football analyst on TV says during the course of a game, “He’ll be a star for this team for years” take a drink. You’ll be tipsy in a hurry. Maybe in the ol…

Stop us if you heard this before. Justin Trudeau talks tough but folds like a cheap lawn chair. His current spasmodic response to Donald Trump's tariff threat should look familiar. He's been here and backed down before.