Jim Hume

What a difference between the boastful truculence of USA President Donald Trump last Tuesday and the calm reasoning of President-Elect Joe Biden’s Thanksgiving message a day later. President Trump, in a rare one-minute speech from the White House, wanted to draw attention to the fact that his bible, the stock market, was showing signs of a strong recovery in the past 24-hours and it was entirely due to him.... http://jimhume.ca/2020/11/27/ultimate-arrogance/

In the final agonizing days of President Donald Trump’s tenure in the Oval Office, a darkness is threatening to engulf what was once the greatest, freedom-loving nation on Planet Earth. It did not need to be this way. A full measure of blame can be laid at the feet of Mitch McConnell the Republican Senate Majority Leader in Washington, D.C.... http://jimhume.ca//twilight-for-the-man-who-wanted-to-be-/

Peter Godwin Chance was wearing his bum freezer uniform comprised of a short jacket open in front with a vest underneath at the throat maroon coloured patches proudly proclaiming he held the rank of Midshipman in Canada’s Naval Reserve. He was 18 years old; the year was 1938 and he was reporting to Division Headquarters located in Kresge’s department store basement at the corner of O’Connor and Slater streets in Ottawa.... http://jimhume.ca/2020/11/12/officer-and-gentleman/

Chaumousey cemetery is the last resting place for six RAF aircrew members shot down on the night of July 29, 1944. Five of the crew were English, the sixth buried in their communal grave was a 20-year-old Canadian Flying Officer Peter Biollo, Edmonton, Alberta. Chaumousey is a small village in what is known as the Vosges, deep in rural France. [ 625 more words ] http://jimhume.ca/2020/11/06/is-just-remembering-enough/

We cannot manage to contain the (Covid 19) disease unless we change the way we live (and) have enough vaccines that are effective for everyone. We can’t just go into denial and wish our lives were back to normal. It is a once-in-a-lifetime natural disaster of catastrophic proportions It is just thoroughly shocking. When we think of Pandemics we don’t think well resourced high-income countries are going to fall apart at the seams but that is exactly what we have seen. [ 393 more words ] http://jimhume.ca/2020/10/30/will-her-trust-be-unfounded/